With 20 years of investment success in commercial real estate, the entrepreneurial Mr. Gozini is an accomplished businessman with a global background that includes mechanical engineering, import/export, and experience in Asia. This seasoned executive directs BH Properties’ strategic growth with a prescient ability to identify industry trends and the best investment prospects. He anticipates the growth of secondary markets nationally, and focuses on the streamlined transactions that have made BH Properties an ideal partner in mutually profitable relationships.
Ronald J. Platisha, a 30-year veteran in the commercial real estate industry, brings tremendous financial expertise to BH Properties as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Platisha’s distinguished experience includes leadership positions at CB Richard Ellis, where he served as Executive Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer of the Americas and Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Platisha has also served in the internal audit department of H.F. Ahmanson & Co., and as a Senior Auditor for KPMG International.
Mr. Jaffe’s extensive expertise and knowledge, as a real estate attorney with 25 years of law firm and in-house counsel experience, has guided BH Properties to its current leadership position in the competitive, value-added marketplace. A former member of the prestigious law firms Pircher Nichols and Meeks and Russ, August and Kabat, he also served as General Counsel for Alexander Haagen Properties and Center Trust. Mr. Jaffe graduated from the University of California at Berkeley before earning his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
Mr. Sullivan brings more than 10 years of experience in the finance industry, including two as a senior director and co-head of Marcus & Millichap’s debt advisory group (DAS) (which he co-founded) which assisted commercial real estate borrowers with note purchases, loan modifications, extensions, short sales, assumptions and lender/cmbs servicer negotiations. Prior to his co-founding DAS he spent eight years as a commercial real estate debt provider both in the United States, Europe and Asia. As a Vice President at Deutsche Bank he worked as a loan originator in the European Commercial Real Estate Finance Group based in London as well as working on the trading and syndication desk in the Hong Kong office. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Sullivan spent over 6 years at RBS Greenwich Capital where he originated highly leveraged structured transactions, mezzanine loans and a/b-note first mortgage commercial real estate loans. Prior to joining RBS Greenwich Capital, Mr. Sullivan spent 2 years at Price Waterhouse Coopers Mr. Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from University of California, Irvine and a Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Mr. Hardy counts more than 500 successfully negotiated transactions, valued at more than $500 million, in his outstanding leasing track record. Prior to joining BH Properties, he served as Regional Director of Sperry Van Ness, overseeing the firm’s operations and growth in the Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley regions of Southern California. Earlier in his career, as Portfolio Leasing Manager for Arden Realty and as an agent for Grubb & Ellis, Mr. Hardy honed his specialist expertise in office leasing and sales. He is also an attorney and licensed real estate broker (California). A graduate of the University of California, San Diego, Mr. Hardy earned his Juris Doctorate at Southwestern University School of Law.
