Chris Apostolopoulos, Regional President, KB Homes

Chris G. Apostolopoulos is Division President and Regional General Manager of Northern California. A second generation homebuilder, Apostolopoulos started his career in the family business and brings more than 26 years of experience to his role at KB Home. In this capacity Apostolopoulos is responsible for and oversees all of the region’s operations including land acquisitions, forward planning, land development, purchasing, studio, sales, marketing, construction, customer service and finance across 28 diverse coastal and inland markets throughout Northern California and Reno. His geographic area of responsibility includes some of the most expensive real estate markets in the country like San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa counties. As well as, the traditional inland markets in Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, Monterey counites, Sacramento, Central Valley, Fresno and Reno..

Harry Arthur, VP, Investment Officer – Multifamily, JB Matteson

Harry Arthur joined JB Matteson, Inc. in 2006 and currently serves as its Vice President. JB Matteson, Inc. is a 45-year-old privately held company engaged in multifamily real estate investment management, with assets throughout the Western United States. JB Matteson is in the business of constructing a portfolio of newer Class-A multifamily properties located in major metropolitan areas on the West Coast. Currently, the Company manages a portfolio valued at approximately $1 billion.  Harry’s primary responsibilities include multi-family acquisitions, financing, dispositions, asset management, and construction management in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

Tony Avila, Managing Principal & CEO, Encore Funds & Builder Advisor Group

Tony Avila is a co-founder and Managing Principal of Encore Housing Opportunity Funds and Rescore Property Corp, a family of $1.2 billion residential real estate private equity funds. Encore’s primary focus is developing master planned communities, subdivisions and urban residential projects in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California. Rescore is a private REIT solely focused on developing new, urban apartments in tier one cities near downtown locations with a high “walk score”. Rescore is developing apartments in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California. Mr. Avila is also founder and Chief Executive Officer of Builder Advisor Group, a boutique investment banking firm that focuses on advising real estate and development companies on financial transactions including capital raising, debt restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.

Christopher Beda, Senior Managing Partner & CIO, Carmel Partners

Christopher Beda is the Senior Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer for Carmel Partners, a national, full-service real estate company that specializes in the acquisition, development, renovation, and management of multifamily assets. Beda is responsible for managing Carmel Partners’ investment activity across the country, and he sits on the Investment Committee for Carmel Partners Investment Funds. Since 2004, Carmel Partners’ Investment Funds I, II, III and IV have invested a total of $2 billion of equity in multifamily assets. Carmel Partners is currently investing equity from its recently-raised $1 billion Fund V. Prior to joining Carmel Partners, Chris Beda was the Acquisitions and Dispositions Officer for the Western United States at Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR). He joined Equity Residential’s transactions group in 1994 when the company owned approximately 35,000 apartment units.

Randall Berger, Principal, Berger Enterprises

Mr. Berger began his career as a real estate investment broker in 1978 with a national firm, in their San Francisco office, specializing in the analysis, marketing and sale of apartment properties. In 1980, he was chosen by then Mayor Lionel Wilson of Oakland to be one of the seven initial members of the Oakland Residential Rent Arbitration Board. In the early 1980s, he became involved in the rehabilitation and development of real property, property management, and consulting, and has acted as general partner in several real estate investments. In owning and managing several property types, including market-rate apartments, low-income housing, office buildings, shopping centers, mobile home parks, hotels, and housing for older adults, Mr. Berger has a proven ability to work with governmental agencies, such as the Oakland Residential Rent Arbitration Board, the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, Berkeley Housing Authority, and the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

Daniel Borland, President & EVP – Commercial Real Estate Banking, Opus Bank

Daniel Borland joined Opus Bank in November 2010 as President of Income Property Banking and was promoted to Executive Vice President, President Commercial Real Estate Banking in July 2013. Mr. Borland is responsible for the direction and management of the bank’s Commercial Real Estate Banking division, which is comprised of Opus’ Income Property Banking and Structured Finance divisions. From 2008 to 2010, he served as Senior Client Executive with JPMorgan Chase, where he managed an approximately $1.2 billion loan portfolio and was responsible for term, bridge, and construction loans for office, retail, multifamily, medical office and industrial properties. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Borland served as Regional Director, Commercial Real Estate Division for Washington Mutual until its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.

