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With Generali since 2005, Alberto Agazzi currently serves as Head of Generali Real Estate International, overseeing the real estate investment and portfolio management activities in the USA, UK and APAC markets.

Prior to this role, he served for nine years as CEO and General Manager at Generali Real Estate SGR, managing the Pan European fund management activities with an AUM in excess of 15 bln euro.

Alberto joined Generali from Mediobanca, where he worked in Real Estate Advisory team. He began his career in Milan with an engineering company as Project Manager.

A profound expert in the international real estate markets, over the years he served on the Boardof Directors of several real estate private companies.

He received an undergraduate degree in Building Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from SDA Bocconi.

Alberto is deputy Chairman of Assoimmobiliare, the Italian real estate association, and he is serving as member of the Management Board at
INREV.

Christine Anderson serves as Global Head of Corporate Affairs, overseeing Public Affairs, Marketing, and ESG functions.
She serves as the primary spokesperson for the firm, advising Blackstone’s senior leaders and business groups, as well as companies across Blackstone’s portfolio on communications strategy. She oversees the firm’s marketing function, including its content creation and self-publishing efforts. She also leads Blackstone’s efforts related to Environmental, Social and Governance issues.

Before joining Blackstone in 2009, Ms. Anderson served as Communications Director and Director of Marketing to the former Governor of New York as well as Communications Director on the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. Before working in state government, Ms. Anderson was an Associate Director of Corporate Communications at UBS AG supporting U.S. media relations and serving as a spokesperson for the company’s Wealth Management division. During the 2004 U.S. Presidential election cycle, she served as a Deputy Press Secretary on the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Ms. Anderson also previously worked as an Account Director at the public relations firm Brunswick and as a Segment Producer for ABC News’ “Good Morning America” after starting her career in the Press Office of the Clinton White House.

Ms. Anderson received a BA from The College of the Holy Cross. She serves on the board of Diligent Corp. and the boards of several non-profits including: the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the GO Project and the Nature Conservancy’s Impact Finance & Markets advisory board.

Adam Berns is the Chief Investment Officer, US at GLP Capital Partners (“GCP”). Prior to GCP, Adam was involved in various transactions while at GLP, including GLP’s entry and expansion across the US and Europe and its privatization in 2018. Before GLP, Adam worked at Och-Ziff and Blackstone in the real estate private equity groups.

Adam graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ankit Bhatt oversees Oxford’s US Industrial investment business and is responsible for the overall strategic direction and investment activities within the sector. He has led Oxford’s entry into the US Logistics space since 2018 which today is a ~US$7.0 billion business focused on big-box industrial development (via 50% ownership in IDI Logistics), direct-drive national light industrial platform and a significant investment in cold storage (via Lineage Logistics, the world’s largest cold storage operator). Ankit also serves as a Board of Directors member for IDI Logistics.

Prior to joining Oxford in 2013, Ankit worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking group at CIBC Capital Markets where he was involved in over $20 billion of cross-border transactions. Ankit began his career at KPMG in the Real Estate Transaction Advisory group. Ankit holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Ivey Business School at Western University and has completed the General Management Program from Wharton Business School. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Ankit is based out of Oxford’s New York Office.

Oxford Properties Group (“Oxford”) is a leading global real estate investor, asset manager and business builder. It builds, buys and grows defined real estate operating business with world-class management teams. Established in 1960, Oxford and its portfolio companies manage over C$80 billion of assets across four continents on behalf of their investment partners. Oxford’s owned portfolio encompasses office, logistics, retail, multifamily residential, life sciences and hotels; it spans nearly 164 million square feet in global gateway cities and high-growth hubs. A thematic investor with a committed source of capital, Oxford invests in properties, portfolios, development sites, debt, securities and real estate businesses across the risk-reward spectrum. Together with its portfolio companies, Oxford is one of the world’s most active developers with over 100 projects currently underway globally across all major asset classes. Oxford is owned by OMERS, the Canadian defined benefit pension plan for Ontario's municipal employees.

For more information on Oxford, visit www.oxfordproperties.com.

Jim Blakemore is a Managing Partner and the Global Head of Debt at BGO. In his role as a member of BGO's global management team, Jim leads the firm’s global real estate debt strategies, managing approximately $16 billion of commercial mortgage loan assets across the globe. Jim founded BGO's European debt team which has invested over $6 billion of capital from institutional investors and is an active lender on commercial real estate properties located in the UK and across Western Europe.

