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Mo Beler is a senior managing director of capital markets-equity & structured finance at Walker & Dunlop, based in New York. In his role, he is responsible for leading the sourcing and structuring of equity and structured finance placement for all commercial real estate asset classes nationwide. To date, Mr. Beler has capitalized more than $20 billion worth of real estate transactions, with a primary focus on common LP, preferred
equity, and programmatic capital raises.

Mr. Beler joined Walker & Dunlop in June 2020 as part of the acquisition of Beler
Advisory Group. Prior to Walker & Dunlop, he was the founder and head of Beler Advisory Group, a boutique real estate advisory firm with a national reach that offered commercial real estate debt solutions, including joint venture equity placement and
structured finance. Before founding Beler Advisory Group, Mr. Beler served as vice
chairman of New York City Institutional Investment Sales within JLL Capital Markets.
While at JLL, he led the investment sales process, overseeing property valuation,
marketing, negotiations, and new business development, and was directly involved in
commercial transactions totaling more than $2 billion. Before joining JLL, Mr. Beler was principal and head of investments at Innovo Property Group and earlier served as vice
president within Rockwood Capital’s acquisition group. Throughout his career, Mr. Beler has generated more than $30 billion in multi-sector and multi-risk investing and advisory experience across the capital stack.

Mr. Beler earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of
Michigan Ross School of Business, graduating with high distinction.

Brad Bitting

Managing Director

Post Brothers

Annemarie G. DiCola, Esq., CEO of Trepp Inc., spearheads its business as the global
leader in the CMBS industry, expanding its expertise and solutions into the broader
CRE Finance, Portfolio Lending, and Corporate Credit CLO sectors. Under her leadership, Trepp acquired CRE Finance data firms Foresight Analytics and InvestCap Advisors; content companies REITCafe and. Commercial Real Estate Direct; and CLO technology firms Codean and Cerulean. Trepp repeatedly receives top billing as Global
Capital’s “CMBS Data Provider of the Year” and continues to work to expand CRE industry transparency with such initiatives as bank and insurance company data
consortia for loan performance analysis.

Ms. DiCola is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the NYU Stern Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance, serves on the Advisory Board of the NYU Furman
Center, and is a member of the President’s Council of the Real Estate Roundtable and the Partnership for New York City.

She served on the Board of Directors of Gerber Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé S.A., until its acquisition by Western and Southern Financial Group. Other past service includes the Board of Directors of the NY Chapter of Commercial RE
Women (CREW), the Corporate Responsibility Committee of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Trepp’s parent, and the Executive Committee of the CRE Finance Council (CREFC), the trade association for the approximate $4T CRE finance industry.

Actively involved in CREFC’s leadership since its inception, Ms. DiCola served as its first woman Chair from 2000-2001, received the Founder’s Award, and served a second term as Chair in 2018-2019. She currently serves on the CREFC Board of Governors, is a member of the PAC Committee and has served on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Network. Trepp also partners with CREFC to track and report the CRE debt performance of life insurance companies.

An acknowledged voice in the CRE finance industry, she has been highlighted by Sokol
Media as a “Top Woman in Real Estate” and by Real Estate Forum Magazine as a “Woman of Influence.” She has been profiled by The New York Times, interviewed on CNBC, and lauded by the Women’s Venture Fund. Ms. DiCola was the Editor-in-Chief of
the inaugural CMBS E-Primer, the electronic publication of CREFC designed for training
in CMBS. She is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Ms. DiCola graduated from the Harvard Business School Advanced Management
Program and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law. She received her BA from Fordham University, where she maintained a Presidential Scholarship and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in cursu honorum.

Ethan Elser

Executive Vice President

PACE Equity

David Friedman

Chief Credit Officer and Head of Non-Agency Production & Syndications

Arbor

Shawn katz

President

Silverstein Capital Partners

Chris Lawton

Managing Director, Head of Originations

Nuveen Green Capital

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Chris Niederpruem

Managing Director, Group Head

First Citizens Bank

ROBERT ROTHschild

Managing Director

InterVest Capital Partners

Yorick Starr

Managing Director & Investment Officer

Invesco

Maxwell wu

Co-Founder & CEO

Fulcrum Lending Corporation

Cathy Cunningham

EMCEE

CATHY CUNNINGHAM

Executive Editor

Commercial Observer

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Mark Fawer

Partner

Greenspoon Marder LLP

MODERATOR

Jay Neveloff

Partner, Chair of Real Estate -US

HSF Kramer

Moderator

Michael Vines