Thomas Cox, Chief Executive Officer, TCA Architects

Thomas Cox, AIA, LEED AP is the CEO and Managing Partner of TCA Architects. He has over 30 years of experience in architecture, planning and urban design. Mr. Cox has successfully positioned TCA as a recognized leader in multifamily housing with a portfolio that includes high-density, urban infill, mixed-use, TOD, affordable, student and senior housing. His creative energy is focused on designing excellent housing and urban development solutions that add value for not only owners and residents alike, but also for the communities in which they are built. Mr. Cox serves as a Member and Governor of Urban Land Institute and sits on the Multifamily Silver Product Council.

J. Scott Croul, Managing Director – Production & Sales, Freddie Mac

J. Scott Croul joined Freddie Mac in June of 2010, initially as Senior Director of Multifamily Underwriting and Credit, Western Region, and was responsible for overseeing the underwriting and credit of all loans, managing the regional underwriting staff and working closely with the production team to provide our Seller/Servicers with sound loan structures to facilitate loan origination. Mr. Croul was promoted to Managing Director of Production and Sales in October 2013 and is responsible for all loan production and sales in the western region.

Peter Dessau, Partner, Miller Morton Caillat & Nevis

With 25 years of experience, attorney Peter Dessau focuses his practice in the area of construction law, with an emphasis in litigation involving construction defects and other issues. Regularly working out of both the Newport Beach and our San Jose offices, Mr. Dessau represents developers, builders and prime contractors in payment disputes and defends and prosecutes delay and impact claims against private owners, contractors and public entities. He also counsels members of the industry on risk management techniques to avoid litigation. Mr. Dessau has received the AV® Preeminent™ rating on Martindale-Hubbell, and he was selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer by the publishers of Law and Politics and San Francisco Magazine in 2011 and 2012.

Bruce Dorfman, Principal, Thompson Dorfman

Bruce Dorfman is a co-founder of Thompson | Dorfman Partners, LLC and manages the firm’s development and financing projects. Prior to founding TDP, he was a senior vice president with Irvine Apartment Communities from 1997 through 1999, and directed site acquisition and development activities for the apartment REIT’s California Division, creating a portfolio of 5,000 apartment homes. Previously, he was a co-founder and vice president of Thompson Residential Company in 1996, acquiring sites, obtaining entitlements, and financing projects in Northern California.

Oz Erickson, Chairman, Emerald Fund

Mr. Erickson is the Chairman of Emerald Fund. He has 30 years experience developing and managing residential and commercial projects. He identifies new projects, is involved with the initial design, financing, securing of governmental approvals and sales and marketing. Mr. Erickson has significant experience in the community project approval process. He was a licensed real estate broker. Mr. Erickson received a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University.

John Eudy, EVP – Development, Essex Property Trust

John Eudy is a founder and Senior Executive officer of Essex Property Trust, Inc.. Mr. Eudy oversees all development activities, from the point of acquisition through construction and stabilization. He joined Essex’s predecessor, Essex Property Corporation, in 1985 and initiated the development activities of the company. During his tenure the company has developed over 13,000 units and is recognized as an industry leader. The financial performance of its development portfolio, through good cycles and bad, demonstrates a proven, disciplined approach to multifamily development. Prior to joining Essex, Mr. Eudy was a Vice President in the Commercial Real Estate Investment Group of Crocker National Bank from 1980 to 1985, and Home Federal Savings from 1977 to 1980. Mr. Eudy is a member of the Urban Land Institute, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and is a Board Member of the California Apartment Association.

Michael Ghielmetti, President, Signature Development Group

Michael Ghielmetti is the founder and President of Signature Development Group, a private real estate development company based in Oakland, California that specializes in residential and mixed-use projects in Northern California. Prior to founding SDG, Mr. Ghielmetti was a principal at Signature Properties, Inc. one of Northern California’s largest private land development and homebuilding firms, serving as President from 2003-2010. Mr. Ghielmetti has developed and invested in over 30 residential, commercial and mixed-use real estate projects valued at over $1.5 billion. He oversees all aspects of the development process from acquisition and entitlement to financing and construction.

