Thought Leaders

For more than 30 years, EBI has helped clients maximize value in the built and natural environments, delivering quality insights that move business forward. Founded in 1989 at the intersection of business and development, we've always been committed to delivering the information clients need to make the best business decisions. With nearly 600 industry experts coast-to-coast, our capabilities include due diligence, climate risk, architecture and engineering, and environmental, health and safety services.

Redwood Living, Inc. (Redwood) is an innovative development and property management company with neighborhoods in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky, currently. Redwood believes in the growth of the rental population, and provides remarkable and unique neighborhoods to meet this demand. The success of this approach continues to be validated in new markets.

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) finances projects that stabilize and revitalize communities across all 50 states. As the second largest affordable housing lender for 2021, KeyBank’s platform brings together construction, acquisition, bridge-to-re-syndication, and preservation loans, as well as lines of credit, Agency and HUD permanent mortgage executions, and equity investments for low-income housing projects, especially Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) financing. KeyBank has earned 10 consecutive “Outstanding” ratings on the Community Reinvestment Act exam, from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, making it the first U.S. national bank among the 25 largest to do so since the Act’s passage in 1977.

Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is a leader in the commercial real estate industry, offering a robust suite of services to our multifamily and commercial property clients. Through our integrated mortgage banking, investment sales and servicing platform, Berkadia delivers comprehensive real estate solutions for the entire life cycle of our clients’ assets. To learn more about Berkadia, please visit www.berkadia.com

The SVN® brand was founded in 1987 out of a desire to improve the commercial real estate industry for all stakeholders through cooperation and organized competition. SVN is now a globally recognized commercial real estate entity united by a shared vision of creating value with clients, colleagues, and its communities. SVN Advisors work to ensure that maximum cooperation equals maximum value in every type of transaction. SVN’s unique business model is built on collaboration and transparency and supported by an inclusive culture. We believe in sharing data, fees, knowledge, and opportunities among all members of the CRE industry to create maximum value for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As the industry leader in collaboration, SVN believes in the power of working together to create shared prosperity and drive commercial real estate forward.

HALL Structured Finance (HSF) is an entrepreneurial, direct private lender offering creative financing solutions for projects across the U.S., primarily in the hotel and multifamily sectors. Our lending program is designed to provide real estate owners, operators, and developers with an alternative to bank financing and is a resource for projects that may be underserved by institutional capital markets.

Funnel’s renter-centric solutions revolutionize the antiquated process of finding a home into an enjoyable experience. We believe all renters deserve a seamless, simple and personalized journey. We provide leasing and communication tools that are intuitive and obliterate repetitive tasks -- driving more efficient leasing. Join us as we help leading property management teams create tomorrow’s rental experience at funnelleasing.com.

NAI Global is a leading global commercial real estate brokerage firm. NAI Global offices are leaders in their local markets and work in unison to provide clients with exceptional solutions to their commercial real estate needs. NAI Global has more than 300 offices strategically located throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific, with over 5,100 local market professionals, managing in excess of 1.1 billion square feet of property and facilities. Annually, NAI Global completes in excess of $20 billion in commercial real estate transactions throughout the world.

With the resources and experience of a $95B+ portfolio, the Capital One national commercial real estate team delivers tailored financing solutions. The Top 10 U.S. commercial bank and Top 6 agency lender offers a full suite of permanent and construction loans including industrial, multifamily housing, offices and student housing. For more information, visit www.capitalone.com/commercial/.

Redaptive is a leading Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, optimize cost, lower carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and resource barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with continuous data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary metering technology. Redaptive was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit: redaptive.com