Joseph J. Ori is Executive Managing Director of Paramount Capital Corporation, a real estate and corporate finance and advisory firm (www.paramountcapitalcorp.com) where he is involved in all facets of commercial real estate investment, finance, capital markets, development, capital raising, management, brokerage and advisory services. Mr. Ori has completed more than $7.2 billion in real estate and corporate transactions since 1983.Prior to forming Paramount, Mr. Ori was Senior Vice President of NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, Chief Investment Officer of The Rhodes Group, LLC, a Las Vegas based land and home developer, President and Managing Partner of Rockdale Property Ventures, the real estate investment group of Rockdale Investment Management, a New York based investment management firm, Practice Director of the Chicago Real Estate Advisory Group of BDO Seidman, LLP, a National Accounting and Tax firm, Founder and President of Paramount Securities Corporation, a real estate investment bank and broker dealer and Senior Vice President of Southmark Corporation, a Dallas based Fortune 500 company.Mr. Ori has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Southern Illinois University, an MBA in Finance from DePaul University and completed an Executive Program in Financial Management at Harvard Business School. He is a licensed real estate broker in California, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Mr. Ori is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA..Mr. Ori has authored numerous articles on real estate and corporate financing, deal structuring, portfolio diversification and industry trends in leading real estate and finance periodicals and publishes a monthly newsletter, View of the Market, on Insight and Strategy in the Commercial Real Estate Industry and has published three books, “The Fifty Commandments of Commercial Real Estate Investment,” “The Fifty Commandments of Commercial Real Estate Investment II.” and “Commercial Real Estate Investment for Pros (and Dummies Too!)”, all available on Amazon.com.