Robert Hart, President & CEO, TruAmerica Multifamily

Robert E. Hart founded TruAmerica Multifamily in July 2013 and currently serves as its CEO and President. Prior to forming TruAmerica Multifamily, Mr. Hart served as CEO and President of Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group where he managed a portfolio of nearly 12,000 units and oversaw transaction volume over $4.5 billion. Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, Mr. Hart served as Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management at Heitman Capital Management, where he was involved in the repositioning and disposition of $500 million in real estate assets, and Director of Real Estate Marketing at Executive Life Insurance Company, where he spearheaded the orderly liquidation of a $1 billion portfolio of real estate and various securities.

Jake Harrington, Board President-Elect, Housing Industry Foundation

Jake Harrington is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for On-Site.com. He has provided marketing, strategic and operational direction since co-founding the company, which has grown to be the apartment industry’s leading online leasing platform. Jake’s work with the Housing Industry Foundation stretches back more than five years, during which time the charity’s growth has nearly doubled. He is currently HIF’s President-elect, and seeks to expand the organization’s fight against homelessness in Silicon Valley.

Arden Hearing, Managing Director, Trumark Urban

Arden Hearing leads the efforts of Trumark Urban in San Francisco. The firm presently has a pipeline of over 1,200 condo units across ten projects between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The portfolio reflects over $1 billion in total condo sales as anticipated over the next 3-4 years. Arden is an alumnus of Harvard University Graduate School of Design and The University of Washington Foster School of Business. He has been involved in the development of thousands of housing units and mixed-use projects around the Bay Area. Mr. Hearing has been involved in the development of thousands of housing units and mixed-use projects around the Bay Area. His passion for city life and urban planning and development is clear in his volunteer life. Those endeavors include: LEED Green Associate, Active member the Urban Land Institute (ULI) serving on the National Transit Oriented Development Council (TODC) and the San Francisco Local Residential Council.

Jon Holmquist, VP – Investments, Marcus & Millichap

Jon Holmquist is a vice president investments in the San Francisco office of Marcus & Millichap. He is a director of the company’s National Multi Housing Group. Mr. Holmquist began his career with the firm in 1998 and has received many awards, ranking No. 1 (Top Investment Specialist) in the San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland offices for several years. His specific focus on apartment property brokerage over the past 17 years maximizes market knowledge and contact with multifamily buyers and owners. This focus allows him to cast the widest net possible when marketing apartment assets to consistently achieve top dollar prices. Upon graduation from the University of California, San Diego with a double major in quantitative economics and cellular biology, Mr. Holmquist focused his expertise in the energy sector in the areas of probabilistic risk assessment.

Drew Hudacek, CIO – Development Properties, Sares Regis

Drew oversees development investments for Sares Regis Group of Northern California based in the Bay Area including land acquisitions, debt and equity relationships as well as forward planning and development of large scale projects. The company has over a half of a dozen silo’d business units including residential development, commercial development, property management and general contracting. Drew joined SRGNC in 1999 and has developed apartments, for sale housing, mixed use deals and commercial offices.

William Hughes, Senior Vice President, Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation

William E. Hughes is senior vice president of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC), which is ranked as one of the largest financial intermediaries in the United States. In 2013, the firm sourced and closed more than $2.7 billion in commercial real estate debt and equity structures. Mr. Hughes is responsible for MMCC daily operations on a national basis. He has a diversified background in real estate finance, financial consulting and modeling, project feasibility, leasing, construction management and real estate development. Mr. Hughes joined Marcus & Millichap in 1996. Previously, as a senior executive with several financial and real estate investment firms, he directly participated in the development, finance and sale or leasing of more than $2 billion worth of commercial real estate assets. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Daniel Kaplan, Chief Investment Officer, Fowler Property Acquisitions

With 17 years real estate experience, Daniel Kaplan is responsible for overseeing acquisition underwriting and oversight, due diligence, financing, dispositions, and asset management. Since joining FPA, he has been involved in excess of $2.5 billion of transactions. Prior to FPA, Mr. Kaplan was at RREEF where he coordinated $750 million in transactions. Mr. Kaplan also served as an asset manager for Mansur & Company.

