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Trainers

Ryan Oliver – Modeling and Structures

Ryan Oliver has more than twelve years of experience in the real-estate industry and has played a key role in the underwriting, structuring and acquiring of over $850 million in real-estate assets. On behalf of his previous employers and clients, he invested over $250 million in development and acquisition of office, industrial, mixed-use, retail, multi-family and residential equity. Ryan also has worked closely with company executives to underwrite and structure complex real-estate transactions of joint-venture equity, mezzanine debt, bonds, tax credits and other non-conventional financing sources.

As president of Dividend Realty Group, LLC (DRG), an international real-estate training and consulting firm, Ryan has provided consulting services to companies such as CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Harvest Capital, The Link REIT, IndoChina Land, Vina Capital and Brunei Investment Agency.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in business finance from Brigham Young University (BYU) and a master’s degree in real estate from the University of Denver. He also served as adjunct professor at the University of Denver, where he taught the Argus real-estate finance course to both undergraduate and graduate students.

He is a licensed real-estate agent in California and is an active member of NAIOP. Ryan resides in Parker, Colorado with his wife and five children.

Chung Yee Ling – Corporate Finance & Cross Boarder Investment

Currently the head of Asia investment banking and managing director at RL Capital Management, Roy also is a non-executive independent director at Vingroup JSC – Vietnam’s largest, integrated real- estate developer with $4 billion market capitalization – and a non-executive independent director and chairman of the nominating committee at HG Metals Manufacturing Ltd, one of South East Asia’ largest steel distributors with $200 million market capitalization.

Roy was an independent director at Asia Water Technology, one of China’s largest waste-water treatment providers, which is listed in SGX with $100 million market capitalization. Prior to working for RL Capital, he was a senior investment banker with JPMorgan’s Asia real-estate investment banking team. JPMorgan was honored by FinanceAsia as the “Best Real Estate Investment Bank in Asia” for 2008-2010 and Roy was responsible for the originating and implementing investment-banking mandates for regional clients. Prior to working for JPMorgan, Roy held senior banking positions for Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney, performing a wide range of corporate-finance, equity-research and real-estate financings.

Roy is a chartered financial analyst and was formerly on the CFA Society of Japan’s board of directors. He currently serves on the academic committee of the Asian Public Real Estate Association. In March 2008, Roy was honored as one of 20 “Rising Stars in Real Estate” by Institutional Investor and he serves on the judging panels of the International Property Awards, Cityscape Asia Awards and the South East Asia Property Awards.

Roy graduated from INSEAD with a global executive MBA and from the National University of Singapore with a bachelor’s degree in business administration (second upper honors).

John B. Greenman – REIT’s

John has more than twenty years of experience in commercial-real-estate investment and finance. Most recently, he was vice president of acquisitions for ‘20 Twenty Office Properties’ – a private investment firm based in Denver – and previously was vice president of investments at Corporex Colorado, a development company specializing in office and hotel properties.

From 2000 to 2006, John was chief investment officer of AmeriVest Properties, Inc., a public REIT (real estate investment trust) that invested in multi-tenant office assets in the western United States. At AmeriVest, he directed all acquisition, disposition and financing activities, purchasing 15 properties totaling 2.3-million square feet and playing a key role in four “follow-on” equity-share offerings for the company.

From 1994 to 2000, John was senior partner at The Sheridan Group of Denver, the private predecessor company to AmeriVest. He began his career as a corporate banker at Continental Bank of Chicago and served four years in the bank’s London branch.

John holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Amherst College and a M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and a member and past ‘President of the City Club’ of Denver.

A native of Buffalo, New York, John is married with three children and currently resides in Centennial, Colorado.

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Consulting

Testimonials

They built a complex internal financial model for our retail, office and residential projects…that are valued at over $100 million. The model is…user-friendly and easily interpreted by lenders, investors and construction managers.

-Mike Byrne, Partner at Byrne Realty Advisors / NAIOP Denver Chapter President 1993

Dividend has created models for us that are detailed, flexible and help us make better investment decisions.

-Charlie Davis, Principal at Inverness Properties

The financial model tailor-made by Dividend Realty…has brought substantial value to us. It seamlessly integrates our underwriting, monitoring and reporting platforms and has greatly increased the efficiency of our work flow.

-Mark Li, Assistant Vice President at Harvest Capital Partners

DRG has been a valuable component to our investment sales team. They require little direction, have a great understanding of the real-estate business and provide financial analysis that is right on target.

-Steve Suechting, Executive Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle

Dividend Realty Group provided us with a professional ‘Investment Memorandum’ required to raise $100 million in funds for a resort development. The finished product was completed in a timely manner and the feedback from potential investors was very positive.

-Nick Simpson, President at Grand Peaks Properties

Dividend has been a valuable member of our…team and has provided advice and services in tenant negotiations, capital structuring, underwriting and development feasibility.

-Mike Byrne, Partner at Byrne Realty Advisors / NAIOP Denver Chapter President 1993

Dividend’s "real-world" understanding of what we are trying to accomplish translates into…insightful analytical work that we can’t get from any other source.

-Charlie Davis, Principal at Inverness Properties

As an architect of financial models myself, I have to say…the models built by Dividend Realty are very user friendly and easy to navigate, which saves us a lot of time for analysis work. DRG truly understand[s] their clients’ needs and [are] able to deliver the solutions.

-Mark Li, Assistant Vice President at Harvest Capital Partners

Dividend Realty Group's advice on financial structure and capital procurement was insightful and invaluable to our decision making. Dividend really knows the business.

-Marilee Utter, President at CitiVentur

Dividend Realty's fully automated, Excel-based approach greatly assisted us to cope with the complexity and flexibility required for our complex business and frequent changes.

-Jin Won Choi, Executive Director at SmartCity (Dubai)

The commercial-acquisition model significantly improved the efficiency and accuracy of our underwriting and decision-making due to its ease-of-use and multi-layered output.

-Drew Hyde, Acquisition Associate at Baceline Investments, LLC

In analyzing projects, Dividend has the ability to foresee potential pitfalls or issues and devise creative solutions.

-Steve Suechting, Executive Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle