Christopher Grey

Christopher Grey is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Third Wave Partners, LLC. Previously, he was a Managing Director in the California office of Emigrant Realty Finance, LLC, which is the real estate group of Emigrant Bank, a New York based financial institution with $17 billion of assets. Founded in September 2005, the California office of Emigrant Realty Finance completed and managed on balance sheet $2.5 billion of debt investments. Prior to joining Emigrant, Grey was a Managing Director and co-founder of Crestridge Investments, an affiliate of Highridge Partners, which is a privately held Los Angeles based investment company that has completed $6 billion of principal transactions. At Highridge, Grey completed $600 million of bridge, mezzanine, and equity investments in real estate as well as structured corporate finance investments in several public and private companies. Mr. Grey is a founding member of the Capital Markets Forum II of the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties and the Stanford Real Estate Network. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Economics and holds a California real estate broker's license. Mr. Grey joined Highridge in 1998 from Douglas Emmett Realty Advisors, where he completed nearly $800 million of real estate acquisitions. Prior to joining Douglas Emmett, he completed $900 million of acquisitions, joint venture equity, and debt investments in real estate at JMB Realty and Heitman Financial.

Mark Abramson

Mark Abramson is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Third Wave Partners, LLC. He has served in various senior executive positions for real estate investment companies and is a practicing real estate and finance attorney. He served as General Counsel of Highridge Partners, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment company that has acquired or financed over $6 billion in real estate projects and was a partner in various projects. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of Haverford Capital, a mezzanine and structured finance affiliate Highridge Partners, and was responsible for structuring and closing financings, underwriting and management of daily operations. Mr. Abramson was also part of the Benequity Properties management team that restructured the $240 million NYSE-listed commercial real estate company. Serving first as General Counsel and then as Vice President and President, he was responsible for supervising all corporate and legal affairs and assisted in the privatization and management transition following a hostile acquisition and the subsequent downsizing, asset sales and repayment/workout of $180 million in corporate and asset-based debt. Mr. Abramson has also been in the private practice of law with an emphasis on real estate and financing. Mr. Abramson was born in San Francisco, California and holds a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the California Receiver's Forum.

Randall Reel

Randall Reel is a Principal with Third Wave Partners, LLC. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President in the Los Angeles office of Pacific Properties, LLC and Molasky Pacific, LLC, which is a private real estate development company where Randall has solicited and overseen hundreds of millions of equity investments with large institutional partners and has executed some large scale urban infill entitlement and development projects as well as large, 150 to 600 unit, sub-urban residential development projects. Prior to joining Pacific Properties, Randall was the Senior Vice President of StorAmerica a partnership formed with Lexington Commercial holdings to buy and build a self storage portfolio. Randall headed acquisitions and development building a $100 million portfolio of 22 properties in a 3 year period. With Haverford Capital, a mezzanine and structured finance affiliate of Highridge Partners, Randall originated mezzanine, equity and debt investments for commercial properties including office, industrial, retail, and mixed use residential all over California. Additionally, in an advisory capacity for Secured Capital, Colony Capital, Ernst & Young and Arthur Anderson Randall worked on the acquisition and disposition of billions of dollars worth of non-performing, sub-performing, and REO portfolios originating with the FDIC, RTC, several private banks and insurance companies all over the U.S. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Business, concentration in Finance.

Bruce F. Davidson

Bruce F. Davidson is a Principal of Third Wave Partners, LLC. He has close to 20 years of experience in international hospitality and real estate finance. He has been an outstanding contributor from the early days of his real estate career to his past role as Managing Director-Global Head of Hospitality Finance for WestLB AG, a large international bank based in Dusseldorf, Germany. As Managing Director-Global Head of Hospitality Finance for Westby AG, Mr. Davidson co-founded the new business unit for the Bank and became responsible for the groups strategic planning and implementation of a global business plan. Over the last eight years, his team has arranged or co-arranged the financing of more than 40 projects worldwide with an aggregate value of more than $1B. Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Davidson served as VP–Mortgage Officer for National Realty Funding, a startup group focusing on the commercial market in the NY Metro Area. In his first 12 months, he developed a wide range of business from various industry segments and generated nearly $200M in new business. At Fuji Bank Limited during 1997-1998, Mr. Davidson managed a $400M portfolio collateralized by institutional-grade real estate including office, retail and mixed-use properties throughout the US. In this role, he evaluated various ways of reducing the risk profile of real estate investments and developed the Banks first investment strategy involving investment grade commercial mortgage-backed securities. The Bank’s initial investment was $300M in CMBS bonds. Bruce F. Davidson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Wagner College, Staten Island, NY. He is an active Member of the Urban Land Institute and Council Member.

Shannon Matthews

Shannon Matthews is an Associate of Third Wave Partners, LLC. Previously, she was an associate with Pacific Properties where she was involved in all aspects of the acquisition and development process including market research, due-diligence, property management; both leasing and operations. Shannon joined the real estate industry in 2003 as an associate with GTO Development at its inception and worked on all aspects of the development process including acquisitions, project feasibility, due-diligence coordination, financial structuring and project management. Ms. Matthews is a member of the Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles Worlds Affairs Council.