Leadership

Chairman

Mark Wittcoff is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Landmark Equity Properties and he has thirty-five years of experience managing every type of property for owners and developers throughout the United States.  Mark has managed 20,000,000 square feet of commercial space for institutional and individual investors.

Beginning in 1987, as a management trainee and leasing manager with Tishman West Companies, he became a general manager with publicly traded REIT Arden Realty, Inc. and later senior portfolio manager at Black Equities Group and chief operating officer of KW Commercial Boston.  Recently, Mark was managing director of investor relations at Standard Management Company, a national real estate syndicator.

Mark is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard Extension School who holds the Certified Fund Manager (CFM) and Real Property Administrator (RPA) designations. He serves as Co-chair of the UCLA Stroke Rescue Program Council of Advocates and he is a member of the UCLA Health System Board and a member of the Jewish National Fund Los Angeles Board.

Phone:  (310) 279-5233

Email:  mrw@landmarkequityproperties.com

President

  Susan Loranger is President of Landmark Equity Properties and she brings over 35 years of commercial real estate experience working with and advising institutional as well as private equity owners.  Susan specializes in maximizing the profitability and value of her clients’ portfolios through the implementation of innovative leasing and marketing strategies, as well as involvement in development, acquisitions, and dispositions.  

During Susan’s tenure as Vice President and Director of Marketing and Leasing for Douglas Emmett for approximately 20 years, Susan managed all asset leasing operations of the Class A office, medical office, and retail real estate portfolio during its growth from 568,000 square feet to approximately 10.5 million square feet, earning her recognition by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the “Most Successful Women in Commercial Real Estate”. 

Susan has concluded more than 3,000 lease transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $6 billion and has represented over 15 million square feet in properties typically ranging in size from 100,000 to 1,000,000 square feet. The tenants ranged from small businesses to many distinguished leaders such as Bank of America, Sony, KB Home, Time, Inc., J. Paul Getty Trust, UCLA Health Systems, Creative Artists Agency, Macerich Company, HealthNet, Moss Adams and iHeartMedia.  Specific office, retail, medical, mixed-use, and industrial properties have been located predominantly in California but have also been in Texas, Tennessee, and Ohio. 

Susan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honors English with Economics from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario Canada. Directly following University, Susan relocated back to the United States, took up residency in Los Angeles, and embarked on her commercial real estate career.

Phone:  (310) 279-5233

Executive Vice President

William “Bill” Hughes is Executive Vice President of Project Management and Consulting for Landmark Equity Properties.  Bill has completed thousands of construction projects over his forty years’ expert experience as a General Contractor specializing in Project Management, Job Cost, Design-Build, and Construction Accounting.

During Bill’s 23 years as Executive Vice President of Douglas Emmett, Inc.’s construction division, Douglas Emmett Builders, he was responsible for 15 million square feet of Class A office, retail, and multi-family properties in greater Los Angeles as well as in Honolulu, Hawaii. As head of the $40 million company, he managed a staff of 30 construction professionals and completed 300 projects annually consisting of all the portfolio’s tenant improvements, building repositions, capital improvements, common area renovations, and seismic renovations. 

Notable projects ranged from industrial site infrastructure developments, Hawaii construction and development operations, ‘tilt up’ construction, office building parks, and high-rise office and residential development and construction.

Bill also managed the Orange County office of Turelk, Inc., (general contractor), for approximately eight years. The primary client was the Irvine Company and notable projects were 14 floors of Pac Tel Cellular, Newport Corporation, Wylie Laboratories, all five towers at the Jamboree Center, ‘moment frame repairs’ on three high rise office buildings, as well as the Chairman of Irvine Company’s, (Donald Bren’s), private offices.

Bill focuses on minimizing cost overhead and transparent pricing while delivering excellent client service and reporting. Pre-construction services, schedule efficiencies, and successful collaboration with designers and architects have also proven to best serve owners’ interests.

Bill studied Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology at the Oklahoma State University and has a California General Contractor’s License.  

