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Faculty
Roy Bernardi
Roy A. Bernardi served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the George W. Bush administration, charged with managing HUD's day-to-day operations, a nearly $38 billion annual operating budget and the agency's 8500 employees. President Bush nominated Bernardi as Deputy Secretary on June 24, 2004. Bernardi was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 21, 2004.
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Chris Bruneau
With 13 years of experience in Latin America, Mr. Bruneau has responsibility for sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and closing investments for the JER Latin American Fund (LAM Fund). Mr. Bruneau joined JER Partners in 2006 from East-West Financial Services, Ltd., a financial advisory boutique that arranges financing for hospitality and real estate projects in Latin America. Prior to joining East-West, Mr. Bruneau was an attorney at Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP and previously at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering LLP. In both firms, he was a member of the Latin American Practice Group and provided legal advice to private equity investments, mezzanine investments, lenders and foreign investors in the region. Mr. Bruneau holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in Comparative Government from Georgetown University. Mr. Bruneau lived in Brazil for six years. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Stephen Conley
Stephen Conley is an Executive Managing Director and Operating Committee Member in the Washington, DC Office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) and has over 26 years of commercial real estate and related experience. In 1999, he chartered the Washington, DC office of HFF in order to expand the array of services offered to clients through the use of a fully-integrated national capital markets-based platform. The DC office now includes nine investment sales producers and six debt producers with 14 analysts and support staff. Since 2001, the team has executed more than $22.1 billion of commercial real estate transactions which includes investment sales and debt. He is a Hoya. HFF Washington, DC was ranked the number one investment sales firm in the DC region last year by GWCAR and has been ranked as the number one capital markets intermediary in the region every year since 2002. In 2005 and 2006 the DC office completed just over $6.5 billion in transactional volume. The office continues this upward trend with 2007 transactional volume totaling over $3.9 billion and 2008 transactional volume totaling over $2 billion.
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James Dalkin
James Dalkin teaches accounting and finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, Professor Dalkin is also a certified public accountant. His work has been published in the Journal of Professional Services and the D&T Review. Professor Dalkin also serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Markets Research Center. He has lectured and served as dean for various corporate development programs including the China LeadershipProgram in Beijing and Shanghai. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgetown University, Professor Dalkin served as faculty at the Karl Eller School at the University of Arizona where he taught entrepreneurship. In 1995 he founded PRG Metrohome, a real estate investment company with properties in Tucson, Phoenix, San Diego, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Alexandria.
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Kathleen L Day
Kathleen Day manages media for the Washington office of the Center for Responsible Lending. The Center for Responsible Lending is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. CRL is affiliated with Self-Help, one of the nation's largest community development financial institutions (CDFIs). In the late 1990s, homeowners began coming to Self-Help Credit Union seeking help to avoid foreclosure. In 1999, Self-Help worked with a state coalition to help pass the North Carolina Predatory Lending Law, the first such law in the country. In 2002, Self-Help established the Center for Responsible Lending to build on initial successes and expand our focus to include practices outside of mortgage lending, such as payday lending. Since then, CRL has conducted or commissioned landmark studies on predatory lending practices and the impact of state laws that protect borrowers. We have also supported state efforts to combat predatory lending and worked for regulatory changes to require responsible practices among lenders nationwide. Day joined CRL in Sept. 2007 after 22 years as a business reporter for the Washington Post covering the financial services industry and its many scandals. Before that she worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and was on the start-up staff of USA Today, where in two paragraphs she summed up the break-up of what was then the world’s largest company, AT&T. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and an MBA in finance from New York University. She is the author of S&L Hell: The People and Politics Behind the $1 Trillion Savings-and-Loan Crisis, published by W.W. Norton.
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Charles Field
Dr. Field teaches basic, advanced negotiation and conflict resolution to graduate students in Public Policy. He also teaches negotiation in Executive Programs, University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy to government officials at the federal, state and local levels, and to non-profit groups. Dr. Field also teaches negotiation as an adjunct faculty member at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He also founder and president of CGF Resolution Group LLC which provides professional training in the areas of negotiation and leadership. In this capacity he has consulted to public and private groups both on an individual basis and as a collaborator with Conflict Management Group.
