Jonathan Kern
Global Chief Investment Officer,
GE Real Estate

Jonathan Kern is GE Real Estate's Global Chief Investment Officer, responsible for strategic planning at one of the world’s largest and most diverse commercial real estate companies. To Jonathan, strategic planning is an essential component of consistent business growth over the long term. With this perspective, he provides overall direction for the business, with particular attention to penetrating new markets and formulating new products.

Jonathan arrived at GE Real Estate in 2003 and, starting with a staff of 10, worked to build GE’s ability to offer an increasingly wide range of real estate products to a broader and more global range of clients. Today he manages a team of 70 planners, market researchers and other specialists evenly split between Stamford, Connecticut and the individual business units across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Their charter is to see, and seize, opportunity in advance of change.

Jonathan’s team utilizes extensive market research and rigorous process to analyze each opportunity. Then the team prepares a strategic plan for implementation by the local or business managers. In addition, Jonathan is also responsible for managing the firm’s commercial excellence, customer loyalty, sales force effectiveness, market research and marketing communications programs. Under his leadership, GE Real Estate has seen increasing customer satisfaction and a more productive sales force with longer average industry experience.

Before joining GE Real Estate, Jonathan spent ten years at J. E. Robert Company, a privately held real estate investment firm, the last six of which he served as President and Chief Investment Officer. Previously, he spent seven years with Bankers Trust Company holding positions of increasing responsibility in real estate finance.

He graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in Economics and received an MBA with distinction from The Wharton School.

Peter C. Aldrich
Founder,
AEW Capital Management

Peter C. Aldrich is a life long entrepreneur and educator. He loves to discover new ideas and build teams to explore the benefits of those musings. His current activities center on seed capital and international capital formation. Mr. Aldrich was a pioneer in the investment of American pension capital into real estate. He was the founder of the Pension Real Estate Association, of The Boston Company Real Estate Counsel, Inc., and with Tom Eastman and Mark Waltch, of Aldrich Eastman Waltch, L.P. (now known as AEW Capital Management), one of the nation’s largest property investment advisory firms. He was graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy (of which he was a longtime Trustee), from Harvard College and from its Business School. (He served on Harvard’s Visiting Committee on University Resources). He is a past faculty member of the Yale School of Organization and Management and of the Harvard Business School. He is also a Trustee of Bard College, a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Trustee of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and of the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, and formerly a Governor of the Jerome S. Levy Economics Institute, and a past Trustee of Simon’s Rock, ("the Early College"), of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and of the Shady Hill School.

Mr. Aldrich was founder and chairman of AEGIS, LLC (formerly AEW International), which had affiliate investment companies in Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. He was the Co-Chairman of the Sichuan Foreign Investment Advisory Board and was formerly a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. More importantly, Peter is retired and enjoys time with his children, swimming, fly-fishing, baseball, motorcycling, water coloring, ancient Greek pottery, golf, American painting, astronomy, model trains and any good book, good company, or good friend.

Curtis Feeny
Managing Director,
Voyager Capital

Prior to joining Voyager in 2000, Curtis spent eight years as the Executive Vice President at Stanford University's $9-billion endowment. He held wide responsibilities in private equity investing and management, including oversight of the Stanford Research Park, Stanford Shopping Center, portfolio policy, and venture investing (carrying bottom-line profit responsibility for about half the Stanford Management Company).

Before joining Stanford University, Curtis spent five years leading Trammell Crow's northwest region in Seattle. He was responsible for $700 million in assets and ran a full-scale development operation covering Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, B.C. Prior to joining Trammell Crow, he worked in the semiconductor industry for Mostek Semiconductor and was in Research & Development in the energy industry.

Curtis serves on the board of directors for Contivo, Inc., Tropos Networks, Verari Systems and Trammell Crow Company (NYSE: TCC). He also recently received a Presidential Appointment to the Presidio Trust.

Curtis graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was a Tandy Fellow and a Rockwell Scholar.

Camille J. Douglas
Professor,
Columbia Business School

Ms. Douglas is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching an advanced seminar on global real estate investment. She has also lectured at Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Wharton, the Yale School of Management, Yale Law School and the Tuck School of Business.

From 1996 to the present, Ms. Douglas has served as Principal of MainStreet Ventures. MainStreet Ventures provides strategic financial advice to real estate companies, companies with significant real estate assets and quasi-governmental development agencies. Ms. Douglas was financial advisor to the Canary Wharf Group plc, in London, England from May-December 2003 and continues to be the financial advisor to Paul Reichmann on his investment in Canary Wharf as well as other matters. Her clients have also included Boston Properties, Boston Consulting Group, IPC US Income Commercial REIT, the Albany Local Development Corporation and most recently, Brown University.

Ms Douglas has had extensive experience in originating and structuring transactions in both the private and public real estate markets. From 1982 to 1994, Ms. Douglas was a senior finance executive at Olympia & York (US). As such, she was responsible for the company’s financial strategy and debt and equity financing totaling over $1 billion per year. In this role, she pioneered the use of unrated, rated and cross currency mortgage backed securitized debt.

