Val Achtemeier is a vice chairman at CBRE with 35+ years of experience in commercial real estate. Based in Los Angeles, she has originated, structured, and closed over $50 billion of real estate financing transactions throughout the U.S. She is a capital markets expert with focus on construction & development loans, permanent financing, joint ventures, ground lease advisory and structuring, complicated capital stacks and portfolio strategy. Val is consistently in CBRE’s Colbert Circle – designation for the top 3% of producers globally. For the past two years, she has been recognized as one of Commercial Observer’s 25 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles Commercial Real Estate. She has been recognized as a “Woman of Influence” by Globe St.

Lange W. Allen is Senior Managing Director, Head of North American Industrial Development for Affinius Capital. Lange is responsible for the deployment of development capital for both speculative and build-to-suit industrial/logistics projects throughout the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Prior to his role in development, Lange was the Head of Industrial Asset Management where he was responsible for the management and operation of approximately 50 million square feet of industrial property valued in excess of $2.5 billion.

Prior to joining Affinius Capital in 2008, Lange was with Weingarten Realty Investors from 2001 to 2008 where he started as an industrial Leasing Executive in Dallas and concluded his tenure as a Senior Asset Manager in the corporate office in Houston, overseeing a 5.5 million square foot portfolio of industrial property in multiple markets around the country. Prior to Weingarten, Lange was an Associate with the industrial brokerage division of CB Richard Ellis in Dallas, representing industrial tenants and landlords throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth area such as Sears, Ford Motor Co., LOF Pilkington, ConAgra Foods, and RREEF Funds.

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.

Chris Camacho serves as the president & CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), one of the longest-standing public-private partnerships for economic development across the country. Chris served as the organization’s executive vice president from 2008-2014 before being named president & CEO in 2015. As chief executive, he has been instrumental in the region’s technology and advanced manufacturing sector growth and led the attraction of more than 540 companies during his tenure, creating more than 100,000 jobs and $56.8 billion in capital investment.

Matthew is Link Logistics’ managing director of investments for the West Region, overseeing the firm’s investment strategy in the area.

Matthew joined Link in 2019, bringing significant finance and investment experience. He previously was a vice president of acquisitions for Black Creek Group, where he spent nearly seven years helping the company grow its industrial platforms. Before that, he was an analyst for Knightsbridge Realty Capital.

Matthew earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Rutgers University. Married with three young children, he enjoys outdoor activities including boating, cycling and surfing in his free time.

DeCesare has over 45 years of North American global Supply Chain solutions experience across multiple goods movement stakeholder industries. Engagements range from North American ports of Entry Strategy Assessment to U.S./Mexico Trade Flow Warehouse Demand Paths of Growth to High Volume Transload Operations Analysis to Warehousing and Transportation Sustainability Strategy Assessment. Major clients include ports, importers, exporters, third-party logistics providers, private equity firms, and industrial real estate investors and developers.

After spending over twenty years in senior executive management positions with major transcontinental trucking operations, importer, and third-party logistics providers, DeCesare wanted to use his in-depth supply chain knowledge and experience to solve goods movement issues and challenges in the various global supply chain stakeholder industries.

WCL Consulting’s Industrial Real Estate Practice specializes in providing logistics market intelligence to help clients identify warehouse demand paths of growth and strengthen tenant-focused facility value propositions.

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.

In his role, David Eaton supports CPKC’s critical mission to promote advanced manufacturing and community development in North America. With nearly 25 years at the railroad, Eaton has held multiple leadership roles in Mexico including Vice-President Corporate Affairs, Real Estate, Business Development, Customer Service and Operations. Eaton is currently responsible for business development in Mexico for CPKC. Also, he currently serves as North American Chariman of NASCO and VP of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Northeast Division.

David is a dedicated Rotarian with 28 years of community service at the Monterrey Metropolitan Rotary club. Eaton has been elected as governor of Rotary district 4130 for the period 2026/2027 responsible for 72 clubs throughout Northeast Mexico. From 2020 to 2022, David was president of the prestigious National Freight Transportation Association (NFTA). David and his wife Veronica live in Monterrey, Mexico with their 3 children. He holds a law degree from the University of Arizona and a Master’s degree in Commercial Law from the Technological Institute of Monterrey (ITESM).