Phone:  (310) 678-5783

Senior Vice President

Lisa Gooden began her legal career as a Real Estate Associate with O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles working on property acquisitions, commercial office and industrial leasing; mortgages, ancillary finance transactions, multi- state loan transactions; and representing school districts on public/private joint venture projects from the RFP developer selection, through District board review and contract execution stages. Her aim to work in the public sector and positively impact much needed school construction in Los Angeles led her to join a former client, the Los Angeles Unified School District as Legal Counsel housed in the LAUSD’s Planning & Development Office.  

At LAUSD, she completed joint use and joint venture development agreements, leases, ground leases, equipment financing, school construction contracts, and facilitated on a local school bond initiative to revise the 66 2/3rds requirement to facilitate bond passage. With her assistance to the LAUSD’s Planning & Development Office, the first school bond passed in 30 years leading to actual school construction, and paving the way for other successful school construction bond measures. 

Lisa returned to the private sector after LAUSD, and joined FSR Brokerage, Inc. (aka Fred Sands Realtors), then a privately held company, as a transactional attorney. As an integral member of FSR’s main residential arm, she handled real estate matters for the commercial asset management, franchise, corporate relocation, escrow and title insurance divisions.  Lisa left FSR after FSR’s acquisition by Coldwell Banker and joined Douglas Emmett, Inc. (“DEI”), a publicly traded and self-managed real estate investment trust (then with a 15.3 million square feet portfolio of commercial real estate), as an in-house Leasing Counsel.

Over the course of 14 years with Douglas Emmett, Inc., she generated and enhanced revenue by successfully drafting, negotiating and closing hundreds of commercial office and ground floor office/retail lease transactions across DEI submarkets in Los Angeles and Honolulu from letter of intent through premises construction stages.  

Prior to joining Landmark Equity Properties,  Lisa was a senior attorney at Goodwin Procter LLP, where as a member of the law firm’s Business Law Department and Real Estate Capital Markets Group, she represented landlords and tenants with large and small scale commercial leases and subleases in California.
 

Lisa is a member of the California Bar who received a J.D. with honors (Review of Law & Social Change Journal) from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Communications and Political Science with honors from City University of New York, Queens College.  Additionally, she holds a Certificate in Mediating the Litigated Case from Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. 

Lisa serves on the Board of Directors of Disability Counsel Resource Center, and volunteers as Editor-in-Chief of the Caribbean Literary Festival and as a Docent at the Mildred Mathias Botanical Gardens.
 

Phone:  (323) 899-3747

Vice Chair

  Dr. Laura Wittcoff advises our clients on strategy as Vice Chair and Principal of Landmark Equity Properties. She is an Adjunct Instructor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC and she also teaches in the USC Executive Master of Leadership program. Laura consults with organizations and presents at business conferences in the areas of strategic thinking, creative problem solving, change and culture. 

Laura has developed a method, Gamifying Engagement®, for organizations to capitalize on better understanding and delivering their message to increase their visibility and more recently, developed a podcast, Small & Gutsy to support nonprofits and social impact organizations in their efforts to spread their message. 

Laura previously served as Adjunct Assistant Professor in USC’s School of Social Work and she is a former Associate Director for JRI Health’s Realize Resources, a capacity and leadership building practice. At JRI Health, she designed and directed all areas of organizational capacity development, focusing on strategic planning and change management where she values building and coaching internal teams to lead change efforts. 

Laura received her doctorate from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, her master’s degree in Social Work from Boston University, and she completed a post-graduate fellowship in Organization Development from the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. She is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type indicator. 

Laura was a key contributor to the team that was awarded the Brandon Hall Award recognizing advances in Learning and Development and was the recipient of the Jane Addams Award at USC, recognizing the faculty member selected by graduating Master of Social Work students for providing exceptional academic, administrative and moral support. 

Laura serves as Co-Chair of the UCLA Stroke Rescue Council of Advocates and she is a member of the UCLA Health System Board. She is as a member of the Jewish National Fund’s World Chairman’s Council, Go North West Task Force and Media and Content Advisory Committee. 

