Speakers

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  • Nick Aileo

    Director of Acquisitions
    Wharton Equity Partners

    Nick Aileo serves as director of acquisitions for Wharton Equity Partners and is responsible for the sourcing and execution of the firm’s industrial acquisitions and development opportunities. Before joining the company, he was a member of the acquisitions team at Saxum Real Estate. He began his career in investment sales with Avison Young, focused on multiple asset classes within the Philadelphia market. Aileo received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Villanova University.

  • Ryan Bain

    Vice Chairman
    CBRE

    Ryan Bain serves as the vice chairman for CBRE's Institutional Properties team, based in Chicago, and covers the North Central Region for National Partners. With a focus in the industrial and logistics sector, Bain specializes in assisting institutional, private and corporate clients in dispositions, acquisitions and equity capital sourcing. Since joining CBRE in 2002, Bain and his team have facilitated over 600 transactions worth more than $25 billion, spanning over 300 million square feet. In addition, they have successfully raised over $6 billion for joint venture, new development, and new platform initiatives.

  • Kelly Beaudreau-Hwang

    Senior Project Manager/Principal
    BL Companies

    Kelly Beaudreau-Hwang is a licensed architect with over 30 years’ experience in a wide range of project types. Since joining BL in 2017, she has been entirely focused on industrial architecture. Beaudreau-Hwang is responsible for the large-scale portion of BL’s industrial projects and has been responsible for more than $65 million in projects. She has been instrumental in the growth of BL’s industrial portfolio by developing strong relationships with clients and team members.

  • Liz Berthelette, CRE

    Head of Northeast Research & National Life Science Research
    Newmark

    Liz Berthelette is a seasoned commercial real estate researcher and economist who serves as head of Northeast and National life science research at Newmark. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Berthelette is an experienced presenter who is often quoted by local, regional and national publications.

  • Brad Bohler

    Principal and Branch Manager
    Bohler

    As principal and branch manager of Bohler’s Warren, New Jersey, office, Brad Bohler is focused on building a dynamic design team to help developers identify and act on opportunities across the region. His impressive career in land development consulting, site design, and permitting position him as an industry leader. Bohler actively contributes to project management, fosters client relationships, and plays a crucial role in staff development, steering the strategic growth of the firm across the state of New Jersey. His portfolio of experience includes industrial, commercial, institutional and residential developments.

  • Michael Brazeal

    Development Transaction Manager
    CenterPoint Properties

    Michael Brazeal is a manager of development transactions at CenterPoint Properties where he is responsible for the acquisition, entitlement, development and leasing process for the Central Region. Brazeal pursues new opportunities throughout Chicago, Texas and Denver. Previously, he had the role of senior investments associate at Becknell Industrial, assisting in the pursuit of new development opportunities nationwide.

  • Mike Brennan

    Chairman and Managing Principal
    Brennan Investment Group, LLC

    Michael Brennan is a co-founder, chairman and managing principal of Brennan Investment Group. With a 33-year career dedicated to industrial real estate, Brennan has orchestrated more than $14 billion in industrial real estate transactions and is a sought-after industry expert. In the 14 years at Brennan, his leadership has helped grow Brennan into the second-largest private industrial real estate owner in the U.S. – an entrepreneurially led and institutionally managed national platform supported by 17 regional offices from coast to coast.

  • Matt Brodnik

    Chief Investment Officer
    EQT Exeter

    Matt Brodnik is Chief Investment Officer for EQT Exeter's North American industrial real estate investment platform. Brodnik joined Exeter Property Group, now EQT Exeter, in 2008. Prior to joining EQT Exeter, he worked as director of finance for Preferred Unlimited, a commercial real estate and mining investment firm based in the Philadelphia Area. Prior to Preferred, Brodnik was part of the healthcare real estate consulting team at Hammes Company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Economics from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Political Science from Villanova University.