Prior to joining the firm, Jim was the European Head of Lehman Brothers' Global Real Estate Group for Europe and the Middle East. In this role, he oversaw Lehman Brothers European on-balance sheet real estate activities including commercial mortgage and mezzanine lending. At Lehman Brothers, Jim served on its European Operating Committee, European Fixed Income Executive Committee as well as its Global Fixed Income Operating Committee. Prior to that, he worked at Lehman Brothers in New York where he originated and structured mortgage loans and CMBS transactions. Jim began his career as an attorney at Thacher Proffitt and Wood (New York) where he practiced real estate and securities law.

Jim is a member of the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon) as well as a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council. Jim is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Lewis and Clark College.

Jonathan Brasse is the senior editor for PEI Media’s Real Estate Group which comprises the group's real estate publications, PERE and Real Estate Capital. Jonathan leads the group’s editorial team and is responsible for setting the agendas for the print and online editions of both publications as well as all associated publications. He joined PEI in 2009 and has assumed various reporting and editing roles since, including responsibility for PERE’s coverage of the private real estate markets in Asia. He has a BA from the University of Kent and is an NCTJ qualified journalist.

Alex Cabria is Co-head of the real estate finance group in the global structured finance, Americas division at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

Ms. Crawford is a Specialist Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income group and is Co-Head of Global Securitized. Prior to returning to TCW’s Los Angeles headquarters in 2020, Ms. Crawford spent two years based in TCW’s London office as a research analyst covering Global Securitized Products. Before joining TCW as a CMBS Trader in 2015, Ms. Crawford was a Portfolio Analyst covering securitized products and commercial and residential mortgage REIT equities at EJF Capital LLC (“EJF”), a $9.5bn multi-strategy alternative asset manager in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining EJF, Ms. Crawford was an Associate in the Securitized Products division at Credit Suisse. She started in Institutional Sales covering ABS, MBS, and CMBS investors before moving to Asset Finance, where she focused on residential mortgage banking and securitization. Ms. Crawford holds a BA in Political Science and International Studies from Yale University.

Kevin represents private equity sponsors and others in all matters relating to their real estate investments and strategies. He focuses on capital investment directed to real estate assets and real estate operating companies, debt financings within all segments of the capital stack, joint ventures, property and operating company acquisitions. Kevin’s practice has an emphasis on the acquisition and disposition of industrial and logistics related assets, data centers, self-storage, office and multifamily assets.

Kevin regularly advises foreign and domestic clients with respect to the formation and capitalization of programmatic and single-asset joint ventures. Kevin also represents clients in connection with recapitalization of real estate platforms, operating companies and assets, and he works closely with Kirkland’s real estate investment funds team in connection with the formation of real estate investment funds and their related operations.

Andy Field is an SVP, Investments for Oxford Properties. For the past 13 years, Mr. Field has been a member of the Investments Team based in New York responsible for Equity and Credit acquisitions & dispositions. Mr. Field currently focuses primarily on Oxford’s Credit Investments across all U.S. markets and sectors.

Prior to joining Oxford Properties in 2011, Mr. Field worked in real estate investment banking at Societe Generale, JPMorgan Chase and Anglo Irish Bank in New York, where he was involved in over $2 billion of real estate transactions in debt capital markets and balance sheet lending, as well as asset management activities and note dispositions. Prior to Societe Generale, Mr. Field worked for CBRE.

Mr. Field holds a B.S. in Finance with a Concentration in Real Estate & Urban Economics from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Field is a board member of Covenant House Real Estate Sleep Out, a global movement to end youth homelessness.

Warren Friend is Head of Business Development and Strategy for Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors.

Mr. Friend began his career at Morgan Stanley where during his 28 years he was a Managing Director and Head of the Residential Mortgage Securitization group, and then Head of Real Estate Banking and Structured Products. During his time the firm achieved the top league table position for over a decade, raised $5Bn in LP capital, developed tax REMIC and ReREMIC technology, created ABS market auction preferred structures, and several reinsurance risk products for real estate. He continued his career with Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director and Head of the Financial Advisory Group for commercial real estate, and as a member of the Global CRE Executive Committee. It was at Deutsche Bank Mr. Friend was selected to develop the K-Series platform for Freddie Mac. In 2011 Mr. Friend joined BlackRock as a Managing Director and Head of Client Coverage for General Account Portfolios and Strategy managing $200Bn of Insurance Clients’ investments. Additionally, while at BlackRock, Mr. Friend was asked by the FDIC to create the bank loss sharing methodology for GFC failed financial institutions. Mr. Friend then joined Stone Point Capital to work as an Executive Managing Director for Situs to lead the Product Strategy and Strategic Client development effort.

