NTLA Board of Directors
President
Marshall M. Atlas President of Salta Group, Inc. Marshall M. Atlas is the owner and President of Salta Group, Inc. Mr. Atlas has been a licensed Real Estate Broker in Illinois since 1969 and in 1975 founded the Atlas Realty Company which owns and manages commercial and industrial real estate. He began purchasing tax liens in 1986 as a principal in a company and founded Salta Group, Inc. in 1997. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Associate Degree in Real Estate from Roosevelt University.
Vice President
Philip M. Sivin is a Managing Director and a Director of M.D. Sass Investors Services, Inc. and its affiliated companies, and Managing Director of M.D. Sass- Macquarie Financial Strategies Management Company, L.L.C. ("FinStrat"). He was an Equity Analyst for M.D. Sass from 2002 to 2004 and a Vice President of Resurgence Asset Management, L.L.C. (an affiliate of MD Sass focused on distressed investments) from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining the M.D. Sass organization in 2000, he was an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, focusing on domestic and international Securities, Corporate, Real Estate and Investment Management transactions. Mr. Sivin is a member of the Board of Directors of Sterling Chemicals, Inc., Furniture.com, Inc., and HighTower Advisors LLC. He also serves as a member of the Board of Managers of various hedge fund and private equity investee companies of FinStrat. Mr. Sivin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Mr. Sivin also received his M.B.A., with honors, from Columbia Business School with a focus in Finance and Accounting.
Treasurer
Jim Meeks is the President and CEO of MTAG Services. Mr. Meeks has over 24 years of experience in the real estate industry with 16 of those years in specialty asset servicing. He founded MTAG Services in 2010 in a spin-off transaction with Mooring Tax Asset Group. Prior to this, he held various management roles with Mooring Financial Corporation. He joined Mooring Financial Corporation in 1994 as Controller and was appointed Vice President in 1997. He co-founded Mooring Tax Asset Group, an affiliate of Mooring Financial Corporation, and was appointed its President in 1999. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Lien Association and currently serves as the Association Treasurer. He has served as the past President and Secretary of the Association. Mr. Meeks received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech, his CPA certificate in Virginia, and earned an MBA in Finance from George Mason University.
jmeeks@mtagservices.com
www.mtagservices.com
General Counsel
Donald R. Dinan, Esq. is an Attorney with the law offices of Roetzel and Andress located in Washington, D.C. He is the National Tax Lien Association's legal counsel on issues and legislation affecting tax lien auctions, tax sales and tax deed foreclosure proceedings. Mr. Dinan's areas of practice include: international trade, litigation, intellectual property and asset backed securitizations. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia. Mr. Dinan received his undergraduate degree (B.S. Economics, 1971) from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance. He received his law degree (J.D., 1974) from Georgetown University and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1975 (L.L.M., International Economic Law).Mr. Dinan is a member of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Washington International Trade Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association and the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association. He is an Adjunct Professor in International Law at Georgetown University.
Executive Director
Bradley P. Westover was appointed Executive Director of the National Tax Lien Association in October of 2011. Mr. Westover has sixteen years of experience in acquiring and servicing delinquent property taxes. On behalf of institutional investors he has purchased over $1.5 billion from 23 states. Mr. Westover is a recognized authority on tax certificates, tax deeds, and distressed real estate. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University.
bpwestover@gmail.com Phone: 561-449-2484
Board Member
Douglas Q. Gale is the President of REO America, Inc. Doug previously served as Vice President of Operations for TransAm Tax Certificate Corporation. His education includes completion of Florida real estate appraisal courses, Florida real estate sales courses, and a 3-year stint at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for aerospace engineering studies. Doug has been involved with the NTLA since its reorganization in 1999. Personally, Doug is a member of the Altamonte Springs Surf ace Water Advisory Board and enjoys investing in and rehabbing real estate. TransAm Tax Certificate Corporation is a wholly owned affiliate of TransAm Financial Services, Inc. which was organized as a personal financial services organization and has been in business [including its predecessor companies] for over 25 years. TransAm historically has provided a broad range of financial products and services through its various affiliates; also, there is a 20-year tradition of organizing proprietary investment programs for its clients. TransAm's tax certificate programs are the latest in a series of proprietary products that the firm has developed.