Daniel English is a Managing Partner and Founder of Legacy Investing, an investment firm focused on technology impacted real estate.

Legacy has completed >$3B in transactions in data centers, logistics assets, and life science buildings. Prior to co-founding Legacy Investing, Daniel was a tech start-up executive with leadership roles across M&A, corporate development, strategy, and product management.

Daniel studied engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Economics and Finance at Emory University.

Adam Faulk is a Vice Chairman at Newmark’s Dallas office, renowned for his expertise in industrial and manufacturing tenant representation. With over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, Faulk is distinguished for his strategic insight and financial acumen, specializing in corporate services and complex deal structuring. His career showcases proficiency in capital markets, finance, and corporate portfolio management, complemented by expert navigation of government relations, incentive negotiations, and comprehensive logistics analyses.

With a personal transaction portfolio exceeding $5 billion, Faulk has delivered exceptional outcomes across manufacturing, office, medical, retail, and hospitality sectors. His international dealings span over 100 U.S. cities, numerous locales across Canada and Mexico, and extend into over 25 additional countries, demonstrating his global operational capability.

Faulk's strategic role became particularly pivotal in 2018, following Newmark's acquisition of Jackson Cooksey, where he had been a key figure since 1994. His leadership was crucial in developing and implementing innovative corporate services at Jackson Cooksey, which significantly enhanced the firm's offerings and established its reputation among multinational corporations.

Faulk's clientele reflects his diverse capabilities, with industry leaders in advanced manufacturing, defense, technology and logistics. These relationships underscore his talent for managing complex market demands and fostering enduring partnerships.

Recognized as a Top Industrial Broker and lauded for his team-building prowess, Faulk has earned a reputation as a preeminent Commercial Real Estate Professional. His multi-state real estate broker licensure is in synergy with his academic achievements from Excelsior College and from Harvard Business School.

Faulk's military service as an Airborne Ranger and infantry platoon leader in the U.S. Army, together with his Financial Services tenure in the U.S. Air Force, has instilled in him a strategic, disciplined approach to achieving solutions. This military-grade operational strategy has been seamlessly integrated into his commercial real estate practice, yielding a unique perspective that benefits his clientele and the industry at large. His biography is a testament to a career built on extensive market knowledge, strategic leadership, and a commitment to excellence on a global scale.

Derek oversees North American logistics investments for Realterm, an independent global investment manager focused on the transportation industry with $11 billion under management. Since joining Realterm, Derek has helped the firm invest $5 billion in capital directly and via a team of thirteen professionals across more than 100 transactions. Derek joined Realterm in 2016 to open the firm’s Chicago office and guide investments in the US central region. Subsequently Derek also led acquisitions in the US eastern region and then the US logistics strategy.

Armando Fregoso is president of Latin America of Prologis. He oversees more than US$7B of assets under management and is responsible for all strategic efforts in the region, including development projects and acquisitions. Prior to joining Prologis in 2010, he was an associate at Xebec Realty Partners, a Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm. His previous international experience includes working for Colliers International in Budapest, Hungary.

Fregoso has participated in the Dartmouth Society of Investment and Economics, Tuck Real Estate Club and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, among other organizations. He graduated from Dartmouth College and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and the GRI.

Eugenio Lagarde has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and MBA from CETYS University.

During the last 27 years, Eugenio has held various positions related to economic development and investment attraction to the region such as Undersecretary for Economic Promotion of the State of Baja California (2008-2010); President of the Mexicali EDC (2011-2013); President of the Promotion committee of AMPIP (2017-2018); President of the Mexicali Chamber of Industry – CANACINTRA (2018-2020) and is currently President of the Promotion Committee of AMPIP.

Eugenio is a business partner of "GRUMESA", a national construction company; “Xsite Properties”, an industrial real estate development company and Vice President of "Calafia Industrial Parks” for the last 12 years.

Enrique Lavin is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate and head of Latin America. Enrique is responsible for the development and implementation of the strategy and oversight of PGIM Real Estate’s businesses across Latin America. Currently, he is a member of the PGIM Global Management Council, the Global Investment Committee and the Latin America Investment Committee.

