Meet our team.
We’re a talented group of creative individuals with plenty of knowledge to boot — in real estate, impact investment, community development, technology development, business strategy, FinTech and more.
Dutch MacDonald
Member. Strategic advisor.
Dutch has led a life of creative endeavors. Architect. CEO of MAYA, a technology and innovation lab. Managing Director at BCG leading design in digital product and service. Smart cities expert. Entrepreneur and advisor.
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Julian Anjorin
Business. Web development.
Experienced fintech innovator, skilled in web technology and cybersecurity, Julian views crowdfunding as the ultimate inclusive finance method for real estate. Dedicated to equalizing opportunities, he strives to enable those marginalized by conventional wealth systems to pursue their dreams via crowdfunding.
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Rich Rogers
Deal structuring. Legal.
Rich is an attorney, urban planner, and real estate developer living in Buffalo, NY. He focuses on creative problem-solving to help public and private sector projects move from concept to financing and implementation, navigating complex capital stacks and relevant regulatory requirements.
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Jacob Walsh
Finance. Onboarding.
Jake is a seasoned entrepreneur focusing on operations and financial management for start-ups of various sizes. He believes that crowdfunding is key to the future of real estate investment and is the best way to develop cohesive communities. His experience includes Director of Operations for a startup company.
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Mitch Skomra
Software engineer.
Mitch is a professional software engineer with 10 years of experience working on highly available and distributed cloud systems.
Derek King
Deal flow.
Derek turned his passion for historic buildings into a career of creative problem solving for complex projects. Experience as a small business owner, real estate developer, and startup co-founder gives him perspective on clients’ needs, as well as how crowdfunding can help deals big and small.
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Mark Roderick
SEC Counsel.
A corporate and securities lawyer, since the JOBS Act of 2012, Mark has spent all of his time in the Crowdfunding space. Today he is one of the leading Crowdfunding and FinTech lawyers in the United States. He writes a widely-read blog with a wealth of legal and practical information for portals and issuers.
Read Mark’s blog here.
Majora Carter
Strategic advisor.
Urban revitalization strategist with a career that has spanned environment, economy, social mobility, and real estate development. Her work has won major awards in each sector, including a MacArthur ‘genius’ Grant and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. Author of Reclaiming Your Community.
Jonathan Stern
Strategic advisor.
Jonathan is a Senior Managing Director at Meridian Capital Group in New York, responsible for the firm’s marketing and communications platforms. His career has always been focused on marketing and real estate. And he’s a keen believer in the future of crowdfunding.
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Libby Seifel
Strategic advisor.
Libby’s career has been dedicated to catalyzing sustainable projects that meet financial objectives, respect the environment and create enduring value for communities. She combines insight into market trends with a technical foundation in financial modeling and feasibility testing on projects that range in size from boutique mixed use developments to large scale communities, such as San Francisco’s Mission Bay and Transit Center District
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Josh McManus
Strategic advisor.
Purpose-driven. Turns big ideas into pragmatic action. Highly entrepreneurial. Has worked on purpose and place-based transformations with the C-suites of many of the country’s most significant companies, foundations and family offices including Ford Motor Company, Knight Foundation and Quicken Loans/Rocket Mortgage.
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Paul Rabinovitch
Strategic advisor.
Veteran builder of “impact” real estate projects. Focused on lasting societal benefits through innovative real estate solutions. Worked with institutional capital, family offices, non-profits and governmental organizations. Managed $500M of investment valued at over $3B, including 30,000 housing units. Built one of the largest private portfolios of Net Zero Energy RE. In it for the long term.
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Nick Perold
Strategic advisor.
Nick is a Chief Marketing Officer working in climate, commerce, and culture with a passion for tying those threads together in real estate. Formerly head of marketing at Bedrock Detroit, where he led storytelling efforts for the company’s $5.6 billion real estate portfolio. Previously served as VP of Strategic Development at digital agency Carrot Creative (acquired by VICE Media).
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