Eli Verschleiser - President

Eli Verschleiser is our President and is a member of our Board of Directors. He is also President of our advisor. Mr. Verschleiser has served as Chief Executive Officer of Multi Capital Group and as Chairman of The Multi Group of Companies from 2001 through the present. Multi Capital Group is a private real estate investment banking firm specializing in sourcing financial solutions for its real estate clients. Through his companies Mr. Verschleiser has been involved in over $6 billion of real estate transactions. Among the transactions financed by Multi Capital Group are Norden Park Plaza, a 650,000 square-foot corporate center in Norwalk CT, which is occupied by major corporate tenants, including Northrop Grumman, Gibbs College and Pepperidge Farm; the Pennsylvania Power & Light Building in Allentown, Pennsylvania designed by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture — which won a 2004 top-ten award from the National American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment; the Penske Headquarters campus in Reading, PA; and the Eaton Corporation Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Most recently, the Multi Group of Companies was retained as the buy-side advisor in connection with the $218 million acquisition of 88 Leonard Street, a 352 unit luxury apartment tower in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.

In addition to his investment banking activities, Mr. Verschleiser has developed commercial and residential projects in New York City and elsewhere for his own account. Among those projects Mr. Verschleiser was responsible for the Trump Tower Philadelphia, a 50-story residential tower on the Philadelphia waterfront that is in the construction phase, although construction is currently on hold. Mr. Verschleiser conceived of this project, brought Donald J. Trump in as a participant, acquired the site, raised the equity and sourced the debt for the transaction, and selected and retained the architect and other project professionals. Mr. Verschleiser worked with Governor Ed Rendell and state lawmakers to obtain the necessary approvals to build the project. Mr. Verschleiser was also responsible for assembling the development team which was the successful bidder for the 858-acre RFP for the Master Re-Development of Riviera Beach, Florida, a 15 year, $1.4 billion, master redevelopment project including infrastructure, the building of schools and community facilities, marinas, hotels, residential and commercial properties.

Mr. Verschleiser has been involved in the sales of hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts in connection with the purchase of more than one million square feet of office and mixed use buildings nationwide. Mr. Verschleiser’s ability to envision a project from concept to completion, and to forge a strategic direction for it, has allowed him to recognize value in commercial real estate projects nationwide.

In October 2010, Mr. Verschleiser led the team which underwrote the first credit-rated, bond issuance on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange for a U.S.-based private real estate company which successfully issued more than 260 million Shekel (or approximately $60 million as of the date of issuance) of bonds to finance U.S. real estate transactions. Mr. Verschleiser has built long standing professional relationships with key financial institutions including commercial banks, conduits, pension funds, equity funds and insurance companies, in addition to major developers and investors throughout the U.S. and abroad, whom he calls upon to enter into joint ventures and to finance projects undertaken by him and his clients.

Mr. Verschleiser is involved in numerous community and philanthropic organizations, and since 1998 has been a co-founder and board member of Our Place, a New York City based not-for-profit organization that provides support for teens in trouble. Mr. Verschleiser attended New York University’s Real Estate Institute, or REI. Since February 2011 he has also been a board member of The Brownstone, a philanthropic organization that sponsors summer programs in New York City for college students from outside of the state.

Mr. Verschleiser has built a team of professionals and strategic partners at The Multi Group of Companies that has a broad range of experience, ranging from loan structuring, underwriting and analysis to distressed asset workouts, project management and syndications. His leadership ability in directing these teams is evidenced by the extensive array of successful projects spearheaded by The Multi Group of Companies.

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