Anna Kramer, Managing Director, Pacific Urban

Ms. Kramer is the Managing Director, Portfolio Operations for Pacific Urban Residential. She is responsible for the firm’s asset management, construction, and marketing functions. She holds a BA from Whitman College and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara. Her prior experience includes senior positions with SSR Realty Advisors (now BlackRock), where she oversaw the firm’s first two institutional commingled funds and separate accounts, she held senior positions with two publicly traded REITS, Security Capital/ Archstone-Smith and Glenborough Realty Trust. Most recently, Ms. Kramer served as the COO for Mid-Peninsula Housing. Anna has operational experience with over 40,000 multi-family units in 20 states. Anna is a Board Member for the Housing Industry Foundation and a former Chairperson of the Tri-County Division of the California Apartment Association (CAA).

Christopher Leonard, Regional Director, Marcus & Millichap

Christopher Leonard is regional director of Marcus & Millichap’s National Multi Housing Group (NMHG). Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Mr. Leonard was a first vice president for CBRE Inc. where he was a leading member of the 12-person New York Institutional Group. He led the disposition of multifamily assets and apartment development sites, while also advising clients throughout the ownership cycle, generating new business and managing junior team members. Mr. Leonard’s responsibilities included providing capital markets solutions to multifamily owners in suburban metropolitan New York and across the country. During his career, he has participated in transactions valued at over $5.7 billion, including some of the region’s largest apartment and office closings.

Mark MacDonald, Principal, DM Development

Mark MacDonald is a Co-Founding Principal of DM Development, a San Francisco based real estate development and investment firm focused on urban infill mixed-use projects. DM Development is committed to creating innovative properties with distinctive architectural designs that enhance communities and promote sustainable development. Mark is currently leading the ground up development of five boutique mixed-use projects in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. These projects represent over 150 units of for-sale housing and total over $100 million in value. Mark is responsible for all phases of the real estate development process with an emphasis on acquisitions, partnerships, finance, design, entitlements, marketing and sales.Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mark is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and he has been a featured speaker at numerous local and regional real estate industry events, including the SF ULI Residential Local Product Council, the Fisher Center Real Estate & Economics Symposium, and the Bisnow Residential Real Estate Summit.

George Marcus, Co-Founder, Marcus & Millichap

George M. Marcus is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Marcus & Millichap Company. Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap Company is the parent company of a diversified group of real estate service, investment, and development firms including SummerHill Homes, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest home builders. Also falling under the Marcus & Millichap family of companies are Pacific Urban Residential, SummerHill Apartment Communities, Meridian Property Company, Hanover Financial and Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners, which invests in real estate technology companies. Mr. Marcus is also the Founder and Chairman of Essex Property Trust (ESS) and Marcus & Millichap, Inc. (MMI), both publicly traded companies. In April of 2014, ESS acquired BRE, making it a $16 billion company, and is now traded on the S&P 500. MMI went public in October of 2013 and is the largest commercial investment real estate brokerage firm in the nation with over 1000 brokers in offices nationwide and in Canada.

Kyle Naye, Senior Associate, Clarion Partners

Kyle Naye is a Senior Associate within the acquisitions group at Clarion Partners, a New York-based commercial real estate investment management firm with over $28 billion of assets across the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. In addition to its office, retail, industrial, and hotel holdings, Clarion owns 26,000 apartment units nationwide and 2,000 units on the West Coast. In his current role, Kyle focuses on sourcing and underwriting commercial and multifamily investments in Northern California. Since joining the company in 2011, he has been directly involved in over $440 million in real estate acquisitions. Prior to Clarion Partners, he spent two years as a commercial mortgage banking analyst at Capmark Finance, as well as a short period as a retail investment sales broker at Marcus & Millichap. Upon completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, Kyle served six years an officer in the US Navy. He also has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Paul Niewiadomski, Partner, Lubin Olson & Niewiadomski

Paul J. Niewiadomski is a Partner in Lubin Olson’s Real Estate and Finance Groups. He has represented clients in hundreds of multifamily acquisitions, dispositions and financings, as well as the formation of numerous joint ventures to acquire and develop multifamily assets. He has experience with market, rent controlled, senior and affordable housing. He previously worked as counsel to the Asset and Economic Development group at the County of Santa Clara, where he participated in the structuring and negotiation of a number of innovative public-private developments resulting in thousands of multifamily units.

