including its sustainability initiative. His
core focus has been on operations and
finance, while working together with
Hartnett to source development opportu-
nities and oversee construction. Rollins is
also owner of MXT Capital, which is a
holding company whose primary invest-
ment is its interest in Campus Crest Group.
During his career, he has served as presi-
dent of Rollins Investments Inc., a real
estate development and property management company and as
chief financial officer of RealtiCorp, a research-based land fund
focused on the procurement of land for multisite users such as
retail chains, restaurants and convenience stores.
HAROLD ROSENBLUM
Upon graduating from Dartmouth College, Harold “Ari”
Rosenblum founded Woodlark Cos. in 2001 and began raising
capital for multifamily opportuni-
ties. Soon, the firm refined its strat-
egy to focus on student housing. To
date, the White Plains, NY-based
company has 5,200 apartment units,
comprising over 13,000 beds at 22
different universities in 13 states,
and over $500 million of assets under
management. Rosenblum’s investors
include CEOs of public companies,
investment bankers and leaders in
the real estate
industry. The
combined net worth of his current group
of roughly 300 individual investors is well
over $1 billion. He also has significant rela-
tionships with institutional lenders, promi-
nent real estate law firms and the hedge
fund community.
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WILLIAM RUVELSON
Icon Co. principal Billy Ruvelson is no
stranger to hard work. He got his first job
as an assistant cook at the age of 14, and
upong graduating high school, moved to
France. He spent two years as an apprentice chef and “stagier,” working long hours
and weeks in one-and two-star
Michelin restaurants. In 1995,
when he was just
23, he purchased
his first property.
He sold it in 2002
for a price that
more than quadrupled his investment. In 2003 he
syndicated his first real estate investment
fund, Forward Progress Management Real
Estate Fund I LLC and within a year orchestrated the acquisition of three multifamily
properties. He went on to syndicate three
additional apartment building funds under
the FPM umbrella. The four real estate
funds purchased 20 apartment buildings
throughout Los Angeles. He’s served as the
president of Forward Progress Management
Inc. since its inception in 1995 and as the
president of its successor company Forward
Progress Management Real Estate Inc.
since its inception in 2007, as principal of
the Icon Co. in 2008, and as the president
of Sperone Land and Real Estate Inc. since
founding the entity in 2012. Through Icon
Cos., Ruvelson is co-manager of the Icon
Plaza at USC LLC, the Icon at SLO LLC,
the Icon at UCSB LLC and the Icon
Gardens at UCSB LLC.
