Real Estate Investment World USA - Speaker list

Douglas Adams, Vice President of Development for Seligson Properties, has been employed by the firm since 2004. He is responsible for managing the firm’s existing portfolio of commercial, retail, and residential properties as well as future developments. Mr. Adams...

Adrian Aguilera is Founder and Co-CEO of Vertex Real Estate Investors. Vertex REI is a private equity fund focused at making value added and opportunistic investments in the main real estate subsectors in Mexico. Adrián has over 20 years of experience in the financial...

Ambrish Baisiwala is responsible for the management and profitability of the company. He oversees the overall operations for Portman Holdings, including real estate developments, investments, management, and capital raising. Ambrish brings over 18 years of global...

Dr. Rico Baumgartner, attorney-at-law, has in-depth knowledge and experience in Private and Corporate Banking, Structured Finance, Insurance and Turn- around Management as well as in a wide area of Corporate and International Law. Previously, he has been Head Special ...

Jake Bisenius - Chief Investment Officer (CIO), AmCap Inc Jake heads AmCap's acquisitions, dispositions and financing teams. Jake has been in the real estate industry for over 12 years and handled more than $1 billion worth of real estate transactions throughout his...

Kura Chihota is a director of Leapfrog Property Group, South Africa’s eighth largest real estate franchise chain. He also serves on the Board of Fortress Income Fund a commercial real estate fund listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. He also serves as the Deputy...

Mukang Cho is the Chief Executive Officer of In-Rel Properties, where he is responsible for strategic planning and overseeing operations and all investment activities. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Cho was a Managing Principal of Crown Capital Management, a...

Henry Cisneros is the founder and Executive Chairman of CityView, one of the largest minority-owned emerging managers in the US focused specifically on urban investments. Prior to forming CityView, in 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a...

As Managing Partner of Hampton/Hoerter LLC, Mr. Cole has extensive experience in capital sourcing; having raised funds for large civil infrastructure projects, natural resource/renewable energy opportunities and real estate development schemes for the hospitality and...

George Dabney is responsible for finance matters as well as capital fund raising activities and investor relations. During his tenure at Thayer Lodging Group, George has arranged loans totaling approximately $700 million and raised equity of $400 million. Mr. Dabney is ...

Mr. Daitch brings nearly 20 years of real estate experience to Mesirow Financial's Institutional Real Estate ("MFIRE") Multi-Manager group. Prior to joining Mesirow Financial in 2001, Mr. Daitch was responsible for due diligence and transaction execution for over $10...

Amaury de Parcevaux is located in New York and is First Vice President and Marketing Director of Falcon, focusing primarily on Europe, as well as being responsible for business development in Latin American and the Far East. Mr. de Parcevaux has had over 18 years...

Andrew J. Duffy, CFA is the President of Ascent Investment Advisors and the Portfolio Manager of the Global Real Estate Investments Fund. Mr. Duffy has 18 years of global real estate securities experience in the private and public markets. Prior to joining Ascent...

Matt Gillio has been around the real-estate and investment industry for 25 years. During his 15 years with Paine Webber, Inc., he had the opportunity to evaluate many different types of development and financing and gained considerable experience in the hospitality...

Frederick Gortner is a Managing Director of Paladin Realty Partners, LLC, a leading global real estate fund manager, where he serves on the firm’s executive and investment committees. Since 1995, Paladin Realty has acquired over $5 billion of properties in the...

Rodgers Harshbarger is member of the Private Investment team at UNC Management Company, where he manages a portfolio of real estate, real assets and private equity investments. Prior to joining UNCMC in 2008, Mr.Harshbarger was a Consultant in the Private Equity Group...

As the founder and managing member in COMVEST Properties, LLC, and its affiliate development company, Net Lease Developers, LLC. Mr. Holstein coordinates all company developments and project financing. Brooks is further responsible for the creation and maintenance of...

