Conferences & Education
Troubled Asset Forum & Showcase
December 2-3, 2009
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Jeffrey N. Cantor
Managing Director/Western Regional Manager, The Debt Exchange, Inc.
Jeffrey Cantor joined DebtX in 2002 and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, pricing and structuring loan sale engagements from the company's San Francisco office as well as the management and direction of the Western Regional office. In addition to banks in this region, he is responsible for relationships with CMBS Special Servicers, Insurance Companies and Finance Companies. He has more than 25 years of real estate and financial services experience ranging from asset based lending and loan syndication to institutional sales while at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Cantor was formerly manager of loan syndication at Fremont Investment & Loan where he was responsible for the program's development.
William Hoffman
CEO, Trigild, Inc.
William Hoffman is president, founder and CEO of Trigild, a San Diego-based company specializing in distressed real estate, loan recovery and receiverships. With more than 30 years of experience, Hoffman is an attorney and a California licensed real estate broker, and has served as the court appointed receiver for over 1,500 assets, among them hotels, commercial office buildings, retail shopping centers, residential projects and restaurants. His unique blend of expertise in management, law, and real estate qualifies him as an expert witness, and has led State and Federal Courts to appoint him as Receiver, Trustee or Custodian for troubled real estate assets across North America. He was instrumental in developing the annual Trigild Lender Conference, an increasingly important national forum for the financial industry.
Stephen Jones
Senior Examiner, FDIC
Stephen Jones is a senior examiner with the FDIC, working out of the Los Angeles West Field Office. He is the real estate appraisal subject matter expert for the Los Angeles territory. He has been with the FDIC for 19 years, beginning his career as an examiner in the Dallas Field Office and moving to Los Angeles in 1996. Prior to returning to Los Angeles in 2007, he was a case manager and the regional real estate appraisal subject matter expert in the San Francisco Regional Office.
Tom Keenan
Director & SVP, MarketMaker, Guardian Investment Real Estate
Tom Keenan joined MarketMaker’s parent company, Guardian Investment Real Estate, in 1997. He currently serves as the company’s senior vice president and as director of the MarketMaker online platform, overseeing all aspects of the sales of individual loan assets, driving yield through a retail based bank-to-investor transactional model. His responsibilities include overseeing the underwriting, valuation, marketing, bid management, contracting and successful closing of both loan assets and OREO properties through the MarketMaker platform. Keenan has more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience, with focus on transactional matters, management, and debt and equity structure.
Don Neff
President/CEO, La Jolla Pacific
Construction quality expert Don Neff founded La Jolla Pacific, Ltd. in 1993, based on his own innovative risk management strategies and previous experience as a homebuilder. Since then he has been in the forefront of the construction quality movement. He has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate industry covering all aspects of planning, acquisitions, development, construction, and management. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Neff has conducted numerous educational and training seminars focused on building a better quality product. He serves as an instructor for the Home Builders Institute and the California Homebuilding Foundation, teaching selected modules of the Superintendent Training Program. Neff also is an instructor for the University of California at Irvine in the Light Construction and Development Management (LCDM) program.
Paul O’Rear
SVP, Underwriting, Bridger Commercial Funding
Paul O’Rear has headed up Bridger’s loan Asset Management Advisory Services and Underwriting groups since 2002. He has more than 25 years of experience in international and domestic real estate asset management and finance. Prior to joining Bridger in 2001, he spent six years heading up Bank of America’s Asia Commercial Real Estate program with a $1.6 billion balance sheet and production teams in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. O’Rear’s 18 years with Bank of America included loan originations, asset quality and portfolio management, distressed property workouts and turnarounds, OREO property management/repositioning and disposition and distribution of real estate capital markets products.
Donald Pelgrim
President & CEO, Delta Corps
Donald Pelgrim is an attorney and a banker with more than 20 years of professional experience in the financial services sector. During that period he has managed and/or advised on finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, corporate governance and regulatory matters affecting public and privately-held financial institutions. His experience also includes real estate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate finance, loan workouts and the resolution of problem assets. Prior to forming Delta Corps, Pelgrim was an executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Vineyard Bank and Vineyard National Bancorp.
