Ari Abramson Continental Realty Corporation

Ari Abramson is the Vice President of Acquisitions for Continental Realty Corporation. CRC, headquartered in Baltimore and founded in 1960, is a full-service and vertically integrated commercial real estate investment and management company. The firm owns and operates a $2 billion portfolio comprised of approximately 10,000 apartment units and 4 million square feet of commercial space. In his role, Ari focuses on multifamily acquisitions and dispositions throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, manages broker/owner relationships, and oversees the underwriting and due diligence process. Prior to joining CRC, he held positions at Alex. Brown Realty, Stifel Nicolaus, Townsend Capital, and Legg Mason. Ari has a B.A. in Business and Economics from Muhlenberg College and a M.S. in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School.

John Akin Gables Residential

John Akin joined Gables in 2016 as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining Gables, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer at the Flournoy Companies. Before Flournoy, John was a Senior Vice President at Carter where he led multi-family investment and development efforts on behalf of the Carter Funds and Senior Vice President of Development and Investments at Novare Group. In his real estate career, John has overseen the financing, development, and acquisition of nearly $2 billion worth of multi-family and mixed-use projects totaling more than 7,000 units. Previously, John worked as a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a Senior Consultant for Ernst & Young. He is active in the National Multifamily Housing Council and serves on the board of the Fort McPherson Redevelopment Authority. John received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Duke University.

Michael Allen Quintain LTD

Michael joined Quintain in 2015 to run the Build to Rent business, Tipi. Michael comes to Quintain with over 10 years of 'multifamily' experience from the USA having previously managed over 4,000 homes for TIAA-CREF and before that over 2,000 homes of specialty value-add product in New York City for institutional investors. Rohit Anand KTGY Architecture + Planning

Rohit Anand brings industry leading thought-leadership to the design of multi-family and mixed-use development projects. With experience that includes the design of almost 25,000 market rate, for-rent and for-sale, multifamily residential units Mr. Anand counts, among his clients, many of the nation’s top multifamily residential developers including TCR, Mill Creek Residential Trust, UDR, Kettler, The Bozzuto Group, AvalonBay, Gables, Lincoln Property Company and Wood Partners.

Mr. Anand and his team advise developers on product trends and positioning and are adept at providing efficient construction systems that help ensure successful projects. The work of Mr. Anand and his team has been honored with multiple national awards.

Sue Ansel Gables Residential

Sue Ansel is President and Chief Executive Officer. She has 30 years of experience with Gables, serving in her current role since 2012. Sue was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2005 and prior thereto, she held positions in acquisitions, development, and operations, and served as the lead for important company initiatives including the advancement of real estate technology efforts and third- party client services. She serves as an officer and is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Multifamily Housing Council. Sue is also a member of the Real Estate Council. Sue serves on several other boards and committees including the Dallas Summer Musical Board of Directors and DePauw University’s Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute and a graduate of DePauw University.

Katie Bloom Goldman Sachs

Katie manages the US Multifamily team within the Realty Management Division. She is responsible for the acquisition, development and asset management of apartments across the US. Previously, Katie was responsible for acquisition at Archon Group from 2006 to 2012. She joined Archon, formerly a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, in 2000 as an analyst. Katie was named managing director in 2015. Katie serves on the board of the National Multifamily Housing Council. Katie earned a BA in Finance with real estate and marketing emphasis from Texas Christian University in 2000.

Toby Bozzuto The Bozzuto Group

As President and CEO of The Bozzuto Group, Toby Bozzuto provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for more than 2,500 employees in eleven metropolitan areas. By fostering a strong corporate culture, he guides future growth and encourages the company to create extraordinary experiences for residents, clients, partners and each other. Mr. Bozzuto regularly lends his real estate expertise to leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Harvard Business Review, as well as media outlets such as CNBC, Marketplace, Bloomberg Media, and Baltimore’s NPR Station WYPR. As a regular guest lecturer at Harvard University, Georgetown University, Cornell University, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Bozzuto strives to share his insight and passion for creating community. For two years in a row, The Washington Post has named The Bozzuto Group as a “Top Workplace,” based solely on employee feedback and submissions. In 2016, Mr. Bozzuto, alongside his father Tom Bozzuto, accepted the William Donald Schaefer Industrialist of the Year Award from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Additionally, he has received many recognitions, such as Developer of the Year by the District of Columbia Building Industry and Maryland Building Industry Association, one of Maryland Daily Record’s “Most Influential Marylanders,” Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” and as a Commercial Property Executive Rising Leader. He also proudly joined the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, committing himself to advancing diversity throughout all levels of the workplace. An active member of his community, Mr. Bozzuto serves on the Board of Trustees for Colgate University, Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Gilman School. He is also a member of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Policy Advisory Board, National Advisory Board for ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, and the Young Presidents’ Organization. Mr. Bozzuto holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Colgate University and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from New York University.

