Mr. Brandt has been an active real estate investor in office, multifamily, and debt investments. Mr. Brandt has held leadership positions over his career at many prominent investment banks and private equity firms. Mr. Brandt previously was a Managing Director at Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles where he was the National Originations Director for Wells Fargo’s CMBS business. While working at institutions such as Wells Fargo Bank, Trust Company of the West, JP Morgan, Greenwich Capital, and Menlo Equities, Mr. Brandt successfully led and built investment teams and lent and invested over $35 billion in real estate transactions. Mr. Brandt was formerly on the Board of Advisors of Everest Properties a 5,000 multifamily unit company. Mr. Brandt was also a member of the Board of Directors of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate as well as a former Governor of the Mortgage Bankers Association. He is Chairman of the Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, the largest alumni association at Stanford University. He is a Board Member of the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena where he is Chairman of its Investment Committee. He holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a Masters degree from MIT in commercial real estate.