Larry Raber
Partner, Perry-Smith LLP
Larry Raber has served over 30 years in various audit and consulting capacities related to financial institutions. As an audit partner at Perry-Smith LLP he provides audit services for a variety of complex financial institutions ranging in size from de novo institutions to over $3 billion in assets. Clients are both public and private in ownership. Services include performing audits and applying GAAP to a variety of companies and transactions including loan and investment impairment, mergers and acquisitions, mortgage and hedge accounting, share-based payment under various stock-based compensation programs, business segment reporting, and other technical matters. He also Performs SEC advisory services in connection with serving public companies.
Ted Simpson
Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield
Ted Simpson is an executive director at Cushman & Wakefield and manages a team dedicated to helping corporations and real estate investors with their local, national and international leases, sales, financings and construction projects. His team has cultivated long term relationships with companies and managed major real estate transactions in virtually every business sector, but has developed particularly deep market penetration with regional banks, law firms, and technology and biomedical firms.
Barry A. Smith
Counsel, Buchalter Nemer
Barry Smith focuses his practice on representing financial institutions and other business entities both domestic and international. He has extensive experience in business and commercial litigation, creditors rights, loan workouts and restructuring, provisional remedies, collections, post-judgment enforcement. He also handles complex defense litigation including tort, contract law and real estate. Smith is a frequent speaker at numerous seminars and conferences including the Community Bankers of California, California Bankers Association, Western Independent Bankers, the Los Angeles County Bar Associations and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Scott O. Smith
Counsel, Buchalter Nemer
Scott Smith represents financial institutions, with an emphasis in commercial litigation, prejudgment remedies, receiverships, collections, loan workouts and insolvency issues. He is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights (secured and unsecured), provisional and post-judgment remedies and commercial law. He speaks at conferences and seminars presented by the California Bankers Association, Community Bankers of California, National Association of Chinese American Bankers, National Vehicle Leasing Association and Robert Morris & Associates.
Glen Terry
Former CEO, Vineyard Bank, NA.
Most recently, Glen Terry was president, CEO and director of Vineyard National Bank in Corona, Calif. Previously, he served in the same capacity at Tri-Valley Bank in San Ramon, Calif., and as senior vice president and commercial banking manager with Umpqua Bank in the Napa and Solano counties. He served as the president & CEO of The Vintage Bank from 2002-07. Prior to that time, he was founding president & CEO of Solano Bank from its organization in late 1999 until assuming his current duties. Glen has been a career banker, beginning his career as a branch-banking teller in 1976. He has had experience in nearly all aspects of commercial banking including administration, commercial lending, real estate lending, agricultural lending, branch management, project management and bank mergers and acquisitions.
Richard Wilson
San Francisco Region Accounting Specialist, FDIC
Rich Wilson has been the FDIC San Francisco Region’s accounting specialist for over 16 years. His primary responsibility is to address accounting matters affecting insured financial institutions. Wilson has been a speaker at industry and banking agencies accounting seminars. He previously worked three years as a senior investigator of professional liability claims in the FDIC’s Division of Resolutions and Receiverships. Prior to joining the FDIC, Wilson was a CFO and mortgage banking officer in financial institutions for six years.
Wally Young
Senior Manager, Credit Risk Coordination, Risk, Monitoring & Analysis Group,
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Wally Young is a senior manager of credit risk coordination at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has 14 years of regulatory experience, including five years with the California Department of Financial Institution and nine years with the FRBSF. He joined the FRBSF in 1999 as a commissioned bank examiner, then served from 2005-2008 as the central point of contact and subsequently as an examining manager, for a portfolio of community and regional banks and bank holding companies in the Pacific Northwest. In January 2009, he assumed responsibility for credit risk coordination for the 12th district and will be responsible for monitoring credit conditions and examination findings in the district, providing guidance and consultative services to the examination function, and representing the FRBSF on system projects, interagency activities and other credit-related events.