David Cameron Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

David Cameron served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2016, leading Britain’s first Coalition Government in nearly 70 years and, at the 2015 General Election, forming the first majority Conservative Government in the UK for over two decades.

In doing so, he became the UK’s youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812 and, in 2015, the first ever British Prime Minister to increase both his party’s share of the vote and their number of seats in the House of Commons, having already served a full term as premier. It was a clear mandate from the British people and a simple instruction: to continue turning the country around.

David Cameron came to power in 2010 at a moment of economic crisis and with an unprecedented fiscal challenge. Under his leadership, the UK’s economy was transformed. The deficit was reduced by over two-thirds; one million businesses set-up; a record number of jobs were created: 1,000 extra jobs for every day he was Prime Minister; and Britain became the fastest-growing major advanced economy in the world. That created the stability David Cameron needed to cut taxes, introduce a National Living Wage, transform education, reform welfare, protect the National Health Service, and increase pensions.

The difficult decisions he took meant that while the economy grew, the number of families stuck on welfare fell; the number of students attending university – including those from disadvantaged backgrounds – increased rapidly; and the number of people in work was higher than at any previous point in British history.

Internationally, David Cameron developed a foreign policy in the post-Iraq era that addressed the new challenges of the Arab Spring, as well as a more aggressive Russia, while ensuring that Britain played a full role in the global fight against ISIS. Under his leadership, Britain built a strong partnership with India and became China’s preferred partner in the West. Throughout, David Cameron championed Britain’s special relationship with the US, working closely with President Barack Obama.

Following hosting the successful London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Cameron chaired the 2013 G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, where he highlighted the global need for fair taxes, increased transparency and open trade. Following this, and a two-year worldwide discussion led by a UN high level panel, which he co-chaired, the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed. In particular, David Cameron advocated for what is now SDG 16 – the idea that too many people are held back in poverty because of corruption, rotten government, and lack of access to justice. The principles underpinning Goal 16 – peaceful and inclusive societies; access to justice; and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions – are international values David Cameron continues to champion.

In 2014, David Cameron promoted another country of the United Kingdom, by chairing the NATO Summit at Celtic Manor in Wales.

David Cameron always believed that he should confront the big decisions. He championed environmental issues with the aim of delivering the greenest ever government – as such he grew the British economy while carbon emissions fell sharply; created the world’s first Green Investment Bank; and ensured that the UK played a leading role in the successful Paris Agreement on climate change. Under his leadership, the UK committed to the NATO 2 per cent defense spending target and a rising national defense budget, but also stood up for the world’s poorest by meeting the UN commitment of 0.7 per cent aid and development spending – the first, and so far only, major country in the world to do so. He led the way internationally by passing the UK’s Same Sex Marriage Act, enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality; settled the UK’s voting practices for a generation through the first of three national referenda held while he was in No10; and offered two more decisive national votes: the first on Scotland’s place within the United Kingdom; the second on the United Kingdom’s place within the European Union. David Cameron fought both campaigns the only way he knew how, which was to say directly and passionately what he thought and believed was right – head, heart and soul. In winning the 2014 Scottish referendum he ensured Scotland remained part of the United Kingdom. However, despite David Cameron arguing that Britain was stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union, in June 2016, the British people voted to leave the EU. Following this defeat, David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, leaving 10 Downing Street on 13 July 2016. In September 2016, he resigned as a Member of Parliament. David Cameron became Leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, after serving less than five years as a Member of Connecting You with the World's Greatest Minds Parliament. He was elected on a mandate to reform and modernize a party that had lost three elections in a row. Believing in a modern compassionate conservatism is why David Cameron ran for Leader; it is what led him to form the UK’s first Coalition Government in seven decades; and it is how he governed as Prime Minister. During his leadership of the party, he promoted social justice and social action; advanced the green agenda; set protecting the NHS as a top priority; and was proud to see a significant increase in the number of women and ethnic minority candidates standing for the Conservative Party and elected to Parliament. His vision has always been of a country where everyone – whatever their background – can succeed; where we always look out for those who are less fortunate; where every part of the country is brought together. Ultimately, it comes back to some core values: aspiration, compassion, responsibility, freedom. These are the things David Cameron believes in. They underpinned his leadership of the Conservative Party and his premiership, and they lie at the heart of his One Nation vision.

As the Member of Parliament for the rural constituency of Witney in West Oxfordshire from 2001, David Cameron held a number of positions on the Opposition Front Bench prior to becoming Party Leader. After the 2005 General Election, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills. He had previously held the positions of Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (2003); Front Bench Spokesman for Local Government Finance (2004); and Head of Policy Co-ordination in the run-up to the General Election of May 2005. He was also a member of the influential House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee between 2001 and 2003.