Previously, as head of Mexico, Enrique was responsible for providing strategic direction and overseeing the performance of US$5 billion of assets under management. He was also responsible for portfolio management - while leading the business development efforts and structuring private and public equity raising initiatives for the region - and for managing PGIM Real Estate’s relationships with investment banks and investors.

Overall, during his 14-year tenure at PGIM, Enrique has executed an aggregate of US$9.0 billion of transactions, both in public and private markets, and including debt, equity and M&A.

His experience in the real estate industry includes 20 years in the real estate industry in Mexico and US$10.0 billion of transactions in positions such as vice president at Credit Suisse for the Real Estate Finance and Securitizations group and director of Debt Origination at GE Real Estate. From 2011 to 2012, Enrique was a member of the board of directors of Paz Corp., a public homebuilder based in Chile, and from 2019 to 2024 was a board member of Terrafina (Ticker MXSE: Terra13).

Enrique holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and a master of business administration from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was recipient of the Global Star Award.

Phoenix Community and Economic Development director, Christine Mackay, has served the people of Phoenix since August 2014. She is responsible for leading and fostering an environment where businesses can create and retain jobs, make capital investment and reinvestment in the community, and connect our workforce to employers and training opportunities. During Mackay’s tenure with the City of Phoenix, the department has facilitated the creation of over 84,000 high-value jobs, seen the average wage of those jobs increase from over $30,000 in 2014 to more than $80,000 in 2022, and closed deals with more than $50 billion in capital investment.

Christine leads a department of over 60 full time staff that encompasses the full spectrum of economic development areas including: business attraction, business retention and expansion, community development, international relations, Sister Cities, the Phoenix Business and Workforce Development Board, administration, research, marketing, the City-owned Footprint Center and the Phoenix Bioscience Core.

Real Estate Broker with over 16 years of Brokerage and Property Management experience in South Texas and Northeast Mexico. Experienced in brokering industrial and office projects for both private and government entities on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Carlo has managed lease negotiations and projects of acquisition and disposition including the US Department of State, US Department of Transportation, US Attorney’s Office, O’Donnell/Prudential Mexico, Smurfit-Stone Mexico, Medline Industries, Modine, Caterpillar Logistics, Deacero, US Cold Storage, Mastronardi Produce, Panalpina/DSV, GE, Majestic Realty Co., JAMCO International, Lotte Corporation, amongst others. In the past 5 years alone, Carlo has negotiated and closed over 10,000,000 SF of industrial projects along the US-Mexico Border.

Shannon O'Neil is the vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America and democracy.

Dr. O’Neil is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, 2022), which chronicles the rise of three main global manufacturing and supply chain hubs and what they mean for U.S. economic competitiveness. She also wrote Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why they matter for the United States. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a frequent guest on national broadcast news and radio programs. Dr. O’Neil has often testified before Congress, and regularly speaks at global academic, business, and policy conferences.

Larry Pobuda is executive vice president and general manager with Opus Development Company, L.L.C. Larry is responsible for the leadership and overall management of the western markets, including Phoenix, Denver and Austin. His primary responsibilities are the pursuit of real estate development opportunities in various sectors, including office, industrial and multifamily, as well as defining the office’s daily strategies and future growth plans. He became a member NAIOP in 1994 and was the chairman of NAIOP’s National Board of Directors in 2010. Mr. Pobuda is a past chairman of the Research Foundation.

Steven leads all aspects of ViaWest Group with primary emphasis on investment and development strategy, deal-sourcing, and capital markets activity. He has thirty years of experience in the development, operations and financing of all types of real estate, with deep experience in industrial and office properties. Through involvement in over $3 billion worth of projects, Steven has provided build-to-suit, speculative development, acquisitions, dispositions and property management services in multiple product types in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Southeast U.S.

Prior to forming ViaWest Properties in 2003, Steven led the development as SVP of The Plaza Companies, a full service, medical-office, senior-living development, and property management company. Prior to joining Plaza, Steven rose through the ranks to become COO and EVP of The Hewson Company, a privately-held, real estate development company in the Western U.S. in which capacity he developed properties ranging from mid-rise office buildings to a 2.2MM s.f. industrial complex. Other work experience includes Real Estate Finance work with SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, GA.

