ORG HOLDINGS, LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Property Manager
- Senior Property Manager at ORG Holdings
Ms. Smith is a Senior Property Manager at ORG Holdings, Limited, where she has served for over 20 years. She manages 314 luxury apartments across four properties in the Medina/Cleveland area. In her role, Ms. Smith oversees sales, leasing, and resident relations, ensuring high occupancy rates and effective communication with residents. She is trained in fair housing and is known for her customer service and sales expertise.
Before her current role, Ms. Smith worked as a Sales and Leasing Consultant at ORG Holdings, Limited from 2003. She was responsible for the sales process, from showing properties to finalizing lease agreements, and maintained clear communication with both residents and prospects.
Mr. Schwartz is a co-founder of ORG and has over 25 years of experience in real estate consulting. Mr. Schwartz's vision and planning, along with co-founder Jonathan Berns, has resulted in ORG's growth and standing as a premier institutional real estate consulting firm. Mr. Schwartz also participates in and administers the firm's review of investment managers, co-investment opportunities and secondary offering purchases. He formulates ORG's economic and real estate market opinions and develops client portfolio strategies. Mr. Schwartz is a voting member of ORG's Investment Committee.
Prior to forming ORG in 1999, Mr. Schwartz was a consultant with The Townsend Group where his clients included some of the largest public and private US pension plans. As a consultant, his responsibilities included investment manager reviews and strategic portfolio construction. Mr. Schwartz participates on The Institutional Real Estate Letter's Editorial Advisory Board and is an active member of Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). He is a frequent panelist and speaker at industry conferences and educational forums for public pension plan staff and trustees. Mr. Schwartz has authored articles for a variety of pension and real estate focused publications and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal relative to his opinions on real estate issues. Mr. Schwartz has a Master of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in Ohio and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kenyon College in Ohio.
Mr. Berns is a co-founder of ORG and has been active in the real estate and consulting industry for over 30 years. Mr. Berns has dedicated his time and vision, along with co-founder Edward Schwartz, to growing ORG into a premier real estate consulting firm. As a senior investment professional, Mr. Berns is directly involved in and administers client service, investment fund and real asset due diligence, portfolio strategy and manager oversight. He also is responsible for the oversight of the ORG Diversified Real Estate Portfolio, a separate entity that owns and manages a $150 million investment portfolio including apartment, office, retail and industrial properties. Mr. Berns is a voting member of the ORG Investment Committee.
Prior to forming ORG in 1999, Mr. Berns was president of Berns Properties, Inc., a real estate development, investment and consulting company that he founded in 1984. Acting as a consultant under Berns Properties, Mr. Berns was responsible for negotiating an investment by Nuon International, a $2 billion Dutch utility, in North Coast Energy, as well as consulting in the acquisition of two large research facilities located in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Mr. Berns is a past chairman of the First Suburbs Consortium, a nationally recognized government-led advocacy organization focused on redevelopment of urban property and has been a national speaker on real estate investment strategies, urban redevelopment and energy utilization optimization and procurement. Mr. Berns is a member of Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). He has a Bachelor of Science in General Science from the University of Michigan.