In addition, Ms. Blakeslee has experience in restructuring and workout of complex distressed-debt structures. She has represented a number of investment banks, life insurance companies, commercial banks, institutional investors, loan servicers, joint ventures and private equity funds. Ms. Blakeslee sits on the editorial board of the CRE Finance Council and is co-managing editor for CREFC Finance World™. She is also a contributor to Dechert’s finance and real estate blog, Crunched Credit. Ms. Blakeslee is also co-chair of the CREFC Finance Counsel’s working group on High Volatility Commercial Real Estate loans.

From 2002-2009, Mr. Adler was Chief Property Operations Officer at AIMCO (NYSE: AIV, S&P 500), leading the revitalization of the operating platform of more than 160,000 multifamily units ($10B Enterprise Market value), where he also co-founded AIMCO’s portfolio investment, asset management and capital markets strategies.

From 2009-2014, Mr. Adler formed a consulting firm and acted as CEO/COO for several sponsor and investor platforms in the US value-add, student, military, senior, single-family, and Canadian rental housing industries. During this time, he executed investment and asset management strategies and private market equity and debt capital raises. Fund and platform sizes ranged from $200MM to $3B in value.

From 1990 to 2000 Mr. Adler was a Vice President at Progressive Insurance, developing the Progressive consumer brand, establishing the corporate marketing department, and then running the Colorado business unit, growing it profitably from $10MM to $100MM in revenues.