Before he became a Member of Parliament, David Cameron worked in business and government. He was educated at Eton College and Brasenose College at Oxford University, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and gaining a First Class Honours degree. After graduating he joined the Conservative Research Department where he worked for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her successor John Major, who he advised for Prime Minister’s Question Time. He was later appointed a Special Adviser in government, first at the Treasury and then at the Home Office. Afterwards, he spent seven years at Carlton Communications, one of the UK’s leading media companies, and served on the management board.

Since leaving 10 Downing Street, David Cameron has continued focusing on issues he advanced while in office: supporting life chances for young people and building a bigger, stronger society; championing Britain’s cutting edge medical research; and promoting international development.

David Cameron is Chairman of Patrons at the National Citizen Service (NCS), the UK’s flagship youth development program that brings together teenagers from all parts of the country for a part-residential experience, with 30 hours committed to a local community project.

He is also President of Alzheimer’s Research UK, Britain’s leading medical research charity with special focus on funding bio-medical research into the cause, prevention and cure of dementia.

And continuing the instrumental role he took while Prime Minister advocating UN Sustainable Development Goal 16, he is working with the London School of Economics and Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, chairing the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, under the auspices of the International Growth Centre. The Commission will support the development and implementation of effective growth policies in fragile and conflict-affected states around the world.

Family has always been the most important part of David Cameron’s life, sustaining him through his political career and premiership. David and his wife, Samantha, have three young children: Nancy, Elwen, and Florence, who was born in 2010 while her father was Prime Minister. Very sadly their much loved eldest child, Ivan, who suffered from cerebral palsy and Ohtahara Syndrome, a rare and severe form of epilepsy, died in February 2009, aged six.

The family live in London and West Oxfordshire.

Ric Campo Camden Property Trust

Richard Campo is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Camden Property Trust. Mr. Campo has served in this capacity since May 1993. As the Chairman and CEO of one of the nation’s largest multifamily Real Estate Investment Trusts, Mr. Campo holds strategic roles within the real estate industry. He is currently a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ('NAREIT') where he serves on the Executive Board, the National Multifamily Housing Council ('NMHC') where he serves on the Executive Committee and was past chairman, and the Urban Land Institute ('ULI').

Mr. Campo began his real estate career after graduating from Oregon State University in 1976. After working for a private Houston real estate company, Mr. Campo co-founded Camden’s predecessor companies in 1982 and has spent almost 30 years building a company of great people that are renowned for their management proficiency, their development and construction capabilities and their savvy in the areas of technology, training and marketing. He has led the development, management, acquisition and disposition of real estate properties valued in excess of $10 billion; and under his leadership, Camden has grown from a Texas-based real estate firm with assets valued at $200 million in 1993 to an industry leader with a national footprint and assets valued at more than $8 billion.

Mr. Campo serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations that focus on the economic development, business outlook and future growth of Houston, including Central Houston, Inc., the Greater Houston Community Foundation and the Greater Houston Partnership, and is an Executive Advisory Board Member for the University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business. Mr. Campo is also the Chairman of the Houston First Corporation, a local government corporation that facilitates the city's economic growth through the business of conventions and the arts.

Mr. Campo is a frequent speaker on real estate and development related topics for both industry- related and non-industry conferences and associations and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Majora Carter Urban Revitalization Strategist, Real Estate Developer & Peabody Award-winning Broadcaster

Majora Carter is a leading urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation & implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems.

At Sustainable South Bronx, Carter deployed MIT’s first ever Mobile Fab- Lab(digital fabrication laboratory) to the South Bronx - where it served as an early iteration of the “Maker-Spaces” found elsewhere today. The project drew residents and visitors together for guided and creative collaborations.

After establishing Sustainable South Bronx and Green For All (among other organizations) to carry on that work, she opened a private consulting firm to help spread the message and success of social enterprise and economic development in low-status communities - which was named Best for the Worldby B-Corp.

Her work is characterized by an emphasis on talent-retentionon the corporate and community levels. Clients include industry leaders in many fields, municipal and federal government agencies, and leading educational institutions across the US.

From this vantage point, Majora co-founded the now 750+ member Bronx Tech Meetup, as well as the StartUpBox Software Services company which is rebuilding the entry level tech job pipeline by using market forces and established business practices to help diversify the US tech sector. Clients include Digital.nyc, PlayDots, and GIPHY, among others.

Majora Carter has helped connect tech industry pioneers such as Etsy, Gust, FreshDirect, Google, and Cisco to diverse communities at all levels, and she continues to drive resources that value diversity into the communities left out of previous economic growth trends.

