CRE + Tech

• One of the founding partners and member of the Investment Committee at Stablewood.
• Helped develop a proprietary platform that partially automated sourcing, closing, managing, and selling nearly $500M in commercial real estate.
• Negotiated terms with and managed relationships of the firm's institutional equity partners and national lenders.
• Helped lead a growing organization with a team of over 40 full-time and outsourced investment, data, technology, legal, and due diligence professionals.

Adventures in CRE (www.AdventuresInCRE.com or A.CRE) is the industry's go-to place for commercial real estate financial modeling, education, and career advancement resources.

Started by Spencer Burton and Michael Belasco during their graduate studies at Cornell University, A.CRE helps over 200,000 unique visitors monthly (as of 2023) analyze real estate investments, learn to build real estate Excel models themselves, better understand a career in CRE, make CRE education decisions, and leverage AI in real estate.

• Personally built and shared 40 institutional-quality real estate models and analysis modules that have collectively been downloaded over 250,000 times.
• Co-created the A.CRE Accelerator, the industry-standard for real estate financial modeling training used by top CRE companies and university programs worldwide. The program consists of 23 courses, 25 case studies, over 50 Watch Me Build videos, numerous advanced Excel models/modules, and seven custom-curricula.
• Wrote and published over 350 articles on real estate financial modeling, artificial intelligence, careers, and education.

Northwestern Mutual Real Estate ("NMRE") is one of the largest real estate investors in the nation, with $45 billion in commercial mortgage and equity investments across all major property types, including apartments, office, retail and industrial.

• Sourced, evaluated, and closed new real estate acquisition, development, and debt opportunities.
• Served as investment manager for the regions of Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

Land Group, S.A. (DBA Grupo 9 Grados) developed innovative housing communities for working class Panamanians.

• Analyzed potential international real estate development opportunities and led site selection, entitlement, and design.
• Developed financial models and analysis; communicated recommendations to partners for consideration in purchasing development properties.
• Helped craft strategic plan, organize company divisions, and develop marketing strategy.
• Lived in Panama where I managed the day-to-day land acquisition, design, entitlement, construction, sales, and closing activities of the firm.

• Co-crafted concept for a mortgage brokerage that within the first year was originating ~$15 million per month in residential mortgage volume.
• Developed marketing and financial strategy; co-managed two branches with over 35 employees.

• Focused on commercial and investment-oriented offerings; specifically new residential construction and development.
• Led or assisted in the risk analysis, acquisition, due diligence, entitlement and marketing of eight residential/mixed use development projects.
• Sourced and assessed hundreds of properties and completed thousands of hours of due diligence on behalf of my investor/developer clients.