Andrew Jacobs is a Senior Vice President of the Manager and a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Jacobs is responsible for identifying, evaluating and analyzing Underlying Fund managers and investment opportunities. Mr. Jacobs will also seek and review...

Senior Portfolio Manager with the NJ Division of Investments managing a REIT portfolio in addition to other areas of coverage in the consumer space. Previously she was a portfolio manager with Sturdivant & CO. During the early 1990’s she was director of the Polis...

Aqil is a Director in the indirect investment management team, and is based in Zurich. He was a Director and Head of Real Estate Investments of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and a member of the Real Estate and Private Equity Investment Committee. In his role ...

Tim Kruse is currently the Manager, Seller Finance and also served as a Senior Capital Markets Specialist in the Division of Resolutions & Receiverships at the FDIC since December 2008. In this role, he is part of the team responsible for the sale of real estate...

Mr. Leven has served on the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Board of Directors since 2004. On March 11, 2009, he became the company’s president and chief operating officer and assumed responsibility for the overall operations of the company’s U.S. and international...

Dr. Peter Linneman is the principal of Linneman Associates and also serves as the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Wharton's faculty since 1979, he served...

As Associate Director of Investments of Carnegie Corporation of New York, Alisa Mall is primarily responsible for the management of the Corporation’s real estate portfolio. Prior to joining Carnegie, Ms. Mall was a director in the Equity Capital Markets group at...

In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Dan Murphy is responsible for directing the finance and accounting operations for all six Bozzuto companies, in addition to personally managing all debt and equity relationships. Dan joined The Bozzuto Group as Senior Vice...

Mr. Nitzberg co-founded the Devon Group in 1988. Today Devon employs approximately 120 people in 11 states managing in excess of $300,000,000 in market value of self storage assets. Devon Self Storage is ranked as one of the top 20 owner/operators in the self storage ...

Alex Nyhan is Development Manager at Forest City | Washington, the mid-Atlantic hub of Forest City Enterprises. In his current role, Alex has been involved with master planning, acquisitions, entitlements, financial feasibility, deal structuring, design and...

Josef began to work in real estate in 2003 as President of an Ecotourism Company with operations in U.S., Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. As part of responsibilities he was involved in the sourcing, site selection, development and management of...

Mr. Karmvir Rajpurohit, Partner – Mr. Karmvir Rajpurohit is Director & Managing Partner at Conlecta Capital Advisors Private Limited. Prior to starting Collect Capital Advisors, Mr. Rajpurohit was heading the real estate investment banking division at Right Meridian...

Ms. Rowden leads Jonathan Rose Companies’ Investment Practice, drawing upon her 25 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has responsibility for all aspects of the firm’s fund business, including oversight of acquisitions, financing, asset management and ...

Tom Schwartz graduated as a Chartered Accountant in 1975 and went on to pursue a career in real estate development. Tom founded Intraurban Projects to specialize in the development of new housing projects in mature communities. Intraurban built and developed over 2500...

Tom Shapiro is the President and Founder of GTIS Partners. In addition, Mr. Shapiro is the Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager responsible for overseeing all investment activities and strategy of the firm. He is also Chairman of the General Partner’s...

Mr. Frederick Metz Shepperd is the Managing Director of Shepperd Investors AG with offices in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the successor to his family’s real estate investment business established in 1918. He co-founded the Quadral Group in 1984, where he...

Gayle P. Starr is Senior Vice President, Capital Markets at AMB Property Corporation. She is responsible for the corporate lines of credit as well as the financing of the real estate assets by overseeing all secured and unsecured debt internationally and domestically...

Based in China and New York, John F. Tsui is Managing Principal of IDA LLC and Cresswell Investments Limited, which are engaged in merchant banking and principal investment in alternative assets. As a cross-border hybrid alternative asset investment firm for special...

Nestor Weigand is a Vice President at Siguler Guff and joined the Firm in 2009. Mr. Weigand is a member of the Firm’s distressed real estate investment team and is actively involved in identifying investment opportunities, developing the team’s allocation...