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Joseph Firschein
Joseph Firschein is Assistant Director and Community Affairs Officer at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs. He is responsible for advising the Board of Governors on community and economic development policy issues, working with the 12 Federal Reserve banks to advance their community development activities, and leading the Board’s Consumer Advisory Council made up of business and community leaders in each of the Federal Reserve Bank districts.
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Calvin Gladney
Calvin Gladney is Managing Partner of Mosaic Urban Partners, a real estate development and advisory firm based in Washington, D.C., whose core purpose is to transform urban communities. Prior to founding Mosaic Urban Partners, Mr. Gladney served as Vice President of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (AWC). At AWC Mr. Gladney assisted the CEO with the management of the Corporation and was the project manager for the $1.6B mixed-use redevelopment of 67-acres of District-controlled land known as Reservation 13. During his tenure at AWC Mr. Gladney also was the lead negotiator with a national developer for a new $80M 600-unit public/private development on District-owned land.
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Timothy Grisius
Timothy Grisius is Senior Vice President, Mixed-Use Development for Marriott International, Inc. He is responsible for leading Mixed-Use transactions in the Americas and the Caribbean. Marriott International is one of the world’s leading lodging companies with approximately 3,000 properties in 68 countries and territories. The company reported sales of $13 billion for fiscal year 2007. Mr. Grisius began his Marriott International career in 1996 working in corporate finance. He worked with Marriott Vacation Club’s finance group in 1998 and 1999 and joined Marriott’s Project Finance team in 2000. He transitioned into Lodging Development in 2006. Mr. Grisius began his professional career with KPMG as a CPA in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University and his master’s degree in Business Administration from Cornell University.
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Michael Grupe
Michael R. Grupe is Executive Vice President for Research and Investor Outreach at The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). NAREIT is the representative voice for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and publicly traded real estate companies worldwide with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets. At NAREIT, he directs all research and investor outreach activities related to the collection and distribution of information and data with respect to industry growth and development, analysis of industry investment performance, design and implementation of membership surveys, communication with investors, policymakers and the public, and support for the association’s Policy & Politics agenda. He also acts as liaison to the press on technical issues involving REIT industry performance and practice.
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Joseph Guay
As a partner in the New York office of the major international law firm Holland and Knight, with one of the largest real estate departments in the United States, Joseph A. Guay's practice is focused in the areas of real estate, business and commercial lending with a strong emphasis in hotel and resort development and hospitality law. This includes: hotel acquisitions and dispositions, development and finance, mixed-use development projects, hotel management agreements, branded residential projects, restaurant agreements and general hotel operation matters throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. He represents national hotel company owners and operators, pension fund advisors and investment funds, and real estate development companies, institutional lenders and investment banks. Joe's practice also includes representing real estate companies in connection with the acquisition, disposition, leasing and financing of commercial real estate assets - including, office and multifamily properties and the structuring of joint venture agreements in connection with business formations to own and operate such real estate. Joe has prepared and negotiated purchase and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, commercial and retail leases, antenna licenses and leases with telecommunication companies, "celebrity chef" restaurant leases, licenses and consulting agreements and a variety of ancillary real estate related documents
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Jonathan Kivell
Jonathan Kivell is a Community Development Officer for United Bank focusing on project finance for affordable housing, charter schools, and non-profit facilities in Washington, DC. Jonathan is Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School in DC and a Director of the Financial Literacy Foundation in DC. He is an Advisory Board Member of Wall Street Without Walls, a team of financial technical assistance providers for community development lenders and affordable housing developers. Jonathan has served as an Adjunct Professor in Virginia Tech University's Urban Affairs and Planning program where he has co-taught a class titled "A Practitioner's Perspective on Community Economic Development”. Originally from Great Neck, NY, Jonathan earned a B.S. cum laude from Cornell University and a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University.
