Speakers - ALIS Conference

Speakers
JULY 2014
As of May 30, 2014
CELEBRATE SUMMER
WEBINARS ● NETWORKING RECEPTIONS
Arthur Adler
JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group
Arthur Adler, Managing Director and CEO-Americas, heads the Americas division of Jones Lang
LaSalle’s Hotels & Hospitality Group, which is part of the Jones Lang LaSalle’s Hotels & Hospitality
Group international group. Mr. Adler specializes in arranging hotel market transactions, financings,
investment advisory services, asset management and consulting for domestic and offshore owners and
investors.
Mr. Adler’s diverse industry background includes arranging debt and equity transactions, consulting
and asset management, litigation support and strategic planning for owners, investors and lenders. Mr.
Adler oversees a business that includes over 100 people which has as its clients the most prolific hotel
owners and operators in the industry, including InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, The Blackstone
Group, Morgan Stanley Real Estate, Colony Capital, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Global Hyatt
Corporation, Apollo Real Estate, Host Hotels and Resorts, Strategic Hotels and Resorts, Fairmont
Hotels and Resorts, Cornerstone Real Estate, Goldman Sachs, Oak Tree Capital, Walton Street Capital,
Istithmar and ADIA, among others. Selected transactions that JLL has recently completed include the
sales of the Essex House NY, Marriott Marquis Atlanta, the Gansevoort South Beach, the Novotel New
York, the Elysian Chicago, the Rittenhouse Philadelphia, the Viceroy Miami, and the InterContinental
New Orleans.
Billy L. Brown
Medical Hospitality Group
Mr. Brown is CEO of Medical Hospitality Group, a publicly traded mortgage REIT (pending SEC
release) and President of Benchmark Development Corporation of Dallas. Brown has been a real
estate developer since 1970 and Benchmark has been developing only hospitality since 1998. Brown
has been involved in the development of over 100 hotels and Benchmark has been the General
Contractor on 29 hotels in 7 States. Brown began developing restaurants on the East coast and
followed with automotive and medical facilities before hospitality. Brown has developed over 1000
properties in 38 States, Canada and Mexico.
Brown is on the Owner’s Advisory Board of Starwood and Benchmark was named Developer of
Year, Select Service, for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2009. Brown has been an earlier
adopter of sustainability in hospitality. He developed the first LEED certified hotels in Texas and
Colorado - both LEED Silver. He is currently developing a new build LEED Gold Marriott Residence Inn
in Austin and permitting a LEED Silver Westin Element in Southern California.
Brown was born in San Angelo, Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree before moving
to the Dallas area in 1968. He is married and has eight children.
Neil D. Freeman
Aries Capital, LLC
Neil Freeman is Chairman and CEO of Aries Capital, LLC, a full-service real estate lender and
mortgage banking firm offering long-term, interim and mezzanine loans, equity arrangement, and
government tax credit advisory and placement. Throughout his 30-year career, he has funded more
than $4 billion for all commercial property types, with a strong focus in hospitality assets. Financed
hotels include The Roosevelt New Orleans (Waldorf Astoria), The Whitehall Hotel Chicago, Embassy
Suites Riverwalk San Antonio and Hotel 21 C in Louisville. Freeman’s entities have also held equity
interests in real estate worth more than $250 million, including both flagged and boutique hotels.
Freeman is also President of Urban Development Fund, LLC (UDF) a New Markets Tax Credits
CDE. UDF has received approximately $500 million in federal and state New Markets Tax Credits
allocations, translating to $1 billion in transactions. UDF focuses on the rehabilitation of hotels, mixeduse properties, retail developments, theaters, hospitals and medical facilities in highly distressed census
tracts nationwide.
Formerly a licensed CPA, Freeman received his BSBA degree in Accounting from the University of
Florida, and his MBA degree from Stanford University. He is an adjunct Real Estate professor at DePaul
University in Chicago and serves on The Executive Board of DePaul’s Real Estate Center.
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As of May 30, 2014
CELEBRATE SUMMER
WEBINARS ● NETWORKING RECEPTIONS
Sandra Kellman
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Sandra Kellman is global co-chair of DLA Piper's Hospitality and Leisure practice. She concentrates
her practice on commercial real estate development and finance, focusing on acquisition, disposition,
development, management and financing of hotels and mixed use projects, representing owners and
brands in single property and complex portfolio transactions. She works on projects throughout the
United States and abroad, including the Middle East.
Ms. Kellman has been recognized by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business,
which praises her as "a fabulous lawyer" who is "practical, pragmatic and effective." One commentator
notes, "Sandi is extraordinarily experienced and she will get the deal done. If I need someone with
creative solutions on complex matters she is terrific."
Ms. Kellman is also recommended by Legal 500. She has been selected as one of Real Estate
Forum's Women of Influence, and has been named a Top 50 Women Real Estate-Related Lawyer in
Illinois by the Leading Lawyer Network.
Ms. Kellman writes and speaks frequently on real estate development topics. She co-chairs DLA
Piper's Global Real Estate Summit. Ms. Kellman is on the planning committee and regularly speaks at
the ALIS Hotel Investment Conference. She is a guest lecturer at the McCombs School of Business.
