Mr. Goldstein is a Founder of and Managing Partner at GPI. With over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, Mr. Goldstein is recognized as one of the leading commercial and multifamily real estate developers in California. Mr. Goldstein has directed the strategic planning, project conceptualization, site acquisition, entitlement, strategic marketing, and leasing of four million square feet of award-winning office, retail and residential complexes throughout California.

Beginning in 1992, Mr. Goldstein helped lead the retail division of the J.H. Snyder Company, spearheading the development of signature, destination retail projects. These projects included premier complexes such as The River in Rancho Mirage and West Hollywood Gateway as well as extensive renovation projects such as the 790,000 square foot Bella Terra in Huntington Beach, an urban entertainment and retail center. Mr. Goldstein also played an integral role in two of Southern California’s most successful commercial complexes: the one million square foot Wilshire Courtyard in Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile district and the 1.2 million square foot Water Garden office campus in Santa Monica.

Mr. Goldstein is the immediate past Chairman of the Los Angeles region of the American Jewish Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Institute. He is a past president of the Sportsmen’s Club, the largest fundraising auxiliary for the City of Hope National Medical Center, served as a trustee of the Los Angeles based Alternative Living for the Aged, and is currently an advisory board member for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Mr. Goldstein holds a B.S. and a M.P.A. from the University of Southern California. Before returning to Los Angeles to begin his career in real estate, he served as a United States Presidential Management Intern in the Reagan Administration.

Mr. Planting is a Co-founder of and Managing Partner at GPI. His role at GPI includes providing strategic direction for capital allocation and acquisitions. Mr. Planting as recently named one of the 500 most influential businesspeople in LA by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

While at the J.H. Snyder, Mr. Planting was responsible for identifying and acquiring over one million square feet of commercial office and retail. Under his management, these assets were rehabilitated and stabilized, and then either exited or refinanced for maximum equity returns. Prior to joining the J.H. Snyder Company in 2001, Mr. Planting was a partner at Maguire Partners where he headed the development, leasing, and management of the 3.6 million square foot commercial component of Playa Vista (part of the 1,000-acre master-planned mixed-use development of the former Howard Hughes aircraft plant).

Prior to Maguire Partners, he was a Director at Cushman & Wakefield where he started his real estate career. During his 16-year tenure at Cushman & Wakefield, he headed institutional accounts for several Fortune 1000 companies including Chubb & Son, Dow Jones, Viacom, MTV, Pacific Bell, Texaco, and Interpublic Group. He was among the top one percent of brokers and negotiated some of the largest leasing deals in the country at the time including the AT&T Center (200,000 square feet), MTV’s western regional headquarters (100,000 square feet), and Dow Jones’s administration facility in Midtown Manhattan (300,000 square feet).

Mr. Planting received his B.A. in Economics with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Trustee of Loyola High School and Chairman o f the Hollywood Partnership B.I.D. He is a guest lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Development.

Mr. Wagman is a Managing Partner at GPI. He is a long time leader in the real estate industry having served as President and CEO of The Hahn Company and its successor, TrizecHahn Centers. Both were a part of Trizec Properties, a $5B publicly traded REIT. In this capacity, Mr. Wagman headed one of the largest shopping center companies in the United States with 43 regional malls and 1,700 employees. During his tenure, the company developed several precedent-setting projects, including Park Meadows in Denver; Paseo Colorado in Pasadena; West End City Center in Budapest, Hungary; and expansions of Horton Plaza in San Diego and Prudential Center in Boston.

In addition, Mr. Wagman served as Vice Chairman of CityView, a leading real estate investment firm focused on urban residential and mixed-use properties through multiple institutional funds; and was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Hycel Properties Company in St. Louis where he developed and owned the Saint Louis Galleria, one of the premier retail properties in the U.S. Mr. Wagman began his career as an attorney at the international law firm Bryan Cave, LLP.