Mr. Friend is currently the Co-Chair of the ESG Committee for NCREIF, on the steering committee for sustainability for CREFC, a member of the Green Roundtable Committee at the MBA, and part of the Sustainability Committee for the Real Estate Roundtable.

Mr. Friend holds a B.A. in Economics and Government from Bowdoin College.

Chris Green is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GreenPoint Partners, a New York headquartered firm investing at the intersections of real assets, technology, and sustainability.

Prior to this, Chris led Macquarie Capital’s Real Estate business, chaired its Investment Committee, and sat on the global management committee for the whole division. He led the real estate business from 2008-2018, developing extensive relationships with real estate investors, owners, managers, and developers globally. Over his tenure, Chris facilitated over $65 billion of global real estate equity investments by major institutional investors (often via innovative structures and into new geographic and / or property sectors) and employed Macquarie's balance sheet to invest in a number of real estate special situations.

Chris currently serves as an Independent Director of the Goodman Group and is the chair of their Sustainability and Innovation Committee.

Kim Hourihan is Chief Investment Officer for CBRE Investment Management. In this role, Kim is responsible for investment strategy, performance and risk and has oversight of all the regional and strategy-specific investment committees.

Kim previously served as CIO for CBRE Real Estate Investments, responsible for the overall investment strategy for REI, including investing CBRE capital into CBRE Investment Management investment programs and Trammell Crow Company development deals. She also previously served as CIO – Americas Direct Real Estate Strategies for CBRE Investment Management and Portfolio Manager for one of the firm’s comingled funds. She also served as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for two international sovereign wealth fund clients, with total assets under management of more than $4 billion representing 11.7 million square feet. In this position, Kim was responsible for client relations, portfolio management, asset management, acquisitions and dispositions.

Kim is passionate about strategic thinking, continuous learning and creative problem-solving for her clients. She enjoys the tangibility of real estate, the challenge of launching new entities and the opportunity to support and coach senior talent.

Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management in 2007, Kim had roles as Senior Vice President at Starwood Capital Group, Partner and Regional Director at TA Associates Realty, and Senior Vice President at Georgetown Holding in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, directing multiple acquisitions ranging from a bank in Geneva to a magazine in Hong Kong. Kim began her career in 1990 at U.S. Trust Company where she was responsible for real estate construction lending.

Kim earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Timothy Johnson is the Global Head of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, based in New York. Mr. Johnson is responsible for overseeing Blackstone’s commercial and residential real estate debt investment strategies and is also a member of the firm’s real estate investment committee.

Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Johnson was a co-founder of BroadPeak Funding, a boutique commercial real estate finance company based in Los Angeles. Prior to founding BroadPeak, Mr. Johnson was a Vice President in the Lehman Brothers Global Commercial Real Estate Group where he worked from 2002-2008.

Mr. Johnson received a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross where he graduated cum laude.

Brian Kingston is Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield's Real Estate business. In this role, he is responsible for investments, operations and the expansion of the Real Estate business. Prior to his current role, Mr. Kingston led Brookfield’s Australian business activities, holding the positions of CEO of Brookfield Office Properties Australia, CEO of Prime Infrastructure and CFO of Multiplex.
Mr. Kingston joined Brookfield in 2001. Under his leadership, Brookfield has conducted a wide range of mergers & acquisitions activities, including investments in Forest City Realty Trust, General Growth Properties and Canary Wharf.

Mr. Kingston holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University.

Ed is Head of Global Logistics Real Estate at NBIM. He leads NBIM’s unlisted logistics real estate strategy, transactions and asset management. NBIM’s unlisted logistics portfolio consists of approximately 136 million square feet across 12 countries. As of December 31, 2022, NBIM’s net investment value in private logistics real estate was approximately $11.5 billion.

Prior to joining NBIM in 2016, Ed served in investment roles at GLP and IndCor, Blackstone’s first US logistics real estate operating platform. Over his career, Ed has been involved in over $21bn of completed real estate transactions. Ed holds an MSA and BBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Norges Bank Investment Management is the asset management division of Norges Bank, the Norwegian central bank. As manager of the Government Pension Fund Global, its mission is to safeguard and build financial wealth for future generations in Norway.

