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Boots Dunlap is the Co-founder and CEO of RRA Capital. With offices in midtown New York City and Phoenix, Arizona, RRA Capital is a real estate investment firm that provides customized debt products at institutional pricing for real estate sponsors across the United States. Notably, RRA is a Veteran-founded, owned, and operated real estate investment firm.

Boots leads the investment strategy and strategic direction of RRA. He leverages over 15 years of experience consulting on and managing credit assets for banks, insurance companies, CMBS servicers, and private equity firms. Since co-founding RRA, Boots has overseen the origination and management of more than $1.5 billion in bridge loans and consulted lenders on over $2.4 billion in distressed commercial real estate.

Prior to co-founding RRA, Boots served in the U.S. military as an Airborne-Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer in the 10th Mountain Division. Over his 10-years of military service, Boots led combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and supported global training missions in Kazakhstan, Korea, and

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Adam Heine is the CEO and President of both Consolidated Development Corporation and Camden Securities Company. He is also the founder of Great Hill Investments, LLC.

At Camden Securities, Adam is responsible for overseeing all aspects of investment, development, and property management. Since joining Camden in 2009, he has successfully overseen the acquisition, development, and repositioning of over 2 million square feet of retail property and 8,000 multi-family units throughout the United States.

His current focus is on further growing the Companies’ national portfolio of mixed-use, multi-family and retail investments in U.S. cities and states with the criteria of growing populations, attractive environments for corporate operations, sound government fiscal policy and where demand clearly outstrips supply.

Prior to joining Camden, Adam spent 14 years in the capital markets while working for Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Adam is a graduate of Denison University and a member of the Urban Land Institute and International Council of Shopping Centers.

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David Lubin is the founder and managing partner of Clairmont Group. Based in New York, Clairmont Group is a fully integrated real estate investment and management firm that invests in mixed-use, multifamily, hospitality, retail, office, and industrial assets.

In his role, David oversees the firm’s strategic direction as well as acquisitions, development, and asset management. To date, David has closed over 50 transactions valued in excess of $2 billion. David’s experience includes investments in core, value-add, opportunistic, distressed real estate, note purchases, development, fund investments, and co-investments across all major asset classes.

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On this episode, Aaron Strauss is joined by Michael Sommer, Chief Development Officer at Kushner Companies. Michael oversees development and construction efforts across the entire Kushner portfolio which includes residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and industrial properties, over 12.9 million square feet currently under development, and over 26,500 apartments across 13 states.

Michael’s storied real estate career includes over 27 years at the leading edge of development and construction. He’s developed more than 10 million square feet of residential, retail and office assets. Most notably, Michael led the development of over 6,000 residential units in New Jersey.

Prior to Kushner, Michael served as Senior Vice President of Development and Construction at Cedar Realty Trust, a NYSE listed retail REIT with a portfolio spanning from Washington, D.C. to Boston. Before Cedar, Michael was Executive Vice President of Development at Edison Properties where he led the redevelopment of the award-winning Ironside Newark in Newark, New Jersey. Michael also served as Managing Director of Development at Advance Realty after starting his career at Premier Development.

Michael holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and a bachelor’s in economics and business from Lafayette College.

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Carl Wright is the founder and president of Wright Partners, a real estate development firm focused on the development, ownership and management of retail, industrial and healthcare properties. The firm is the exclusive developer for Patient First for Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as a preferred developer for brands like AutoZone, CVS and National Tire and Battery.

Carl founded Wright Partners in 1998 to combine his passions for real estate, engineering, and construction. As of this writing, Wright Partners is on track to complete its 100th development project.

Apart from real estate, Carl is a third-degree blackbelt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, an avid surfer, and an Ironman—having successfully completed a full Ironman race in Lake Placid, New York.

Carl is a graduate of the University of Delaware, and a licensed Professional Engineer in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Managing partner Aaron Strauss sits down with Seth Weissman, founder and managing partner of Urban Standard Capital (“USC”). The Goldman Sachs and Perry Capital alum takes listeners through his career journey, lessons learned, and the steps he took to build USC into a fully integrated real estate private equity firm managing over $600 million in real estate equity and debt investments.

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On this episode, managing partner Aaron Strauss sits down with Michael Seeve to discuss his career, favorite deals, the current market, and his advice for those new to the real estate industry.

Michael serves as President of Mountain Development Corporation (MDC) and guides the firm’s activities in close coordination with its executive team, professionals, and partners. Michael provides strategic leadership for the firm and works actively on many of the firm’s projects.

Michael is a past President of the New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP, the State’s leading advocacy association for the commercial real estate development industry. The organization, which currently has more than 700 members just in New Jersey, focuses on public land use issues, professional advancement, and industry best practices.

Michael serves as Chairman of the Board of William Paterson University, one of the State’s public higher education institutions and is a past Chairman of the University’s Foundation. Michael serves on the State of New Jersey Uniform Construction Code Advisory Board. He is also a past Chairman of the Paterson Special Improvement District, a public private partnership active in the central business district of the State’s third largest City.

Michael is a past Chairman of the former Barnert Hospital Foundation. He has been recognized as Distinguished Friend in 2015 at William Paterson University’s annual gala, as Barnert Hospital’s “Man of the Year” at their 2006 gala, and included in the “Forty under 40” lists by NJ BIZ and Real Estate New Jersey magazine.

Michael is a 1992 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Veronica and their two sons.

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On this episode, managing partner Aaron Strauss sits down with Ezra Stark, CEO of Stark Enterprises. Founded in 1978 by Robert Stark, Stark Enterprises is a full-service commercial real estate development firm focused on Mixed-Use, Retail, Office, Student Housing, and Parking Facilities located across 7 States.

As CEO, Ezra has grown Stark’s footprint to include over 9 Million square feet of Class A commercial properties that’s currently valued at over $2 billion. Before being tapped in May 2022 for the CEO role, Ezra held several leadership roles at Stark, including SVP of property management and later as COO.

As a critical voice in the commercial real estate industry, Ezra regularly speaks on panels across the country, and shares perspectives on the market, investment, and what's coming in his "From the desk of the CEO" online article series.

Ezra is a member and partner of the International Council of Shopping Centers (“ICSC”). He’s been recognized as one of Crain’s Cleveland Businesses’ “40 under 40” for his accomplishments in the real estate industry. He graduated from Brandeis University, and New York University's storied MBA program.

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