M. Myers Mermel, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Mermel is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of TenantWise, The Corsair Group and Mermel & McLain Management LLC. Mr. Mermel is widely recognized as a real estate finance and leasing specialist known for integrity, hard work and creativity.

In 1994, Mr. Mermel was chosen to be included in Crain’s “40 under 40.” He declined this honor out of respect for his employer, Morgan Stanley, and his team. Also in 1994, Mr. Mermel was nominated for the Real Estate Board of New York’s Most Ingenious Deal Award for his work in advising Morgan Stanley in the distressed purchase of its new headquarters at 1585 Broadway. This transaction legitimized Times Square as an office district and has been called the “Deal of the Decade.” For confidentiality reasons relating to non-disclosure of transaction information, Mr. Mermel declined to allow the nomination to go forward. In 1996, Mr. Mermel was named one of the “Top 20 Real Estate Movers and Shakers” in New York by the New York Post. This was a dubious honor he could not decline.

Since 2001, Mr. Mermel’s opinion of the real estate market of Manhattan has been carried by over 200 times in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Associated Press, Fortune, Daily News and Newsday. Additionally, he has been featured by several television news programs for such stations as ABC, Fox, CNN, Fuji Television and other foreign stations.

Prior to starting TenantWise, Mr. Mermel founded The Corsair Group (“Corsair”), a real estate investment bank formed in a joint venture with Morgan Stanley, in 1994. Over a five-year period, Mr. Mermel led Corsair Group in real estate advisory assignments totaling over five million square feet. Some representative clients include Uniroyal Chemical Company, Vornado Realty Trust, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Banque Nationale de Paris, Marvel Enterprises, Stern Stewart and Thoughtbubble Productions.

Prior to founding Corsair, Mr. Mermel founded Morgan Stanley's Corporate Real Estate Group in 1990. Over a four-year period, Mr. Mermel, with a staff of three people, led Morgan Stanley Realty to the number one market share position in corporate advisory transactions in New York City in 1993 and 1994. While at Morgan Stanley, he and his team completed some of the largest headquarters advisory transactions in Manhattan including Primerica/Smith Barney, Societe Generale and Kidder Peabody. Mr. Mermel also advised the Inside Board of Morgan Stanley on its headquarters acquisitions of 1585 Broadway and 750 Seventh Avenue in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Upon the formation of The Corsair Group in 1994, Mr. Mermel received a transfer of all of Morgan Stanley Realty's corporate real estate advisory assignments into The Corsair Group.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Mermel was employed for five years as a Vice President of Wm. A. White/Grubb & Ellis, where he was the youngest professional ever to be awarded the SMC designation. Before joining Wm. A. White/Grubb & Ellis, Mr. Mermel was employed as an Assistant Treasurer at The Bank of New York in its real estate subsidiary, and he completed the Bank's management training program.

In addition, Mr. Mermel has originated, structured and acquired interests in 48 Wall Street, 660 Madison Avenue and 104 West 40th Street in Manhattan.

Mr. Mermel was appointed to a three-year term (1997-1999) as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Brokerage Division of the Real Estate Board of New York ("REBNY"), the youngest person ever to hold this position. At the conclusion of his service, he was appointed as a Governor of the Board of Governors of REBNY; again he was the youngest Governor ever appointed.

Mr. Mermel received a B.A. from the University of Vermont, where he was President of the Senior Men's Honorary Society. He also received an M.A. from Columbia University in American History. He is a member of IDRC, ULI, and NACORE and serves as a Trustee of Christ Church United Methodist (New York City), a past Trustee of the New York City Mission Society (New York City), and as President of The Delta Psi Corporation, a not-for-profit institution founded in 1850 (Burlington, Vermont).  

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Caroline McLain, Chief Financial Officer and Founder

Ms. McLain founded TenantWise in October 1999. Prior to founding TenantWise, Ms. McLain served as a Principal of The Corsair Group where she directed all financial structuring and analysis for advisory and principal activities.

Prior to joining Corsair in 1994, Ms. McLain had been a Vice President/Portfolio Manager for First Nationwide Bank where she completed over $150MM in troubled office and multifamily loan workouts. Prior to her employment at First Nationwide and while an MBA student at Columbia, Ms. McLain worked in Columbia University's Investment Office where she was responsible for redesigning and implementing the Residential Loan Program and completed an internship with the Union Bank of Switzerland's Real Estate Department. Prior to her experience at Columbia, she worked as asset manager and developer for a portfolio of office and commercial properties for her family's real estate development company, McLain Development, in Alabama. Before joining McLain, she was an Assistant Treasurer and Controller for Trion Properties, a commercial office developer in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to her employment at Trion, she was a Senior Audit Supervisor, Real Estate and Finance Group, at Arthur Andersen and Company for three years.

Ms. McLain graduated with a BBA in Accounting with honors from Emory University and received an MBA in Finance from the Columbia Business School. Ms. McLain also is a Certified Public Accountant in New York.