Mary Nitschke, Director – Ancillary Services, Prometheus Real Estate

Mary Nitschke, Director of Ancillary Services, joined Prometheus Real Estate Group in March of 2001. Ms. Nitschke is responsible for managing utility consumption (water, sewer, trash, electricity, and gas), utility/utility reimbursement budgeting, mining for rebates, determining the ROI on efficiency projects, identifying areas of opportunity for efficiency measures, energy procurement, trash contract negotiations, and ancillary income. Within the first six years of her tenure at Prometheus, Ms. Nitschke was responsible for Property Tax Assessments/Appeals, was the Subject Matter Expert for BMR/Tax Credit Programs and had a brief tour of duty in Syndication, in which she was deeply involved in the dissolution of Prometheus’ remaining three Syndications.

Brian Olin, Senior Vice President, The New Home Company

Brian Olin serves as Senior Vice President at The New Home Company and has been responsible for establishing a presence for the company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brian has 17 years of experience in the homebuilding industry, spanning a wide range of disciplines. He began his career in 1997 at Greystone Homes and spent from 1999 through 2011 with Lennar Corporation. During his stint at the company, Brian’s work included sales and marketing, project management, forward planning, land development, entitlements, and land acquisition. In 2005 Brian became the Division President of the Lennar Bay Area Land Division, responsible for one of the largest asset portfolios in the nation. Since joining The New Home Company in 2011, Brian and the team manage Bay Area projects in Larkspur, San Jose, Foster City, San Mateo, and Lafayette with several new developments in the pipeline.

Sean O’Reilly, Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory Services – Real Estate, Ernst & Young

Sean has over 25 years of commercial real estate valuation experience as a commercial appraiser, including experience as an Assistant Vice President in the commercial appraisal department of Union Bank and the principal owner of an appraisal consulting company. He provides commercial real estate valuation, audit, and due diligence services to private real estate companies, real estate funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, REITS, as well as technology and biotechnology companies. Additionally, he provides real property valuation services for the real estate component of business acquisitions for U.S. and multi national business acquisitions. Sean has significant experience valuing the majority of commercial property types including office, industrial, retail, and multi-family properties as well as residential developments and many special use property types He has served as an expert witness in real estate valuation in California Superior Court and in binding arbitration cases. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and is also an MAI and SRA member of the Appraisal Institute signifying the highest level of proficiency and professional achievement in the valuation of commercial and residential real estate. Sean is also a state certified General Real Estate Appraiser in California.

John Protopappas, Founder, President & CEO, Madison Park Financial

Formed in 1985, Madison Park is a dynamic full service real estate company that creates value in communities through investment, development, asset management and property management. Since his first live/work project in 1985, Mr. Protopappas has developed and operated over 70 commercial and residential projects throughout the Bay Area. After nearly three decades, Mr. Protopappas remains focused on revitalizing urban neighborhoods by transforming many neglected properties into thriving mixed-use and multi-family communities. These projects, such as the historic Tribune Tower, Telegraph Lofts at the site of the former Sears Roebuck store in Oakland, and the Bakery Lofts at the site of the former Remar Bakery in Emeryville, are representative of his innovative approach to revitalizing urban neighborhoods through adaptive re-use and historic rehabilitation.

Stacey Reineccius, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Powertree Services

Mr. Reineccius is a lifelong entrepreneur bringing decades of successful innovation experience from telecommunications, video, solar and energy storage to bear. Having designed, developed, manufactured and marketed more than a dozen products globally, he has been awarded multiple patents in energy storage. Mr. Reineccius is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Powertree Services.

