Company: BHM
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: S-11/A
Source: 0001104659-25-113674
Chunk: 194

Company: Bluerock Homes Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: S-11/A
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ice President, Operations. Mr. DiFranco served as Executive Vice President, Operations of Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc.
from November 2018 to October 2022, with responsibility for the operational and financial performance of its multi-family housing
portfolio. Previously, from 2005 to 2016, Mr. DiFranco held several roles of increasing responsibilities with Apartment &
Investment Management Company (NYSE: AIV), including serving four years as Senior Vice President of Financial Operations. From 2016 to
2018, Mr. DiFranco served as Senior Vice President of Financial Operations with The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, overseeing
Revenue Management, Business Intelligence and Portfolio Management. Mr. DiFranco received a B.A. in Business from Texas A&M
University, College Station, an M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. in Information Systems from The University
of Colorado, Denver.

Jason Emala, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary. Mr. Emala serves as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of our Manager, and as our Chief Legal Officer
and Secretary. Mr. Emala has served as Secretary of Bluerock Total Income+ Real Estate Fund, as well as General Counsel of both
Bluerock Capital Markets and Bluerock Asset Management since May 2018. In addition, Mr. Emala has served as Secretary of Bluerock
High Income Institutional Credit Fund since 2022, and as Secretary of Bluerock Industrial Growth REIT, Inc. and its external manager,
Bluerock Industrial Manager, LLC and as Chief Legal Officer of its external manager, Bluerock Industrial Manager, LLC, since 2021. Mr. Emala
has served as General Counsel of Bluerock since October 2022. Prior to joining Bluerock in May 2018, Mr. Emala held senior
legal positions at a number of sponsors/broker-dealers in the alternative investment space, including Cantor Fitzgerald from June 2016
to May 2018. Prior to these roles, Mr. Emala was an associate at international law firms White & Case, LLP and
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Mr. Emala earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, College
Park, a J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University Law School and an LLM in Securities and Financial Regulation from the
Georgetown University Law Center.

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