Mr. De Mata has over 17 years of accounting, financial reporting and real estate experience. Prior to joining CV, he was an assurance senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) serving various types of public and private real estate clients including real estate investment trusts, real estate opportunity funds, multifamily, senior living, homebuilders, and hospitality companies (including timeshares and hotels, both from owner and operator sides). He has experience with SEC reporting and filings of registration statements, XBRL, comfort letters, purchase price allocations, valuation of real estate projects, construction contract accounting, lease accounting, consolidations, and coordination, scoping and testing for various entities that are required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Accounting from California State University, Fullerton and is a Certified Public Accountant with the California Board of Accountancy.