Spiro Institute hosts brown bag leadership seminar
November 16, 2010
CLEMSON, SC – November 16, 2010 – Clemson University’s Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership will host a brown bag leadership seminar from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Clemson at the Falls, 55 E. Camperdown Way, Greenville.
The seminar, titled “Strategies and Studies in Real Estate Debt Workouts,” will feature guest speaker Dave Sislen, president and co-founder of Bristol Capital Corp., a real estate development and management firm in Bethesda, Md. Prior to founding Bristol Capital, Sislen earned a master’s in finance and accounting from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tulane University. He also was senior vice president of the national real estate investment firm CRI Inc., where he handled development, acquisition and syndications of more than $650 million of commercial real estate assets.
Sislen is on several boards of directors, including those of Landmark Land Co., an international developer of master planned communities, and the DMR Mortgage Opportunity Fund LP, a $300 million closed-end and non-diversified management company investing in mortgage backed securities. He also is a member of the Maryland Loan Committee of the Business Finance Group.
He teaches finance and investment for the Edward St. John Real Estate Program at John Hopkins University.
Participants should bring their own brown bag lunches. Drinks will be provided.
The event is free, but registration is requested and can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/spiro/rsvp.html. For additional information, e-mail [email protected].
The program also is sponsored by Clemson’s Master of Business Administration and Master of Real Estate Development programs and the Richard H. Pennell Center for Real Estate Development.