Prior to her time at Olympia & York, Ms. Douglas served as Vice President for Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (1977-1982). Included among her client assignments were the Rouse Company, Cousins Properties, Monumental Properties Trust, The Hahn Company, Seafirst Bank, and The May Department Stores.

Ms. Douglas received her MCP from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1977. During her studies at Harvard University, she served as a Teaching Assistant to Harvard Business School Professor William Poorvu and took classes at both the Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Ms. Douglas received a BA from Smith College in 1973, and also studied as an exchange student at Williams College. In addition, she has studied land use and environmental law at the University of British Columbia School of Law and Albany Law School respectively.

Ms. Douglas serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of the King Hussein Foundation.

William C. Maddux
Chief Operating Officer,
Greystar Real Estate Partners

Mr. Maddux is the Chief Operating Officer of Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC, and is on Greystar's Management Committee and Investment Committee. Mr. Maddux is responsible for the Greystar regional operating businesses and the headquarters services operation. Mr. Maddux works with each of the Regional Partners to develop Greystar's full-service capabilities, implement solid operating standards and develop the growth strategy for the operating component of Greystar's business.

Prior to joining Greystar in 1999, Mr. Maddux was with Trammell Crow Company where he held numerous positions after joining them in 1985. The most recent was President of Trammell Crow Company Brokerage Division where, under his leadership, the division enjoyed tremendous growth and achieved an increase in revenues from $62 to $150 million and employees from 195 to over 500. In 1996, Mr. Maddux joined the Executive Committee of Trammell Crow and was named Chief Operating Officer for the eastern half of the United States, which encompassed full-service operations in 15 cities. Prior to that role, Mr. Maddux was the Midwest Partner with responsibilities for all Trammell Crow Company activities in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Indianapolis. Before moving to Chicago in 1992, Mr. Maddux was the City Partner for Trammell Crow in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Maddux began his career with Trammell Crow as a leasing agent in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Mr. Maddux attended the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Maddux is a past President of NAIOP.

John D. Macomber
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
BuildingVision, Inc.

John D. Macomber is CEO of BuildingVision, Inc., a consulting and investing firm focusing on the future of the construction industry. He is a nationally recognized thought leader on information technology and industry change in construction. Mr . Macomber has more than twenty-five years of construction industry experience including serving as CEO of a major general contracting company, CEO of an equipment rental company, and partner in several commercial real estate projects, and twelve years of teaching “Strategic Management in the Design and Construction Supply Chain” at MIT’s Civil Engineering and Real Estate graduate schools.

Mr. Macomber holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

William M. McLaughlin
Senior Vice President of Development
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Mr. McLaughlin, Senior Vice President, has been with AvalonBay Communities, Inc. or its predecessor Avalon Properties, Inc. for over eleven (11) years. He is responsible for all of AvalonBay’s development activity in Massachusetts, Connecticut, suburban New York (excluding Long Island), New Jersey and Rhode Island markets where AvalonBay currently owns 46 communities with 12,755 apartment homes. In addition, Bill oversees a pipeline of approximately $1.35 Billion in new construction, redevelopment and land in the entitlement process. Bill is also an advisory member of the company’s Management Investment Committee (MIC).

Before joining AvalonBay, Mr. McLaughlin was with Lincoln Property Company for seven years, where he was responsible for multifamily development and acquisitions in eastern New England.

Bill began his real estate career as a principal of a small residential development firm in Cambridge, MA and as a broker in Coldwell Banker Commercial’s Boston office.

In 2003, Mr. McLaughlin was named to Boston Business Journal’s exclusive “40 under 40” list of Boston’s most influential business leader’s under 40.

He is an Officer of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB) and a two-time past President of its Rental Housing Association (RHA) division. Bill also serves on the Board of Directors at Caritas Communities; on the Board of Directors of the real estate holdings company JWF, LLC; and on the Board of Overseers at Newton Wellesley Hospital.

Bill lives in Newton, MA with his wife, Linda, and their six children.

Stephen J. Livaditis
Managing Director,
Eastdil Secured, LLC

Mr. Livaditis is a Managing Director and Partner of Eastdil Secured, LLC and is a member of the Board of Directors and Management Committee of the firm. He previously served on the Management Committee and Compensation Committees of Eastdil Realty Co., LLC, the predecessor firm to Eastdil Secured. A graduate of the University of Utah, Steve started his career with the investment banking firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and prior to joining Eastdil Secured, spent eight years at Cushman & Wakefield.

Mr. Livaditis has 23 years of real estate investment banking experience and has been involved in many of the largest office building and shopping center transactions in the U.S. Some recent transactions include the sale of The Sears Tower (Chicago, IL), the Westcor Company (Arizona), IDS Center (Minneapolis, MN), The Copaken, White & Blitt Portfolio, 111 South Wacker Drive (the highest price per square foot ever achieved in the midwestern U.S. for an office building transaction), 333 West Wacker Drive (Chicago, IL), Tysons Corner Shopping Center (suburban Washington D.C.), Plaza Carolina (Puerto Rico) and UBS Tower at One North Wacker (Chicago, IL).

Mr. Livaditis is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and sits on the Board of Directors of the Children's Inner City Education Fund.