Majora is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, and an Advisory Board member of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School . Her long list of awards and honorary degrees include accolades from groups as diverse as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Goldman Sachs, as well as a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She is a BusinessInsider.com ‘Silicon Alley 100', one of Goldman-Sachs ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’, and her 2006 TEDtalk was one of 6 to launch that groundbreaking site. Majora is a Board Member of the Andrew Goodman Foundation.

She has served as a judge for numerous prizes and competition including the NYC Office of Digital Media's "Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge." and the Roddenberry Prize.

Ryan Epstein Berkadia

As the Senior Managing Director of Berkadia’s Texas Multifamily Investment Sales Team, Ryan Epstein has positioned Berkadia as a dominant force in the Texas Multifamily market. Ryan has brought with him over 13 years of multifamily sales experience with a specialty in strategic planning, transaction management, and financial structuring to ensure successful implementation of client investment strategies.

Prior to joining Berkadia, Ryan was Executive Vice President and leader of the Texas Gulf Coast Multifamily Investment Sales for CBRE. He received recognition for successfully guiding local, national, and multi-national clients through their acquisitions. His experience in institutional multifamily sales, combined with dedicated leadership skills, provided the expertise needed to be one of the top producers for the last five consecutive years. His client list includes: REITs, Pension Fund Advisors, Private investment companies, and local and national developers. Shawn Hansen Greystar

As a Managing Director of investments on the West Coast, Shawn Hansen is responsible for Greystar’s acquisitions, asset management, and dispositions activity throughout the Southwestern U.S., including Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Shawn joined Greystar in 2011 and has been active in the multifamily industry since 2005. Prior to Greystar, Shawn worked at Moran & Company where he focused on the sale of institutional-quality apartment communities throughout the West Coast. Shawn received his bachelor degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Southern California.

Rick Haughey National Multifamily Housing Council

Rick Haughey Is Vice President, Industry Technology Initiatives, with responsibility for directing NMHC's new Operations and Technology Initiative, where he will expand the strategic business and industry information the Council provides, covering a broad range of apartment operations issues. Prior to joining NMHC, Rick spent many years at the Urban Land Institute, where he was Director of Multifamily Development. There, he authored six editions of ULI’s Dollars and Cents of Multifamily Housing. He was also the author of the joint NMHC-ULI Getting Density Right: Tools for Vibrant Compact Development booklet. Rick also served as Senior Fellow at the National Housing Conference, where he focused on multifamily issues. Rick holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of Maryland. John Helm RETV

John is the Managing Director of a venture capital investment firm located in Park City, UT that is focused on investing in companies that provide technology and services to the real estate industry. The firm’s strategic partners include several major REITs and private owner/managers of multifamily properties. John also serves on the boards of Lexicon, Nestio, and Next Gear Solutions.

Before founding RETV, John was a Venture Partner with DN Capital in Europe from 2012-2016 where he co-invested in 13 deals including Auto1 (Series A), which had revenues in 2016 of over $1.5B and a valuation in excess of $2.4B, and PurpleBricks (Series Seed), a UK online flat fee residential brokerage company which went public in 2015 and is also currently valued in excess of $1B. Previously he was the founder and CEO of two venture backed startups in the online real estate space in the U.S.. He sold his most recent company, MyNewPlace to RealPage (NYSE:RP) for $78.5 million in the summer of 2011. Under John's leadership, MyNewPlace grew by competing successfully with five well entrenched competitors to become the second highest traffic apartment rental website in the U.S.. John was also the founding CEO of AllApartments/SpringStreet, which became the number one apartment rental and relocation site on the Internet before its sale to Homestore in 1999 for $150 million, in a private to private transaction immediately prior to the combined entities IPO.

Prior to SpringStreet, John was the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development for Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company where he headed up all finance, technology, and business development activities. John was also a consultant for McKinsey & Company for six years and a sales specialist for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John lives in Park City with his wife Catherine, son Jack (12), daughter Alexandra (10) and black lab Leo (8).

Gerald Hines Hines

Mr. Hines founded his namesake firm in Houston in 1957. Since then, Hines has steadily grown into a global powerhouse in real estate investment, development and management. As a co-owner, along with his son Jeffrey, he sits on the firm's Executive Committee, participates in new business and investor relationships and advises the firm's regions on architectural excellence. Hines graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and later received an honorary doctorate from the school. He is a frequent guest lecturer at major universities and a sought- after speaker at industry events. Hines is a recipient of the J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionary Urban Development and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Among his proudest accomplishments are the support of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston and the establishment of the ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

Adam Hirst LMC, a Lennar Company

Adam Hirst has extensive experience across all aspects of the property industry including residential development, passive investments, funds management and agency. Prior to joining Mirvac, Adam worked for AMP Capital across both their direct and listed real estate portfolios including the Global Listed Real Estate team, investing in real estate companies globally comprising many of the USA-listed multi-family REITs.

