Speakers
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.