  • Kate Nolan Bryden, LEED AP BD+C

    Senior Vice President
    MRP Industrial LLC

    Kate Nolan Bryden is a senior vice president at MRP Industrial and is responsible for new project pursuits, land entitlements, due diligence, and project management development activities in Maryland. She has nearly 20 years of experience in industrial real estate development having managed over eight million square feet of ground-up development in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Prior to joining MRP Industrial in 2017, Bryden served as principal of AMK Partners, development manager at Ryan Development, and project engineer for The Whiting-Tuner Contracting Company.

    She serves on NAIOP’s National Board of Directors and the NAIOP Maryland Chapter Board of Directors in addition to several philanthropic boards. Bryden holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a MS in Real Estate from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.

  • Emily Cannon

    Chief Investment Officer
    Dogwood Industrial Properties

    Emily Cannon serves on the board and as CIO of Dogwood Industrial Properties, a TPG Real Estate platform that acquires, owns and operates high-quality infill industrial real estate in growth-oriented, core markets across the United States. Since Cannon joined Dogwood at its inception in 2019, the portfolio has deployed across three of TPG’s Real Estate funds totaling ~$12.5B in equity, with Dogwood purchasing 15.6M SF with $1.8B of GAV. The team invests across 30+ markets across the U.S. via existing asset/portfolio acquisitions, forward transactions and LP development partnerships.

  • Michael Copella

    Senior Managing Director
    CBRE

    Mike Copella serves as senior managing director of CBRE’s Advisory Services in the Eastern Midwest region. In this role, he leads approximately 750 professionals and is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the company’s Advisory Services business lines including leasing, sales, debt, property management and valuation in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Pittsburgh. In addition, he has led CBRE’s Columbus office for almost a decade, growing it to be the market leading commercial real estate firm in Central Ohio. Prior to his management responsibilities, he was a brokerage professional at CBRE where he focused on tenant representation and established a particularly strong position as one of the top real estate professionals serving healthcare clients in Columbus.

  • Chris Copenhaver, SIOR

    Senior Director
    Cushman & Wakefield

    Chris Copenhaver is a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s industrial and logistics service line and co-lead of the company's food and beverage advisory group, specializing in representing owners and occupiers of industrial real estate with a concentration in food production and refrigerated distribution centers. He leverages Cushman & Wakefield’s real estate services platform and the food and beverage advisory team to execute client requirements throughout the U.S. in primary and secondary markets.

  • Jamie Cox, P.E.

    Project Manager
    Kimley-Horn

    Jamie Cox has worked on a wide range of industrial and commercial projects, including many data centers, industrial facilities, and mixed-use developments. He has managed and successfully delivered on several data center projects, with extensive experience conducting initial due diligence, entitlement planning and comprehensive conceptual master planning. Proficient in data center campus layout and design, Cox has navigated the regulatory landscape, collaborating with local, state and federal agencies to secure approvals for intricate projects.

  • Amy Curry

    Chief Strategy Officer
    Dermody Properties

    Amy Curry is Chief Strategy Officer of Dermody Properties with responsibility to drive growth in the company’s existing and future development and joint venture platforms. She is a member of the Dermody Properties Executive and Investment Committee and brings with her approximately 22 years of experience in commercial real estate. Prior to joining Dermody Properties, Curry was an executive vice president for Hillwood where she held multiple regional leadership roles sourcing and stabilizing industrial joint ventures, developments and acquisitions. Curry has held board member positions on the Georgia chapters for NAIOP, CSCMP and CCIM. She is a member of NAIOP’s E-Commerce 1 National Forum and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Real Estate from Georgia State University.

  • Beth Demba

    Head of Capital Deployment, East Region
    Prologis

    Beth Demba is the head of capital deployment in the East region at Prologis, focusing on the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. Demba was previously a managing director at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) overseeing the industrial and data center business across the U.S. Prior to joining CPP Investments, she was a managing director at Hines and spent ten years in portfolio management for a series of closed-end value-added office vehicles. Demba spent four years in equity research, having worked for Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and Credit Suisse. She graduated from Smith College with a BA in Economics and received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Demba is a member of New York Women Executives in Real Estate (WX), NAIOP and a council member of the Urban Land Institute.