Since joining Mirvac in 2013, Adam has played a role in the set-up and management of a number of development and passive investment vehicles including project specific joint ventures with Ping An Insurance, the Australian Office Alliance, a joint venture formed with TIAA-CREF and the Mirvac Wholesale Residential Development Fund. More recently Adam was appointed General Manager, Capital Allocation and has been responsible for the Group’s Capital Allocation function. More recently Adam has been focused on Mirvac’s Build to Rent (Multifamily rental) strategy.

Karen Hollinger AvalonBay Communities

Karen Hollinger is Vice President, Corporate Initiatives and is responsible for leading large strategic corporate initiatives and is point on innovation initiatives in development, construction and property operations. As part of her involvement in real estate and NMHC, she recently served as the Chair for the Systems Technology and Information Management Committee and is currently Vice Chair of the new Organizational Innovation Committee. Karen has spoken at many conferences on matters related to technology or real estate in the US and abroad and often acts as a judge at real estate technology start-up venture competitions.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Hollinger has led several functions and departments at AvalonBay, most recently as the VP of Information Services where she served as the lead executive for all applications, infrastructure and IT strategy for the organization. Ms. Hollinger also spent several years as a VP, National Operations with responsibility for establishing and managing the Customer Care Center in Virginia Beach, VA, an industry-leading shared services center focused on back-office financial and customer service functions.

Prior to AvalonBay, Ms. Hollinger was a Consulting Director specializing in IT strategy and large ERP implementations.

Ms. Hollinger started KPMG's IT consulting practice in Beijing, China and worked extensively overseas.

Randall Jenson Berkadia

Randall Jenson is chief financial officer and a member of the Management Committee. In this role he is responsible for the finance, accounting, treasury, corporate marketing and risk divisions, as well as mergers and acquisitions and general management.

Chris Lackett PGIM Real Estate

Chris Lackett is a Vice President with PGIM Real Estate (“PGIM”). Chris joined PGIM in June 2015 and is responsible for oversight of PGIM’s open ended value-add fund’s (PRISA III) multifamily investment activities. Prior to PGIM, Chris was a Vice President at BlackRock Realty Advisors where he part of the acquisitions team covering the Southeast, Midwest and Texas markets that originated over $500 million in new investments since 2011. Before joining BlackRock, Chris was an associate within Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (“BAML”) real estate investment banking group from 2009-2011. During his tenure at BAML, he was involved in over $1.5 billion worth of capital markets and initial public offering transactions.

Chris is a member of the National Multi Housing Council and serves as Vice Chair of the Emerging Leaders Committee. He received his MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2009 with a concentration in real estate and finance and received his BA in Economics from Bucknell University in 2002, where he was a member of the men’s baseball team.

James Mannix Knight Frank

James Mannix is an Equity Partner at Knight Frank and runs the No 1 Multifamily team in the UK. The team is the market leader in brokerage and appraisal work for Residential Investments across the UK. James joined Knight Frank as a graduate in 1998 and founded the Multifamily team in 2005. Since 2015 the team advised on more than £10 bn ($13.4bn) of transactions, much of which has been forward funding for bespoke build-to-rent residential accommodation. This team has been instrumental in the burgeoning Multifamily industry in the UK.

Knight Frank now has Multifamily offices in London, Birmingham (UK), Dublin, Madrid, Amsterdam, Sydney in addition to the 38 Newmark Knight Frank offices across the US.

Steve Martin Comedian and Actor

Steve Martin is one of the most well-known and pervasive talents in entertainment. His work has earned him an Academy Award®, five Grammy® awards, an Emmy®, the Mark Twain Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.

Martin began his career on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music in 1969. In the mid-1970s, Martin shone as a stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Martin’s films are widely popular successes and are the kind of movies that are viewed again and again: The Jerk (1979), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Roxanne (1987), Parenthood (1989), L.A. Story (1991), Father of the Bride (1991), and Bowfinger (1999).

As an author, Martin’s work includes the novel An Object of Beauty, the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a collection of comic pieces, Pure Drivel, a bestselling novella, Shopgirl, and his memoir Born Standing Up. His writing often appears in The New Yorker.

His latest play, Meteor Shower debuted at the San Diego’s Old Globe Theater this past August. The show broke records and has become one of the most successful shows in Globe history. Meteor Shower will be at the Long Wharf Theater in Connecticut from September 21 till October 16th.

Martin, can next be seen in Sony Pictures’ Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk directed by Academy Award winner Ang Lee. The film follows 19-year-old Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) and his journey after being brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. The film is set to release on November 11, 2016.

