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Pete Schow has over 15 years of experience in real estate technology and data management including enterprise level projects in both the commercial and residential real estate space. He has worked directly with the largest organizations in both sectors and spent several years providing consulting services for many other well recognized names.

Soheil Pourhashemi is currently SVP, Business Technology and is responsible for establishing and executing the commercial real estate IT strategy, vision and roadmap for the office sector. He has a keen focus on data and analytics, automation, IoT and partnering with the business in executing new innovations across the portfolio. Brookfield Properties develops and operates more than 650 properties and 325 million square feet of high-quality, sustainability-focused real estate assets around the globe. It provides integrated services across all property investment strategies of Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager with over $600 billion in AUM.

As VP of Data & Architecture, James is focused on establishing several key capabilities that will underpin Oxford’s continued global growth objectives. It includes the delivery of an enterprise data platform and operationalize analytic capabilities that will provide accessibility to data through self-service and accelerate the delivery of business intelligence and insights. James is also responsible for establishing Oxford's Enterprise Architecture function, which will be an integral part in the modernization of Oxford’s business technology stack and establish and operationalize a decentralized operating model to implement and continuously improve business-driven intelligent automations and digitization.

Jim Valente leads RealFoundations global Data Services Team, which is focused on helping real estate firms collect, organize and manage their data to support the investment decision making process, as well as the tracking and reporting of performance. With a core background in investment strategy and research, Jim has helped many of the largest global investors and real estate managers align their investment strategies with benchmarking and tools to measure performance and manage risk. Jim previously served as the Head of US Research for ING Clarion and Bentall Kennedy, and as both the Head of Real Estate Product Management and the Global Head of Real Estate at MSCI, Inc. During his time at MSCI Jim created and launched the PREA/IPD suite of Property Fund Indexes and transformed their attribution and risk platforms for real estate.

Patrick joined Reonomy in 2015 to develop the expansion strategy to scale the product offering from NYC to the rest of the country. Previously, Patrick worked for McEnery Company—a CRE valuation and advisory firm where he opined on the value of hundreds of assets with an aggregate value exceeding $1bn.

As Chief Product Officer at MRI Software, Saurabh Abhyankar is responsible for overseeing the company’s global product strategy and leading the product management organization. He has more than 15 years of experience bringing new products to market, leading product management teams, and evangelizing products globally to drive revenue and adoption. He is passionate about improving people’s lives through innovations in data and UX.