The fund is invested globally in equity, fixed income, real estate and renewable energy infrastructure. It had investments worth 14.8 trillion kroner, or $1.39 trillion, as of Q3 2023.

The fund owns direct real estate investments worth approximately $30.5 billion, totalling nearly 800 assets across 13 countries.

Lee Levy is head of real estate debt and senior managing director for Kayne Anderson’s real estate group. Levy brings over 20 years of real estate debt experience and serves as portfolio manager for the debt platform and is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, acquiring, and managing the portfolio of commercial real estate related debt and securities.

Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2024, Levy was managing director and co-head of U.S. real estate credit investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Before joining Goldman, Levy served as managing director and founding member of TPG Real Estate Finance, a carve out of Deutsche Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Special Situations Group. Levy oversaw $7.8bil in direct loan origination and secondary loan purchases in his combined tenure at Goldman and TPG. Levy previously held positions at Centerbridge, Morgan Stanley, and LNR Property Corp.

Levy earned a B.S.B.A. in Finance, magna cum laude, from University of Florida.

Founder and Managing Director of Global SWF, based in New York / Singapore. He is a world-renowned expert on Sovereign Wealth Funds, having acted as practitioner and advisor for many years and published several articles in leading academic journals. He has worked as a consultant of the World Bank and of the United Nations and supported the establishment or reformulation of a number of SWFs around the world.

Diego is a seasoned banker and consultant with over 18 years of experience. Prior to founding Global SWF, he spent five years building up PwC’s footprint in the SWF industry as the Director and COO of the global practice. He started his career in Santander, and spent several years in Accuracy and KPMG.

He has lived and worked in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Far East Asia. He earned his Masters in Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) after graduating in the Universities of Madrid and Milan. He is a FINRA-registered representative with Series 62, 63 and 79.

Diego is a prolific open water and ice swimmer and has raced in all seven continents including Antarctica. He is the author of "Continents Seven: Values for sports, business and life, learned around the world"

Ms. McKnight is a member of the real estate team and focuses on various investment and portfolio management activities. She is also a committee member of the StepStone Charitable Giving Program and on the Global Allocation Committee.

Prior to joining StepStone, Ms. McKnight spent more than a decade at Carlyle’s Metropolitan Real Estate, where she served as the co-Chief Investment Officer and was the fund head for Metropolitan’s Global Funds series. She was a Consultant with Cambridge Associates and held various roles with JP Morgan. Ms. McKnight sits on the Investment Committee for Sutter Health, the fifth largest US non-profit community-based healthcare provider and the Real Assets Investment Subcommittee for Swarthmore College. She recently served as a Senior Advisor to Juniper Square, focused on Capital Markets applications of their investment management software.

Ms. McKnight graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College and earned an MBA from New York University.

Ankita Narula is a dynamic and visionary leader currently serving as the Vice President of Development at Akshaya Patra USA. With a fervent dedication to eradicating hunger and driving social impact, Ankita plays a pivotal role in leading fundraising efforts and strengthening communities across the country. Her journey with Akshaya Patra began as a Director of Development after graduating from an MBA program in Boston in 2015. Since then, Ankita has demonstrated exceptional leadership and commitment, earning several promotions within the organization and recently becoming the youngest VP in the entire team.

Ankita's passion for non-profits dates back to her school days, where she actively volunteered for various organizations. During her full-time MBA in Boston, Ankita served as a campus ambassador for the non-profit Art of Living, representing the club on a national level among all Ivy League schools. Akshaya Patra holds a special place in Ankita's heart, as she has always been drawn to initiatives aimed at eradicating hunger and making a difference in the lives of children.

With over 25 years of experience in the financial sector, Tim has helped both public and private companies raise in excess of a billion dollars. Prior to joining Macritchie, Tim was president of Solnet Capital, which provided capital markets advisory services to both public and private companies. Previously, Tim spent six years as Vice President of Institutional Sales at Macquarie Capital, and eight years in equity research at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston and Midland Walwyn Capital with a focus on technology, telecommunications and North American printing coverage.

At Macritchie, Tim is a member of the Executive Committee, Investment Committee and was previously responsible for Otter Self Storage, a vertical which acquires and automates self-storage facilities in mid-tier markets across the US. Under Tim’s direction, Otter committed over $125M of capital and acquired over 25 facilities across 12 states. Tim has since transitioned to focus on fundraising initiatives, strategy, and working alongside portfolio managers.

