Jack Rodman is a senior advisor for Crosswater Realty Advisors. In January 2007, he retired from Ernst & Young after 37 years of service. He then formed Global Distressed Solutions to provide consulting services to financial institutions and private equity investors seeking to acquire nonperforming loans and real estate assets in the People’s Republic of China. In addition, from 2007 to 2010 he was a senior advisor to King & Wood PRC Lawyers, the largest law firm in China. Rodman serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of a Hong Kong listed REIT sponsored by Deutsche Bank’s real estate asset manager RREEF. He writes quarterly for The Institutional Real Estate Newsletter and is a knowledge expert for Gershon Lehrman Group subscribers. More of his thoughts on China can be found on www.crosswateradvisors.com.