Phone:  (310) 279-5233

Vice President

Max Levin joined Landmark Equity Properties in 2020.  He received a BA in Financial Economics from Columbia University where he formed his own hedge fund that raised $250,000 and he recently won the New York City Founder's Live Pitch Competition.  Prior to attending Columbia, Max served as a Special Forces Paratrooper in Israel's Defense Forces.  In 2014, he received the Purple Heart and the Defense Minister's Award of Excellence for his actions in combat as a squad commander in Operation Protective Edge.  Max is the author of Under the Stretcher, a book about his experience in the Gaza-Israeli war published by Red Penguin Books.

Phone:  (314) 435-9377 

Chairman, Standard Management Company

Consultant and Senior Advisor

Sam Freshman advises our clients on acquisitions and financing and he is Chairman and Founder of Standard Management Company, a national real estate investment firm that he established in 1961.  Mr. Freshman founded and was the managing partner of the law firm Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein, which is now the Los Angeles office of K & L Gates.  Mr. Freshman is an expert on real estate investment and syndication who served as an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at the USC Marshall School of Business, and as an expert witness in over eighty cases.  In addition, Mr. Freshman is the author of numerous articles on real estate matters.  His book, Principles of Real Estate Syndication, is in its sixth edition as a widely used text in many business schools.  He is Chairman Emeritus of Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, (SPIRE) an organization of Stanford University alumni working in the real estate industry.  Mr. Freshman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and his law degree from the Stanford Law School.

Email:  sfreshman@standardmanagement.com 

CEO & CIO, Clearmark Partners, LLC

Consultant and Senior Advisor

George Koo advises our clients on real estate investments and finance and he originally joined Landmark Equity Properties in 2016 as a Consultant advising on real estate and mortgage matters.  He is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Clearmark Partners, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that he founded in 2009.  George is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).  He received a Master in International Relations from Harvard University, and an MBA in Finance and a BS in Accounting from St. John’s University.  George is currently a PhD candidate in Business Information Technology, specializing in Machine Learning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Previously, he has held many senior management positions in investment management and banking and he has 35 years of real estate investment management experience.

Email:  gkoo@clearmarkpartners.com 

Director of Public Relations, Club Nirvana Consultant and Senior Advisor

Michael Dotterer joined Landmark Equity Properties in 2016 as Senior Vice President and he advises our clients on property marketing strategy, project leasing and social media engagement.  Mike has 30 years of experience in marketing as the founder of 401 Network and multiple successful ventures.  He received a BA in Public Policy from Stanford University, an MPA from Columbia University and studied economic history at the London School of Economics.  Mike is the former Vice President of the United Nations Business Council and past President of the NFL Alumni Northern California Chapter. He is a member of the 1984 NFL Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Raiders and a member of the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Phone:  (415) 894-2432

Consultant and Director of Operations

Bill Vicente joined Landmark Equity Properties in 2016 as Director of Operations following his retirement from 33 years of service as a police officer.  He received numerous awards for his service in law enforcement and he has extensive investigative experience.  Bill supports the firm's due diligence assignments and he represents our client's interests with municipal government agencies.  He has served as a private security consultant to office and retail building owners since 1980.  He received a BA in Music Education from Webster University and he is an accomplished professional musician.

Phone:  (505) 435-6007

Consultant and Operations Manager

Alberto Tapia joined Landmark Equity Properties in 2020 as Operations Manager for Property Safety and Security. He is a University of Southern California Police Officer and a Reserve Los Angeles Police Officer with 15 years of service. Alberto is a California Certified Cities for Peace Ambassador for at-risk gang intervention programs with specialized training in community relations and crime prevention. He received a certificate in Asset Management from the Building Owners and Managers Institute and he received a Criminal Justice certificate from College of the Canyons, and he is a former Police Youth Cadet Advisor. Additionally, Alberto is a member of the Los Angeles Police Department Boxing Team who competes in charity events for the benefit of Special Olympics and City of Hope Cancer Research Hospital.    

Phone:  (310) 279-5233