  • Lisa DeNight

    Managing Director, National Industrial Research
    Newmark

    Lisa DeNight serves as managing director of national industrial research at Newmark, where she oversees Newmark’s full suite of industrial research offerings and focuses on timely thought leadership and data analysis. Based in Miami, Florida, DeNight frequently speaks on topics related to industrial real estate for national audiences and publications.

  • Dave Fazekas

    Partner and Head of Ares Industrial Management
    Ares Management LLC

    Dave Fazekas is a partner and head of Ares Industrial Management (AIM) in Ares Real Estate, where he focuses on U.S. industrial real estate equity. Fazekas is also a member of the Ares Real Estate Global Investment Committee, the Combined Industrial Advisors Committee, and a director on the board of ARES Industrial REIT. Prior to joining Ares in 2021, he was a senior managing director, Chief Investment Officer, Industrial, at Black Creek Group. Fazekas is a member of NAIOP and the New York University Real Estate Alumni Association. He holds a B.S. from Rutgers University in Business and Economics and an M.S. from New York University in Real Estate Finance and Investments.

  • Erik Foster, CCIM

    Principal, Capital Markets
    Avison Young

    Erik is focused on executing real estate industrial capital markets advisory services across his firm’s global platform. He is proven leader with over 25 years of experience and $10 billion in completed transactions, including dispositions of multi-market portfolios, global logistics properties and sale-leasebacks of corporate owned industrial facilities. As the head of industrial capital markets, he leads Avison Young’s national team that represents institutions, private equity, developers and privately held commercial investors in diverse industrial assignments that spans the entire industrial asset lifecycle, from early-stage advisory and development equity raises, to asset disposition.

  • Grant Goldman

    Executive Vice President, Development
    Ambrose

    With nearly 20 years of development and construction management experience, Grant Goldman serves as Ambrose’s executive vice president of development. In this role, he is responsible for providing overall leadership to Ambrose’s legal, asset management and development operations teams, from land acquisition to construction to leasing and dispositions, as well as the company’s market expansion strategy. Since 2020, Ambrose’s industrial developments have totaled more than $2 billion, with a projected 2024 development volume of $650 million.

  • David Greek

    Managing Partner
    Greek Real Estate Partners

    As managing partner, David Greek is responsible for the strategic direction of Greek Real Estate Partners. With over a decade of real estate experience, Greek spearheads new business initiatives and project acquisitions. He manages site selection, valuation modeling, securing financing, negotiating transactions, and packaging deals for clients. Greek is an active member of NAIOP, the Developers Political Action Committee of NJ, Georgetown Steer’s Center Advisory Board, and is a frequent guest lecturer at Rutgers and his alma mater, Georgetown University.

  • Brandi Hanback

    Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Development and Head of FTZ, Trade & Logistics
    Rockefeller Group

    Brandi Hanback has a direct leadership role in overseeing the company’s national development platform, focused on increasing activity in existing markets and expanding into new markets. She also oversees the company’s longstanding Foreign Trade Zone division, which consults with tenants and clients on complex international trade, logistics and customs matters. Prior to joining Rockefeller Group in 2003, Hanback was a senior manager and area leader at KPMG LLP in Washington, D.C. Hanback also formerly served as executive director and chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones. She holds a juris doctorate from Catholic University and a master’s degree in international transactions from George Mason University.

  • David Hickey

    Global Managing Director
    Hickey & Associates

    David Hickey is the global managing director of Hickey and Associates, a leader in location strategy, labor analytics, supply chain and logistics optimization, and government incentives advisory. He leads key client accounts and major initiatives for the firm around the world. In recent years, Hickey has led the firm’s robust expansion in the dynamic Asia Pacific region and navigated the growth strategy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to being a senior leader of the firm, Hickey managed legislative and regulatory affairs for an international organization representing business and agriculture cooperatives and served as a policy advisor for a member of the United States Senate. Now based in Phoenix, he is a frequent contributor in industry media and a featured speaker at business, real estate, and economic development events globally.

  • Justin Horowitz

    Debt & Equity Broker
    Cooper Horowitz, LLC

    Justin Horowitz works at Cooper Horowitz, a family-owned capital markets advisory firm, where he specializes in debt and equity placement throughout the country. Prior to Cooper Horowitz, Horowitz worked at Savills Studley on the New York investment sales team, and worked at Brickman where he focused on the management and leasing of their New York office portfolio.

