Joseph McCarthy

An immigration attorney with the law firm of McAdam & McCarthy. McCarthy has successfully represented more than 30 Regional Centers and dozens of projects, is a member of the American Immigration Law Association (AILA) and serves as the Legislative Committee Chair with Invest in USA (IIUSA), a national trade association of EB-5 Regional Centers. He is a veteran speaker at both local and international legal and business conferences.

Jor Law

Founding shareholder of Homeier & Law, P.C.  He advises clients on corporate and securities aspects of EB-5 related transactions, representing EB-5 investors as well as businesses seeking capital through the Regional Center EB-5 program.  Law is a frequent presenter at EB-5 industry events, including conferences held by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Kevin Wright

An economist with the consulting firm Wright Johnson, LLC based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on the EB-5 program, Wright has prepared economic analyses for Regional Center proposals and individual business projects. Kevin was named “EB-5 Service Provider of the Year” in 2010 and 2011 by Artisan Business Group, an international business consulting firm that hosts a widely read EB-5 blog.

Michael Homeier

An attorney with the corporate law firm Homeier & Law. Homeier & Law has counseled numerous corporations and Regional Centers raising capital through the EB-5 Program. In the past year, the firm has worked on EB-5 transactions with an aggregate deal value of more than $500 million. Homeier has presented at EB-5 conferences held by the American Immigration Law Association, State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Suzanne Lazicki

Founder of Lucid Professional Writing, a service specializing in business plans for filing in connection with the EB-5, L-1, and E-2 visa programs. Lazicki has worked with Regional Centers around the U.S. and has prepared business plans for industries ranging from real estate and green energy to manufacturing and agriculture.

Reid Thomas

Executive vice president with NES Financial.  Thomas has been instrumental in the development and growth of NES Financial’s leading EB-5 Escrow Administration Solution for Regional Centers.  Thomas has worked with numerous Regional Centers and immigration attorneys, and brings firsthand knowledge of the importance of the security and transparency benefits that the escrow solution provides to the EB-5 process.

Mina Tran

Partner with the firm of Palmer & Tran in Orange County, California. With more than 14 years of immigration law experience, Tran will address what an EB-5 Regional Center needs to know about the individual investor visa process.

George W. Ekins

Principal of American Dream Fund (ADF), the Los Angeles and Las Vegas Regional Center. Ekins, who represents ADF in Asia, recently completed a 25-city marketing tour to build relationships with immigration brokers, immigration consultants, business leaders, government officials and EB-5 investors in China.

Clem Turner

With the corporate law firm Homeier & Law. Clem has counseled numerous corporations and Regional Centers raising capital through the EB-5 Program on corporate law and securities matters. Over the course of his career, Clem has provided counsel in transactions with an aggregate value totaling more than $7 billion.

Angelique Brunner

President of EB-5 Capital. Brunner is responsible for sourcing and structuring all projects for EB-5 Capital, including the Marriott Convention Center hotels and City Market at O Street Market in Washington, D.C, as well as the Sugarbush Ski Resort in Vermont.

Elizabeth Peng

EB-5 immigration lawyer with Peng & Weber, PLLC. Peng earned law degrees in both China (1983) and the U.S. (1988). She is a long-standing member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has extensive experience representing Chinese businesses and entrepreneurs.

Cletus Weber

EB-5 immigration lawyer with Peng & Weber, PLLC. Weber is currently chair of the national Board of Publications Committee of AILA, a member of AILA’s national EB-5 Conference Committee and a frequent discussion leader at national conferences devoted to EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visas.

Nicolo Pinoli

Pinoli is a CPA and partner in the Portland office of Novogradac & Company LLP, a leading accounting firm for New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC).  He will speak on EB-5/NMTC twinned transactions.

Alan Pasternack

A tax and business transactional attorney based in Portland, with Kantor Taylor Nelson Boyd & Evatt.  Pasternack will speak on transactions that use both EB-5 funds and new New Markets Tax Credits.

Michael Gibson

Managing director of USAdvisors and a Registered Investment Advisor. Previously Gibson worked in Citicorp’s Capital Markets and Investment Banking divisions. He established USAdvisors.org to assist foreign nationals with their EB-5 investment decisions.

Manuel Rivera

Senior associate with Aginsky Consulting Group, responsible for the Latin American market.  ACG is an investment advisory and management consulting firm that guides high net worth investors through the entire EB-5 process.

Yurop Shrestha

Senior associate with Aginsky Consulting Group, responsible for the East Asian market.  ACG is an investment advisory and management consulting firm that guides high net worth investors through the entire EB-5 process.