Professor List
Alex Kholodenko
Alex Kholodenko is a Fund Manager from Silicon Valley, Active and Passive CRE Investor in more than 20000 units.
Alex is originally from Ukraine, spent 20+ years in Corporate America working as a High Tech Executive, till he discovered the power of syndications and passive investing.
Now he focuses on helping Busy Professionals create tax efficient income strategies and alternative investments so they can live on their own terms.
Andrew Foley
Growing up with a dad that built custom homes, Andrea was always around real estate and construction. In her mid-twenties, she assisted a developer on a 150-unit townhome project. In 2005, Andrea purchased her first piece of real estate. From there, she did live-in flips and purchased/sold single-family rentals through 2017. Andrea transitioned to investing in commercial real estate in 2021. She jumped right in and purchased a motel in Colorado and converted it into a 32-unit apartment complex. She also owns and operates a large short-term rental in her home town of Omaha, NE. At the end of 2022, Andrea and her team purchased a 150-unit motel in Branson, MO to convert to a 142-unit multi-family complex.
Ben Nelson
Ben Nelson grew up in Southwest Colorado and spent 15 years producing some large, ambitious events around the world before becoming a Partner at Wild Oak Capital. He began his personal investing journey with small multifamily in Texas, and now leverages his project management skill as an Asset Manager and producer of several real-estate-specific events designed to educate investors and operators.
Ben currently lives in Golden, CO with his wife and two young boys.
Casey Silveria
Casey Silveria is the Managing Principal and CEO of Farmers Capital Group. With over seven years of real estate investing experience, he connects like-minded agricultural investors interested in diversifying into commercial real estate to further their financial security. Casey’s ties to agriculture run deep. He grew up on a family farm in western Caldwell, Idaho, where his dad grew corn, wheat, alfalfa seed, and varietal beans. Now, he utilizes and shares his knowledge to help farmers, like his father, create passive income through risk-adjusted real estate.
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg is the CEO and Managing member of Synergetic Investment Group, LLC (SIG). For over 12 years he has managed all aspects of commercial real estate ownership including acquisitions, investor relations, operations, value add implementation, and dispositions.
Through SIG Wealth Fund, a diversified and customizable Equity Fund, SIG provides the opportunity for high net worth individuals to passively invest in Commercial Real Estate with best in class Commercial Deal Syndicators. Jeff uses his extensive experience and network to help investors to discover and invest in high quality alternative investments.
Jeff has been involved in projects worth nearly $150 million consisting of over 2000 units. He has been involved with stabilized and value add properties including Student Housing, as well short term rental, and Market Rate MF properties.
Jonathan Cattani
Jonathan Cattani is the founder and managing partner of Cattani Capital Group. With over 5 years of experience in real estate and finance, Jonathan brings a unique approach to the CCG investment strategy and an understanding of why alternative investments, like self-storage, are creating true generational wealth.
He’s the host of the daily real estate podcast, The Investor Relations Real Estate Podcast, where he interviews the top experts in all things commercial real estate.
Prior to CCG, Jonathan worked with an experienced real estate investment group. As a project manager, he helped them grow their portfolio from 70 doors to 572 doors in 3 states in just under a year. That, along with 3 years as a licensed stockbroker, working with high net worth individuals, gives him the advantage of truly understanding the in and outs of real estate.
Dr Jonny Walker (Janatha Withanachchi)
Dr Janatha (Jonny) Withanachchi was born in Alberta, Canada to a poor immigrant family from Sri Lanka. He immigrated to the United States to pursue his post-secondary education in dentistry as well as to chase the American Dream.
Dr. Jonny has been an endodontist since 2008. He received his postdoctoral endodontic certification from New York University. He received his dental doctorate from Howard University.
He did the opposite of most dentists. He didn’t buy a practice… Instead, he started investing his savings in real estate soon after graduating.
He bought his first investment in 2009 and he has been investing in various commercial real estate sectors over the last 14 years. His investment thesis evolved to specializing in Multifamily Real Estate (MFRE), as this asset class brings the highest levels of return on a risk mitigated basis. Realizing the true path to FREEDOM was by developing passive streams of income, he felt compelled to share what he learned with his fellow doctors. This inspired him to found an investment firm, and Walk of Wealth (WoW) was born in 2019.
