ECORE - Key Persons
Al Goldstein - CEO, Chairman, Founder
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- Founder
- Founder, Chairman & CEO of StoicLane Inc.
Al Goldstein is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of StoicLane Inc., a long-term acquisition and growth platform that is making strategic long-term investments in the digitization of the FIRE verticals (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate). StoicLane completed its first transaction in March 2021 with a $175 million strategic investment into a hyper-growth, tech-enabled mortgage originator called that is cutting the cost, fees and hassle of a traditional mortgage.
Prior to StoicLane, Al Co-founded Avant Inc in 2013, a digital bank for middle-income consumers, and Amount Inc in 2016, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) company helping the largest financial institutions in the world to digitize and deliver a seamless digital and mobile customer experience. Avant and Amount have raised over $750 million of equity capital from leading investors including Goldman Sach, Tiger Global and General Atlantic and JP Morgan.
Al has built multiple companies throughout his professional career - including a real estate platform called Pangea Properties and is a Founding Board Member of Spring Labs, a blockchain company.
Goldstein has been the recipient of multiple awards for entrepreneurship including winning the Ernst & Young Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year Award twice and being named to the Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list.
Chad Thomas Hagwood is Senior Managing Director and MHC Production Head for Lument. He is an industry-leading expert in the financing multifamily and manufactured housing communities. Mr. Hagwood oversees the Southeast Region and Lument's Manufactured Housing Community production nationally. His renowned focus, passion, and commitment to our industry, as well as the diligent leadership of his A-Team, ensures that all of Mr. Hagwood's clients receives superior terms and "white-glove" service throughout the entire loan process. Hagwood was Top Producer for the company in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Mr. Hagwood has long been a leading originator and pioneer in manufactured housing community lending.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Hagwood has closed well in excess of $10 billion in commercial real estate transactions and is consistently ranked as one of the industry's top mortgage bankers. Prior to joining Lument's predecessor Hunt Real Estate Capital, Mr. Hagwood served as Senior Vice President and Southeast Manager for Capital One Multifamily Finance, managing all of the company's Southeast production staff.
Prior to Capital One's acquisition of Beech Street in late 2013, Mr. Hagwood served as Executive Vice President of Originations. Mr. Hagwood joined Beech Street at its inception to facilitate the growth of the direct origination network and was pivotal in Beech's meteoric rise to one of the nation's top leading Agency lenders. Mr. Hagwood was the company's Top Direct Multifamily Originator in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Head of Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Management
Chris A. Milner is Head of Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Management as well as the President of Cantor Fitzgerald Investors, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust, Inc. Mr. Milner joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 2013. Previously, Mr. Milner spent 14 years at BlackRock and was a co-founder of their commercial real estate debt business. At BlackRock, Mr. Milner was Global Head of CRE Debt and private real estate debt funds as well as a member of BlackRock's Corporate Leadership Committee, the Real Estate Executive Committee and the Global Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 1997, Mr. Milner was responsible for commercial mortgage conduit production at PNC and was also a member of the PNC M&A team which acquired BlackRock and Midland Loan Services in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Mr. Milner has completed over 900 real estate debt, equity and capital markets transactions in North America, Europe and Asia with an aggregate value of over $40 billion, including raising over $14 billion of investor capital. Mr. Milner received an MBA from Indiana University and a B.A. in economics from DePauw University.
FIA Principal, David Goldwasser, has over 20 years of litigation and crisis management experience and has been chief restructuring officer in many bankruptcy cases, as well as having been approved and appointed manager of an entity on behalf of the debtor in the New York State Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York against three objections of creditors by the Hon. Judge Robert D.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Job Titles:
- Executive Managing Director
Executive Managing Director Henry Stimler's core focus is origination and brokerage in multifamily debt and equity, with an emphasis on large portfolio bespoke transactions. He joined Newmark in 2018 at the firm's Manhattan headquarters.
Stimler has had notable success in the Capital Markets field coaxing traditional Tri-State investors into new markets across the United States, such as the Midwest region, Texas and South Florida. However, Stimler's reach is global: A former resident of Great Britain, France and Israel with insider access to high-net-worth-individuals, he has sourced equity from markets such as London, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg. Stimler is fluent in English, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Prior to Newmark, Stimler was company Director at London Green Capital, a prolific debt origination firm he founded in 2015.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Founder, Chairman and CEO of Arbor Realty Trust, Inc
Ivan Kaufman is the founder, chairman and CEO of Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ABR), a leading multifamily and commercial real estate lender and real estate investment trust. Arbor manages and services a $42 billion real estate loan portfolio and originates more than $16 billion in loans annually. Arbor is recognized as a top lender by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ivan is also the cofounder of Arbor Multifamily Acquisition Company (AMAC), an investment firm created in 2012, which owns and operates over 12,000 units and has acquired more than $2.5 billion of multifamily properties across the country. Additionally, Ivan is the co-founder and CEO of ArborCrowd, an online real estate investment platform formed in 2016.
He has previously served as the chair of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the 10th Judicial District of New York, on the national and regional advisory boards of Fannie Mae, and on the board of directors of the Empire State Mortgage Bankers Association.
