Gold Title
Nov 14 – 16, 2024
The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
The Most Comprehensive Real Estate Series
The Alpha Summit is the brainchild and collaboration of three entities steeped in experience (nearly 100 years) in the real estate development and financing industry — Fleming Connections LLC, The Tatum Group, LLC, and the Community Sustainability Enterprise.
The overarching goal of the summit is to ensure that attendees are left empowered to advance their personal, community, or secular organization’s economic justice and equity business objectives.
COO and EVP, DreamKey Partners (Silver Sponsor)
Fred Dodson has devoted his professional career to providing affordable housing. He is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of DreamKey Partners, Inc., where he manages the organization's real estate development and construction activities. Before joining DreamKey in 1997, he gained experience directing the Hospitality House of Boone, a North Carolina homeless shelter, the New River Valley Habitat for Humanity Affiliate, and the Montgomery County Community Shelter in Virginia.
Fred earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Appalachian State University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law. During his 27 years with DreamKey, he helped the organization grow its real estate portfolio from 400 to nearly 3,000 units. He has also led the organization in its geographic footprint to South Carolina and Georgia.
Founder / CEO, Haltere Group (Title Sponsor)
Dennis Earls declared a career in real estate brokerage at 25 years of age in 2001. He joined RE/MAX Commercial, one of California’s largest and most successful commercial real estate brokerage firms and quickly earned a place among their list of young and most successful agents. While specializing in the sale and acquisition of apartment buildings (10-200 units), he became a player in the office and retail markets based on the progression of his clientele. He prides himself in the ability to guide and consult novice investors to make them savvy investors and property owners. He possesses a high regard for quality customer service and his knowledge, integrity and professionalism have made him a well respected member of the financial teams of some popular professional athletes and entertainers. To that end, he has broadened his scope of services to cater to his busy and elite clientele, which involves the leasing, management and construction of real estate assets. To date he has brokered nearly 300 transactions, totaling in excess of $2 Billion dollars in real estate. He serves as Senior Vice President at Secured Properties Inc., a boutique Los Angeles based firm specializing in brokerage, leasing, and developer marketing of commercial real estate. The firm services clients all over Southern California, but boasts expertise in Los Angeles, Koreatown, Mid-Wilshire and San Fernando Valley. Dennis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children. He is an avid sports fan and former athlete.
President, Haltere Group (Title Sponsor)
Originally from sunny Southern California, Mikáel is an esteemed graduate of Clark Atlanta University where he studied International Business and Supply Chain Management. A Dean’s Scholar, member of the Honors Program, and President of Toastmasters International during his undergraduate years, Mikáel was honored by his alma mater as an inaugural recipient of the 40 Under 40 Achievement Award. Mikáel began his corporate career as a Business Analyst / Assistant Buyer for Target Corporation, where he managed a $400 million portfolio in the Household Commodities division and won various merchandising awards for performance and execution. Leveraging his decorated experience with Target, Mikáel decided to relocate to New York City, becoming a top-producing sales trainer for The Container Store; notably, he was invited to represent the company at the New York Stock Exchange bell-ringing ceremony for its IPO in the fall of 2013. Compelled to further embrace his desire to help and work with people, Mikáel transitioned from the corporate world in 2015 to establish himself as a realtor for Cooper & Cooper – the most prodigious, ethically upright real estate firm in New York City. Mikáel quickly became a top-producer at the firm, being promoted to Senior Associate and brokering many multi-million dollar transactions. In 2018, while still working in real estate, Mikáel co-founded QuikLiq—a bourgeoning tech startup for which he is appointed as the President and Chief Strategy Officer. To date, QuikLiq has been featured in Black Enterprise, Essence, the Miami New Times and the South Florida Business Journal. When he is not helping people find homes and cultivating startups, Mikáel enjoys giving back to his community, mentoring the next generation, traveling the world, and cooking for his wife and friends. A proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Mikáel lives each day by the fraternity motto – to encourage honorable achievement in every field of human endeavor.
Owner & CEO, Dominion Due Diligence Group (Bronze Sponsor)
Rob Hazelton founded D3G in 1994 as an environmental consulting firm. Early on he encountered an environmental process so difficult and convoluted, that few wanted to understand it. This was HUD! Rob dove headfirst into learning HUD, housing, tax credits, and leveraged finance. D3G steadily grew after expanding its services to include a myriad of housing preservation consulting. As population and social-economic issues expand, housing becomes more imperative than ever. Rob became a self-proclaimed Housing Geek, immersing himself and the entire company into affordable housing, public housing, senior housing, homelessness prevention, housing for the disabled, and most recently foster-care housing initiatives. Personal challenges and opportunities along the way, including being the parent of a special needs child, has enforced his feelings of empathy for others, which continues to translate daily in the work D3G does and the people the company serves. Rob gives a special thank you to all the housing advocates, housing geeks, and D3G clients out there, as we are all making a difference one unit at a time in this country.
EVP & Co-Founder, Greenline Community Ventures LLC (Black Sponsor)
Randy Kahn is an Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Greenline Ventures. He is responsible for helping determine the strategic direction of the company and assisting with oversight of operational and fund management activities of Greenline. Randy has over 20 years of experience delivering capital to areas of need throughout the US and its territories. Industries include low-income housing finance, project finance and private equity. Financing activities include transaction structuring, tax credit syndication, debt financing, equity financing, origination, underwriting, asset management and program compliance (CDFI and NMTC). Randy has raised and deployed over $1 billion of debt and equity funds from/for not-for-profit entities, government instrumentalities and private clients (real estate and operating businesses). Prior to co-founding Greenline, Randy worked for Denver Public Schools (school evaluation), Aetna (insurance), Birch and Davis Consulting (healthcare consulting), Seslia Securities/VI Capital Resources, Inc. (broker dealer / CDFI venture fund) and GMAC Commercial (low-income housing banker/NMTC practitioner). Randy has a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate School of Business.
Summit Contributor, Community Sustainability Enterprise
Summit Founder, Tatum Endeavor Group
Thomas A. Tatum - The Tatum Endeavor Group, LLC - Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, Thomas A. Tatum is a 1983 graduate of Clark College, (now Clark-Atlanta University). Upon his graduation from Clark, he was selected as a Teaching Mission Intern at the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe, Zambia. In 1991, Thomas graduated from the University of Akron with a master’s in urban planning.
Read MoreSummit Founder, Fleming Connections
Arthur L. Fleming – Fleming Connections LLC – has almost 40 years years of results-driven experience in an array of leadership positions in financial services, housing finance, land use law, and academia.
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Arthur L. Fleming
Crave, The Dessert Bar 500 W 5 St, Ste 120 Charlotte, NC. 28202
The Community Reception acknowledges and honors the corporate sponsors of the Alpha National Summit on Real Estate Development and Finance.
All sponsors, speakers, and registered participants of the Summit are invited.
Hot, light refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, beer, and wine provided.
Summit Moderator
Dubois Center Atrium
Fruit, assorted pastries and muffins, water, coffee, tea.
Fred Dodson, Jr.
The morning begins with an off-site bus tour of local development projects in the Charlotte metro area. Then, everyone will convene for plenary panel sessions on cross-interest topics.
Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
320 E. 9th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-687-8902
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