Mesirow Financial has joined forces with Courtland Partners, a leading institutional real estate investment advisory services firm, as MFIRE's exclusive consultant, to bring extensive knowledge of, and relationships with, top-tier, institutional quality, real estate fund managers and a high level of expertise in portfolio strategy and real estate investment selection. This deep real estate experience, combined with Mesirow Financial's own real estate and fund of funds investment expertise, has created an unparalleled real estate fund of funds, offering both an international and domestic partnership, dedicated to helping institutional investors capitalize on this alternative investment class.

The MFIRE and Courtland professionals collectively have extensive real estate experience, averaging over 20 years, and have participated in the due diligence of over $34 billion dollars worth of real estate transactions, both internationally and domestically. In addition, the collective investment team brings 46 years of total experience in selecting funds and has participated in the approval of investment commitments of over 350 partnership investments around the world.

The following table illustrates the cohesiveness of the MFIRE investment team:

Investment Committee

Josh Daitch (15)

Jim Tyree (25)

Gerry Levin (36)

Michael Szkatulski (27)

Investment Management

Josh Daitch

Tom Landis (5)

Jeff Sobczynski (16)

Investment Sub-Committee*	Analysis/Due Diligence
Michael Humphrey** (19)	Ben Blakney**
Steve Novick** (28)	Lou Canalas**
Garrett Zdolshek** (7)	Joe Cook**
	Tom DeFranco**
	Mike Murphy**
	Marc Rivitz **

Accounting & Reporting	Legal/ Compliance	Client Service/ Consultant Relations	Administrative
Chris Farr	Brad Busscher	Tracey Shinkle	Carrie Thomas*
John Pierson	Sean Downey	Andrew Pataky	Dustin Rigsby
Erin Lavelle	Brian Franc	Jim Kilbane	Chris Schilling
	Nancy Anderson	Thomas Hynes	Tracie Mayfield
		Sal Albanese
		Linda Jordan
		Jill Rasinski
*Dedicated MFIRE administrative support **Courtland employees