Experience

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  Simon Segal

  • Principal

    • Jan 1970 - Present

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  Florida Real Estate of Miami Corp

  • Miami, Florida

  • President

    • Oct 1983 - Jun 2020
    • Miami, Florida

    We manage a company specializing in International Real Estate and Mortgage Brokering. We market South Florida Real Estate properties all across Europe, the Caribbean, as well as Central and South America. Properties include commercial properties (shopping centers, industrial, and office/warehouse/flex-space), land for development in commercial areas, land acreage for future development and land banking in growth areas. We develop properties for our clients, taking them through the following phases: financial analysis, modeling and forecasting(including tax effects, both domestic & foreign), land acquisition, architectural design, governmental permitting, construction financing, construction, pre-leasing, full occupancy, final economic stabilization, permanent financing, final property disposition and/or sale. Mortgage financing vehicles include permanent loans, construction loans, and CMBS’s (Commercial mortgage backed securities). Individual and corporate venture capital investors are mostly from Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and the Caribbean. Contacts are best made thru local Ivy League alumni associations providing access to the highest income earners of each country. Junior Chamber International directories are also used in this endeavor, as well as local and national Chambers of Commerce. An impressive database of international investors has been developed, comprised of prominent leaders of industry and government.

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  Florida International University

  • Miami, Florida

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Sep 1988 - Dec 2004
    • Miami, Florida

    GRADUATE LEVELFall 1989-Fall 2002: Florida International University, Miami, FL, College of Business Administration, Finance Dept.: Fall 1989: Teaching Assistant, Financial Modeling and Forecasting (FIN 6455) Fall 2001 & Fall 2002: Adjunct Professor, Seminar in International Real Estate (REE6935)UNDERGRADUATE LEVELFall 1988-Fall 2003: Florida International University, Miami, FL, College of Business Administration, Finance Dept.: Fall 1988: Teaching Assistant, Financial Management (FIN 3403) Winter 1989 & Winter 1990: Adjunct Professor, Financial Management (FIN3403) Summer B 2000 & Winter 2001 & Summer B 2001: Adjunct Professor, Real Estate Analysis (REE 4043) Fall 2001 & Fall 2002: Adjunct Professor, Special Topics: International Real Estate (REE 4930) Fall 2003 & Fall 2004: Adjunct Professor, International Real Estate (REE4956)

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  S.S.Investments, Inc.

  • Miami, Florida

  • President

    • Jul 1976 - Sep 1983
    • Miami, Florida

    We specialized in International Real Estate and Mortgage Brokering. We marketed South Florida Real Estate properties all across Europe, and the Caribbean, as well as Central and South America. Properties included apartment condominiums which were in high demand, especially during the oil crisis years of the 1980's. During these years, oil-rich Venezuela was one of our best Market Areas. Our services included financial analysis, modeling and forecasting, obtaining financing, property management and final property disposition for offshore individual and corporate venture capital investors. Mortgage financing vehicles included permanent loans and construction loans.Other properties included apartment complexes, office buildings, and speculative land. Other investors were from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, El Salvador, Panama, and Netherlands Antilles. Contacts were made thru local Ivy League alumni associations providing access to the highest income earners of each county. Junior Chambers International Directors were also used in these endeavors. Also local as well as national Chambers of Commerce. An impressive database of international venture capital investors was developed; all leaders of industry and government.We also specialized in Financial Consulting of Foreclosed Properties during periods of bad Real Estate Cycles, turning a poor economic environment for real estate into one full of profitable economic opportunities for our liquid investors ( i.e. foreclosure sales required cash “in-hand”, in most instances).

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  Compu-Time, Inc.

  • Miami, Fortlauderdale and Palm Beach

  • Computer Marketing Representative

    • Apr 1973 - Jun 1976
    • Miami, Fortlauderdale and Palm Beach

    I worked as a Marketing Representative throughout Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, (Florida) marketing and servicing customers in the Time-Sharing applications of Computers. Customers included: Engineers (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, IBM Computer Engineers (Bocaraton, FL), Motorola Engineers (Boynton Beach, FL), Southern Bell Engineers, and Florida Power and Light Engineers); Contractors (Critical Path Method of Scheduling (CPM), Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Job-cost Control, and Payrolls); Manufacturers of Building Materials (Concrete, Steel, Lumber, Gang Nails and Trusses); Real Estate Developers (Financial Analysis, Modeling and Forecasting Site Selection, Sales Projections, and Cost Control Reports).