As Managing Director at Post Solar, Hannah Burdei brings extensive experience in public policy and regulatory analysis, project debt and tax equity financing, land entitlement, design and construction oversight, compliance, and leasing. Prior to joining Post Solar, Hannah was Vice President of Development at Radson Development in New York. She was responsible for overseeing development of ground up mixed-use affordable housing projects from inception through stabilization. While at Radson, Hannah managed the development and financing for over 900 units with project costs of approximately $375 million.
In addition to experience with residential development, Hannah worked on industrial and commercial real estate projects during her time at Blumenfeld Development Group as Assistant Director of Community and Government affairs. At BDG, Hannah oversaw project entitlement and public relations for an existing portfolio of retail centers. Hannah began her Real Estate career in public service, working at New York City Economic Development Corporation redeveloping underutilized City-owned assets through land sales, leases, and city land use actions.
One notable project included a 1,000-unit mixed-use affordable housing development in the South Bronx. Hannah holds a Master in Urban Planning degree from Harvard University and a degree in International Relations and Economics from Wellesley College.
Ryan is a seasoned real estate attorney with a wealth of legal experience representing sophisticated entrepreneurial and institutional real estate clients across billions of dollars of transactions. Prior to joining Post Brothers in the summer of 2014, Ryan was a real estate and corporate attorney at Sullivan and Cromwell, and prior to that Ryan worked for Kirkland & Ellis LLP. In both roles, Ryan represented real estate private equity sponsors, investment banks, high net worth individuals, developers, real estate operating companies, and hospitality clients in all aspects of private equity real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, structured finance, and general corporate counseling for transactions totaling billions of dollars. In 2010, Ryan represented a client in completing a recapitalization of its portfolio of 168 limited service hotels across 33 states valued at $1.6 billion, which, at the time, became one of the largest real estate securitizations since the financial crisis of 2008. Ryan is also an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School teaching a class on the practice of transactional law and previously served as a member of the Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s commercial real estate training committee, where he taught various continuing education sessions on structured finance, financing ground leases, and emerging case law in the real estate market place. Prior to attending law school Ryan was the President and Co-Founder of McCaffrey Realty Professionals, a residential real estate brokerage company. He holds a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Matthew Pestronk is co-founder of Post Brothers, a real estate investment, development and management company with singular and unique expertise in urban real estate development. Matthew serves as President of the company, engaged in the sponsorship of 30 Class-A multifamily, mixed-use and retail development projects comprised of over 8,000 units that are operating, under development or disposed plus, over 700K sf of office and retail space, with a total capitalized cost in excess of $4 billion. Matthew shares strategic leadership of the company with his brother, Michael, and is engaged in asset management, financing, and project and capital formation. Matthew has worked in real estate capital transactions for his entire 20+-year career and was previously a real estate financing executive in New York City prior to forming Post Brothers. Matthew is also very active in his community and has board service experience for multiple charitable organizations including the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, Beat the Streets Philadelphia, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is the Immediate past Chair of Jewish Federation Real Estate.
As CEO of Post Brothers, Michael Pestronk heads all property development and operational activities of the company. Post Brothers was founded in 2006, and since that time Michael has focused exclusively on creating a best-in-class enterprise, having developed or acquired 30 properties featuring approximately 8,000 Class-A apartments that are operating, under development or disposed plus, 700K SF of office and retail space, with total equity raised of over $500 million and total capitalized cost in excess of $4 billion. Michael has over 20 years of experience in the multifamily real estate industry, having previously worked for NWJ Companies and Historic Landmarks for Living, as well as being a principal of Iron Stone Real Estate Group, where he was collectively responsible for the repositioning, operations and capitalization of over $300 million of real estate. During this time his responsibilities encompassed all aspects of apartment ownership including acquisitions, financing, development, construction, management, and leasing. Michael is a recognized leader in environmental sustainability, leading Post to be Philadelphia's largest voluntary offsetter of carbon emissions since 2011.
