CHAD ADAMS, 35
Vice President,
Single Tenant Retail
Acquisitions
Cole Real Estate
Investments Inc.
Phoenix
Adams focuses on single-tenant retail acquisitions for Cole, with a strategic focus on
the Northeast. Since joining the firm three
years ago, he’s handled more than $1 billion worth of deals—work that earned him
Cole’s 2012 “Single Tenant Retail
Dealmaker of the Year” title. While technology has moved the sector forward, Adams
credits his success in part to old-school
relationship building. Prior to Cole, Adams
managed a portfolio of single-tenant retail,
office and industrial properties in 19 states.
Outside of real estate, he’s director for C3
Soccer Camp, a free children’s soccer camp
in West Virginia that he founded in 2003.
PATRICK
ARANGIO, 35
Vice Chairman
CBRE Capital Markets
New York City
Arangio has participated in the advisory
and placement of more
than $18 billion in loan
sales during his career and recently became
the youngest-ever vice chairman in CBRE’s
Capital Markets Group at 34. He’s also co-head of CBRE’s loan sale platform nationwide, responsible for marketing and selling
commercial mortgage loans in the secondary markets. He has been transaction manager or co-project manager on over 150
large loan and portfolio assignments,
including dispositions of loans secured by
assets ranging in size from $100,000 to
$150 million in the US and Canada. A
member of the Cornell Real Estate Council,
he’s thrice been lauded as a member of the
CBRE Capital Markets Team of the Year.
DAN
BRODERICK, 37
President
Cassidy Turley
San Diego, CA
Broderick leads San
Diego and Orange
County operations,
with a management
portfolio of more than 4. 3 million
square feet, and last year closed $1.3 bil-
lion in transactions. As Cassidy Turley’s
youngest market leader, he provides
strategic vision and leadership. He also
coined the company mantra: “Client.
Community. Culture.” Broderick is rec-
ognized as an expert on commercial real
estate in Southern California and the
Western US. Before joining Cassidy
Turley, he closed more than $8 billion
worth of transactions across multiple
property types over a six-year span at
Eastdil Secured. Prior to that, he closed
more than $800 million in landlord and
tenant representation transactions dur-
ing four years at Burnham Real Estate.
Broderick founded Stanford
Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE), sits
on the board of NAIOP San Diego and
has served on numerous projects via San
Diego’s Outreach Committee.
JAMES BRUSCO, 40
Director
MetLife Real Estate
Investors
Morristown, NJ
In the first seven
months since launching MetLife Real
Estate Investors’
Brusco’s been busy. In the current market, he sees small to mid-sizedd banks
and life insurance companies relying on
large companies with infrastructure to
support their commercial mortgage
origination needs. And he’s proven his
theory: Already, he’s executed two investor mandates—$5 billion with SunTrust
Bank over a three-year period, and $200
million with a life insurer. He’s negotiating life insurance assignments totaling
close to $500 million. Separately, Brusco
has also closed over $1.6 billion worth of
loans over a four-year period with borrowers including private real estate
funds, pension funds, REITs and insurance companies in both the New York
and Boston areas, as well as $100 million
in acquisitions. Those who know him say
his ability to team-build and apply dedicated focus to investment objectives is
turning heads in industry. In fact, his
progress has landed him in the Mortgage
Bankers Association’s Next Generation
leadership group. He notes that while
technology is changing the landscape in
many ways, the sector’s emphasis on
relationships remains the same.
JORDAN CASPARI, 33
DAVID SMITH, 34
Partners
Ten Capital
Management
San Francisco
In early 2013, Smith
and Caspari joined
forces with Ten
Capital Management
to launch a direct real
estate investment
platform focused
exclusively on middle
market real estate
transactions and
backed by a family
office anchor investor
with assets under management exceeding $10 billion. Smith and Caspari represent the next generation in real estate
investment management. They identified the middle market real estate sector
as one where limited institutional competition exists and opportunity awaits. In
his new role, Caspari focuses on new
business and raising co-investment capital, while Smith’s main focus is asset
management and deal sourcing, as well
as closing transactions. Both have backgrounds investing on behalf of high net
worth investors and multiple institution
types. Caspari handled a $450-million
real estate opportunity fund with
Partners Group, a Swiss asset manager,
and underwrote $2 billion of joint venture equity and recapitalizations across
multiple continents. Smith at Helios
AMC managed over $400 million of non-performing CMBS loans, while at
Deutsche Bank he managed a 50-asset
non-performing loan pool, and he has
raised and managed approximately $1
billion of capital across multiple asset
types and placed over $450 million in
financings across the United States.
ADAM
CHRISTOFFERSON,
40
First Vice President
and Regional Manager
Marcus & Millichap
Real Estate
Investment Services
Encino, CA
Christofferson is seen as a top leader,
teacher, mentor, coach and manager at
Marcus & Millichap, where he has focused
on multi-tenant retail and was tapped