He has been named regional "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. Magazine, and he has served as a regional spokesperson for Global ReLeaf, a program of the American Forestry Association. He has guest lectured at Harvard Business School's Real Estate Club, Columbia University and Wharton Business School.
Ivan founded the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School and has also served on the board of trustees of the Birthright Israel Foundation. He earned a Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from Boston University.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HGI
Jordan E. Slone is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HGI, a diversified real estate investment and financial services company with offices in the United States and Israel. Mr. Slone serves as a member of HGI's Investment Committee. HGI's real estate portfolio totals $9.7 billion.
Prior to forming HGI in 1985, he was co-founder and Vice President of International Spring Corporation, a Portsmouth, Virginia manufacturer of inner box springs for the mattress industry. In 1986, the Slone family sold International Spring to Leggett and Platt, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. In addition, he is a member of the National Multi-Housing Council Board.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chief Investment Officer and Head of Acquisitions at Tru
- Co - Chief Investment Officer, Head
Matt Ferrari is the Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Acquisitions at TruAmerica Multifamily. He also heads the firm's acquisitions team and also oversees operations and asset management across their Eastern and Central United States portfolio of over 20,000 apartments. Since joining the firm in 2016, Matt has played a meaningful role in the firm's growth, having overseen the acquisition of over 41,000 apartments totaling $9.0 billion throughout the U.S., including TruAmerica's initial expansion into the Eastern and Central Region U.S. multifamily markets.
Previously, Mr. Ferrari was an Investments Director at AvalonBay Communities Inc., an S&P 500 publicly traded multifamily REIT where he was responsible for acquisitions and dispositions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. During his four years at AvalonBay, Mr. Ferrari was responsible for $500 million in acquisitions and $1.3 billion in dispositions. Prior to his time at AvalonBay, Mr. Ferrari worked for Archstone Communities Inc. in their leadership and development rotational program as a Management Development Associate before becoming a Regional Operations Director for their Eastside Manhattan portfolio in New York City.
Mr. Ferrari holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and a B.S. in Management and Business from Skidmore College. He is also a member of the Steering Committee at Georgetown University's Steers Center for Global Real Estate, a member of the Urban Land Institutes (ULI) multifamily Blue Council and NMHC's Political Action Committee (PAC).
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Operating Officer of Kushner
Peter Febo is the Chief Operating Officer of Kushner and is responsible for all the operations of the Kushner Companies. Prior to joining he was the Chief Executive Officer of Beam Living (a Blackstone Portfolio Company), where he launched Blackstone's first ever multifamily operating platform that today supports over 15,000 apartments. Prior to Beam Living Peter was the Chief Operating Officer for Taconic Investment Partners where his responsibilities included oversight of commercial and residential asset management, operations, construction, and development projects. Prior to joining Taconic in 2008, he was the Regional Vice President for the New York-New Jersey metro region at Home Properties, overseeing the development and management of a 44-property, 8,500-unit portfolio valued at more than $1 billion. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Director of Investments for Midwest and East Coast assets at AvalonBay Communities. Peter began his career in 1996 at Tishman Speyer Properties as a Property Accountant, before being promoted to Senior Property Manager. During his tenure at Tishman Speyer, he was responsible for the redevelopment of 666 5th Avenue as well as various other commercial redevelopment projects throughout the United States. Peter earned his Bachelor of Science in accounting from the John Wiley School of Business at the State University of New York, Geneseo.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Investment Committee Member of Eagle Rock Advisors LLC
- Partner at Eagle Rock Properties LLC
Rishi is a Partner at Eagle Rock Properties LLC, responsible for Investments. Rishi is also an Investment Committee member of Eagle Rock Advisors LLC. He oversees acquisitions, asset management and capital deployment, and plays an active role in business and organizational growth. Since helping launch the investment management business 2011, Rishi has led the acquisition and financing of all fund investments. Eagle Rock manages over $1B of investor equity and currently owns and operates nearly 9,000 multifamily units with a value in excess of $2.
Rishi is a CFA charter holder. He earned an MBA with Distinction from Columbia Business School and has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park. Rishi is a member of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) where he is Chair of the EL Committee and an active member of Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Multifamily Product Council. He is also on the Board of NYPEN Real Estate and a co-founder of NY South Asian Real Estate Network.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of Harbor Group Management Co.
Robert Friedman is president of Harbor Group Management Co. (HGMC). He is responsible for day-to-day operations of HGI's multifamily and commercial assets, and is a member of HGI's Executive, Investment, and Credit Committees and HGMC's Operations Committee. He has been a principal with HGI since joining the firm in 1989. Mr. Friedman earned a degree in business administration from Hobart College.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of Meridian Capital Group
Mr. Goodman serves as President of Meridian Capital Group, overseeing the company across all divisions and markets nationally. In this role he is responsible for managing Meridian's day-to-day business activities in the mortgage, sales, and leasing divisions including overseeing its existing brokerage force, overall personnel, and many client and lender relationships. Mr. Goodman, working in tandem with Mr. Herzka and Meridian's senior leadership, works to chart the strategic direction of the firm, expand Meridian's service lines and geographic reach, recruit talent, and create and foster new corporate level relationships between Meridian and its partners.