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RCA Technology & Intelligence Briefing
Overview of Issue Four— Third Quarter 2006
The Technology & Intelligence Briefings are a resource for identifying and reporting trends in technology and innovative business practices related to commercial real estate. These reports feature interviews with innovative commercial professionals and industry experts.
You will receive the T&I Briefing in CD format, quarterly as a member of the RCA.
You’ll hear discussions on topics that impact your business, best practices and most importantly, insight into the thinking and strategy of thought leaders within the industry. We hope that you will convert this knowledge into savings of precious time and money.
A Note About These Audio Files:
- We strongly recommend that you save the interview audio files to your desktop before you listen to them. To do so on a PC, right-click on a "Listen to the interview" link, choose "Save target as..." and save the file to your desktop. On a Mac, hold down "CTRL" and click on the link; save to your desktop.
This Issue's Host and Guests:
 | Jack Peckham is the host of the Technology & Intelligence Briefings (T&I). He is an author, journalist, skilled speaker and trainer. He has worked with business groups in 44 states and several foreign countries and is the former Chairman of the NAR Strategic Planning Committee. Contact him at society@earthlink.net or www.REcyber.com.
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 | Jeff DeBoer has served as President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable since 1997, and in various capacities has been at the forefront of every major piece of legislation affecting the real estate industry during the last twenty-five years, including significant tax initiatives, environmental policy matters and a focus to develop a long-term public-private partnership to ensure the widespread availability of terrorism risk insurance.
In addition to his position at the Roundtable, Jeff DeBoer serves as Chairman of the Real Estate Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC). He also serves as co-chairman of the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy and is chairman of the National Real Estate Organizations, a coalition of real estate trade associations working together to enhance the coordination of the industry’s overall Washington advocacy efforts. He is also a founding member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT).
Contact him at jdeboer@rer.org
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 | If there were a “National Real Estate Finance Historian Emeritus,” Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy would be it! He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics and received his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School.
As an owner of Morgan Stanley, Buzz directed Morgan Stanley’s real estate finance activities for 13 years and its West Coast activities for five years. Upon retirement from the firm, he embarked on a career as a real estate and business counselor, an educator and a philanthropist.
Buzz has published seventy-five magazine articles on the subjects of business ethics and real estate finance and is the author of the forthcoming Evolution of Real Estate Capital Markets: A Practitioner's Perspective due out from the Urban Land Institute.
He serves as a trustee for the Urban Land Institute and is a past president of the Urban Land Foundation. He is a past president of the Counselors of Real Estate and a fellow in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. His civic and philanthropic activities are extensive and include service as past Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Red Cross, Chairman of the Hollywood Bowl and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee at UCLA Medical Center.
Contact him at bbuzzmccoy@aol.com
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 | For more than twenty years, Scott Muldavin has been a trusted advisor to the nation's leading real estate companies. He currently serves as President of The Muldavin Company. Prior to founding The Muldavin Company, he was a leader of the real estate consulting practices at Deloitte & Touche and the Roulac Group.
Scott is a founding principal of Guggenheim Real Estate and a member of its Investment Committee that has invested $2 billion in real estate in the last four years. He serves on the advisory board of Global Real Analytics, advisors on over $1billion invested in REITS and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities.
In addition to being actively involved in investment decision making, due diligence, joint venture structuring, project financing and manager selection, his writing in over 200 publications has consistently covered real estate finance and capital flow trends.
Contact him at smuldavin@muldavin.com
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For more information and to receive CDs of the T&I Briefings, contact rca@realtors.org
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