Mr. Wagman has been closely involved with ICSC for 25 years, serving as both a Trustee and Vice President, and with ULI. He is the founding Chair of ICSC’s Mixed-Use Committee and twice chaired its highly successful Mixed-Use Conference and served as Chair of ULI’s Place Making Conference, Chair of ULI’s Entertainment Retail Conference, Chair of the ICSC Spring Convention in Las Vegas, and Chair of ICSC’s Entertainment Conference. Mr. Wagman is a graduate of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a member of YPOG, and Past Chair of YPOG-LA. He has served on numerous civic, corporate, charitable, and university boards. Mr. Wagman holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mr. Franciski is a Partner at GPI. Since joining GPI in 2013, Mr. Franciski has been actively involved in the acquisition, underwriting, due diligence, financing, and strategy of GPI’s investments. Prior to joining GPI, Mr. Franciski was a member of Equity Office Properties’ Corporate Finance department. During his tenure at EOP, Mr. Franciski prepared valuation models for over six million square feet of office space and maintained investment-level performance models relating to $21B in office investments made by The Blackstone Group. Mr. Franciski received a B.S. in Business majoring in Finance-Real Estate from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Michael Woods is a Partner at GPI. During his ten year career in the commercial real estate industry, he has underwritten and closed on acquisitions, dispositions, developments and redevelopments with a capitalized value in excess of $600 million (representing over 3.5 million square feet). He has extensive experience overseeing all aspects of the institutional approval process, including financial analysis, underwriting, transaction due diligence, and operational accounting. Prior to joining GPI, Mr. Woods worked at Regency Centers, a national owner, operator, and developer of retail properties. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers and holds an active California real estate license.

Mr. Woods earned his M.B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University, where he led several campus ministries and was elected an officer of the Georgetown rugby team. He currently serves as an alumni mentor with Loyola High School’s Alumni Mentoring Program and as a lector at St. Paul the Apostle Church.

Mr. Friend is a Partner at GPI. He focuses on property acquisitions, development, and asset management. Prior to joining GPI in 2016, Mr. Friend was with the JBG Companies, where he worked in the Development group focusing primarily on the entitlement, design, and development of mixed-use projects in Washington, DC. Mr Friend graduated with a B.A. in Business Economics with Honors from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Akhtarzad is a Partner at GPI. He focuses on the evaluation and execution of new investment opportunities and leads development activity across the firm. Prior to joining GPI in 2018, Mr. Akhtarzad was with Colony Capital in their Corporate Finance and Acquisitions division. At Colony, he was involved in a wide range of opportunistic transactions across the capital structure in both real estate assets and operating companies. Mr. Akhtarzad received a B.A. in Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Fredrik Wahlstrom is Senior Vice President Financial Services at GPI.  Before joining GPI, Mr. Wahlstrom was Controller and Vice President of Accounting and Finance at Griffin Capital Company in Los Angeles.  Prior to joining Griffin Capital Company, Mr. Wahlstrom was the Manager of Financial Reporting at The Irvine Company, one of the largest privately held real estate companies in the United States.  During his five years there, Mr. Wahlstrom managed financial reporting processes and helped to oversee the Company’s debt compliance.  Mr. Wahlstrom began his career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen.  He earned a BA degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned a Certified Public Accountant designation in 2004.

Ms. LeTourneau is Controller at GPI. She manages daily operations of the accounting department, monitoring and analyzing accounting data and producing financial reports and statements. Prior to joining GPI, she was at CIM Group, where she oversaw several accounting functions for one of their large real estate investment platforms. Ms. LeTourneau began her career in real estate accounting at Occidental Entertainment Group Holdings, Inc. Ms. LeTourneau received her MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Pepperdine University.

Ms. Handy is Accounting Manager at GPI and is responsible for the investment financial reporting. Prior to joining GPI, Ms. Handy was a consultant at RGP Consultants focusing on providing financial and accounting expertise to clients in various industries. Ms. Handy has a BS in Business Administration from California State University Northridge, a UCLA certification in Project Management, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Tabak is the Director of Asset Management at GPI. Mr. Tabak has extensive experience in asset management, most recently with Redcar Properties, where he focused on redeveloping underperforming properties. Previously, he worked for Bellwether, a boutique asset management firm retained on an exclusive basis by Oaktree Capital. Mr. Tabak is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and received his MBA and Masters in Real Estate Development from USC.

Mr. Taylor is a Director at GPI focusing on the evaluation and execution of new investment opportunities as well as development and asset management activities across the firm. Prior to joining GPI in 2021, Mr. Taylor was with Tishman Speyer in New York. His responsibilities there included acquisitions, asset management, equity capital markets, and portfolio management. Mr. Taylor began his career at Ernst and Young and helped build their Fairness Opinion practice. Mr. Taylor majored in Finance and Accounting and received a B.S. in Management from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Oliver is an Analyst at GPI assisting in the assessment and execution of new investments as well as development activities across the firm. Prior to joining GPI, Oliver was a Summer Intern at Eastdil Secured where he focused on the investment sales of various asset classes and performed comprehensive market analysis and due diligence. Oliver received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.