Board of Advisors
Michael Vosbikian
Philadelphia- Houseline Production Manager
Michael has operated as a building developer for single family homes, multifamily homes, industrial parks, and shopping centers. His specialties include land acquisitions, project planning, design and approval, preparation of project costs breakdown, project cost control, revitalization of companies facing chapter 11 bankruptcy, sales, marketing and customer relations.
Michael’s extensive experience in land development, construction financing, and commercial properties has enabled him to build strong working relationships in and around the Tri-State area. He’s held several top management positions and as a member of the board of diverse businesses ranging from manufacturing to trucking, food to entertainment and real estate development. Read More Michael’s expertise in the Real Estate sector has included projects ranging from restaurant renovations of the Art Deco Hotels in South Beach, Miami to Operating and Owning Mars Restaurant in Philadelphia. Michael was recently showcased on Extreme Makeover Home Edition as the lead Production Manager on the renovation and revitalization of the “House of Hope”. Michael’s Professional Experiences Include: Project Manager for J.S. Hovnanian and Sons. President of Vos Corp. Executive Vice President and C.O.O. of A.C.P. Investments. President of Miko, Inc. Vice President of Roseleaf Corporation and Regent Investments. Vice President of Tilco Enterprises, Inc. Qualifications: Philadelphia Board of Realtors New Jersey Real Estate Seminar Certification National Association of Homebuilders Seminars United States Army Reserve Organizations: South Jersey Builders Association National Builders Association Commercial Builders Council Chamber of Commerce Some Notable Real Estate Projects: Holiday on the Green Carriage Hill Birchfield Forest Park Mars Restaurant Art Deco Hotels Thoroughbred’s Restaurant Tom Moore’s Restaurant The Graduate Hospital Medford Lakes Shopping Center Sienna Estates Delanco Business Center Snyder Court Lafayette Hill Extreme Makeover- Home Edition- “House of Hope” For a complete list of real estate projects both commercial and residential please fill out the submission form on the “Contact Us” page. Read More Read Less Read Less
John S.B. Oler
JSBO Realty & Capital Inc.
New York
Real estate executive with 32 years experience in the commercial real estate industry. As a commercial leasing and investment sales executive, financial advisor/investment banker, he advises institutional investors, property developers, corporate real estate directors and families in devising strategic real estate plans and represents them when procuring, leasing, financing and disposing of commercial property and land. He represents tenants and owners in all their space leasing needs and sales of property, raises private equity and debt for real estate acquisitions, developments and re-financings.
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He has marketed, developed and repositioned office, land and industrial property; served as asset manager for a 25 million SF $3.0 billion institutional real estate portfolio, completed over 80 commercial leasing transactions and performed over 1,000 Property Evaluations (property and market inspection ‘due diligence’) for acquisitions and re-financings by JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Kuwait Investment Authority, Artesia Mortgage Capital (Dexia Bank), Criimi Mae and GE Capital. He has served as president and director of a Latin American family-owned portfolio of real estate located nationwide. He has provided expert testimony in New York City & Stamford, CT Civil and Landlord/Tenant Courts. He enjoys longstanding relationships with NY City based commercial brokerage firms, institutional sources of real estate debt and equity and C-suite executives in the many allied fields of real estate including legal, appraisal, market analysis, tax and wealth planning, environmental and engineering, land surveying, construction and architecture and design. He has taught three real estate finance courses (basic to advanced) for eight years as an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate in their Master’s Degree program.
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Alfredo Villa
Milan
Alfredo Villa, Swiss and Italian citizen is a ‘Political Economics’ graduate of the university of Geneva (major in Derivatives Market), and has an MBA (CEGA) from the Bocconi University of Milan. Additionally, in the USA, Alfredo moved on to become a certified ‘Chartered Technical Analyst’ (CTA) and passed the professional exams to become a Stock, Option and Futures Broker (Series 3,4,5,15) from the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) during a stage at the Institutional Futures Department, Prudential Bache Securities in Chicago.
Mr. Villa’s career started with Banca della Svizzera Italiana as a Currency Option Dealer, followed by Soginvest Banca (CIAL Group) as a Portfolio Manager and Assistant to the CEO.
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In 1991 he co-founded in Lugano, Switzerland, Givigest Fiduciaria SA, a firm actively involved in investment banking. In 1994 he co-founded SCF SA, a financial consulting firm offering asset management services. These two companies were sold in 2001.
Mr. Villa is an authorized Financial & Commercial Fiduciary (Fiduciario Finanziario e Commercialista) in the Swiss Canton of Ticino. His current activities are based mainly in Italy where he is a Board member and partner in several companies.
Mr. Villa is also an independent consultant and private investor in several venture capital companies and a Director of a Nasdaq listed company. He was also President of the Charity Foundation Fondazione Settembre Onlus and VP of Homes for Hope ONG.
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Mike Kurtanjek
London
Mike P. Kurtanjek, British national, has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the provision of early stage capital from Institutional sources to small companies looking to expand. In particular, in the fields of Natural resources, Oil and Gas, technology and environmental opportunities. Read More Mr. Kurtanjek is the Managing Director of an Investment Banking boutique. Prior to that he was a director at the UK branch of Credit Lyonnais and prior to that he was head of mining research for the Securities arm of Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank (James Capel & Co.). Before that he was Resources Analyst & Fund Manager for Prudential Assurance Company, the UK’s largest pension fund group. Mr. Kurtanjek earned both a B.Sc (Honours) and a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) in the fields of Mining and Minerals Processing and Natural Resources. Following his academic career, Mike held managerial positions with The British Steel Corporation and The British Sulphur Corporation, and was responsible for various World Bank and Government sponsored projects in several emerging countries. Read Less