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A fifteen year veteran of the real estate finance industry, Mr. Benjamin recently completed a six-year
tenure at Credit Suisse First Boston. While at CSFB, he originated fixed- and floating-rate mortgage loans,
structured a variety of capital market loan securitizations, assisted in the creation of a high yield investment
vehicle focusing on the acquisition of subordinate CMBS and was a member of a team that asset-managed
and liquidated in excess of $7 billion of real estate debt and equity investments. Prior to joining CSFB,
Mr. Benjamin practiced law with the New York firm of Schulte, Roth & Zabel, specializing in all areas of
real estate acquisition, development and finance. |
| A fourteen
year veteran of the Real Estate business, Mr. Porges
spent five years as vice president and general counsel
of J.D. Carlisle Development, a New York-based real
estate development company, with responsibility
for the firm’s development strategy, including acquisitions,
financing, leasing and marketing. Mr. Porges’ projects
include Morton Square, The Penmark and NYU Cancer
Center, all in New York City. Mr. Porges has been
an active owner/manager of real estate since 1990.
Prior to joining J.D. Carlisle Development, Mr.
Porges was an attorney with Togut, Segal & Segal,
a boutique corporate bankruptcy firm. |
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- Vice-President-Controller for Sage Realty
Corporation / William Kaufman Organization, Ltd 1992-2006
- Director of Property Accounting for Paramount
Group, Inc. 1981-1992
- Bachelor of Science, Long Island University,
C.W. Post Center, School of Professional Accountancy
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- Acquisitions and Finance at American Real Estate Partners / Icahn Associates
- Lending and securitization at CS First Boston and Morgan Stanley
- REIT equity research at Morgan Stanley
- Investment sales and finance at Insignia / ESG (now part of CB Richard Ellis)
- MBA and Master of Urban Planning, New York University (1996); BA in Political Science, Haverford College (1991)
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- Senior Fund Accountant at M.D. Sass Investor Services
- Corporate Accountant at Wall Street brokerage firm, A.B. Watley, Inc.
- Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Finance, Adelaide University, South Australia
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| MD Sass has been a leading name in investment
management for over a quarter-century. Today the
MD Sass Group employs a staff of over 114 people.
Clients include some of the world's largest financial
institutions, state and local governments, Fortune
500 and other corporations, endowment funds, foundations,
Taft Hartley funds and high net worth individuals.
The MD Sass investment approach has proven itself
in a wide range of changing and often chal- lenging
investment environments. |
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Dean S. Benjamin 