Since then, WoW has gone on to help others invest across 870 units of multifamily real estate ($120 MM) in growing markets with high demand for ever scarce ‘workforce’ housing. He has helped over a hundred doctors develop truly passive streams of income and build strategies to build abundant wealth.
He also has a Walk of Wealth YouTube channel and website dedicated to educating people on principles of wealth building.
Kunal Dewan
With over 15years of experience as a real estate investor, Kunal helps busy parents invest passively in real estate. Learn more at LibertyCRE.com
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Mark Adair-Rios
Mark Rio has been active in real estate investing, finance and syndication since the late 90s. He career actually has taken a twisty road where he spent over 30 years in the entertainment industry as a working professional actor, producer and director. Over those years, he appeared in over 175 television, film and commercial projects, many of which are very well known.
However, to stay out of the bars and restaurants and make money, Mark opted to explore real estate as a way to pay the bills. Throughout the mid-2000’s gained extensive experience in wholesaling residential flip properties, residential rental ownership, tax-lien certificate investing and note/trust deed investing. Then from 2006 to 2008 Mark produced over $5 Million in home sales and loan origination as a licensed Realtor and residential mortgage loan officer in the greater Los Angeles area.
Mark is a founding partner of Prosperity CRE, acquiring and asset managing commercial properties in the multifamily & commercial spaces. Prosperity CRE currently asset manages two Industrial-Flex buildings and 80 units in Kansas City respectively. Prosperity CRE and is actively looking to acquire more commercial office, industrial and multifamily assets within the next 18 months.
In 2014 Mark also created Trisource Capital, LLC as a boutique commercial real estate capital provider and structured capital advisory. From 2016-2018, Trisource Capital arranged for over $43m in debt, structured capital and credit facilities for 3rd-party clients.
Trisource Capital is currently being rebranded as a boutique capital markets consultancy called Finance for Syndicators, which works with select experienced sponsors as a full deal cycle in-house finance, capital markets and real estate consultant.
Mark currently has ownership and active management interests in 900+ units of multifamily in MO, TX and AZ.
CREDENTIALS
Mark is a licensed NMLS loan originator and a California Real Estate Salesperson under KAM Financial and Realty, a mortgage banker and real estate brokerage company.
Mark is an associate member and a Certified Asset Manager of IREM.org, a REFM Certified Commercial Excel Analyst and is a Certified ACPARE.ORG (APA) Commercial Real Estate Investment Expert.
Mark is earned is his BSBA with a Finance concentration from Thomas Edison State University and is currently starting year two of his Master of Science in Commercial Real Estate (MSCRE) from Yeshiva University in NYC.
Mark Shuler
- B.S. Architecture – The Taubman College of Architecture, The University of Michigan
- Commercial Real Estate Certificate – The Foster School of Business, The University of Washington
- President & Founder – Shuler Architecture, Inc, P.S. President & Founder – Shuler Group Real Equity, LLC Licensed Architect in the states of Washington & Texas
- 35 years+ experience as an architect, PM, owner & real estate advisor Expert in urban infill, single family, mixed use & multi family
- Deep experience in real estate investment analysis and underwriting.
- As a Principal, has led teams in the design, engineering, entitlement and construction of more than 500 projects in 15 states.
- Expert in dealing with building owners, financial sources, architects, engineers, contractors and governmental agencies.
Max Gonzales
Max leads acquisitions and investor relations for Geometric. Max began his career in the multifamily industry in 2003 where he worked as a broker working with Buyers and Sellers of multifamily real estate to achieve their investment goals. In 2006, Max began working with Fowler Property Acquisitions, a leader in the real estate industry for multiple real estate product types. At Fowler Property Acquisitions, Max oversaw acquisitions for Arizona, Southern California, and Nevada for office and multifamily properties where he acquired over $85 million in assets. Starting in 2017 led multifamily acquisitions for Pacific Urban Residential, an organization with over $9 Billion in holdings, for the San Diego market where Max oversaw the acquisition of over $430 million in closed transactions for two main accounts, large value-add multifamily and core plus multifamily acquisitions. Through his career Max has worked through each aspect of the real estate acquisitions process including acquisitions, dispositions, PSA negotiation, underwriting, debt structuring, construction management, asset management, and due diligence through a successful close, of which, has successfully closed over 3200 units. Max is a graduate of Westmont College. During his time at Westmont he completed his degree in Economics and Business, worked at Mother Teresa’s Hospital for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta India, and achieved the rank of National Champion in Track & Field. Max lives with his wife, 9 month old son, and two German Shepherds in Newport Beach, California.