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Bryan Y. Colwell, Partner

Mr. Colwell recently joined TenantWise as Partner in charge of its commercial real estate information services business, including the multi-city US platform expansion now underway. Since 2002, Mr. Colwell has pursued private business and charitable interests. Until 2002, Mr. Colwell served as Managing Director and Head of Global Power & Utilities in the Investment Banking Division of ABN AMRO Incorporated, responsible for all corporate finance activities in the sector worldwide. He led the bank’s worldwide strategic initiative to rationalize project finance banking, corporate financing and advisory activities, and capital markets businesses in the sector globally. Prior to joining ABN AMRO in 2000, he was a senior member of the Energy & Power Group, Investment Banking Division, of Goldman, Sachs & Co. with particular responsibilities for Power Sector Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions, having joined the firm in 1985 as a Summer Associate. In addition to his work in Europe and Asia, Mr. Colwell founded and led Goldman Sachs’ Latin America Power sector group, establishing the firm as one of the leading M&A advisors to international consortiums and governments during the region’s early privatizations, subsequent restructurings and related capital markets offerings. He has extensive international experience in structuring large power sector project financings (including an Institutional Investor “Deal of the Year”) as advisor both to multi-national developers and large international financial institutions.

Mr. Colwell obtained a B.A. (with honors in History and Science) from Harvard College, completed post-graduate studies in statistical theory at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained an M.B.A. (with distinction in Finance) from Columbia University Business School.

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Scott D. Harris, Vice President

Mr. Harris joined Tenantwise in 2006. Prior to joining Tenantwise, Mr. Harris was a Captain in the U.S. Army, and served as the Operations Officer in the 14th Transportation Battalion located in Vicenza, Italy. While serving in this position, Mr. Harris successfully planned and executed the movement of U.S. military equipment, supplies and personnel into and out of Afghanistan and Central Asia. Prior to that assignment, Mr. Harris was the commander of the 15th Transportation Detachment in Frankfurt, Germany and held legal responsibility for 48 personnel, $3MM worth of equipment, the operational readiness of a central trailer fleet, and the timely delivery of mail to U.S. and NATO bases. Mr. Harris also held administrative authority for a line haul truck company consisting of 157 soldiers and 70 tactical vehicles with the mission to provide theater transportation support to European Command and NATO operations.

Mr. Harris graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Strategic History from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

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William D. Quigley III, Vice President, Business Development

Mr. Quigley joined TenantWise in 2005. Prior to joining TenantWise, Mr. Quigley was a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps, and served as the Fire Direction Officer for 5th Battalion 11th Marines located in Camp Pendleton, California. While serving in this position, Mr. Quigley successfully planned and executed the training exercises for 400 personnel. Deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom II, he served as an Infantry Platoon Commander and led a force of 50 personnel in conducting numerous combat missions in Al Anbar Province. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Quigley served as an artillery forward observer, special operations maritime navigator, and fire support team leader during training operations and deployments while based on Camp Pendleton.

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Christopher T. Gilbert, Vice President

Mr. Gilbert joined Tenantwise in March 2007. Prior to joining Tenantwise, he worked for two and a half years as an Associate Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities covering the Cable and Satellite industry. While at Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for the evaluation of investment opportunities within his sector and built and maintained company and industry models for valuation analysis. He was also responsible for the evaluation of strategic alternatives for the companies he covered and their potential impact on equity valuations. These alternatives included acquisitions, privatization, public offerings and re-capitalization through share repurchases or special dividends. Mr. Gilbert has performed vetting assignments for the public offerings of two Fixed Satellite Services companies, including forecasting financial performance, analysis of competitive environments, projecting industry demand and pricing, development of investment theses and the preparation of launch reports and sales force teach-in documents. Prior to working at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Gilbert worked for four and a half years at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for project and capital budgeting and management reporting for Fidelity’s FMR Co. Systems technology group.

Mr. Gilbert graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration with honors from Framingham State College where he was inducted into the Omicron Delta Epsilon honorary economics fraternity. He also received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

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Laurance Fendrick, Vice President, Technology/Database Development and Administration

Mr. Fendrick joined The Corsair Group in 1999. Prior to joining TenantWise, Mr. Fendrick was Director of Software Development for Macy's East, a division of Federated Department Stores. Mr. Fendrick was responsible for the initial design, programming and execution of databases to track merchandise, digital imagery and workflow for the advertising department. He subsequently developed and modified databases for several other divisions of Federated including Burdines in Miami, Macy's West in San Francisco and Rich's in Atlanta. Mr. Fendrick was also responsible for programming modifications and for the administration of the database systems. The last database he developed, "Catch-It!", was an integrated database for the advertising departments of most of Federated's divisions. Mr. Fendrick made all technology related purchasing decisions for Macy's East with an annual budget of $1.5 million. He was a senior manager in the IT Department and reported to the head of the Advertising Department. Mr. Fendrick had the foresight to digitize all of Federated Department Stores' photography and advertising in 1991, one of the first such completely digital studios in the industry. Mr. Fendrick's career with Federated Department Stores spanned two decades. His first position was as a photographer in the advertising department for the Abraham & Straus division of Federated Department Stores, headquartered in Brooklyn. He continued to take on increased responsibility, leading to his last position as Director of Software Development, which he assumed in 1995.

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Marina Diamantides, Associate

Ms. Diamantides joined Tenantwise in 2006 as an Associate. Prior to joining Tenantwise, she was an Associate with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds. While at Morgan Stanley, she assisted in the awards, valuation, processing and distribution of real estate funds to selected shareholders. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ms. Diamantides was the Accountant/Assistant to the President of NC Services, the family holding company for the Rothschild family. While at Rothschild, she provided financial and budgetary forecasting and reporting as well as accounting and tax services for the Rothschild family. Prior to her work with Rothschild, she was a Staff Accountant with Wollin Associates.
Ms. Diamantides graduated with a B.S. in Accounting from Thomas Edison State University and received an M.B.A. in Finance and an M.S. in Accounting from St. Peters College.

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