Steven graduated from The University of Texas Honors Program with a B.A. with Honors in Marketing. He has served as Chairman of the NAIOP Arizona Chapter, on the National Board of Directors of NAIOP, and in national and local capacities with Urban Land Institute (ULI). He has also served on numerous local and national boards and councils of non-profit philanthropic, civic and industry organizations including Greater Phoenix Leadership, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, as Board Chairman of the Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix and on the National Board of JFNA.

He resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife Jennifer and has three grown children.

Roger Shreero is Head of Acquisitions for Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Management and Head of Cantor Fitzgerald’s Real Estate Capital Markets Advisory business. Mr. Shreero, who joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 2018, is a 30-year veteran of the investment banking, capital markets, and real estate industries with extensive experience in structured finance, net-leased real estate investment, built-to-suit financing, corporate sale-leasebacks, hybrid lease structures, and corporate real estate advisory. 

Previously, Mr. Shreero spent over a decade serving as Managing Director and Group Head of Wachovia/Wells Fargo’s Corporate Real Estate and Timber Finance Group where he oversaw the origination and structuring of over $18 billion of corporate real estate transactions, including acquisition and recapitalization financing, sale-leasebacks and net lease acquisitions, CTL financing, synthetic leases, and structured timber notes. He also led the bank’s market leading qualified intermediary services business. Mr. Shreero received a master’s degree in finance from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and multinational business from Florida State University. 

Yadira Torres is Managing Director of Advisory & Transaction Services for Mexico, Colombia & Central America. She has been with CBRE since 2012, first as Director of Research and from 2017 as Director of Sales Management.

Her responsibilities include providing strategic direction as the head of LATAM North’s Advisory & Transactions for real estate services with more than 100 advisory professionals. She also oversees 10 researchers to provide market intelligence for CBRE in the region and is responsible for all the market reports provided by CBRE. CBRE Mexico Research & Sales Management, under her leadership, has been recognized as the fastest organic growing office throughout CBRE world-wide for more than five years and a market reference through its publications and market information.

She has been a consultant and leading project manager for the tourism, manufacturing, housing, and commercial real estate industries in Mexico for the last 21 years. With several publications on the different industries where she has been active, including a book published by the Routhledge Editorial in the United Kingdom as part of its Real Estate Markets Series (November, 2020), and several analysis and articles published by the Ministry of Tourism and different advisory companies.

Torres has experience in the public and private sectors as well as in the academy. Her main areas of interest have been economic and sectoral analysis as well as leading advisory projects from a multidisciplinary perspective and team formation.

Garry Weiss, SIOR, is Vice President - National Director Business Development & Strategic Initiatives, with ARCO/Murray located in Chicago, Illinois. With offices nationwide, ARCO Murray offers design-build, general contracting, site selection, engineering, project management, and other services. Garry is responsible for ARCO/Murray’s national presence among owners, operators, and developers in the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and Light Industrial sectors. Garry earned a Bachelor of Arts in Real Estate Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive experience serving the CEA and industrial market’s real estate needs throughout the entire supply chain. Prior to ARCO/Murray, he held positions at GSW Ventures, Ltd., Enova Decisions, Vista Industrial Aggregators, JLL, and First Industrial Realty Trust. Garry is a member of the NAIOP Chicago chapter.

As Vice President, Technical Sales-Warehouse and Distribution Services for North America Scott oversees a team of warehouse experts and works closely on sales, implementations, and account management with companies ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 and a wide range of verticals including: Lifestyle and Retail, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Technology, Automotive, and Retail.

Based in Southern California, Scott has 28 years of 3pl warehouse experience including 2.5 years with Maersk. He has been a warehouse subject expert for the Journal of Commerce for over 25 years and past President of the Los Angeles Transportation Club. He holds an MBA Degree in Management from California State University, Fullerton, a BS Degree from San Francisco State University with a triple concentration: Finance, Banking, and Real Estate and a Global Logistics Specialist (GLS) Certification from California State University, Long Beach.