Tim holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, a BA from York University, and is a CFA.

Craig Oram is the Fund Manager of LaSalle Debt Investors. He oversees all facets of the business including loan originations, underwriting, asset management and investor relations. Craig has been a senior leader and member of the investment committee at LaSalle Debt Investors since 2010.

Since joining the firm in 2005, he has been directly involved in the origination and asset management of over US $4 billion in debt investments. Prior to joining LaSalle Debt Investors, Craig was a Director in the New York office of Andersen Corporate Finance LLC, a middle market investment bank. He was responsible for mergers & acquisitions and structured finance transactions, as well as providing specialized corporate finance advice.

Craig received a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Economics degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

With a track record of more than 30 years in finance, global investment and international commercial real estate, Nathalie Palladitcheff has been fully committed to this industry and is often asked to speak on market trends as well as on her sustainable investment convictions.

She was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoé Cambridge between 2019 and April 2024 based in Montreal and thus responsible for ensuring the Company's growth and evolution as well as an optimal long-term return on Quebecers’ assets, while having a positive impact on the communities where the Company invests. She undertook a transformation of the portfolio to bring the Company to a new stage of its development with an emphasis on innovation and diversification. Her achievements include the development of an engaging corporate social responsibility strategy and a strong emphasis on rational sustainability.

She was member of the Real Estate Roundtable in Washington DC, chair of the Canadian commercial real estate association Realpac and co-chair of the real estate group of the World Economic Forum.

After starting her career in finance with PWC and Banque Française Commerciale (Crédit Agricole group), based in the Indian Ocean, Ms. Palladitcheff worked for 15 years in various areas of real estate investment, development, and services mostly for public European companies, SFL, Dolmea Real Estate (Axa Group) and Icade.

Ms. Palladitcheff is Chair of Frey’s Mission Committee and member of the ULI global board.

She supports the work of Montreal children hospital Sainte-Justine Foundation and sits on its board of directors. She has led a number of fundraising campaigns for philanthropic causes that benefit Quebec communities.

Ms. Palladitcheff is a graduate of the Burgundy Business school. She was made a Chevalier of France’s Ordre national du mérite in France and received many awards globally for her leadership in the private equity and real estate industry.

Prashant Raj joined QuadReal in September 2020. As Managing Director, U.S. Debt Investments, he focuses on debt investments including mortgages, mezzanine loans, commercial real estate bonds and platform investments in the United States.

He brings 22 years of experience in commercial real estate capital markets and lending to the QuadReal team. Prashant was formerly a Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners, where he also held senior positions including Head of Guggenheim Commercial Real Estate Finance and Head of Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets and Special Situations. He started his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 2000 in the Commercial Mortgage Group and has held various roles at Credit Suisse Securities in the Real Estate Finance and Securitization Group.

Prashant holds a Bachelor of Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and attended the MPS Real Estate Program at Cornell University. He is a member of the CRE Finance Council and serves on the Board of Directors of SAYA, a youth development organization in New York City.

Dr. Mohammad Rasouli is a thought leader in AI and technology for investment. He is Stanford AI researcher, former Microsoft engineer, and ex-McKinsey consultant from the Bay Area and the New York offices. He is the author of "AI for Investment: A Platform Disruption". Mohammad is passionate about automating investment, as the new Turing test for AI. He is in the process of building a best of breed AI platform for investment funds with his team and in conversation with fund managers.

Mohammad has managed AI activation of top-20 private equities and many other funds to automate the fund investment processes and their portfolio companies as a consultant. As an AI researcher, his papers on AI for markets in top AI conferences and journals have 450+ citations. Also, as an educator, he has co-taught a course at Stanford Graduate School of Business for "Empirics of Online Markets". He has PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working with Nobel prize winners, and MSc in Economics.

Mohammad leads the AI for Investment team, publishes and speaks at investment venues, and runs the AI for Investment webinars.

Philipp (Phil) Reineke is a Stanford researcher in AI/ML for management who worked in and advises startups in the alternative asset tokenization and AI for alternative assets industries. He is a PhD in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford's Technology Ventures Program and COO at AIx2 that’s providing AI-driven data integration solutions for alternative investment funds. Phil has published articles in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and the Strategic Management Journal - including on machine learning in management. He is also leading a study on AI transformation in alternative investment in the context of which him and his co-authors have talked to more than 300 fund managers so far.