  • Sonya Huffman

    Chief Administrative Officer
    Link Logistics Real Estate

    Sonya Huffman is Link’s chief administrative officer, responsible for ensuring operational excellence across the company’s nationwide portfolio of real estate assets. She directs critical firm-wide priorities including property management, customer experience, sustainability, transactions, customer onboarding and people operations.

    Prior to the formation of Link in 2019, Huffman served as managing director of operations at Gramercy Property Trust, an investor in and asset manager of industrial and office real estate, for more than eight years. She previously held the role of senior vice president of operations at American Financial Realty Trust and began her real estate career with Rite Aid Corporation.

    She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware and is the executive sponsor of Ascend, Link’s women’s empowerment network. She is a mother of five and, when not working, spends her time promoting autism awareness, baking, exercising, and enjoying her family.

  • Ryan Kavanaugh

    Vice President
    JP Morgan Asset Management

    Ryan Kavanaugh is a vice president within J.P. Morgan Asset Management Real Estate Americas, where he is responsible for acquisitions across asset classes in the northeast and the platform’s IOS programs nationally. Additionally, Kavanaugh supports the platform’s efforts to evaluate and identify alternative or emerging strategies. He joined J.P. Morgan in 2015 and has held various positions across asset management and acquisitions.

  • Dan Kennedy

    CEO
    NAIOP New Jersey Chapter

    Dan Kennedy serves as CEO of the New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP where he oversees all operations. He also serves as executive director of NJ Developer's Political Action Committee (DPAC), which works to generate contributions to help support those legislators, candidates and public officials who understand the vital contributions the commercial real estate development industry makes to communities throughout New Jersey, and the state's overall economy. He is a licensed professional planner with a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Delaware.

  • Rob Kossar

    Vice Chairman, Head of Northeast Industrial Region
    JLL

    Robert Kossar is the market leader for JLL’s industrial business in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Southern Connecticut. While brokerage is his primary focus, Kossar is also responsible for “One JLL” in the region, which brings together Brokerage, Capital Markets, Workplace Solutions, Property Management and Project and Development Services. Kossar is the chairman of the Industrial Executive Committee for the Americas, focused on industrial brokerage vision while defining objectives and outcomes for future growth and innovation in the Americas. In addition to his local leadership responsibilities, he remains an active broker, representing the firm’s most important clients.

  • Mike Larsen

    Managing Director – Industrial
    InSite Real Estate

    Mike Larsen serves as the managing director of industrial at InSite Real Estate, a private vertically integrated full-service commercial real estate acquisition and development firm, and is responsible for leading the industrial platform. He is focused on utilizing strategic relationships, and uses his national market knowledge and extensive development experience to capitalize on business opportunities in target markets throughout the U.S. Larsen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University and a Master of Business Administration in Real Estate Investment and Finance from DePaul University.

  • Greg Lindsay

    Senior Advisor
    Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab

    Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist and speaker. He is currently a senior advisor to the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, where he assists private organizations and public institutions such as NATO and the United States Secret Service in identifying, disrupting, and mitigating future threats. He was most recently an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, exploring the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale. He is also a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, a senior advisor to Climate Alpha, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was previously the urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator — the director of applied research at NewCities, and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion. Greg is a two-time Jeopardy! champion (and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson).

     

  • Clark Machemer

    Senior Managing Director, Industrial Group
    Crow Holdings Development
    NAIOP Vice Chair, Government Affairs

    Clark Machemer leads Crow Holdings Development’s industrial business in the Northeast, overseeing site selection and acquisition, team building, securing project entitlements, project design, construction, and project capitalization. Throughout his 20-year career, Machemer has been involved in the leasing and development of more than 17 million square feet of industrial space, one million square feet of office space, and 250 residential units. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Law & Public Policy from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University. Machemer is past president of NAIOP New Jersey and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the NAIOP National Corporate Board. He is also chair of the Board of Trustees of Pillar Care and has been recognized by NJBIZ Magazine as a member of its “Real Estate Power 50” multiple times.