Board Member
William Green is the Chief Executive Officer of CCTS Capital LLC. Bill Green invested in CCTS Capital in 2008 and assumed the role of its CEO in July of 2009. CCTS is a specialty finance company focused exclusively on the acquisition and servicing of municipal tax liens in multiple states. Prior to CCTS Capital, Bill founded WSG Partners in 2003, a private equity firm that invests in and actively grows a portfolio of investments in middle market private companies. Prior to WSG Partners, Bill was with Wilmar Industries since founding the company in 1977. For the next twenty-five years he led Wilmar Industries, as its CEO, through organic growth and acquisitions to the nation's 12th largest industrial distribution company in the country. He serves on the Board of Directors Safeguard Industrial as well as the non-profit board of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness.
Board Member
Adam D. Greenberg is the Managing Member of the firm Honig and Greenberg, L.L.C. A 1990 graduate of The American University, and the Rutgers School of Law, Camden (1994), he is admitted to the bars of the State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and has argued pro hac vice in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Greenberg's practice concentrates in tax and mortgage foreclosure, real property and title litigation, and creditor's rights in bankruptcy, and both he and the firm represent certificate holders, municipalities, bankruptcy trustees, lenders, landlords, and foreclosure buyers and sellers, in various matters throughout the State, as well as in transactional matters involving the purchase and sale of portfolios of tax sale certificates and their use as collateral in commercial settings.
Board Member
Robert W. Keyser, Esq. is a partner of the firm Taylor & Keyser LLC. He represents a broad range of businesses, commercial lenders and individuals in real estate and business transactions, commercial lending, work-outs and bankruptcy-related issues. His practice also includes the representation of real estate tax lien investors and commercial lenders in lien foreclosures, transactions, and related litigation. His business practice includes representation of closely-held corporations, partnership and limited liability companies. Mr. Keyser received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College in 1977, and his Juris Doctorate from the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden in 1982. He is admitted to practice before the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to forming his present firm, he was New Jersey Managing Partner for the firm of Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter and Stein of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Mr. Keyser is a member of the Corporate and Business Law, Bankruptcy and Banking Law sections of the New Jersey Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He lectures on bankruptcy and real estate issues, government-backed lending programs, and litigation and bankruptcy issues which confront tax lien investors in New Jersey. Mr. Keyser is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Lien Association. In 1995, President Clinton appointed him as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business, where he specialized in issues of capital formation and availability. In December, 2010, Governor Chris Christie appointed Mr. Keyser to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Tax Lien Finance Corporation. Robert W. Keyser has handled a number of appeals, some of which have resulted in reported decisions, arising out of real estate related cases. They include the Supreme Court decisions in Simon v Rando and Malinowski v Jacobs, and the Appellate Division decisions in Phoenix Funding v Krute, Realty Asset Properties v Oldham, and Coryell LLC v Curry, where he represented amicus curiae National Tax Lien Association. He has been involved in many other appellate matters that are unreported. He resides in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife, Denise, and their four children.
Board Member
Stephen G. Morison is the owner of the tax lien consulting firm, The Morison Companies. Steve Morison joined Plymouth Financial/JP Morgan Chase in 2003 to over see the Banks tax lien acquisitions . From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Morison served as President of National Tax Assistance Corporation, one of the largest purchasers of delinquent real estate tax receivables in the nation. Mr. Morison is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of the Cape Ann Waldorf School. Mr. Morison holds a B.A. from Brown University and earned his M.B.A degree from Babson College.
Board Member
James F. Truitt, Jr., Esq. Attorney at the James F. Truitt, Jr., PA law firm. James F. Truitt, Jr. is an attorney practicing at his law firm located in Timonium, Maryland. Mr. Truitt's areas of practice are limited to real estate transactions and tax sale litigation. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, all Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Truitt received his under graduate degree (B.A. English 1963) from the University of Maryland. He received his law degree (J.D. 1966) from the University of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Truitt is a member of the American Bar Association and the Maryland Bar Association.