Steve Martin is also an accomplished Grammy Award-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer. In 2013, Steve Martin released his third full-length album called Love Has Come For You, a unique collaboration with songwriter Edie Brickell. Love Has Come For You, won a Grammy® for “Best American Roots Song” for the title track and inspired the Broadway musical Bright Star. Bright Star received five Tony Award nominations and also received Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Martin and Brickell’s second album together, So Familiar, was released on Rounder Records last October, featuring 12 remarkable new songs that bring the acclaimed duo’s musical collaboration into fresh creative territory.

Jacob Mienert Navitas Capital

Jacob Mienert is an Analyst for Navitas. Prior to joining the firm, Jacob was an Analyst for Solaris, a Real Estate Development firm in Vail, Colorado. Before Solaris, Jacob worked as an Research Analyst for E.CA Economics in Berlin and was an Analyst with Stance Socks. Jacob received his Masters in Finance from Rotterdam School of Management and his bachelor degree from Viadrina-European University.

Alexandra Notay Places for People Group

Alexandra is responsible for driving innovation and streamlining processes across the Places for People Group, one of the largest development, regeneration and management companies in the UK. She is also responsible for developing the Build to Rent strategy within Places for People and PfP Capital, the fund management business.

Alex is an internationally recognised conference speaker, moderator and workshop facilitator. As a strategist and skilled people manager she has led masterplanning, regeneration and PPP consultancy projects in London, Moscow, New York, Istanbul, Barcelona and many other major cities. Alex is a published author and editor of over 30 books and reports on real estate including the renowned ULI UK Best Practice Guide on Build to Rent (2014 and 2016). Prior to joining Places for People, Alex operated as an independent advisor to public and private sector clients in the UK, US, Europe and Australia providing strategic advice and project leadership, particularly around the emerging Build to Rent sector.

Her private consultancy client portfolio between 2011-2017 included Greystar, Grosvenor, M&G Real Estate and Grainger plc as well as the Greater London Authority and the UK government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She retains an advisory role with Global Apartment Advisors. Previously Alex spent five years running advisory services and strategic programmes for the Urban Land Institute in Europe and four years as UK Policy Director for ULI UK. She was the youngest Vice- President in ULI’s history and remains an active member, serving on the ULI UK Executive Committee and as Vice-Chair the ULI UK Residential Council.

Alex is also Co-Chair of the Events Committee of the UKAA (UK chapter of the NAA), a member of the Society of Property Researchers, an observer member for the United Nations ECE Committee on Housing and Land Management and a trustee of SunScreenIT.

Roelof Opperman Fifth Wall Ventures

Roelof Opperman is a Senior Associate at Fifth Wall, a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund.

Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners where he was part of the Growth Equity team, focusing on investments in SaaS and enterprise software, cloud and IT infrastructure, internet, and technology-enabled business services sectors. He was actively involved with Norwest’s investments in Avetta, Medgate, and Infutor. Roelof was also a member of the deal team that completed Medgate’s acquisitions of regAction and IQS. Before joining Norwest, Roelof was a Senior Analyst with Evercore Partners’ Technology investment banking group based in Menlo Park. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater Associates.

Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Clelia Warburg Peters MetaProp

Clelia Peters is currently the President of Warburg Realty. As a skilled manager and consultant, she is also a founder of Latticeworks, a company which aims to re-define how highly skilled people work in the 21st century. She is particularly focused on providing an opportunity for highly skilled women to return to, or remain in, the market in a way that better reflects their lives and their unique skills.

Prior to Warburg, Clelia was as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, focused on change management with experience working across industries. She worked on many projects including overseeing the regional roll-out of BCG's global strategic initiative to improve project management and effectiveness, increasing the regional program penetration from 25% to 90% of offices in 6 months. Clelia also supported a major initiative to define future resourcing strategy across the value chain of an integrated energy company and provided technical and logistical support to the Central Bank of Ireland during the EU-mandated stress testing of the Irish Banking system. Additionally, she developed a revised operating model for a consumer goods company facing legal challenge related to their home based sales model.

Prior to The Boston Consulting Group, Clelia was a Program Manager for the International Rescue Committee, where she initiated and oversaw development projects in Nepal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Colombia. She supervised research, interviews and meetings both domestically and in conflict zones to gather and analyze data on the impact of conflict. She also served as a policy advisor to the UN Security Council Ambassadors in the drafting of 3 Security Council.

Jonathan F.P. Rose Jonathan Rose Companies

Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating more environmentally, socially and economically resilient cities. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multidisciplinary real estate development, planning, and investment firm, which creates real estate and planning models to address the challenges of the 21st century. Jonathan has lead the firm’s vision, program and growth, developing award winning new projects, investment funds and city plans to model solutions to the issues of housing, economic development and the environment.

The company’s mission is to develop communities that enhance opportunity for all. The firm’s work touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build affordable and mixed-income housing, cultural, health and educational infrastructure, and advocates for neighborhoods to be enriched with parks and open space, mass transit, jobs and healthy food.