Tony Malk
Eastdil Secured
Tony Malk is a director in Eastdil Secured’s hospitality practice, a platform that generated over $7.8
billion in investment sales in 2013 and over $8 billion in loan originations as an intermediary. Based in
Los Angeles, Tony is primarily responsible for leading institutional investment sales transactions in the
western United States. Tony has been with Eastdil Secured since 2000 and has played a key role in
numerous sales, financing and recapitalization transactions that have included large hotel portfolios,
mixed use developments, and a broad range of full and select service hotels. Prior to joining Eastdil
Secured, Tony worked for Arthur Andersen’s real estate group. Tony has a B.A. in business economics
from UCLA and a MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago.
Kevin E. Mallory
CBRE Hotels
Kevin Mallory is Senior Managing Director and Global Head for CBRE Hotels. In this position,
Mallory oversees CBRE's activity in the lodging sector including: transaction, asset management,
advisory and capital market services.
Prior to joining CBRE, Mallory was Senior Vice President of Hyatt Development Corporation. In that
capacity, he was responsible for all acquisition and investment activity, investment management,
business development, and property development for the company.
Before joining Hyatt, Mallory was a Principal to Lend Lease Real Estate Investments. He was
responsible for all lodging related capital transactions as well as the company's asset management
function.
Before joining Lend Lease, Mallory was a founding executive and COO at Starwood Lodging
Corporation, where his responsibilities ranged from the development of new business ventures to
providing strategic and daily oversight for the corporation. Mallory also worked for Westin Hotels &
Resorts, VMS Realty Partners, and lodging industry consultants Laventhol & Horwath.
Daniel GM Marre
Perkins Coie LLP
Daniel Marre's practice is focused in the areas of real estate transactions and development, with
emphasis on international real estate and hotel transactions. He has significant experience with all
facets of the commercial property industry (hotel, office and retail), including acquisitions, dispositions,
construction, development, financing and leasing. Daniel has spent extensive time on the acquisition,
development and financing of hotel properties throughout the world (in particular, Central and Eastern
Europe, and the Caribbean), as well as negotiation of hotel management agreements with some of the
world’s largest hotel management companies. Daniel is nationally ranked in Chambers USA as a
leading lawyer in Leisure & Hospitality.
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As of May 30, 2014
CELEBRATE SUMMER
WEBINARS ● NETWORKING RECEPTIONS
David B. Nelson
DRW Holdings
David B. Nelson joined DRW Holdings in May of 2009 to head the newly created Global
Opportunities Group. This entity was created to utilize Mr. Nelson’s fundamental skill set in order to
evaluate and execute on investments across a global market. Mr. Nelson currently heads DRW Real
Estate Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of DRW Holdings which is the holding company for
all real estate investments. Mr. Nelson also runs the Tactical trading book which looks for opportunities
in the liquid trading arena including bonds, equities and options. Since joining DRW, Mr. Nelson has
acquired over 43 properties and sold 5 utilizing 250 million of proprietary capital. The current portfolio
consists of three main strategies: Hotels, Multi-Family Apartments including Student Housing, and Retail
Commercial in urban locations. Prior to joining DRW, Mr. Nelson was a founder of Pentwater Capital, a
hedge fund with $1.3 billion of capital where he ran all credit investment strategies. Mr. Nelson has
been in the hedge fund and portfolio management industry since 1998. Prior to hedge fund investing,
he was a Principal at two Private Equity firms managing over $1.5 billion in equity. Mr. Nelson began
his career at Kidder, Peabody in Mergers & Acquisitions in 1992. Mr. Nelson holds an MBA from
Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BA from Northwestern University. He is also a Charter
Financial Analyst Charter Holder.
Daniel C. Peek
HFF
Mr. Peek is a Senior Managing Director and head of the Tampa office of HFF. He is also the leader
of the firm’s hospitality practice group and is primarily responsible for institutional-grade hotel and resort
property transactions throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. During the course of
his career, Mr. Peek has completed nearly $10 billion in investment sale, debt and structured finance
transactions.
Mr. Peek joined the firm in October 2007. Prior to HFF, he was a co-founder and Managing Director
of Regent Street, an affiliate of The Plasencia Group, Inc. (TPG), a boutique firm specializing in sale,
financing and advisory services for distinctive hotels and resorts throughout the Americas. He also
served as Senior Vice President at TPG, handling hotel and resort property transactions in the
Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions. Before TPG, Mr. Peek worked in hotel operations
and consulting, including a variety of management positions with Marriott International and Wiengardner
& Hammons, and as a consultant with HVS International in New York.
Mr. Peek is a full member of the Urban Land Institute, a member of the Hotel Development Council
and a member of the Cornell Hotel Society. He serves on the Advisory Board for the University of
Florida’s Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies.
John D. Tishler
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP
John D. Tishler practices corporate and securities law as a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &
Hampton, LLP, an international law firm with offices through the U.S. and in Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul,
London & Brussels. For more than 20 years, Mr. Tishler has helped large and small clients to design
and execute successful investment programs. Mr. Tishler is a frequent writer and speaker on EB-5
investment programs and other corporate and securities topics. He was named a 2013 Top 25 EB-5
Attorney by EB-5 investors magazine. Mr. Tishler received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1992 and
his B.A. from Cornell University in 1989. Page 3 of 3

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