  • Kevin McGowan, CCIM, SIOR

    President
    McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors

    Kevin McGowan is the founder of McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors. He is a Broker of Record in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Idaho, Utah, Ohio and Maine. Since 2004, McGowan has been an active industrial broker, earning both the SIOR and CCIM designations. He guides corporations nationwide to make key decisions for their distribution locations. This work was initially local to the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey but has grown to serve clients nationally and internationally. McGowan founded the SIOR Independent Broker Group in 2011, providing his firm with an international network of top-quality broker partners. McGowan is a Fellow of IAMC (Industrial Asset Management Council).

  • Michael Nachamkin

    Managing Partner
    Metrix Real Estate Services, LLC

    Michael Nachamkin is an Ohio University graduate with a degree in music (1976). Since 1983, he has made a career in the industrial real estate industry early on in brokerage (C&W) then in the Public Markets with Security Capital Industrial and Prologis. Later, in ventures with Goldman Sachs & Co (Whitehall Funds), Oakmont Industrial Group and Capital Markets with HFF. In 2017, he started Metrix Real Estate Services to begin developing and redeveloping industrial properties. He recently joined the advisory board and investment committee of BBX Logistics Properties in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Nachamkin lives in Princeton, New Jersey, married 40 years and has two grown children.

  • Marie Purkert

    National Client Leadership Team
    Kimley-Horn

    Marie is a senior marketing specialist and a member of the national client leadership team at Kimley-Horn. She partners with project managers on specific national private-sector client strategies across a variety of disciplines, and she helps grow existing national private client relationships and creates opportunities for Kimley-Horn to work with new clients. A natural problem-solver, Purkert is passionate about developing and implementing marketing strategies. She is skilled in analyzing market trends, identifying target audiences, and creating comprehensive marketing plans to achieve business objectives. She has been a member of NAIOP Northern Virginia since 2011 where she actively participates in their committees and programs, donating hundreds of hours to the organization. Purkert was named a NAIOP Research Foundation Visionary in 2020. She is also active in CREW DC and is co-chair of the Professional Development Committee, and has sat on the board of the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance since 2014 as well as its Governance Committee. Purkert received her BA in Communications, Public Relations from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she also pursued a MS in Real Estate Development.

  • Phil Rasey

    Vice President of Development
    VanTrust Real Estate

    As vice president of development for VanTrust, Phil Rasey identifies, evaluates and executes speculative development and build-to-suit opportunities across the Midwest. He has overseen the development of over 13 million square feet of institutional-grade office and industrial developments. Rasey has 19 years of leasing and development experience and extensive knowledge of construction, sales, leasing and development. His client-centric approach has generated value and performance for both tenants and ownership alike.

  • J.C. Renshaw

    Head of Supply Chain Consulting – North America
    Savills North America

    J.C. Renshaw leads Savills’ Supply Chain Consulting practice for North America and is based in Charleston, South Carolina. Renshaw works with clients across industries to address issues and opportunities within their supply chain ranging from network strategy and optimization to inside-the-box layout, flow, and operational efficiency, as well as capability maturity and performance opportunities. By working with clients to identify the specific needs and aspirations for their supply chain, he can help in the following areas: identifying strategic and tactical solutions for network transformation and optimization, improving costs, service, growth, performance management, technology, systems utilization and optimization, insource/outsource strategy and operational capability enhancements.

  • Stephanie Rodriguez

    National Director, Industrial Services
    Colliers

    Stephanie is the national director of industrial services for the U.S. at Colliers, spearheading the growth of the industrial business by fostering new client relationships and expanding existing ones. With over 25 years of commercial real estate experience, she provides leadership in thought, research, and marketing, driving success in acquisitions, lease transactions, and asset management. As executive managing director of Colliers Florida, Rodriguez oversees all operational aspects, focusing on financial management, talent development, and generating new business. She leads a team of brokers and support staff, offering expert advice on various asset types, including retail, office, medical, industrial, land, and multifamily properties.

