Real Estate Development Career Seminar

SoLa Impact is a family of real-estate funds with a double bottom line strategy focused on preserving, refreshing, and creating high-quality affordable housing in low-income communities. Its proven track record leverages data-driven social impact strategies to deliver superior financial returns. SoLa Impact’s most recent $100 million Opportunity Zone (OZ) fund invests in designated OZs in South Central Los Angeles, Watts, Compton, and other historically disadvantaged communities. SoLa’s non-profit affiliate, the SoLa I CAN! Foundation targets the critical issues of homelessness, access to higher education, and creating living-wage jobs in these communities.SoLa Impact currently owns and manages a portfolio of 1,500+ apartments in the greater South Los Angeles area. With multiple projects in various stages of rehab, construction, and pre-construction, we are positioned to build and renovate another 1,500 affordable units with our current pipeline of Opportunity Zone projects. In addition, we acquired and are rehabbing “The Beehive”, SoLa’s Opportunity Zone Business Campus that has garnered nationwide attention.

Full service search consultancy providing competitive market maps, sourcing strategies, and recruitment solutions helping companies go from startup to scale up. Full time client engagements @ CNM LLP (professional services boutique firm focused on IPO/SPAC's/SOX), Pager (series c digital health care company started in 2015 by co-founder @ Uber with 150 employees + 88 NPS) to help reboot recruitment and scale across all key functions with an emphasis on engineering + product hires in the US and LATAM. Earlier select in-house and consulting clients include Shryne Group, LHH, Goldrich + Kest, UC Irvine, and Relocity.

OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK) is a financial technology company that is disrupting the market for small business loans. Launched in 2007, OnDeck uses proprietary technology and credit models to evaluate the financial health of small businesses to efficiently deliver capital to a market underserved by banks. Through the OnDeck platform, millions of small businesses can obtain affordable loans online in a fraction of the time and effort that it takes through a bank, without ever leaving their place of business. OnDeck has deployed over $7 billion in capital to tens of thousands of businesses in 700 industries. The company grew revenue tenfold between 2012 and 2015, and was named to Forbes’ 100 Most Promising Companies in America (#11), Crain's top 10 fastest growing companies in NYC, and the Inc. 500. OnDeck is financed by some of the nation's leading investors, including Tiger Global, Google Ventures, SAP Ventures, RRE Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and Peter Thiel. OnDeck went public on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014. OnDeck has offices in New York City, Denver, Arlington, Toronto, and Sydney.

Manage talent acquisition team across all operating groups and industry specialty practices.Merkle is a privately held performance marketing agency specializing in data-based marketing solutions. The company has been recognized by AdAge as 'agency to watch' and provides frameworks for organizations to apply quantitative strategies to their marketing programs across off-line and on-line touch points, to drive competitive advantage for clients by putting the customer at the center of the business strategy to impact financial performance.Significant recognition includes:Bronze Stevie Award “B2B Marketing Campaign of the Year- Business Services” ‘13Ad Age A-List: “Agency to Watch in 2012”Largest privately-held agency in U.S., Ad Age ’126th Largest CRM/Direct Marketing Agency, Ad Age ’12Recognized by SmartCEO Magazine as a Future 50 Company ‘11

Partner with senior business unit leaders and internal team to execute searches and drive positive business outcomes within Cognizant Capital (internal venture group), CBC (cognizant consulting group), and BPO (business process outsourcing).Cognizant was profiled in the HBR Jan/Feb 2012 cover story, Growth Outliers. They were described by Forbes as one of the "Fastest Growing Tech Companies." Institutional Investor Magazine ranked Cognizant Number One in the “Computer Services and IT Consulting” industry sector. The company started out as the IT division of Dun & Bradtsreet and has evolved into a professional services firm with expertise in IT, Consulting, and BPO. The company grew from over $4B in revenues in 2010 to approximately $6B in 2013.