Mr. Stephen Kaplan is the CEO of EBS, Inc. He holds a real estate Broker’s license in California and has worked in the national commercial real estate industry since 1995. Early in his career Mr. Kaplan provided acquisition due diligence, investigative analysis and recommendations to regional real estate organizations. His portfolio responsibility includes regional and site specific market analysis, acquisition negotiation and pre-closing due diligence, supervision and recommendation of onsite and offsite operation and management of the commercial properties. In recent years, Mr. Kaplan has had primary acquisition, operational management supervision and sales for commercial real estate income properties totaling more than two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000). The commercial real estate included office buildings, industrial office warehouse complexes, mobile home parks, and self-storage facilities. The properties were located in Nevada, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, California and Tennessee. Mr. Kaplan currently owns interests in and manages or oversees more than fifty self storage facilities located throughout the United States, including in Killeen, Texas; Tyler, Texas; St. Augustine, Florida; Pensacola, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Bossier City, Louisiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; and Martinsville, Virginia, among others, and provides onsite and offsite managerial and financial supervision. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice with specialty in investigative research and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

Mr. Eric Kaplan is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Equity Based Services as well as All American Property Management. He is a licensed Financial Advisor and has extensive property management experience. He holds a Series 7 Securities license, a Series 66 Financial Advisors license, a Managed Futures/Options license, and a Life Insurance license. Eric Kaplan also has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. Eric Kaplan negotiated the acquisition of and performed the pre-closing due diligence inspections for commercial real estate income properties totaling more than $200 million.   In addition to overseeing and managing all aspects of EBS' current portfolio of 60 properties, Eric Kaplan also personally negotiated the purchase of over 40% of the sites acquired in 2008, including properties in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.

Mr. Troy Downing is a Manager at EBS. Mr. Downing started his career in academia as a Research Scientist with the New York University Media Research Lab and eventually as an instructor in the NYU Information Technology Institute. During this time, Mr. Downing was also writing books that were published by IDG Books, McMillan and O’Reilly and Associates, among others. With a strong entrepreneurial drive, Mr. Downing left NYU to found a one-person technology company, WebCal, Inc. WebCal quickly grew from a one-person startup into a fast-moving technology company. After bringing a handful of colleagues and acquaintances together from NYU and other media companies, this small group of entrepreneurs merged WebCal with the fledgling Yahoo! Inc. in a mutually beneficial pooling of interests merger. During Mr. Downing’s time at Yahoo!, he began investing in Silicon Valley technology startups and eventually started hosting pitch sessions and performing technical due-diligence with small venture funds that placed seed-level financing with nascent startup companies. In mid 2001, Mr. Downing left the technology field to pursue personal interests in real estate investments. Deeply affected after September 11, 2001, Mr. Downing felt a need to give back to his Country and took time off to join the US Air Force / Air National Guard. After two tours to Afghanistan with a Search and Rescue Unit, 200 combat sorties, and 20 personnel recoveries, Mr. Downing once again turned his focus to Commercial Real Estate. Mr. Downing is a principal fund manager with EBS and Pilot Equity Partners, LLC and brought his experience with technology funds and applied it to Private Equity Commercial Real Estate Funds. Mr. Downing has been heavily involved in fundraising, deal structuring, due-diligence, and fund structuring and has closed more than $125 Million in Commercial Real Estate deals. In addition to his passion for Commercial Real Estate and Private Equity Funds, Mr. Downing is an avid aviator, golfer, and father of four. He spends his free time snowboarding, fishing, hiking and pretending to be a farmer with a small, 2,000 vine vineyard in northern San Diego County. Mr. Downing also is an active supporter of the MS Society, The Big Sky Institute, The Fragile X Foundation, Eagle Mount, The Cancer Society, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and various other worthy causes.