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Team
                            Leadership


                                     Courtney Gordon, COO

                                     As Chief Operating Officer, Courtney Gordon   oversees the property management company.
                                     is responsible for global operations. He brings   He is a proven operational executive with over
                                     more than 26 years of experience to RISE. His   26 years in property management, a record of
                                     expertise and leadership have been focused on   exceeding financial forecasts, and he excels in
                                     delivering technology-driven business services   sharpening operational performances. He drives
                                     and solutions, providing exemplary client   toward a global standardization and is focused
                                     service, and driving profitable revenue growth.   on strengthening long-term viability. Gordon has
                                     Gordon works closely with the senior leadership   a Master of Finance from University of Maryland
                                     team to develop sustainable short and long-  and a Bachelor of Business Administration –
                                     term goals, promote organizational growth   Operations. He also served in the U.S. Army –
                                     and steering financial performance. He also   Special Forces as a Staff Sergeant.


                                     Mike Hale, Senior VP of Construction PMP, LEED AP
                                     Mike is responsible for the management of   has extensive experience in negotiating large
                                     construction activity for RISE. Mike is involved   contracts, complex constructability reviews,
                                     in all aspects of the new development process   site assessment, budget development, cost
                                     from pre-development to the successful delivery   control, design management, and construction
                                     and turnover of the project. He demonstrates   management. Prior to joining RISE in August
                                     expertise in team building, process development   2020, Mike has successfully managed the
                                     and implementation, and maintaining working   construction and delivery of over 40,000
                                     relationships with clients, consultants,   Multifamily and Residential units, across the
                                     subcontractors, and vendors. Mike takes pride   entire United States including Alaska and
                                     in driving and optimizing production while   Hawaii, totaling over $4.8 billion.
                                     developing and mentoring successful teams. He

                                     Paul Morgan, Senior VP of Project Management LEED AP

                                     As Senior Vice President of Project      pride in resolving project issues fairly and
                                     Management, Paul Morgan is responsible   expeditiously. He has extensive experience in
                                     for the development of facilities for RISE   negotiating contracts, fees, site assessment,
                                     university partner’s building programs. Morgan   budget development, cost control, design
                                     is involved in all aspects of the process from   management, and construction administration.
                                     pre-development to the successful delivery of   Since joining RISE in 2001, Morgan  has
                                     the product. Morgan demonstrates expertise   successfully managed the on-time and on-
                                     in team building, and maintaining working   budget delivery of 16,294 beds of student
                                     relationships with clients, consultants,   housing, totaling over 6.1 Million SF with a
                                     contractors, and facility operators. He takes   combined total budget of over $1.18 Billion.


                                     Matt Marshall, VP of Development

                                     Matthew Marshall is responsible for the creation,   throughout his career; Marshall has experience
                                     implementation and completion of new business   in  multiple  residential  uses  including  market
                                     development  opportunities  for  RISE.  Diverse,   rate  housing,  mixed-uses,  building  conversions
                                     higher education housing markets are a focus for   and  extensive  rehab  projects.  Marshall  has
                                     both market rate and student housing pursuits   over 19 years of industry experience developing
                                     for  Marshall.  Participating  in  all  phases  of  the   over  7,000  market  rate  apartments,  and  over
                                     development  process  to  ensure  a  positive  and   21  student  housing  transactions.  Working  for
                                     successful experience for all partners, campuses   both  public  and  private  firms  with  an  array  of
                                     and  municipalities  is  Marshall’s  perpetual   financing  models  and  development  structures
                                     pursuit.  While  higher  education  real  estate   enables Marshall to be a creative and productive
                                     development  has  been  a  consistent  theme   member of the team.
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