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On this episode, managing partner Aaron Strauss sits down with Robert Logan of B&D Holdings to explore the strategies driving their impressive growth in industrial real estate.

Rob Logan is a Principal at B&D Holdings. Based in New Jersey, B&D Holdings is a privately held investment and development firm with a real estate portfolio of over 200 properties throughout 34 states. Their primary focus is on direct investments in industrial real estate.

In his role, Rob is responsible for overseeing Acquisitions and Capital Markets. Prior to joining the team, he spent two years at G.S. Wilcox & Co. where he served as an originator on the commercial real estate capital markets advisory team. Prior to G.S. Wilcox, he worked at Newmark Knight Frank on their New York City based debt capital markets team and at ICAP in structured credit products.

Rob has a Bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College in Economics and Latin American Studies and earned a Masters in Real Estate from New York University.

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Yannis Papadakis is a Business Development Manager and Podcast Host at CREXi. Based in Los Angeles, CREXi is a commercial real estate community, marketplace, and technology company that simplifies transactions and accelerates business for brokers, buyers, agents and tenants.

Yannis is responsible for building relationships with commercial real estate professionals from across the country and connecting, educating, and supporting them through CREXi’s platform. His real estate experience began at age 19, when he started managing a shopping center and 80,000 square-feet of retail space. From there, Yannis has worn many hats as a sales agent, property manager, auction manager, and investor.

Yannis hosts the Crexi Podcast, which provides a window into the inner workings of commercial real estate for new and established real estate professionals. His guests include top producing brokers and real estate industry leaders from across the country. Yannis earned his undergraduate degree from Lynn University.

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Jordan Kavana is the Founder and Chairman of ARK Homes for Rent, established in 2021. ARK Homes for Rent is a real estate investment company that owns, operates, and manages a nearly $2 billion portfolio of rental properties located across the Sunbelt of the United States.

For nearly three decades, Jordan has built and led several successful ventures in real estate and private equity, including Transcendent Investment Management (established in 2008) and JL Real Ventures (established in 2004). Prior to that, Jordan founded a successful international consumer electronics company, which he sold in 2003. His career began with roles at Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management division and the finance and operations department of one of the continent's largest vacation property developers.

Jordan is also a founding member of AIPAC’s Miami Club and holds key positions within YPO International, including Global Impact Officer for Mosaic and Engagement Officer for the Peace and Action Network. He is a graduate of Florida International University and has completed coursework at both Harvard University and Harvard Business School's President Management Program.

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Boots Dunlap is the Co-founder and CEO of RRA Capital. With offices in midtown New York City and Phoenix, Arizona, RRA Capital is a real estate investment firm that provides customized debt products at institutional pricing for real estate sponsors across the United States. Notably, RRA is a Veteran-founded, owned, and operated real estate investment firm.

Boots leads the investment strategy and strategic direction of RRA. He leverages over 15 years of experience consulting on and managing credit assets for banks, insurance companies, CMBS servicers, and private equity firms. Since co-founding RRA, Boots has overseen the origination and management of more than $1.5 billion in bridge loans and consulted lenders on over $2.4 billion in distressed commercial real estate.

Prior to co-founding RRA, Boots served in the U.S. military as an Airborne-Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer in the 10th Mountain Division. Over his 10-years of military service, Boots led combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and supported global training missions in Kazakhstan, Korea, and

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Adam Heine is the CEO and President of both Consolidated Development Corporation and Camden Securities Company. He is also the founder of Great Hill Investments, LLC.

At Camden Securities, Adam is responsible for overseeing all aspects of investment, development, and property management. Since joining Camden in 2009, he has successfully overseen the acquisition, development, and repositioning of over 2 million square feet of retail property and 8,000 multi-family units throughout the United States.

His current focus is on further growing the Companies’ national portfolio of mixed-use, multi-family and retail investments in U.S. cities and states with the criteria of growing populations, attractive environments for corporate operations, sound government fiscal policy and where demand clearly outstrips supply.

Prior to joining Camden, Adam spent 14 years in the capital markets while working for Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Adam is a graduate of Denison University and a member of the Urban Land Institute and International Council of Shopping Centers.

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David Lubin is the founder and managing partner of Clairmont Group. Based in New York, Clairmont Group is a fully integrated real estate investment and management firm that invests in mixed-use, multifamily, hospitality, retail, office, and industrial assets.

In his role, David oversees the firm’s strategic direction as well as acquisitions, development, and asset management. To date, David has closed over 50 transactions valued in excess of $2 billion. David’s experience includes investments in core, value-add, opportunistic, distressed real estate, note purchases, development, fund investments, and co-investments across all major asset classes.

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On this episode, Aaron Strauss is joined by Michael Sommer, Chief Development Officer at Kushner Companies. Michael oversees development and construction efforts across the entire Kushner portfolio which includes residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and industrial properties, over 12.9 million square feet currently under development, and over 26,500 apartments across 13 states.

Michael’s storied real estate career includes over 27 years at the leading edge of development and construction. He’s developed more than 10 million square feet of residential, retail and office assets. Most notably, Michael led the development of over 6,000 residential units in New Jersey.

Prior to Kushner, Michael served as Senior Vice President of Development and Construction at Cedar Realty Trust, a NYSE listed retail REIT with a portfolio spanning from Washington, D.C. to Boston. Before Cedar, Michael was Executive Vice President of Development at Edison Properties where he led the redevelopment of the award-winning Ironside Newark in Newark, New Jersey. Michael also served as Managing Director of Development at Advance Realty after starting his career at Premier Development.

Michael holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and a bachelor’s in economics and business from Lafayette College.

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Carl Wright is the founder and president of Wright Partners, a real estate development firm focused on the development, ownership and management of retail, industrial and healthcare properties. The firm is the exclusive developer for Patient First for Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as a preferred developer for brands like AutoZone, CVS and National Tire and Battery.

Carl founded Wright Partners in 1998 to combine his passions for real estate, engineering, and construction. As of this writing, Wright Partners is on track to complete its 100th development project.

Apart from real estate, Carl is a third-degree blackbelt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, an avid surfer, and an Ironman—having successfully completed a full Ironman race in Lake Placid, New York.

Carl is a graduate of the University of Delaware, and a licensed Professional Engineer in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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