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Richard Lear
A partner in the Washington, DC office of the major international law firm Holland and Knight, Richard practices primarily in the litigation area emphasizing insolvency, Chapter 11, and creditors’ rights and bankruptcy issues. For nearly 25 years, Mr. Lear has served as counsel for institutional lenders, franchisors, leasing companies, and landlords in connection with individual and business Chapter 11 cases and in workouts. He has also counseled clients regarding the effect of bankruptcy and insolvency on proposed bond refundings, conventional loan refinancing and other transactions. He also has substantial experience advising clients with respect to transactional insolvency issues, such as bankruptcy-remote structures, substantive consolidation, true sales, preference and fraudulent transfer analysis and with drafting and reviewing reasoned legal opinions on bankruptcy issues. Mr. Lear has lectured on several occasions on bankruptcy issues at various seminars sponsored by local, regional, and state bar associations.
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James Lee
Mr. Lee is the former CEO and President of Opus East, LLC. He began his real estate career in brokerage in 1977 and was active as a broker in Missouri and Florida before joining Opus in 1983. In 1994, Opus East was formed and Mr. Lee relocated from Tampa to Bethesda to open the regional office for the development company. During the period from 1994 to 2008, Opus East undertook design, construction and development of more than 70 projects consisting of over 16 million square feet of power centers, office buildings, institutional and industrial distribution buildings throughout the Northeastern Region. Mr. Lee was promoted to president and chief executive officer in June 2002 and completed his career with Opus in December of 2008 after 25 years with the company.
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Mina Marefat
Mina Marefat, an architectural historian, urban designer, and registered architect, holds a PhD from MIT and masters degrees in architecture and urban design from both Harvard University and Tehran University. She currently holds an NEH fellowship and directs the Cities Project; she was formerly the Rockefeller Scholar of the John W. Kluge Center for Scholarly Studies at the Library of Congress. Dr. Marefat has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Catholic University of America's School of Architecture, where she initiated a studio project on the reconstruction of Bam after its devastating earthquake. She has taught art, architecture, and urbanism at MIT, Wesleyan University, and Technical University in Vienna, Austria, and has lectured and published widely. Her practice has focused on the revitalization and rehabilitation of cities and streetscapes, including Washington, Newark, Tehran, and Isfahan, in each case integrating cultural heritage with redevelopment. Prior to establishing her own firm she served as senior architectural historian at the Smithsonian Institution, was a research associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and later served as director of architectural education at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Marc McCauley
Marc McCauley is a senior principal who is based in RCLCO’s Washington, D.C., office. Since joining the firm in 1998, Marc has conducted market and financial analysis on a full range of real estate product types. His experience in such projects has included condition surveys and site evaluations; assessing demand; devising recommendations for amenity orientation, product programming, and absorption schedules; devising revitalization strategies; and financial feasibility analysis. Marc has particular interest in and experience with some of the more cutting-edge issues facing real estate today, including retail town center development, mixed-use development, and urban revitalization strategies. Prior to joining RCLCO, Marc worked for Marshall Township in western Pennsylvania, where he initiated and developed a project aimed at revitalizing a historic downtown. In this role, he prepared grant applications to federal, state, and nonprofit agencies in search of funding for infrastructure improvement projects, and presented the key findings to the township council. Since 1967, RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser & Co., LLC) has been the “first call” for public sector entities, real estate developers, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, private investors, and Fortune 500 companies seeking strategic and tactical advice on property investment, planning, and development. As the largest independent real estate advisory firm in the nation—with experience in international markets—RCLCO provides end-to-end real estate solutions on everything from entity, portfolio, and asset strategy to market research, product programming, financial sourcing, deal structuring, and ultimate development.
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Noah Mehrkam
Noah Mehrkam is founder and partner of The Arcland Group, LLC, a real estate development and investment firm focusing on commercial properties in the western suburbs of the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Primarily engaged in developing portfolio commercial properties, Arcland also provides real estate consulting services and invests in value-added income producing assets. Current projects include a 400-acre master planned community, a Brownfield redevelopment involving new construction of a 40,000 square-foot office building, a five pad site retail center, and multiple self-storage facilities.
