Experience and Expertise

Landmark’s management is comprised of the most experienced team of experts in the country. Having founded the industry in 2002, Landmark’s deep experience and expertise enables us to provide the most efficient and reliable source of funding. With 100+ years of combined experience in the financial services industries, Landmark’s principals have completed more than $10 billion of transactions and are uniquely qualified to serve our clients and lead the industry.

Executive Bios
Jeffrey J. Knyal, Chief Executive Officer

In 2002, Mr. Knyal founded the ground lease acquisition industry and has been involved in the purchase of more than 3,000 cellular and billboard ground leases while raising more than $650 million of equity, mezzanine, and senior debt for these assets. Mr. Knyal designed all aspects of these businesses and is the leading expert in the ground lease acquisition industry. He also founded and held senior executive positions at three other specialty finance companies and raised more than $4 billion of capital for these businesses. These companies generated more than $150 million in profits and IRR equity returns of greater than 150 percent. Previously, Mr. Knyal spent seven years in investment banking working in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset-Backed Finance groups at Dean Witter Reynolds and Greenwich Capital Markets, respectively. Mr. Knyal graduated from the College of Business at the University of Illinois and has a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.


Arthur P. (Tim) Brazy, President

Mr. Brazy has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate, financial services and investment industries. Most recently, Mr. Brazy was Founder and served as CEO of Church Mortgage Acceptance Co., LLC (“CMAC”), one of the leading direct lenders to churches in the country. From 2001 to 2006, he served as CEO of Lakefront Ventures LLC, a private investment firm specializing in commercial and mortgage finance, private equity investments and structured finance advisory services. During the 1990s, Mr. Brazy founded and led a series of private investment partnerships that raised and provided more than $5 billion of financing to small businesses and commercial real estate owners nationwide. Prior to that time, he was an officer with Eastdil Realty, a diversified real estate investment bank owned by Wells Fargo. At Eastdil, he was responsible for advisory assignments and major property debt and equity capital placements totaling more than $1 billion on a wide variety of existing and to-be-built properties including office buildings, hotels, shopping centers and industrial projects. Mr. Brazy received a B.S. degree in Economics from the California Institute of Technology, pursued further graduate studies as a fellow at Oxford University, and received an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.


Keith M. Drucker, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Drucker has served in several senior executive roles in the wireless industry. Prior to joining Landmark Dividend, Mr. Drucker served as the Business Development Manager for TowerCo for its Southern California, Las Vegas and Hawaii markets. During his time at TowerCo, he was responsible for exceeding TowerCo’s leasing goals by more than 200 percent, constituting more than 30 percent of the company’s leasing production in fiscal year 2009. Prior to arriving at TowerCo, Mr. Drucker worked on a number of ground lease purchase programs for several tower companies and was responsible for the oversight of operations, including the functions of processing, closing and funding, underwriting and business analytics, title, quality assurance and servicing. Before that, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Operations for Global Signal, Inc., a $3.2 billion Real Estate Investment Trust and provider of wireless, Internet, and broadband communication facilities based in Sarasota, Florida. While at Global Signal, he helped redesign the firm's infrastructure and managed the acquisition and integration of nearly 8,000 real estate assets. Prior to his role at Global Signal, Mr. Drucker served as a Director for SpectraSite Communications, Inc., now American Tower, where he held several strategic roles focused on organizational and business process redevelopment. From 1997 to 2001, he served as a Manager and Account Executive at SBA Communications, Inc. where he facilitated various aspects of the tower leasing and carrier deployment process and oversaw the construction and maintenance of SBA's Network Operations Center. Mr. Drucker received a B.S. degree in Business Communications from Bentley University.


Graeme N. Kavanagh, Executive Vice President, National Sales Director

Mr. Kavanagh is the Executive Vice President and Director of National Sales. Mr. Kavanagh has over 13 years of complex commercial real estate experience in business development and origination as well as underwriting and credit analysis. Prior to joining Landmark Dividend, Mr. Kavanagh was Director of Capital Markets with a leading telecom company where he originated the first ever secondary market financings for the wireless infrastructure ground lease asset class. He also ran high performance origination teams which ranked #1 across all categories in the ground lease acquisition categories market. Previously, Mr. Kavanagh was the Vice President of Business Development at Falcon Financial, LLC, a specialty financing firm and was involved in the origination and structuring of mortgage loans to small businesses and also facilitated the development of new asset classes for financing. Prior to this position, Mr. Kavanagh was Vice President at Enterprise Mortgage, the Financial Services Division of Koch Industries, where he gained extensive experience in asset-based lending implementing the origination, underwriting and securitization of debt instruments within the petroleum, car care and franchise industries. Mr. Kavanagh holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Finance from Fairfield University.


Mitch L. Kogen, Executive Vice President, Origination

Mr. Mitch Kogen is the Executive Vice President of Originations. He has more than 10 years of telecommunications infrastructure and commercial real estate experience and has acquired more than $150 million of existing telecom ground lease assets. Prior to joining Landmark Dividend, Mr. Kogen served in senior executive management positions at several telecom real estate companies where he engineered their acquisition strategies. He has successfully worked with hundreds of landlords in increasing their net operating income by attracting new wireless tenants to their properties and structuring win-win transactions. His in-depth knowledge of lease acquisitions, leasing and marketing in the ground lease industry gives him a unique advantage in serving the needs of his clients. Mr. Kogen attended State University at Albany.


