LOS ANGELES—Crowdfunding is simply selling a security, explains Gene Trowbridge, CCIM, syndication lawyer at Trowbridge Taylor Sidoti LLP. After speaking on the crowdfunding panel at CCIM Thrive, Trowbridge sat down for an exclusive interview with GlobeSt.com to talk about the conference and the legal issues surrounding the crowdfunding industry. Among the topics he discusses:

  • Recap of the crowdfunding panel
  • The possibility of allowing non-accredited investors into crowdfunding
  • The JOBS Act
  • How he has benefitted from the CCIM designation
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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.