The firm’s innovative development, planning, investment, and owners representation work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the Urban Land Institute, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Rose frequently lectures on affordable housing, community development, smart growth and the environment.

Mr. Rose’s book on how to create resilient cities, The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, was published by Harper Wave in 2016, and won the 2017 PROSE Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher.

Mr. Rose frequently lectures at graduate schools of business, environment and architecture. In 2015, he held the Yale School of Architecture’s Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architectural Fellowship.

Mr. Rose has testified before U.S. Senate and House Committees on housing, infrastructure and environmental issues, and served as an Advisor to the White House Office of Urban Affairs.

Mr. Rose is a Trustee of Enterprise Community Partners and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects and Honorary Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Mr. Rose chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan, and was a commissioner on Governor Cuomo’s NYS 2100 Commission, tasked with identifying strategies for the long-term resilience of New York State’s infrastructure post-Hurricane Sandy.

Mr. Rose and his wife Diana Calthorpe Rose are the co-founders of the Garrison Institute and serve on its Board. The Institute connects inner transformation with outer solutions to relieve suffering in the fields of trauma, education and the environment.

Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. Dr. Larry Sabato Political Analyst & New York Times Best Selling Author

Dr. Larry J. Sabato is a New York Times best-selling author who has won two Emmys and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s most respected political analysts. He appears multiple times a week on national and international TV, including FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and CNN International. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Sabato is the founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, and has had visiting appointments at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England. Dr. Sabato is the author or editor of two dozen books on American politics. He has taught over 20,000 students in his 40-year career, and the University of Virginia has given him its highest honor, The Thomas Jefferson Award.

Martin Short Comedian and Actor

Martin Short, a celebrated comedian and actor, has won fans and accolades in television, film and theater since his breakout season on “Saturday Night Live” over 30 years ago.

Short won his first Emmy in 1982 while working on Canada’s SCTV Comedy Network, which brought him to the attention of the producers of “SNL.” He became an “SNL” fan-favorite for his portrayal of characters such as Ed Grimley, lawyer Nathan Thurm and “legendary songwriter” Irving Cohen.

His popularity and exposure on “SNL” led Short to cross over quickly into feature films. He made his debut in “Three Amigos” and followed with “Innerspace,” “Three Fugitives,” “Clifford,” “Pure Luck” and “Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks.” One of Short’s most memorable roles was in the remake of “Father of the Bride” as Franck the wedding planner, a role he reprised a few years later in “Father of the Bride Part II.” Short lent his voice to the animated film “Madagascar 3” and Tim Burton’s Oscar-nominated “Frankenweenie.”

An accomplished stage actor, Short won a Tony, Theatre World Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his role in the revival of “Little Me.” He was also nominated for a Tony and took home an Outer Critics Circle Award for the musical version of Neil Simon’s “The Goodbye Girl.” Short co-wrote and starred in “Fame Becomes Me,” prompting The New York Times to describe Short as “a natural for live musicals, a limber singer and dancer who exudes a fiery energy that makes you want to reach for your sunglasses.” Short most recently appeared on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play.”

A two-time primetime Emmy winner and multi-nominated for both primetime and daytime Emmys, Short returned to television in 1998 for the miniseries “Merlin” and host of “The Martin Short Show.” In 2001, he launched the popular comedy “Primetime Glick and in 2010 received critical acclaim for his role in FX’s drama series “Damages.”

Short has also returned to “SNL” as host three times, and performed in the series’ landmark 40th anniversary special in February 2015. Other recent television credits include “Mulaney,” “How I Met Your Mother” and the critically acclaimed PBS series “Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That.”

Short will co-star with Maya Rudolph on his new weekly NBC variety show series “Maya and Marty in Manhattan” starting May 31st.

Short’s New York Times bestselling memoir, “I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend,” was published in 2014.

In 1994, Short was awarded the Order of Canada — the Canadian equivalent to British knighthood. He was also inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in June 2000.

Ben Stoll Equity Residential

Mr. Stoll is a Vice President at Equity Residential, where he is responsible for all development related activities in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has spent 10 years at Equity Residential in various capacities including property operations, procurement, revenue strategy and investments. Mr. Stoll has a bachelors degree from Bucknell University and a Masters in Real Estate Development from Johns Hopkins.

David Woodward CBRE London

Mr. Woodward is the President of Global Apartment Advisors (GAA), a firm with the mission to share best practices from the well-established U.S. rental apartment industry with clients around the world. Mr. Woodward brings more than 25 years of leadership experience to this role, with expertise in real estate investment, asset management, property management, development and construction for some of the world’s premier public and privately held real estate companies.

Rental apartment sectors, similar to what has existed in the U.S. for several decades, are in the early stages of being established in many countries around the world. GAA advises companies on all aspects of apartment design, layout, floorplans, common areas and amenities. GAA also advises clients on all aspects of creating and running an ongoing property management platform including operations, technology, systems, software, organization structure, resident programming and customer service.

GAA operates as an extension of each client’s real estate group and ensures that their apartment developments are at the leading edge of the industry based on the latest global innovations occurring in this sector. GAA also advises non-U.S. companies on investing in the U.S. apartment market. The amount of foreign investment into U.S. real estate has been growing significantly as many investors around the world view the U.S. as a safe harbor for capital. In addition, real estate provides hard asset investments to further protect capital. Of all real estate product types, apartments have historically achieved among the best risk adjusted return levels. Therefore, apartment investing in the U.S. is seen around the world as particularly well insulated.

Mr. Woodward is also the Chief Executive Officer of CompassRock Real Estate, a leading national provider of institutional-quality asset and property management services to the apartment, office, retail and industrial sectors in the U.S. CompassRock was originally founded in partnership with Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) to provide asset and property management to a large national apartment and commercial real estate portfolio controlled by Fortress.

Most notably, CompassRock was responsible for the dramatic turnaround of Stuyvesant Town / Peter Cooper Village in New York City – the largest rental apartment community in the United States totaling 11,232 units and 30,000 residents of Manhattan. CompassRock’s turnaround of “StuyTown” culminated in a sale to Blackstone for $5.4 billion, the largest single-asset transaction in U.S. real estate history. CompassRock is no longer affiliated with Fortress. Prior to GAA, Mr. Woodward was the Global Head of Multifamily for Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM), one of the largest asset managers and real estate investors in the world with AUM of $250 billion. Brookfield owns 50,000 rental apartment units in the U.S. and also owns Fairfield Residential, a California-based owner, developer and property manager of apartment properties nationally. Brookfield owns other multifamily portfolios across the United States and controls development sites in major cities in the U.S. and in international capitals around the world including Canary Wharf in London where 3,000 units of rental housing are being developed and Potsdamer Platz in Berlin where there are numerous apartment properties on the estate.

Mr. Woodward was previously the CEO of The Laramar Group where he assembled a portfolio of owned and third-party managed properties totaling over 40,000 rental apartment units as well as a nationwide commercial portfolio. Mr. Woodward was responsible for growing Laramar into a widely-recognized and well-regarded national platform. Prior to Laramar, Mr. Woodward was a Senior Vice President at Security Capital Group (NYSE: SCZ) and its affiliate, Archstone Communities (NYSE: ASN), which was one of the largest and best regarded U.S. apartment REITs with a portfolio that totaled approximately 75,000 units. At Archstone, Mr. Woodward held key positions in Asset Management, Property Management and the New Ventures Group where he identified and funded start-up companies related to the real estate industry. The New Ventures Group created many companies that transformed the industry including the leading online resident screening company, SafeRent (now part of CoreLogic), and the leading online revenue management company, LRO (now part of RealPage).

Mr. Woodward is on the Board of Directors of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), the Executive Forum of the National Apartment Association (NAA), the Global Outreach Committee of the NAA, the Sustainability Committee of the NMHC, the Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at U.C. Berkeley, the Board of Directors of Shelters to Shutters, a non-profit focused on providing housing and jobs to homeless veterans, is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is a regular speaker at real estate industry events around the world. Mr. Woodward is a Senior Advisor to Quintain, a subsidiary of Lonestar, which is developing the largest rental apartment scheme in the UK which will include over 5,000 rental units. In 2007 Mr. Woodward was named Executive of the Year by Multifamily Executive magazine and again in 2013 was named Executive of the Year by MultiHousing News magazine. Mr. Woodward holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Andrew Yates Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)

Andrew is a London based partner in law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner’s Real Estate team, specialising in real estate development and large scale residential property. He is particularly renowned for his experience in the Build to Rent sector, leading the firm’s multi-disciplinary initiatives in this area. He is a member of the British Property Federation’s Build to Rent Committee, on the board of the UKAA and works closely with the ULI. He has advised upon some of the UK’s largest Build to Rent (multifamily) transactions to date for clients including the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency, La Salle Investment Management and other well known participants in this growing sector.

Sarah Yaussi National Multifamily Housing Council

Sarah Yaussi is Vice President, Industry Communications, with primary responsibility for managing NMHC’s business information and marketing strategy. This includes producing print, digital and interactive content for the website, member communications, research publications, trade press outlets and industry conferences. Prior to joining NMHC, Sarah served as editor of Big Builder magazine, a Hanley Wood publication for senior executives at the largest public and private home builders. Sarah holds B.A. in English from Colgate University and a Masters in Journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.