Howard J. Samuels, Founder/Principal of Samuels & Company, Inc., has over twenty-nine years of experience in all aspects of the real estate industry. Samuels & Company, Inc., founded in 1998, is a boutique real estate company that specializes in providing Advisory/Consulting, Brokerage, and Development Services to selected owners/developers, institutions, and tenants in retail and entertainment projects. For the past seven years, Mr. Samuels has served as the exclusive representative for Merlin Entertainments PLC, an international location based entertainment company, responsible for site selection/ acquisitions and asset management in North America. Samuels & Company, Inc. is also the Advisor to iFLY/Indoor Skydiving in their national expansion program; as well as Advisors/Brokers to Universal CityWalk in their re-leasing and redevelopment efforts.Mr. Samuels led his company's efforts in Advisory/Brokerage Services to AEG in their development of LA LIVE. Samuels & Company, Inc. was the developer/brokers of a very successful 200,000 SF community shopping center in Riverside with an institutional pension fund.In addition to his activities with Samuels & Company, Inc., Mr. Samuels served as Senior Vice President and National Director for Retail Development of LCOR Public/Private, Inc., from 1998 to 2000. Previously, from 1995 through 1998, Mr. Samuels was Senior Executive Vice President for The Mills Corporation, directing anchor leasing and managed peripheral land sales at existing Mills.From 1982 through 1995, Mr. Samuels was a senior executive with Kornwasser & Friedman (“K & F”) and its related entities, including The Price Company and the Price REIT. Mr. Samuels earned his B.A., magna cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles and his M.A. in Public Administration with an emphasis in Public Finance from the University of Southern California. Mr. Samuels also studied at University of Hong Kong in Urban Economics/International Finance.