  • Itay Ron

    Senior Vice President, Northeast Markets
    Faropoint

    Itay Ron serves as the senior vice president of Northeast Markets (DC, MD, VA, DE, PA, NJ, NY) at Faropoint, a private equity firm that focuses on last-mile industrial real estate. He oversees a team of 15 real estate professionals, covering acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, and construction management. Ron joined the company as the first employee in the region and in the past five years grew the operation to more than $1 billion gross asset value across more than 100 assets.

  • Stefan Sansone

    Director
    Bridge Industrial

    Stefan Sansone joined Bridge Industrial in March 2022 to launch Bridge’s acquisition platform in the Northeast. Prior to joining Bridge, he worked at Seagis Property Group, focusing on acquisitions in the outer boroughs of New York City and Northern New Jersey. Sansone graduated from Lehigh University where he studied political science with a minor in real estate and was a four-year football player. He is originally from St. Louis, Missouri.

  • Matt Schlindwein, P.E.

    Managing Partner
    Greek Real Estate Partners

    With over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate development, Matt Schlindwein has been instrumental in delivering projects for some of the nation’s largest distributors. Schlindwein directs a team of highly skilled design engineers and construction professionals. He holds exceptional knowledge of local land use and environmental law that optimizes the development and construction of class A warehouse facilities, renovations and redevelopment projects. Schlindwein also serves as the vice president of public affairs on NAIOP New Jersey’s leadership board and received the chapter’s Rising Star Award in 2015.

  • Mark Schottinger

    President
    Solar Landscape

    As president of Solar Landscape, Mark Schottinger oversees the company's transactions (including leases, power purchase agreements, and financing), project development, regulatory matters, and public policy. Prior to joining Solar Landscape, Schottinger practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C. He earned his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia. Schottinger grew up in New Jersey with Solar Landscape’s founders and is passionate about bringing clean energy to low-income communities.

  • Dan Schuchinsky

    Managing Director
    Jadian Capital

    Dan Schuchinsky is a managing director on the investment team and a member of the Investment Committee at Jadian Capital. Prior to joining Jadian, Schuchinsky was a member of J.P. Morgan’s Real Estate Americas Group where he led acquisitions efforts for alternative real estate asset classes nationally and was responsible for strategic direction and acquisitions across asset classes and risk profiles.

  • Jim Scott

    Principal
    Avison Young

    Jim specializes in the leasing, sales, and acquisition of commercial and industrial properties. In additional to traditional sale/lease transactions, clients also rely on his expertise and guidance on a range of complex consulting projects, including land development, financial analysis, portfolio management, and long-term strategic planning. Prior to joining Avison Young, Scott served as senior managing director at Colliers International. In additional to several million square feet of industrial leasing and sale transactions in the metro Philadelphia market, Scott successfully managed corporate sale, lease, and consulting projects that spanned more than a dozen states nationally and across four continents globally. He resides in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with his wife Shannon and two children.

  • Kimberly Smith

    National Project Manager
    Intertek

    Kimberly Smith has experience in the private and public sector working on environmental and construction materials testing through her time at Intertek-PSI. As a project manager, she is able to answer clients’ questions and provide them with competitive contracts and quick turnaround times as well as answer any questions they may have about the professional service industry. As a branch manager for PSI's new Plant City branch, she provided environmental, geotechnical and construction material testing services to all surrounding clients and community members. She currently represents Intertek-PSI on the national level, supporting clients through the company's over 100 offices across the United States. She is currently pursuing a master’s in construction management at Kennesaw State University.

  • Chuck Stehlik, LEED AP

    VP Entitlement & Construction
    Goodman

    Chuck Stehlik has over 25 years’ experience working in industrial real estate, working on the tenant, developer and general contractor sides of the industry over the course of his career. In his role at Goodman, he is responsible for site selection, due diligence, entitlement, and construction in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. He is a civil engineer and earned his MBA from Drexel University.

