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Patrick Hanlon - Moderator
Principal
Ackman-Ziff Real Estate
www.ackmanziff.com
Patrick Hanlon joined Ackman-Ziff
in January, 2000 and became a Principal of the firm in
January of 2006. He has broad responsibilities for arranging
capital for the firm’s clients, including sourcing,
underwriting, structuring, and negotiating loans and
investments for all property types. Since arriving at Ackman-Ziff,
Patrick has arranged in excess of $8 billion in debt,
mezzanine and equity financing, and has twice lead deal
teams that have earned the Real Estate Board of New York’s
“Most Ingenious Deal of the Year” award. Additionally, in
March of 2004, Patrick was awarded the Real Estate Board of
New York’s Most Promising Salesperson of the Year Award.
Prior to joining the firm, Patrick was the vice president of
a group of three publicly held real estate investment
trusts: United Mobile Homes Inc., Monmouth Real Estate
Investment Trust and Monmouth Capital Corporation.
Patrick holds an M.S. in real estate investment from New
York University and a B.A. in business marketing from the
University of Notre Dame. Patrick also served as an adjunct
professor for the masters program in real estate at New York
University for a period of more than 3 years, where he
taught an advanced course in real estate finance and
investment.
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PANELISTS:
Hamid Moghadam
Chairman and CEO
AMB Property Corporation
www.amb.com
Hamid Moghadam is Chairman of
the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AMB Property
Corporation, a leading global developer and owner of
industrial real estate. Mr. Moghadam co-founded AMB in 1983
and led the company through its initial public offering in
1997 (NYSE: AMB).
Mr. Moghadam has held a number of strategic roles within the
real estate industry. He is the former Chairman of National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and
the Real Estate Investment Trust Political Action Committee
(REITPAC). He served as a director of Plum Creek Timber
Company (NYSE: PCL) and was a founding member of the Real
Estate Roundtable.
Mr. Moghadam is a Trustee of Stanford University, serves as
a director of Stanford Management Company, and sits on the
Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and
its Campaign Steering Committee. As an active participant in
the San Francisco Bay area community, he has served or
currently is serving on various philanthropic and community
boards including the California Academy of Sciences, Town
School for Boys, and as Chairman of Young Presidents
Organization’s (YPO) Northern California Chapter.
He is a past winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the
Year, a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and
has been named CEO of the Year on six different occasions by
three separate industry publications. He also received the
National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
Lifetime of Building Award in 2007 and NAREIT’s Industry
Leadership Award in 2005.
Mr. Moghadam received SB and SM degrees in engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from
Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Martin Cepkauskas
Director of Real Estate
Hearst Corporation
www.hearst.com
Marty Cepkauskas is the
Director of Real Estate for the west coast properties of The
Hearst Corporation, one of the world's largest, privately
held diversified media companies. Hearst’s major business
interests include magazines, newspapers, television, cable,
radio, internet, and real estate. As Director of Real
Estate, Mr. Cepkauskas is involved with the real estate
management of over 210,000 acres of ranch and timber land in
California and several commercial/industrial buildings in
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Mr. Cepkauskas is currently managing the entitlement and
redevelopment process for the Hearst’s Chronicle properties
in downtown San Francisco (4 acres), the former Herald
Examiner properties in downtown Los Angeles (3 acres), and
the Daily News property in Woodland Hills (5 acres),
totaling over $1.5 billion worth of mixed use development
opportunities. Previously, Mr. Cepkauskas headed up the
conservation transaction with the State and the American
Land Conservancy for preserving the historic 82,000-acre
Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, which received the Governor’s
Environmental Award in 2006.
Before starting with The Hearst Corporation in 1994, Mr.
Cepkauskas worked as a project manager for Cahill
Contractors in San Francisco and previously at National
Steel and Shipbuilding (NASSCO) in San Diego in their
management training program.
Mr. Cepkauskas received a BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York; a
MS degree in Construction Engineering and Management from
the University of California, Berkeley; and a MBA degree
from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA.
Philip (Flip) Maritz
President
Maritz, Wolff & Co.
Managing Director
Broadreach Capital Partners
www.maritzwolff.com
www.broadreachcp.com
Philip (Flip) Maritz is
Co-founder and President of Maritz, Wolff & Co. (“MW”). Mr.
Maritz founded MW in 1994, and has since played a
significant role in the acquisition of 19 luxury hotels and
interests in two hotel operating companies.
Mr. Maritz joined Broadreach Capital Partners in 2005 as
Managing Director overseeing all lodging related investment
and operating activities. Together with the other
principals, Mr. Maritz oversees the activities of
Broadreach’s discretionary real estate investment funds.
Mr. Maritz is also the non-executive Chairman of Rosewood
Hotels and Resorts, LLC and Director of Asbury Automotive
Group as well as numerous private companies.
Prior to founding Maritz, Wolff & Co., Mr. Maritz was active
in real estate acquisition, finance and development with
Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York and Spieker Properties in
the San Francisco Bay area. Mr. Maritz received an A.B. from
Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University
Graduate School of Business.
John Grassi
President
Spear Street Capital
www.spearstreetcapital.com
John Grassi is the founder of
Spear Street Capital, a private real estate fund dedicated
to finding office investment opportunities involving excess
corporate real estate, assets with major leasing or
repositioning risk and properties occupied by tenants with
difficult credit issues.
To date, Spear Street Capital
has acquired 16 assets in 9 markets nationwide encompassing
over 4.2 million sq. ft. Prior to forming Spear Street
Capital, Mr. Grassi was the Chief Investment Officer at the
Shorenstein Company in San Francisco. He led all company
acquisitions and dispositions over a 10-year period,
representing a transaction volume in excess of $3.3 billion.
He also directed the firm’s financing and joint venture
activities and played a major role in the investor
development efforts for the company’s six investment funds.
Prior to joining the
Shorenstein Company, Mr. Grassi was a vice president in the
real estate department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the New
York and Los Angeles offices, and was involved in the
acquisition, sale and financing of real estate assets for
individual and pension fund clients nationwide.
Before joining Goldman, Sachs
& Co., Mr. Grassi was an associate in the real estate and
merger group of the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher and Flom in its New York office. Mr. Grassi
graduated with a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from
Harvard Law School.
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