Micy Liu
Micy is the founder of Life Mission Capital with ~1000 multi-family and short term rentals acquired. She helps busy professionals especially tech employees and 1st and 2nd generation immigrants/Americans build passive income through financial education and creating passive income portfolios. She helps others to invest well to focus on what matters. She is also the host of the American Dream Builder & Investor Podcast.
Mike & Megan Downey
Mike has deep agricultural roots, and like many others, grew up on a family farm but the farm wouldn’t support him joining full time. Dirt “runs through his veins” and he has a passion for family farms and farmland. Truth be told, he and his wife Megan began investing in commercial real estate back in the late 2000’s, due to its easier barrier of entry and positive cash flow. This passive income has afforded them several opportunities:
It gave Mike the courage to leave a successful career in Ag to be co-owner of Next Gen Ag, which helps family farms with their estate and legacy planning – a passion of Mike’s. Mike and his wife Megan are also the founders of Farm Raised Capital, a platform for the Ag community to invest together in commercial properties previously only available to high-net-worth individuals. They also self-direct their IRA’s into real estate, and recently reached a goal in purchasing their first farm.
Bonus: Read about Mike’s “#1 Aha Moment” which started his journey at: www.whatswealthmean.com.
Raymond T. Hightower
Ray Hightower started and ran a technology company for twenty-one years. Growing a tech company for two decades and ultimately selling it gave Hightower a boots-on-the-ground education in business execution. Today Hightower runs Bridgetown Partners, a buyer of commercial real estate in Arizona, Tennessee, and Texas, with a special focus on 50-150 unit multifamily properties. The Bridgetown team also produces BizDayGlobal, the video podcast for business leaders. Learn more at RayHightower.com.
TJ Burns
Tom ‘TJ’ Burns is the Founder & Principal of Burns Capital Partners, a real estate focused private equity firm.
After finding success as a passive investor, TJ switched his focus to helping others build wealth through real estate syndications. As a fund manager, TJ has closed on numerous deals across 5 states and 400+ units of real estate. He’s also a limited partner on 9 assets that collectively cover Multifamily, STRs, MHPs & self-storage.
TJ’s background is in consumer technology & product design. He’s an inventor on 17 patents, and his products have shipped to tens of millions of households worldwide. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, and is a licensed realtor in the state of NY.
William Hollis
By the age of 7, Hollis knew that real estate investing was the path he needed to take. Growing up in Hollis, Queens, for years he saw no path to accomplish his goal. All that changed in 2018 when he attended his first real estate event. As a natural networker, he’d finally found HOW to accomplish his goal.
Since then he’s grown from a local deal finder and connector of people to launching his private equity firm 24 Captial Group and adding over 40 properties to his portfolio. Oh, he’s still connecting people but through strategic partnerships with some of the nation’s top operators, he’s able to help people who are like his 7-year-old self learn the HOW of real estate investing.
Ted Lanzaro
Ted Lanzaro is a highly recognized and respected Certified Public Accountant, real estate investor and real estate broker. He is the founder of Landmark CPA Group, LLC located in Fairfield, Connecticut, a boutique CPA firm specializing in accounting and taxation for the real estate industry.
For the past 31 years, he has helped thousands of real estate business owners, entrepreneurs and investors all over the United States implement cutting edge tax strategies that save them thousands of dollars annually on their taxes.
In addition, Ted runs the Lanzaro Commercial Investment Group at eXp Commercial which does investment acquisition and disposition for real estate investors and private equity firms as well as his personal investments and syndications. As part of this, Ted mentors new and experienced commercial real estate agents how to build a successful commercial real estate agent career as a niche expert in their market.