Chad Hagle is a third-generation commercial developer with life-long experience. He is a Founding Board Member and President of SPIRE, and he is CEO of Aventine Development. Chad has developed retail projects across the country. He graduated from Stanford with degrees in Economics and Biology. Prior to founding his real estate development firm, Chad worked as Chief Operating Officer of GetFit Technologies, a Silicon Valley start-up, and as a Venture Capital Associate with Windmere Venture Partners. Chad's commitments to Stanford University include a seat on the Humanities and Sciences Council advising the dean, as well as Chair of the Alumni Advisory Council for the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Chad is a Trustee for the California Science Center in Los Angeles and has served as a Trustee for St. John's Episcopal School in Orange County.

David is responsible for the dedicated team at Stanfield Partners and its capital formation, strategic partnership, and investing activities in real estate technology companies. Stanfield is one of the earliest participants in this rapidly evolving, potentially huge market. They have reviewed hundreds of real estate technology startups, representing and investing in several promising companies. Stanfield is creating a dedicated real estate tech venture partnership focused on four verticals including Market Data/Analytics, Construction, Smart Buildings, and Capital Markets/Tokenization. His career has been focused on capital raising and strategy for the world's most prominent real estate companies including serving as the Co-Manager of the Global Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Salomon Brothers and as the Head of Western U.S. Real Estate Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. David was a leader in the origination of the CMBS market together with being central to the creation of the global REIT market including responsibility for the IPO's of CB Commercial and Essex Property Trust. David has decades of experience in global investment and merchant banking. In addition to having represented many of the nation's most prominent real estate companies in connection with merger/advisory services and public/private capital raising, he has been closely associated with many of the financial services industry's first and most significant transactions involving securitization of commercial real estate. He is a Founding Board of Directors member, Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee, and Co-CFO of Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, and Co-Founder of the Stanford Real Estate Council. He is a Leadership & Advisory Board member of CRE Tech, an inaugural member of the Urban Land Institute's Technology Council, a former policy advisory board member of the U.C. Berkeley Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, a former advisory board member of the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission, and a board member of the Los Angeles Stanford Business Advisory Council, and a licensed California real estate broker. Mr. Knowles received a BA degree with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has securities registration licenses Series 7, 24, 63, 66, and 79.

Mr. Roulac has a long and distinguished career in real estate, consulting, business management, economic policy and management, public speaking, teaching, and writing. He is currently the CEO of the Roulac Global, a strategy and financial economics consulting firm that advises senior management and investors concerning complex real estate transactions. With CPA, CMC, AICP certifications, Mr. Roulac has used his broad background in a variety of companies and roles, including as a consultant for Owens-Corning in their Construction and Corporate Planning, a tax consultant for Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery studying real estate transactions, an Acquisition Auditor for Litton Industries, Inc. and Associate Economist for Urbanomics Research Associate. Mr. Roulac holds an undergraduate degree from Pomona College, and his graduate degrees include an MBA with Distinction from Harvard, a PhD from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and a JD from University of California Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. 8.18.17

The Pathfinder Consulting corporate focus is urban and architectural design and historic preservation. As President, Carol draws on her experience in commercial mixed-use development during the 80s, and leadership of a statewide historic preservation organization followed by inauguration of a new program for a national preservation organization in the 90's. Early into the 21st century Carol co-founded and directed the Form-Based Codes Institute. An alternative to zoning, Form-Based Codes are the implementation tool for placemaking, often used to create sustainable, walkable, mixed-use urban design. Pathfinder Consulting is active in ongoing projects in Spain and Portugal, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Carol has been President of Pathfinder Consulting since 1999.