  • Anne Strauss-Wieder

    Rutgers University

    Anne Strauss-Wieder is a nationally respected senior executive with over 40 years of public and private sector experience involving supply chains, industrial and economic development, resilience, and freight movement. She was the 2022 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Strauss-Wieder is in leadership roles in several national professional organizations. She was an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness and the U.S. Maritime Administration’s Marine Transportation System National Advisory Committee. She also teaches a graduate class on freight and public policy at Rutgers. Strauss-Wieder has a B.A. and M.A. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania and was a 2010 Lead New Jersey Fellow.

  • Aquiles Suarez

    Senior Vice President for Government Affairs
    NAIOP

    Aquiles Suarez is the Senior Vice President for Government Affairs for NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, where he oversees the association’s advocacy efforts at the federal, state, and local level, and manages the association’s political action committee, NAIOP-PAC. Aquiles joined NAIOP in 2007 as the head of its government affairs office. Prior to joining NAIOP, he held a number of positions in the executive and legislative branches of government, serving on the White House Domestic Policy Council, senior counsel on the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives, and at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    Aquiles received his law degree from Columbia University Law School, and his undergraduate degree in government from Georgetown University.

  • Randy Thompson, MBA

    Vice President, National Build-to-Suit
    Ryan Companies

    Randy Thompson brings decades of hands-on leadership experience to the position of vice president of national build-to-suit, a role in which he directs efforts to strategize, build, develop and strengthen relationships with national brokers and customers. He also supports team processes with developers across all regional offices, focusing on development and construction opportunities, pursuits and projects that make a difference in the life of communities.

  • Shelah Wallace

    Director, Originations
    Nuveen

    Shelah Wallace brings extensive commercial real estate experience to Nuveen Green Capital, and she is passionate about finding creative solutions to fund sustainability measures as a way to reduce carbon emissions in the built space, as well as aiding in structuring the optimal capital stack in order to get a project across the finish line. As the leader of one of NGC’s top producing originations teams, Wallace oversaw Pennsylvania’s first C-PACE financed multifamily deal, followed by the largest C-PACE financed deal in in the state. She is also responsible for closing the second largest C-PACE project in the state, which consisted of financing $30 million towards the ground-up construction of 2201 Allegheny, a Freezpak cold storage facility.

  • Matt Wassel

    Principal
    Saxum Real Estate

    Matthew Wassel is a principal at Saxum Real Estate, overseeing the firm’s leasing platform across assets classes, with a particular focus on cold storage. He is instrumental in developing investment strategies and managing project execution, risk mitigation and asset management functions throughout the deal process. Prior to joining Saxum, Wassel was a key member on a market-leading leasing team at CBRE, where he advised institutional landlords and corporate occupiers across their portfolios. In his career, he has transacted over 10 million square feet of leases ranging across various asset classes, including office, retail, industrial and mixed-use.

  • Kat West, LEED AP

    Director of Sustainability
    Turner & Townsend

    Kat West has 15 years of progressive experience driving sustainability initiatives for a wide variety of global corporations and institutions. Along with her team, she has certified millions of square feet to the LEED green building rating system. Turner & Townsend advises clients on decarbonization plans for their real estate portfolios, including a combination of on-site investments and purchase of renewable energy.

  • Turner Wisehart

    Partner
    OnPace Cold

    Turner Wisehart is a partner at OnPace Partners and co-leads the firm’s food-related brokerage services. Turner is a seasoned expert in cold storage real estate, specializing in strategic, long-term advice for occupiers, landlords, and investors in the food industry. Prior to OnPace, Turner spent 13 years with Colliers International’s Food Advisory Services platform. He resides in Atlanta but helps clients across the U.S.

  • Scott J. Ziance, Esq.

    Partner
    Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, LLP

    Scott Ziance founded and leads the national economic development incentives team at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, which has one of the largest law firm-based incentives practices in the country. He also founded and chairs the board of managers for Vista Site Selection, LLC, the firm’s ancillary business composed of site selection professionals, data scientists and an economist. Together, the team members have led projects in all 50 states and on three continents. Personally, Ziance has led incentives work for the construction of more than 100 distribution/fulfillment centers throughout the U.S. and has led incentives work on hyperscale data center projects in five different time zones. He has chaired the NAIOP of Ohio chapter board and the NAIOP Central Ohio chapter board and is a member of the NAIOP Corporate board.

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