George Doyle, CFO and Treasurer

Mr. Doyle has held senior executive positions with a variety real estate companies. Most recently, Mr. Doyle served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of Clearview Hotel Trust, a Hospitality REIT that was in registration with the SEC for a public offering. Mr. Doyle was responsible for all accounting and finance operations. Mr. Doyle also served as the Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer, at HCP, Inc., an S&P 500 REIT traded on the NYSE that invests primarily in real estate serving the healthcare industry. During his time at HCP, Mr. Doyle was responsible for all accounting and financial reporting, and participated in the acquisition, integration, and financing of over $10 billion in real estate. Prior to his role at HCP, Mr. Doyle served in various positions with the accounting firm KPMG, LLP, including as a senior manager. Mr. Doyle holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Western Washington University. Mr. Doyle is a Certified Public Accountant.


Dan R. Parsons, Chief Information Officer

Mr. Parsons is a seasoned financial services executive with over 20 years of experience in software development, technology management and IT governance. He specializes in leading agile teams as they develop cutting-edge line-of-business and workflow enhancing software solutions. In previous positions, he has dramatically increased efficiencies by developing comprehensive customized solutions for loan origination and servicing as well as institutional investor servicing and private investor pool management systems. Mr. Parsons received B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the Marshall School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California.


Alex Stone, Senior Vice President

Prior to joining Landmark, Mr. Stone founded a specialty finance company focused on providing municipalities liquidity through the monetization of their parking assets. Before this, he spent 8 years in commercial real estate investment and development. He has managed, acquired and financed $400,000,000 of investment and development properties for companies including The Edwards Companies, Watt Properties and Kennedy Wilson International. Mr. Stone received a Bachelor in Finance from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University and a Master in Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. Mr. Stone serves on the Urban Land Institute’s Steering Committee where he also chairs the UrbanPlan program.


Daniel E. Rebeor, Senior Vice President of Operations and Acting General Counsel

Mr. Rebeor has over 18 years' experience in commercial real estate and wireless. Prior to joining Landmark Dividend, Mr. Rebeor served as the Senior Director of National Real Estate for Cricket Communications, Inc., At Cricket he led the team responsible for all facets of Cricket's real estate activities including tower and DAS vendor management, site selection, leasing, property management, lease administration and construction and facilities. Prior to joining Cricket, Mr. Rebeor served in a number of operational roles at American Tower Corporation and SpectraSite Communications including Director of Real Estate and Director of Operations for the Building Solutions Division. Before entering the telecommunications field, he was national underwriting and claims counsel for two title insurance underwriters and practiced real estate and corporate law in Ohio. A licensed attorney, Mr. Rebeor is a graduate of the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, where he received a B.S. degree in Communications/Media and the University of Dayton School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor. A frequent speaker at industry seminars, Dan is the former chairman of PCIA's Zoning Committee.


Board Of Advisors
Randall N. Smith

Mr. Smith, is the Chairman, CEO and a Managing Director of InSite MediaCom, LLC, a company formed by Mr. Smith and his associates to acquire and develop assets in the outdoor advertising and wireless telecommunications site business. Originally from Caldwell, Idaho, Mr. Smith is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where he majored in economics. Mr. Smith also completed Stanford University Business School’s program for executives of growing companies. Since 1971, Mr. Smith has directed and been responsible for funding several companies in a wide variety of businesses, including cable TV, communications towers, and communications services management. Mr. Smith is a nationally recognized expert in the field of telecommunications. Recently, Mr. Smith served as the Chairman and CEO (and was a co-founder) of TeleCom Towers, L.L.C. (“TTLLC”), which was a pioneer owner/operator of communications towers and facilities for the delivery of all wireless signals to the mobile communications industry. One of the largest independent operators of communications sites, TTLLC was sold to American Tower Corporation (NYSE) on February 26, 1999 for approximately $200 million. Mr. Smith is also the Chairman of RCC Consultants, Inc. (the largest telecommunications consulting firm in the area of public safety) and its parent holding companies (“RCC”). With ten offices in the U.S, RCC concentrates on state of the art of communications solutions for police, fire, and ambulance services, with its primary clients being more than 150 cities, counties and states, including, for example, the Los Angeles Police Department, State of Pennsylvania, City of Houston, Massport, Kansas City, and the New York – New Jersey Port Authority. RCC participated in helping the NYNJ Port Authority restore its communication capabilities when the tragedy of September 11, 2001 occurred. From 1986-1989 Mr. Smith was elected to and served on the Business Conduct Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers (predecessor to FINRA) for a district which included seven states and the District of Columbia. In that capacity, Mr. Smith helped to oversee business conduct of all registered investment banking and brokerage firms operating in those states.


Jeffrey J. Buss

Mr. Buss has been in the financial services and venture strategy business for 15 years. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and holds a MBA. He is currently the Managing Partner of his advisory firm, G&Co., and engages clients with new ventures requiring critical financial and strategic analysis, planning, structure and financing. Prior to launching G&Co., Mr. Buss was the Vice President of Newcastle Industries, with assets of approximately $300 million, unlevered, under management. While with Newcastle Mr. Buss helped launch and lead NorthStar Battery Co., a world-leading designer and manufacturer, in developing and implementing its global sales and marketing strategies, which resulted in revenue growth from $0 to $100 million in just 3 years. In addition, he conceptualized and developed a revolutionary new product line to increase and diversify revenues. Mr. Buss also advised with the sales and marketing strategy of Newcastle’s shipyard, Newcastle Marine, specializing in the design and construction of $15+ million luxury expedition yachts. Prior to business school, Mr. Buss was a Vice President with Technology Solutions Co. FSG, a boutique IT consulting firm’s financial services group headquartered in New York, where he was responsible for leading teams of business and technical analysts in assessing and consulting Wall Street clients.

About Landmark
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