John Sebree, Vice President/National Director – NMHG, Marcus & Millichap

John Sebree is the director of Marcus & Millichap’s National Multi Housing Group (NMHG). Mr. Sebree is based in the Midwest, working from the firm’s Chicago downtown office. His extensive background as a major multifamily specialist spans more than 20 years, 17 of which were as a Marcus & Millichap agent. During his tenure as an agent, Mr. Sebree managed large private capital and brokered the sales of institutional multifamily properties throughout the Midwest. He developed a strong brokerage practice in Chicago, opened the firm’s Indianapolis office and earned numerous plaque awards, eight National Achievement Award qualifications, and Top 20 and Chairman’s Club designations. Mr. Sebree assumed his current position in 2011.

Steve Seligman, Vice President/Regional Manager – Palo Alto, Marcus & Millichap

Steven Seligman is a vice president and regional manager of Marcus & Millichap’s Palo Alto office, one of the largest investment brokerages in the Bay Area. He joined the office in 1992, was named regional manager in 2003 and was promoted to vice president in 2008. Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Seligman received every national sales award offered by another national commercial real estate firm. Seligman attended UCLA, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and graduated with honors. He did post-graduate work at the University of San Francisco School of Law, passed the California Bar examination and earned a Juris Doctorate.

Roger Snell, Chief Investment Officer, Veritas

Roger Snell is the Chief Investment Officer of Veritas Investments Inc., one of the largest owner-operators of apartments in San Francisco, with several thousands of units and approximately $1 billion in assets under management. Mr. Snell has over 25 years of experience in real estate investment, capital markets and portfolio management experience encompassing $4.5 Billion of apartments, commercial properties and hotels. Mr. Snell has executed transactions across all property types with a multitude of private, institutional and foreign investors and lenders. As CEO and President, he led the turnaround of two REITS: the Peregrine Real Estate Trust and Perini Investment Properties.

Meta Townsley, Executive Director, Housing Industry Foundation

Meta Townsley is the Housing Industry Foundation’s (HIF) Executive Director. She is responsible for the overall operation and direction of the organization, as well as for developing and executing plans that raise awareness of HIF, increase sustainable revenues, and encourage donors to participate in varied programs and events. Prior to joining HIF, Meta was the Northern California Regional Vice President for Lyon Management Group and served ten years on CAA Tri-County Board of Advisors. Meta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from State University of New York at Oswego. She is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Silicon Valley Chapter.

Heather Wallace, Director – Business Development, Alliance Residential

Heather Wallace joined Alliance in 2003; currently, she is the Director of Business Development with responsibility for identifying new management opportunities with existing and future clients across Alliance’s Northwest Region. With more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, Ms. Wallace’s background ranges from development and acquisition to management, rehabilitation and disposition of multifamily communities across the West Coast. During her tenure with Alliance, Ms. Wallace has participated in the following roles: Vice President of Operations for the Northwest Region, West Coast Director of Acquisitions and Development Partner over Northern California.

Alex Waterbury, President – Northern California, Lennar Multifamily Communities

Alex Waterbury is President, Northern California of Lennar Multifamily Communities; in that role he currently oversees development of over 2,500 multifamily units in the region. He has 17 years of real estate experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on rental and for-sale residential development over the past dozen years. Prior to joining Lennar Multifamily in 2012, he was involved in the acquisition, entitlement, construction, and/or asset management of nearly 4,200 multifamily units in California and Washington.

Kurt Zech, President – Multifamily Group, Kennedy Wilson

Kurt Zech is President of Kennedy Wilson’s Multifamily Management Group, the multifamilyinvestment division of Kennedy Wilson. Mr. Zech is responsible for the oversight of acquisitions, asset management and dispositions of multifamily assets in the United States. He currently oversees a portfolio of approximately 15,000 apartment units and has closed $2.5 billion of multifamily transactions. Previously, Mr. Zech worked for the LA-based private equity firm of William E. Simon & Sons, where he was responsible for the financial and operational analyses of the firm’s primary portfolio holdings and for the research and analysis of new investment opportunities. He also worked for Pricewaterhouse Cooper’s Management Consulting Group, where he provided a wide variety of clients with innovative finance, technology and strategy solutions. Mr. Zech earned his MBA with emphasis in Real Estate Finance and BA in Business Economics from UCLA.