Jordan Kavana is the Director of Transcendent Investment Management and has over a decade of experience in managing property portfolios and evaluating, structuring and executing real estate transactions in the United States and abroad. Mr. Kavana has acquired, structured and disposed of over $480 million in real estate transactions. He began his career in the finance and operations department of one of South America's largest vacation property developers before returning to the United States to analyze real estate investments for Morgan Stanley's private wealth management division. Subsequently, he managed family real estate investments and development projects and founded an Asia-based consumer electronics company, developing an award-winning product line and growing sales to $40 million while building a blue chip customer base including retailers Best Buy and Wal-Mart. After exiting his overseas investments, he served as Managing Partner of JL Real Ventures, a private equity fund that assembled a portfolio of multi-family properties in the Southeast United States. Jordan earned a BA in Hospitality Management and Finance from Florida International University and has pursued graduate-level studies in real estate finance at Harvard University and will receive an honorary degree from Harvard University in February 2012 for advanced studies in strategy and leadership in real estate. Mr. Kavana currently serves on the board of the prestigious Florida State Pension Plan Board which oversees $127.8 billion in total assets.