BARRY & LAURI GLOTMAN KOLLEL BUSINESS CLUB
We are excited to welcome back our panel of three experts to discuss Real Estate in Vancouver.
$5 Admission - Complementary drinks and snacks
Questions welcome!
Tom Davidoff*
Michael Geller*
Penny Gurstein*
Moderator:
Yael Dirnfeld*
*bio below
7:30pm: Presentation by panelists and networking.
Reservations suggested due to limited space: [email protected] or register online below
Barry & Lauri Glotman Kollel Business Network is generously sponsored by Barry and Lauri Glotman.
The KBC Network is a networking cooperative that connects small groups of professionals in order to facilitate business promotion and generate referrals. Business Dinners are held monthly and present great thinkers and leaders to enthusiastic audiences. You do not want to miss these rare opportunities to pick the brains of some of Canadaʼs greatest minds.
* Tom Davidoff
Tom Davidoff, associate professor at UBC's Sauder School of Business and incoming Director of the Sauder Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, obtained degrees from Harvard, Princeton and MIT; worked in real estate development in Brooklyn, with two startup real estate intelligence companies, and at UC Berkeley. Tom has published research in leading economics and finance journals, and advised the White House on housing and mortgage policy.
* Michael Geller Architect AIBC, FCIP, RPP
Michael Geller is an architect, planner, real estate consultant and property developer with four decades’ experience in the public, private and institutional sectors. He is President of the Geller Group and serves as an Adjunct Professor in Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development, and affiliate of UBC’s Masters in Urban Design program.
Michael is a past President of the SFU Community Trust, overseeing the planning and development of UniverCity on Burnaby Mountain. Prior to joining SFU, he was managed a variety of major projects in Vancouver including Bayshore in Coal Harbour, expansion of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, Deering Island, and numerous residential and mixed-use projects.
From 1981 to 1983, he was Vice-President Development, The Narod Group. Prior to joining Narod, he was an official with CMHC in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto for ten years.
Michael is a past president of the Urban Development Institute and has served on numerous boards and panels. He writes a regular column for the Vancouver Courier and is a frequent media commentator on urban issues.
Within the Jewish community he has served on the boards of Federation, Jewish Family Services, Louis Brier Home and Hospital, and Jewish Community Centre where he was also president. He is a trustee of the Jewish Museum. He even developed a condominium for 43 Jewish households, about which he will one day write a book!
He has been honoured as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners and Life Member of the Architectural Institute of BC. His blog is found at www.gellersworldtravel.blogspot.com
*Penny Gurstein
Dr. Penny Gurstein is Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Centre for Human Settlements at UBC. At UBC since 1991 she has taught, supervised and mentored hundreds of students who have gone on to be leaders in the planning field. She is known as a compassionate researcher, skilled partnership builder, and affordable housing expert. As the Director of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 2007 she has been effective in providing leadership in community-university partnerships with public, private and non-profit sectors, and in bringing the resources and capacities of the university to bear on addressing critical planning issues in Metro Vancouver. Her research interests focus on helping people who have been marginalized in planning processes. She has led a number of large research projects investigating housing access and affordability, and inequality and access issues for low-income people. She has also worked on capacity building projects internationally on gender and youth development and has considerable experience working with community groups in the greater Vancouver region. Besides her academic articles and books, she has written and been interviewed extensively in the popular press on critical community planning and housing issues. She is a registered planner and member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
*Yael Dirnfeld
Yael Dirnfeld is Director & Team Lead, Private Banking with Scotia Wealth Management, Vancouver.
A seasoned finance professional, Yael has worked with the Scotiabank Group and has been in the financial services industry for over 29 years. Throughout her career she has worked primarily within the real estate finance space, providing highly customized lending structures using various forms of real estate and other assets. Yael holds the Personal Financial Planner designation obtained through the Institute of Canadian Bankers
In her current role, Yael and her team help high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals and their families protect and grow their wealth by providing access to capital for investment(s) and/or implementation of customized wealth strategies. These customized strategies typically include some form of real estate leverage (single family dwelling, multi-residential and/or commercial). Her clients use their capital for any number of investment purposes, such as real estate acquisition, purchase of marketable securities, buying and/or injecting capital in to a company etc.
In addition to overseeing her own clients' credit requirements and day to day banking needs, Yael coaches and mentors teams of Private Bankers who manage their own client portfolios.
Born and raised in Richmond/Vancouver, with three decades of experience in real estate finance, Yael has seen first-hand the enormous growth and change of metro Vancouver's real estate market.