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Sue Ansel Gables Residential Sue Ansel is President and Chief Executive Officer. In her 25 plus years with Gables, she has held positions in acquisitions, development, and operations and has led important company initiatives including the advancement of real estate technology efforts and third-party client services. Sue serves on several boards and committee’s including serving as an officer and on the Executive Committee of the National Multifamily Housing Council, and officer of The Real Estate Council and The Real Estate Council Foundation Board of Directors, The Dallas Summer Musical Board of Directors and DePauw University’s Board of Trustees. Sue is also a member of the Urban Land Institute and a graduate of DePauw University. Ken Bacon Railfield Realty Partners Ken Bacon, is co-founder and managing partner of Railfield Realty Partners, an investment management firm that invests in apartments on behalf of institutional investors and family offices. He started Railfield after retiring from Fannie Mae, where he was Executive Vice President for the multifamily business. In this role, Ken was responsible for a $195 billion portfolio, which included senior debt, mezzanine loans, tax credits and equity. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, he served as Director of Securitization at the Resolution Trust Corporation, and as an officer of Morgan Stanley. In addition to his duties at Railfield, Ken serves as a director of Comcast, Ally Financial, Forest City Realty Trust and Welltower. A former trustee of Stanford University, he is also a member of various advisory boards at the school including the Stanford Center on Longevity. He has a B.A. from Stanford, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Laurie Baker Camden Property Trust Laurie Baker is Senior Vice President of Fund and Asset Management for Camden Property Trust. Baker is responsible for the creation, marketing, and administration of Camden's first investment funds, which has $1.2 billion in assets. She is also a member of Camden’s investment committee and is responsible for leading the organization’s pricing and revenue strategies. During her 18-year tenure with Camden, Baker has held several positions. As Regional Vice President, she was responsible for managing over 10,000 apartment homes in Texas. As Vice President of Property Services, she was responsible for building complimentary technology strategies to enhance revenues and decrease expenditures. She served as the executive sponsor for Camden's technology initiative, which included managing several technology investments and the rollout of Camden's web- based property management software, revenue management, and an online procurement system. Before joining Camden, Baker was Vice President at Walden Residential Properties and spent nine years at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, MD. She holds a MBA in Finance from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Sam Houston State University. She serves on the Board of Directors Executive Committee for the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), is a member of ULI's Multifamily Bronze Council, and a frequent speaker in the multifamily industry. Baker is the Immediate Past President of CREW Network, past President for CREW Houston and in 2012 was honored as one of the Top 15 Women in Commercial Real Estate. She is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Texas and was recently recognized by Real Estate Forum as a Women of Influence for a third straight year. Dave Bragg Green Street Advisors Dave is a Managing Director at Green Street Advisors. He leads Green Street's residential research team including the apartment and single-family rental sectors and plays a senior role in developing the firm’s macro research. Since joining Green Street in 2013, Dave helped build the firm’s proprietary single-family rental database and also was Green Street's lead research analyst for student housing, self-storage, and manufactured housing. His macro research work includes Transportation Revolution, a mid-‘16 report detailing the significant expected impact of driverless cars and ride-hailing on all real estate sectors, and Reform-Minded, a late-’16 report outlining the potential implications of comprehensive tax reform for real estate. Dave is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has been quoted widely in the financial media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and Barron's. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). Prior to joining Green Street in 2013, Dave developed and led the REIT effort at Zelman & Associates. Before that, he was a member of the REIT teams at ISI Group and Merrill Lynch. Dave earned an M.A. in International Business from the University of Florida, and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University. Dana Carvey Dana Carvey serves as the “expert-in-residence” in USA Network’s new comedic half hour series “First Impressions.” The show pits America’s best amateur impressionists against each other in a weekly battle of celebrity impressions with Carvey mentoring each contestant. Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey is best known for his “Saturday Night Live” characters such as the Church Lady; Hans, of the Hans and Franz body building duo; Garth, Wayne Campbell’s (Mike Myers) ‘Excellent Co-Host’ on popular sketch ‘Wayne’s World,’ and Weekend Updates Grumpy Old Man. Dana has received praise for his comedic impersonations of political figures as Ex-President George Bush, H. Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, David Duke and Bob Dole. He also does impersonations of George Burns, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Stewart, John McLaughlin, Mickey Rooney, Casey Casem, and Regis Philbin. Carvey can also be seen in Alan Parker’s “The Road to,” for Columbia Pictures, Richard and Lili Zanuck’s “Clean Slate” for MGM, and Twentieth Century Fox’s “Trapped in Paradise.” His early film work includes his debut in “This is Spinal Tap,” “Racing with the Moon,” “One of the Group” where he portrayed Mickey Rooney’s grandson, “Blue Thunder” with James Farentino, “Tough Guys” with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and the comedy “Opportunity Knocks.” In 2004, he starred in “The Master of Disguise,” a comedy fantasy for the whole family which features Carvey in 36 different identities and speaking 14 different languages as the hapless and heroic Pistachio Disguisey. Carvey won an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. He has received a total of six Emmy nominations one of which was for a guest appearance on “Larry Sanders Show.” He was also honored with The American Comedy Award as Television’s Funniest Supporting Male in 1990 and 1991. Robert E. DeWitt GID Robert E. DeWitt is Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of GID. He oversees corporate strategy development, new client/equity partner sourcing and procurement, property acquisitions and dispositions, client relations and overall management of the company. In his oversight of GID's equity co-investment programs – the Windsor Realty Funds – Mr. DeWitt directs real estate acquisitions, dispositions, portfolio management and partner communications. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer of GID and Senior Vice President of GID Acquisitions. Mr. DeWitt joined the company as Vice President of GID Acquisitions in 1987. From 1982 to 1987, he worked as Vice President of Acquisitions at Winthrop Financial Associates, a national real estate investment banking and syndication firm based in Boston. Mr. DeWitt received an MBA from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a BA from Middlebury College. Stan Dobbs Apartment Life Stan Dobbs is the Founder and CEO of Apartment Life. After a career in sales with Compaq Computer Corporation, Stan went to seminary and joined the staff of First Baptist Church of Euless, TX. During his pastorate he became passionate about serving apartment communities and in 2000 launched Apartment Life. Stan and his wife Vicky have been married for 28 years and they reside in Euless with their children – Amelia, Aaron, Elliott, and Graham. Lili Dunn Bell Partners Ms. Dunn joined Bell Partners in 2010 as the CIO and eventually chair of the Executive Committee. In early 2016, she assumed the role of President and oversees all aspects of the company's business including Investment, Finance, Operations, Fund Management, Accounting and Construction. Ms. Dunn is also responsible for guiding the company's investment strategy, broadening its institutional capital sources, strengthening the investment infrastructure and directing transaction and financing initiatives. Prior to joining Bell Partners, Ms. Dunn was a 20-year veteran with AvalonBay Communities, a leading public apartment REIT and a member of the S&P 500, and Trammell Crow Residential, its predecessor entity. In her role, she was responsible for the company's national transaction activity, which consisted of roughly 60,000 apartment homes valued at approximately $6.5 billion. Ms. Dunn also helped to raise and oversee AvalonBay's discretionary institutional investment vehicles with total equity commitments of $730 million. Ms. Dunn is on the Executive Board of National Multi Housing Council and was Chairperson of its Finance Committee from 2006 to 2010. She is Vice Chair of the multifamily council of ULI and a member of PREA and CREW. Ms. Dunn earned her BS from the University of Michigan where she graduated with highest honors. Established in 1976, Bell Partners Inc. is a privately held, vertically integrated apartment investment and management company focused on institutional multifamily communities across the United States. With approximately 65,000 units under management, Bell Partners is one of the largest apartment operators and renovators in the United States. The Company completed over $11 billion of apartment transactions since 2002 and achieved a net IRR and multiple of 17.5% and 2.2x on $5.4B of sales during that time.