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James Meisel
Jim Meisel is a Senior Managing Director in the Washington, DC Office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) and has over 20 years of commercial real estate experience. He is primarily responsible for institutional-grade sales throughout the Washington, DC, region, and specializes in middle market commercial equity and structured finance.
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Clifford Mendelson
Clifford N. Mendelson is the Senior Managing Director of the Structured Finance Group at Transwestern Commercial Services in Bethesda, MD. Mendelson brings some 20 years of real estate experience to the Transwestern team, and has closed deals valued at more than $1 billion since 2004. After joining the company in 2002, he was instrumental in the development of the company’s Mid-Atlantic structured finance group. From 1996 to 2000, Mendelson was a first vice president at LJ Melody & CO., a CB Richard Ellis Inc. subsidiary. He headed CBRE’s East Coast hotel brokerage group and at the same time ran the Mid-Atlantic and New York City real estate finance division of LJ Melody. At LJ Melody, he completed the financing of more than $750 million worth of capital-structured deals, generally providing clients with equity or mezzanine portions of their capital structure. After leaving LJ Melody in 2000, Mendelson spent a year at an Internet startup that he helped to finance, along with Nomura’s Ethan Penner. “I then spent a year in my basement rebuilding my real estate finance business which led me back to Transwestern,” he says.
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Matthew O'Malley
With over eight years of construction experience at Clark Construction, Matthew O’Malley’s area of expertise is in design and construction. He holds an undergraduate degree n architecture from the University of Virginia, an MBA from Maryland and an MS in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University.
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Scott Price
Scott Price is currently a Managing Director for a Washington, D.C. based national real estate advisory firm. He has developed and expanded the national consulting practice in the areas of real estate finance, strategic restructuring, bankruptcy, banking, and distressed real estate and is a restructuring advisor for some of the largest real estate bankruptcies and workouts in the U.S.
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Charles Schilke
The Associate Dean of the Real Estate Program of the School of Continuing Studies has a diverse real estate, teaching and research background. He has built, bought, sold, and financed all major building types--office, retail, industrial, hotel, and residential—and ventured into exotic areas like biomedical and telecommunications real estate. Chuck has worked for law firms like Cadwalader and McKenna Long & Aldridge, for corporations like Exxon Mobil and Marriott, and for non-profits like The American National Red Cross. He has practiced real estate and financial law in Boston and on Wall Street as well as in Washington, DC, his home of 15 years. He has personally experienced the thrill of real estate victory in building the Red Cross's National Headquarters building and performing the real estate work for the Exxon-Mobil merger, and the agony of real estate defeat in the real estate recession of the late 1980s and the current turbulence in the mortgage markets. His main real estate professional interests are real estate law, real estate capital markets, international real estate investment, and environmental real estate matters. Chuck has taught international relations to college students, and real estate and environmental studies in professional development programs. He was educated at The University of Chicago, Harvard, and Cornell Law School. In addition to leading the graduate Real Estate program at Georgetown University, Chuck counsels at Edge Commercial in Bethesda. Edge Commercial is a locally owned regional commercial real estate advisory, management and investment company. Edge’s executive staff offers nearly 180 years of combined commercial real estate experience and a track record that includes many of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area's most noteworthy transactions, totaling nearly six billion dollars. Edge currently manages over 5.6 million square feet of commercial space throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area.
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Craig Schultz
Craig Schultz is the President of Energy Buying Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in providing well-researched methods for managing industrial, commercial, and institutional clients’ energy costs. Mr. Schultz has advised on many conventional and renewable energy transactions and is a frequent author and speaker on energy issues. Previously, Mr. Schultz served in management positions at two global energy companies. He managed marketing, product development, retail market research, and wholesale market structured transactions at various times. In these positions, Mr. Schultz helped develop or expand several energy pricing plans and processes widely used in the energy markets. Mr. Schultz is active in several community groups in the Washington, DC area and received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and his masters in business administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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