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Meet the Executive Team

Dean Gorenc
BA, CHRP, AMP | CEO

Dean has over 10 years of senior management experience and holds a CHRP and AMP designation. Dean was in the private lending industry as National Director of Sales, prior to owning UrbanStar. His strengths include fundraising, product development, dealing with investors and equity capital providers at an executive and board level. Dean has raised over $500 million in a wholesale and retail capacity during this time.

Dean is a graduate from the University of Calgary. Prior to embarking on his career in real estate, he worked as an organizational, training and development specialist. He has specialized in startup companies, which have included Canadian Horizons, Westjet Airlines, ZIP Air, and Destina.ca. Dean also assisted several Executive teams with change management initiatives; the companies have included Halliburton and Air Canada.

Dean is also a Mortgage Broker operating his mortgage brokerage as UrbanStar Mortgages.

Arata Matsushita
PRESIDENT ASIA PACIFIC

Arata graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in economics. With over 30 years of financial industry experience, Arata has worked as a sales group head and analyst at such firms as; Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), Lehman Brothers, UBS and Scotiabank. While based in Tokyo, Arata has been an overseas investment advisor with a British asset advisory firm since 2009. Arata joined UrbanStar in 2015.

Justine Peterson
MANAGER OF INVESTOR RELATIONS, PARALEGAL

Justine joins UrbanStar with over 14 years of paralegal experience specializing in real estate, corporate litigation, aboriginal law and insurance defence. Justine’s extensive background and experience in clientele handling will assist UrbanStar in managing all investor related inquiries. She will also manage marketing, business development and all social media as UrbanStar continues to grow.

Jennie Chiang
CORPORATE CONTROLLER

Jennie is responsible for overall operations of accounting, administration, financial reporting, payroll, and securities offerings of Urbanstar Group of Companies. Prior to joining UrbanStar, she worked as managers with Canadian and international banks, corporate accountant with a technology company and consultant for a mid – size oil corporation. She also worked in public practice providing tax services for individual and private corporations. She graduated in Business Administration from Dundee College of Commerce, Dundee, Scotland.

UrbanStar Team: Originally private real estate investors themselves, their inspiration was to create a real estate based investment company that places the investor first.

Dean Gorenc, CEO UrbanStar