Authors List
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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 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 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 at Cotality. With years of experience in housing economics, applied econometrics and spatial analysis, she is responsible for analyzing housing and mortgage markets. Prior to joining Cotality, 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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Madelaine Prescott is a Transactional Attorney on the Banking and Finance team at Fortra Law. She works with private lenders, striving to provide the highest level of client service. Her main responsibilities include preparing and reviewing documents for various transactions and providing compliance advice. Laine received her Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. She also holds a BA in political science from Miami University.
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Christopher Ptomey is the executive director of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Housing. The Terwilliger Center leverages the vast knowledge and experience of ULI’s membership to advance residential development and housing affordability through research, local and national convenings, and consultation. Prior to joining ULI in 2018, Ptomey led Habitat for Humanity International’s U.S. government relations and advocacy team for more than a decade. Ptomey holds degrees from Haverford College and George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, as well as a law license in his native Tennessee.
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Ashley Pulver is co-founder of INX Insurance Services LLC, which administers FloodPrice.com. FloodPrice.com works with the nation’s top private flood insurers to provide agents and their policyholders with comprehensive flood-insurance coverage and rates that rival the National Flood Insurance Program.
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