ASHISH GUPTA, 30
Senior Vice President
Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc.
New York City
Following Lehman’s
2008 bankruptcy filing,
Gupta has been the
man behind the company headlines as overseer of the restructuring, asset management and monetization of a portfolio of debt and equity
positions collateralized by asset and portfolio investments worth over $12 billion and
representing roughly 30 million square
feet of office space across several major US
markets. Through restructurings and
recapitalizations that have entailed third-party owned debt buybacks, joint venture
partner buyouts, loan modifications, new
funding facilities and change of control
actions, Gupta has created value for
Lehman Brothers Estate in complicated
and distressed situations. His portfolio has
delivered an estimated $2.5 billion recovery to Lehman Brothers, nearly $2 billion
of which has already been realized. Relative
to spot values and new capital investments
post-bankruptcy, several deals have generated multiples of two to five times capital in
less than five years’ time.
WILLIAM
HENDRICKSON, 38
Director, Investments
Granite Properties
Plano, TX
Hendrickson was promoted to director of
investments for office
specialist Granite
Properties in 2011, eight years into his
decade with the company, and he now
leads and coordinates sourcing and execution of underwriting, financial analysis and
due diligence of the firm’s investment activity in Texas, Colorado and Georgia. Since
joining Granite he’s been involved in $1.5
billion in transactions, leading the investment group’s further inroads into the
Atlanta and Denver markets (among other
areas) and increased underwriting volume.
An associate council member at the
McCombs School of Business at the
University of Texas at Austin, Hendrickson
also led the strategic divestment of the
company’s industrial portfolio in 2010,
involving 18 Texas properties totaling three
million square feet, which sold in five deals
that closed by the end of Q1 2011.
MARK INMAN, 33
Vice President &
Managing Broker
Coldwell Banker
Commercial TEC
Realtors
New Orleans
Inman since 2005 has
overseen the management, sales and leasing of over 700,000
square feet of office space in the New
Orleans metro area, and is currently in the
running to lease and manage properties for
the Aviation Board of New Orleans. He’s
also in the running, company sources say, as
heir apparent Coldwell Banker TEC
Realtors—and could eventually assume
leadership of its residential operations as
well, including 180 agents and seven branch
offices. His track record shows achievement:
He earned his CCIM designation in 2009
and has received Coldwell Banker
Commercial’s Circle of Distinction Award
from 2009 to 2012, given only to 3% of sales
associates based on closed production. A
member of the Louisiana Bar Association,
since 2011 he’s served on the Next Gen
Council of the Greater New Orleans
Regional Economic Alliance.
JASON
ISAACSON, 38
President
IP Capital Partners
Boca Raton, FL
Isaacson in 2012 co-founded IP Capital
Partners LLC, a private
investment and asset
management firm that is quickly making a
name for itself. The company launched its
first fund earlier this year and expects to
raise $25 million by year’s end, with plans to
leverage its equity into $375 million to buy
institutional-quality office, retail and industrial properties in Florida. Isaacson has in
his career acquired and financed over $5
billion in real estate transactions nationwide, and over the past decade has built a
reputation in Florida for acquisitions, debt
restructuring and repositioning. He’s
acquired $300 million worth of commercial
property representing five million square
feet in the state, and restructured $265 million in debt. Before founding IPCC, he led
both Penn Florida Realty Advisors and
Cypress Creek Capital, merging them in
2009. South Florida CEO named Isaacson, a
Chartered Financial Analyst, as a “Next
Generation Business Leader.”
DARRON KATTAN, 39
Managing Director
Franklin Street
Tampa, FL
Kattan, a founding
partner at Franklin
Street, has grown its
investment sales division from a team of
four in Tampa to a 20-person division in
multiple offices throughout the
Southeast. Since 2008, he helped the
company grow over 1,430% in revenue
and established company-wide marketing
procedures serving as a key member of its
Marketing and Technology Committees.
He’s played a key role in establishing a
proprietary customer relations management system for agent. Kattan’s closings
exceed $1.5 billion and include numerous multifamily deals of varying sizes, and
in 2011 he completed one of the first
1031 exchanges in Metro Tampa since
the crash. Since September 2012, he’s
closed over $67 million in multifamily
deals. An active member of the University
of Florida Bergstrom Center for Real
Estate Studies, he also volunteers for the
Pediatric Cancer Foundation and Habitat
for Humanity.
KEITH
LAMPI, 33
Chief Operating Officer
and Director
Inland Private Capital
Corp.
Oak Brook, IL
In his decade with
Inland Private Capital
Corp., Lampi has risen through the
ranks. During 2012 he was named both
COO and a member of the company’s
seven-member board, duties he handles
while also serving on IPCC’s CEO
Council, which sets long-term strategic
plans, and on its investment committee.
As a leader of Inland’s most rapidly-growing investment product line, real
estate-related private placement securities, he is positioning the organization
as front-runner in the industry. He has
raised more than $1.4 billion since 2002
from accredited investors via a broker-dealer network, which has led to the
purchase of 256 properties with a combined value of $2.8 billion. And in 2012,
marketing strategies he helped develop
placed IPCC at 60% market share among
peer organizations.