PREA 2002 Scholarship WinnersThe Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) wishes to congratulate the following 2002 winners of the PREA Scholarship Award.This scholarship was awarded to eight graduate students majoring or concentrating in real estate. Each will be awarded a $2,500 scholarship. An essay contest was distributed to schools with masters degree programs in real estate. Our PREA Scholarship was quite successful again this year. We had over 40 submissions from most of the top real estate schools in the country. Competition was stiff, with many high quality essays. Scholarship recipients were selected by the scholarship committee. PREA would like to thank the scholarship committee for coordinating the contest and selecting the finalists, and the students who participated this year. Scholarship Recipients are:
Betsy Almond is currently a second year MBA student at The Wharton School, concentrating in real estate and strategic management. She is a recipient of the Robert E. Linneman Memorial Fellowship in Real estate and will be a teaching assistant for real estate finance this spring. During the summer she interned with a real estate finance and strategy group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Before attending Wharton, Betsy worked for six years at Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz in San Francisco. She received her Master's degree in Architecture from Harvard University in 1995 and her Bachelor's degree in physics from Smith College in 1990. Tyler Downs is a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison majoring in real estate and urban land economics. His work experience includes internships at Olive Street Development Company and Kirkpatrick Pettis both located in Denver. Tyler is also member of the University of Wisconsin Real Estate Club. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, Boulder in May 2001. Neil Mody has completed his BSc from the University of Ottawa and is currently undertaking his Masters thesis in Real Property Development at The Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. His current project is a strategic and industrial analysis of a well-established commercial brokerage company in Canada whose clients include Canadian and US pension funds. Neil is the current President of the Real Property Association (RPA) at The Schulich School of Business, and plans to pursue real estate finance, investment and development projects after graduation. Christopher Schaefer currently works in Acquisitions at Kimco Realty Corporation, one of the largest REITs focused on the retail property sector. Prior to Kimco, Christopher was an Associate in the Equity Capital Markets Group at JPMorgan, where he advised REITs and Financial Institutions on raising capital in the public equity markets through IPOs, secondaries, block trades and convertible bond offerings. Christopher began his career as an Acquisitions Analyst in the Real Estate Investment Group at JPMorgan Investment Management, where he acquired office, industrial, multifamily and retail properties on behalf of pension fund clients. Christopher is pursuing his M.Sc. in Real Estate Development at Columbia University. Adam Smith is an MBA candidate at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Prior to business school, Adam was a senior associate responsible for identifying investments in the western U.S. for the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) in San Francisco. Before working with the HIT, Adam was an associate in the Real Estate Group of Arter & Hadden LLP and served as Legal Counsel to the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Economic Development in Washington, DC. Adam received a B.A. in Political Science from Bates College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Smith is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He is President of the Graduate Real Estate Association and a member of the Urban Land Institute. Rohit Srivastava is expecting to receive his Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Rohit has worked for the Plan India Group since 1995 where he has concentrated on real estate in Mauritius including the design and development of primary health-care centers in that Indian Ocean island Republic. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Manipal, India in July 1993. Philip Hei Tung So, a candidate of the Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate (May 03') at Cornell University, earned a bachelor's degree in finance from City University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA),Certified Cash Manager (CCM), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) level III candidate. Philip was a senior auditor at KPMG Peat Marwick for over three years, during which time he audited small firms, IPOs, and listed companies. Later he became the general manager of a real estate renovation company and revitalized it from loss to profit. In the year before studying at Cornell University, he earned entrepreneurial experience being a consultant. Philip speaks fluent Mandarin, English and Cantonese, and has a good understanding of Chaozhouese (a Chinese dialect). Joshua Huckel is expected to receive his MBA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Business in May 2003. He is Co-President of the Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society, a member of the Graduate Business Association and the Madison School of Business Real Estate Club. Josh's work experience includes positions with GE Capital Golub Europe in Prague where he performed underwriting, and feasibility studies for Class A office projects and with Rhyne, Alexander, Mattox Realty Co. in Charlotte where he worked as a commercial/industrial real estate broker. He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1998.
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