PAC Speakers
Moderator:
Paul Berkowitz has more than 40 years of experience working with businesses, both domestically and internationally, including serving as a senior executive with a NYSE-listed home builder. His experience covers a wide range of industries with a focus on advice relating to the capital needs of the real estate sector. Paul gives an insightful outlook when advising clients facing the challenges of today's economy. Paul's background combines cross-border representation of clients in acquisition, disposition, and debt and equity financing transactions, including acting as an advisor to multinational enterprises in rule 144A, initial public, private and high yield debt offerings.
Panelists:
Andrew S. Ittleman is a Founder and Partner of Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL. He concentrates his practice in the areas of White Collar Criminal Defense, Anti-Money Laundering compliance, and Food and Drug Law, providing comprehensive representation to highly regulated businesses. Mr. Ittleman also litigates extensively against the United States government in civil and criminal matters.
Ronald S. Lowy has tried more than seventy-five jury trials in the State and Federal courts and has handled over eighty appeals. Ronald won a highly publicized police shooting case in Miami-Dade County and is often sought by the media to comment on police shooting cases and death penalty appeals. He hosts a weekly radio talk show on WNWS-790 AM Radio entitled “You and the Law” and was an instructor at Miami-Dade Community College from 1985 through 1989 teaching in the paralegal program. Ronaldis a frequent guest lecturer and instructor at the St. Thomas School of Law in Miami, where he has helped to teach evidence and other classes. He has been appointed to serve as a Special Master, Curator and Arbitrator by judges in Miami-Dade County. Ronald has been quoted in the American Bar Association Journal and serves on the Miami-Dade Court Observer Program and lectures annually to new lawyers on the subject of professionalism. He received his undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude from the University of Miami and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami.
Sean O’Neill is Senior Counsel in the Miami Regional Office of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and joined the Division of Enforcement in April 2009. While at the SEC, Sean has investigated several national priority matters concluding in enforcement actions, including a $26.6 million settlement against UBS Financial Services Inc. of Puerto Rico for making misleading statements to investors, concealing a liquidity crisis, and masking its control of the secondary market for 23 proprietary closed-end mutual funds, City of South Miami for defrauding investors about the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, and the Public Health Trust, the governing authority for Jackson Health System, for misleading investors about its financial condition. Sean received his B.A. from University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Miami, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif.
Jean-Marc and Remy Jacobson have been investing and working in the Cryptocurrency space since January 2011. They are actively involved in a number of Bitcoin related ventures, touching many aspects of the industry: Mining, Cloud-Hashing Services, Datacenters, Software Infrastructure, Payment Processing, and Non-Profits for Lobbying, Education and Promotion. They established the first Bitcoin Embassy in world, entirely dedicating to the Bitcoin Community a four story building located in Montreal that became the home of the Bitcoin Foundation’s Canadian Chapter, which they also founded.
Jean-Marc and Remy continue to develop their real estate holdings in Quebec and Miami, focusing in the Montreal and Wynwood areas respectively. Prior to Bitcoin and Real Estate, the brothers worked together in Wealth Management in Switzerland, specializing in derivatives and purpose specific investment vehicles.
