About
Reid Breitman
Mr. Breitman has over thirty years of real estate and finance experience. Mr. Breitman received his Business Administration degree from Cal State University at Northridge with majors in real estate and finance, and graduated from USC Law School. As an attorney at Kaye, Scholer, a New York based law firm with over 400 lawyers, Mr. Breitman received extensive training in corporate law, including mergers, acquisitions, public and private finance, and SEC compliance. He founded American Equities, LLC, an investment banking and consulting firm in 1996, through which he has taken over twenty companies public through 2008. He has purchased over $150 million of real estate for his family business entities and trusts, including distressed properties at tax sales, foreclosure sales and from REO portfolios of various banks.
Mr. Breitman is an expert at real estate foreclosure investing, and since July 2008 has acquired a portfolio of approximately 100 single family residential properties. Mr. Breitman has created an organization to efficiently acquire, rehab and manage rental properties, including excellent relationships with government agencies such as the LA County Housing Authority (Section 8 program), CalVet, and the LA County Department of Children’s Services, which allows Mr. Breitman to quickly rent quality properties and enjoy the safe and secure cash flow provided by government-paid rental properties. Mr. Breitman also focuses on acquiring single and multi-tenant industrial properties, including distressed properties for rehab and/or repositioning, or high quality single tenant net leased properties for long term growth. Finally, Mr. Breitman has purchased significantly contaminated properties and works with regulators and consultants to efficiently remediate the properties and bring them into full compliance, creating a winning solution for the seller and other potentially responsible parties, regulators and investors.
Reid is a member of the California State Bar, has held a real estate broker’s license since 1991.
Ashish Khatana
Mr. Khatana has been active in the real estate industry for over twenty years. During that time, he has engaged in the development and acquisition of well over $2 billion of real estate assets. Mr. Khatana’s experience includes co-founding and managing a boutique private equity real estate firm with 65 employees and assets in California, the northwest, southeast and northeast. The firm amassed a $700 million value-add multifamily and residential land portfolio in six major U.S. cities partnering with institutional and high net worth capital sources.
Mr. Khatana has extensive experience building teams in the real estate investment industry. Khatana’s prior experience includes serving as Southern California division leader for BRE Properties (NYSE:BRE). There he led all development, acquisition and construction activity for the company’s most active region with an annual pipeline of $250 million. Khatana also served as Development Director with AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) in the San Francisco Bay Area where he developed several multi-family and mixed-use communities totaling approximately $185 million.
Mr. Khatana attended the M.S. in Real Estate Development program at Columbia University in New York City and received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Matt Winefield
Matt is an engineer and businessman who has been supporting the redevelopment of blighted, contaminated properties since 1989. After redeveloping oil fields, refineries, and service stations for the California oil industry, Matt formed his first engineering consultancy in 1997. In 2005, he added a separate engineering staffing firm to his portfolio. These two companies were successfully sold to a private equity partnership. Throughout his career Matt has added value to distressed properties using effective agency negotiations and cost-conscious environmental strategies, thereby maximizing return on investment. He also specializes in obtaining environmental cost recovery from third parties such as government agencies, historical insurers, and potentially responsible parties. He is currently responsible for due diligence and remediation oversight of environmentally-challenged sites for a portfolio that includes outside investors. The investors are extracting considerable arbitrage from contaminated properties in premium, infill locations.
Matt holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MS in environmental engineering from California State University Long Beach, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He also maintains an active California Professional Engineering license, and belongs to several real estate, investment, and banking professional organizations.