Authors List

Authors

  • Linus Petrén is the CEO of Novaprime, a mortgage technology company focusing on the intersection of lenders and capital markets. As CEO, Linus has been deeply involved in Novaprime’s creation, vision and development, and he plays a significant role in managing the company’s strategy and execution. He is dedicated to fostering meaningful relationships with partners and stakeholders, successfully leading an outstanding team across product, design and engineering initiatives.

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  • Adam Petriella is managing principal of Silverthread Capital Corp., a commercial real estate finance company based in New York City. He has sold and financed more than $1 billion in commercial real estate transactions in several major markets. He previously led growth efforts and managed day-to-day operations for Marcus & Millichap’s real estate investment services and its publicly traded commercial real estate brokerage company.

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  • Bruce Phillips

    Bruce Phillips is senior vice president and chief information security officer for WEST, a Williston Financial Group company, which creates industry-leading technology to streamline and fully integrate the real estate process. He is responsible for the company’s information security practice, as well as its litigation and forensic support services. Phillips has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services, insurance, title and escrow, real estate, healthcare and defense industries.

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  • David Phillips

    David Phillips is co-founder and president of Jurny, a hospitality tech company. Jurny provides independent hotel owners with the technology to remain competitive by modernizing operations, enabling a contactless guest experience and streamlining efficiencies. The company operates more than 570 units across major U.S. and international cities, including Miami, Nashville, London and Tel Aviv.

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  • Russell Phillips is a Tampa-based managing director of real estate capital markets for Regions Bank, a nationwide lender on senior housing, multifamily housing and other types of commercial real estate. Phillips specializes in providing owners of senior housing and skilled nursing facilities with permanent financing solutions from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD. Reach Phillips at (813) 226-1138.

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  • Shane Pierson is the SBA national sales manager at Community Bank & Trust, where he leverages nearly two decades of experience in commercial and small business lending. Specializing in SBA 7(a) loan originations, Pierson works closely with brokers, entrepreneurs and business owners to secure financing that drives growth and success. His expertise makes him a trusted resource for brokers transitioning from residential to SBA lending, helping them expand into lucrative business markets.

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  • Jeffrey Pirhalla

    Jeffrey Pirhalla is president of Woodland Hills Capital, a wholesale commercial lender based in Woodland Hills, Calif. Pirhalla is a Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers faculty instructor and teaches commercial courses nationally.

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  • Tony Pistilli is general manager, Valuations for Restb.ai, the leader in computer vision and AI for real estate. With over 30 years of executive-level real estate valuation and lending experience, he is responsible for expanding the company’s influence in the valuation and appraisal industry and fostering relationships with lenders and other industry partners.

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  • Michele Pitale is a managing director at CounterpointeSRE. She heads the company’s PACE team, including overseeing many of the largest C-PACE transactions to date. Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors is an investment manager and portfolio company of Mass Mutual that invests at the intersection of the commercial real estate and energy industries through diversified ESG Infrastructure investments, including C-PACE, green mortgages and other clean energy investments. Since 2013, Counterpointe has had a major impact in reducing the commercial building sector’s carbon footprint and in providing resiliency to the nation’s infrastructure. Reach Pitale at (855) 431-4400.

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  • Roger Platt

    Roger Platt is the senior vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In addition, he is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and the Center for Architecture. Before joining USGBC in 2009, Platt served for 15 years as senior vice president and counsel at the Real Estate Roundtable. Before that, he was a senior land-use associate with the Coblentz law firm in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

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  • Roger Portela is senior director of product at PayNearMe, where he leads customer-facing product development teams. With more than 25 years of payments and product experience, Portela ensures PayNearMe’s solutions lead the market by reducing consumer friction and offering the widest range of payment options and channels, all while staying focused on security and reliability to ensure clients collect every payment, every time.

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  • Archana Pradhan holds the position of principal economist as part of the Office of the Chief Economist at CoreLogic. With years of experience in housing economics, applied econometrics and spatial analysis, she is responsible for analyzing housing and mortgage markets. Prior to joining CoreLogic, she was program manager and senior research analyst at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. She earned her doctorate in natural resource economics from West Virginia University.

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