In addition to his work on machine learning, Phil does research in blockchain applications and blockchain governance. He co-created and taught the Stanford class “Web3 Entrepreneurship” and was a board member of the Stanford Blockchain Club. He holds an MSc in Computational Social Science from Stanford University (US), an MSc in Organizational Behavior from the London School of Economics (UK), and a BSc in Business Administration from WHU business school (DE).

Samantha Rowan is the editor of PERE Credit, a PEI Media publication which sits alongside Real Estate Capital Europe and PERE. Prior to joining PEI, Sam was the editor of publications that included Real Estate Finance & Investment, Securitization News, and REIT Café at both Euromoney Institutional Investor and With Intelligence. A graduate of Barnard College, Sam is the president of the Columbia University Band Alumni Association, a registered 501c3, and a past volunteer coach of the Columbia University Cycling Club.

Hiten Samtani is the founder and editorial director of ten31, a new media platform focused on market-moving insider coverage of the most important and least understood industries. He is the author of The Promote, a popular newsletter that readers have described as commercial real estate's answer to Matt Levine's "Money Stuff." Hiten founded ten31 after a decade at The Real Deal, where he ran the newsroom and shepherded coverage of the most important stories in real estate. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia Journalism School, a very fine Ping-Pong player and a terrible dancer.

Mr. Sloan is Vice Chairman and Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt based in Los Angeles. He serves on the Leadership Committee, several investment committees, the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee and the Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Mr. Sloan began his career at Wells Fargo & Company in 1987. He held leadership roles in the company’s credit and real estate operations and headed groups including Commercial Banking, Commercial Real Estate and Specialized Financial Services. He held various executive roles such as CAO, CFO and COO. In 2016, Mr. Sloan was appointed CEO, President and member of the company’s Board of Directors. He retired from Wells Fargo in 2019 after 31 years of service. Mr. Sloan is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology, serving as Chair of the Board’s Investment Committee and also serves on the Board of Governors of the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens.
In addition, Mr. Sloan is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, from which he received an MBA in 1984.

Thomas Stanchak serves as the Managing Director of Sustainability for Stoneweg US, LLC, an investor, investment manager, and developer of multifamily real estate in the United States.

Tom seeks to effectively integrate sustainable practices into multifamily real estate investing to promote resident well-being, equity, continuous improvement toward environmental goals, all while creating value for capital partners. His commitment to ESG is showcased by affiliations with respected entities such as the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Multifamily Steering Committee and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Environmental Committee.

With a forward-thinking approach, Tom developed the "Multifamily Sustainability Engagement Toolkit," a SaaS platform fostering apartment community sustainability integration. Additionally, through a collaboration with Decarbon, he's worked towards a comprehensive GHG accounting and management solution.

Tom has successfully explored the opportunity potential of AI in multifamily real estate and has demonstrated his vision for improved operational efficiency and market intelligence in the area of ESG and beyond.

Under his leadership, Stoneweg US earned the Sustainability and Innovation Award, Sustainable Leadership Award from the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership & the Environmental Defense Fund and was recognized as a Freddie Mac Multifamily Impact Sponsor.

Tom also contributes to the broader industry dialogue. He has shared insights at several industry events and penned a thoughtful byline for Propmodo on the significance of ESG in the multifamily sector. Through these efforts, Tom strives to be a collaborative force for a sustainable future in multifamily real estate.

Broderick Storie is a partner and Co-Head of Real Assets at PAG. He is responsible for supervising the operations and management of PAG’s Real Assets strategy. Prior to joining PAG, Mr. Storie was the Chief Risk and Investment Officer for real estate investment at Pramerica Real Estate Investment. He previously worked in the real estate practice of Babcock & Brown Limited, an investment management company.

Mr. Storie received his bachelor’s degree in banking & finance and accountancy from the Queensland University of Technology.

Jameson Weber joined QuadReal in January 2018. As Managing Director, International Real Estate, Americas, his focus is on building the international portfolio, with an emphasis on our strategy in the Americas region.

He was formerly a Vice President and part of the founding team at Hightower, a leading real estate technology company, where he was responsible for both product strategy and business development. Previously, he held senior positions at Oaktree Capital Management and Cerberus Capital Management where he focused on equity and debt investments in commercial real estate and corporate real estate and securities. Prior to that he worked in the real estate group at Morgan Stanley.

Jameson holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.