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Regency Affiliates, Inc. Officers
Laurence S. Levy - Chief Executive Officer
LAURENCE S. LEVY has been our chairman of the board,
president and Chief Executive Officer since October 2002. In
June 1986, Mr. Levy co-founded Hyde Park Holdings, Inc.,a
private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts,
and has been its chairman of the board since that date. In
March 1991, Mr. Levy acquired Warehouse Associates L.P., a
private logistics provider, and has served as its chairman
of the board since that time. In April 1999, Mr. Levy and
John Hancock Financial established PFI Resource Management
LP and Mr. Levy has served as manager since that date. PFT
Resource Management is an investor in the Private Funding
Initiative program in the
United Kingdom
which is privatizing state infrastructure assets. In October
1999, Mr. Levy, together wits DLJ Real Estate Capital
Partners II, formed a predecessor of Ozburn-Hessey
Logistics, LLC. Since that time, Mr. Levy has served as a
director of, and consultant to, Ozburn-Hesse Logistics,
which is an independent logistics company. In January 2000,
Mr. Levy, in partnership with John Hancock Financial,
acquired Derby Industries LLC, a leading sub-assembler to
the appliance industry. Since that time, Mr. Levy has served
as chairman of the board of Derby Industries LLC.In December
2002, Mr. Levy, in partnership with Macquarie Bank, acquired
Parking Company of America Airports LLC, an off-airport
parking company. Since that time, Mr. Levy has served as a
director of Parking Company of America Airports. From August
1991 until May 1999, Mr. Levy was chief executive officer of
High Voltage Engineering Corporation, a diversified
industrial and manufacturing company, and from March 1988
until January 2003 served as a member of the board of
directors. Mr. Levy received a Bachelor of Commerce degree
and a Bachelors of Accountancy degree from the
University
of
Witwatersrand
in
Johannesburg
,
South Africa
, and an M.B.A. from
Harvard
University
and graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is also a Chartered
Accountant (
South Africa
).
Neil N. Hasson - Chief Financial Officer
Neil is currently a private real estate investor. In his present capacity, he has
acquired over Ł250 million of commercial real estate in the UK in the last three
years, as well as acquiring strategic stakes in real estate operating companies in
the UK, Europe and the US. Neil’s clients are predominantly
"high net worth families". Previously, Neil was the head of European Real Estate for DLJ Real
Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”), a $660 million real estate opportunity fund
managed by Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Neil joined DLJ as Managing
Director in New York in January 1995, where he was one of three founding
partners. The gross acquisition cost of real estate acquired by the fund was in
excess of $2 billion. Neil moved to London in the summer of 1998, and was
responsible for investing $70 million of equity for RECP in four major
transactions.
Prior to DLJ, Neil worked for Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Tokyo.
Neil currently serves as a non-executive director of Sterling Centrecorp, a real
estate company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Neil holds an MBA (with distinction) from the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering (First Class Honours) from the University of
Cape Town, South Africa.
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