Shaine Anderson, CAE

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Taylor Arnett

Taylor serves as senior vice president of Acquisitions at CapRock Partners, an industrial real estate investor and developer in the Western U.S. CapRock Partners acquires middle-market value-add industrial assets, develops large-scale institutional-quality class A industrial warehouse facilities in key locations, and provides third-party asset management services for institutional investors. Since inception, CapRock’s total investment and development pipeline exceeds 30 million square feet of industrial real estate. Since starting with CapRock in 2014, Arnett has acquired over 6.5 million square feet valued at over $1.0 billion of industrial properties in Southern California, Nevada and Utah. In his role, Arness is responsible for sourcing development and value-add industrial acquisitions, creating each business plan, sourcing debt and equity, and running all aspects of due diligence and closing.

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Chad Autry, Ph.D.

Chad W. Autry, Ph.D., is the Myers Professor of Supply Chain Management and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty at the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. His research over the last three decades has focused on supply chain performance improvements stemming from technological, process and relationship integration. He is a leader or member of several multinational supply chain professional organizations and a past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

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Richard Bogan

With over 25 years of experience in construction and renewable energy, Richard has successfully led high-impact solar and capital improvement projects across various industries. As Director of Capital Projects at Rexford Industrial, he has spearheaded their 5-year solar initiative, integrating net-metering and Feed-In-Tariff strategies to drive sustainability. Richard’s expertise extends to launching and managing solar divisions, building and his running his own construction company, negotiating large-scale renewable energy deals, and forming partnerships with vendors, suppliers, and developers. With a foundation in mechanical engineering, Richard is committed to advancing clean energy solutions while delivering operational excellence.

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Laura Clark, CFA

Laura Clark serves as Rexford Industrial's Chief Operating Officer and previously held the role of Chief Financial Officer from August 2020 to November 2024. From 2017 until July 2020, Ms. Clark served as Senior Vice President, Capital Markets at Regency Centers, a publicly traded retail real estate investment trust and S&P 500 Index member. Previously, Ms. Clark was the Vice President, Financial Services at Regency Centers since 2012, where she oversaw all operational analysis, budgeting and reporting for the company's West region. Prior to that, she held roles in institutional sales and equity research at Green Street Advisors, served as Vice President, Capital Markets at Iron Tree Capital and as Vice President at Inland Capital Markets Group. Ms. Clark is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from DePaul University in Chicago and earned her Master of Business Administration degree from Ball State University. Ms. Clark brings 22 years of finance, accounting, real estate and operations experience to Rexford.

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John Condas

John Condas is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins where he advises clients on federal, state, regional, and local government approvals, CEQA compliance and CEQA settlements to develop their real estate projects. He has successfully led legal due diligence and entitlement teams in nearly 200 jurisdictions and federal, state and regional agencies for projects throughout California and the Western U.S. Condas has assisted industrial developers and owners in due diligence, entitlement processing and CEQA compliance involving over 65 million square feet. He has been involved with the NAIOP Inland Empire chapter for many years, including serving as president in 2015.

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Eric Cox

Eric Cox is a senior vice president within CBRE’s National Partners Group and has been with CBRE for 11 years based in Los Angeles and Newport Beach. The West Coast National Partners consists of 9 Capital Market Partners, 13 dedicated support members and 4 analysts, covering California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

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Josh Cox, LEED AP

Josh Cox is responsible for the execution of Hillwood’s West Coast industrial projects from start to finish including due diligence, entitlements, design, permitting and construction. As a LEED AP, he worked on his first 1 million-square-foot LEED Gold project in 2009. He started in the commercial real estate industry in 2006 and has been directly involved in the development of almost 20 million square feet, primarily in the Inland Empire region. He is currently working on the redevelopment of NASCAR’s Auto Club Speedway in San Bernardino County, California. He is an active NAIOP member who is currently serving as president of the NAIOP Inland Empire chapter.

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Joe Dunlap

Joe Dunlap is the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Legacy Investing, bringing over 30 years of supply chain and logistics expertise. He has a strong background in supply chain transformations, systems design, network design, 3PL selection, distribution operations, and site selection. Dunlap has led various consulting engagements and developed innovative solutions for clients across industries like automotive, consumer goods, retail and pharmaceuticals. He has authored a patent for automated source tagging and is recognized for his work mentoring start-up supply chain tech firms. His leadership experience includes roles at Accenture, CBRE, Dematic, Fortna, Siemens, and UPS.

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Charlotte Elstob

Charlotte Elstob specializes in National Tenant Representation across the U.S., looking after key JLL clients with particular focus across the 3PL, retail and manufacturing sectors. She takes a consultative approach with her clients, understanding their goals and identifying ways for them to optimize their network and real estate footprint across North America and globally. Elstob is based in L.A. and sits in JLL’s Inland Empire office.

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Jeremy Giles

Before cofounding Constellation, Jeremy Giles spent 19 years at Prologis in a variety of roles. He headed the Customer Led Solutions team, serving the needs of the most prominent corporate occupiers of logistics space worldwide. He also led teams in the Central, Southwest and Southeast regions that executed more than $10 billion in development, acquisitions and dispositions. In addition to his nineteen years with Prologis, Giles also has prior experience in the transportation, management consulting, and merchant energy fields. He holds both a B.A. and an M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brad Heitland

Brad Heitland is vice president of project development for advanced manufacturing at Mortenson. With nearly 20 years of experience in renewable energy, he’s been deeply involved in developing, financing and executing Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects. His passion lies in building strong relationships and simplifying complex projects, ensuring exceptional experiences for our partners at Mortenson. In his free time, he enjoys spending quality time with his family, traveling, and cheering on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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David Hickey

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.

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Tim Jemal

Timothy Jemal has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, CEO, spokesperson and public policy expert on local, state, federal and international issues. He was hired in June 2020 as the first-ever CEO of NAIOP SoCal, the leading nonprofit association representing commercial real estate in the critical Southern California market. Jemal has led and advised dozens of nonprofit organizations and CEOs throughout his career, often serving as a mentor to them. He has launched and led both U.S. domestic and international nonprofit and for-profit organizations and serves as an executive coach for rising leaders. In November 2012, Jemal was elected trustee of the South Orange County Community College District. He has served as president of the board of trustees for seven of his twelve years on the board.

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London Kemp Boykin

As Amazon's Director of Global Realty Sustainable Development, London Kemp Boykin oversees an organization that includes sustainability and renewable energy, building design & engineering, strategy, and cost optimization for the entire Amazon Global Fulfillment Network. She commenced her career in commercial litigation at White & Case, LLP, and went on to pursue in-house real estate opportunities, including management of multi-billion-dollar regional and global real estate portfolios for Walmart, NBC, Netflix, and Amazon. Kemp Boykin's expertise spans retail, restaurant-retail, distribution, data centers, studios, and offices. She holds a dual Bachelor's in Political Science and Comparative Women's Studies from Spelman College and a J.D. from USC Gould School of Law. Kemp Boykin was recognized as Commercial Observer's Power LA (2021-2023) and for Outstanding Excellence & Influence in LA Commercial Real Estate (2020). She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Real Estate Associate Program (REAP) fostering opportunities for minorities and women in real estate, and is a governing trustee for Urban Land Institute.

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Mike Kendall

After nearly three decades in the industry, Michael Kendall has experience in every aspect of commercial real estate, including brokerage, development, acquisitions, entitlements, asset management and construction. As vice chairman of industrial capital markets for Colliers, Kendall and his team specialize in representing institutional owners as well as high-net-worth individuals, local entrepreneurs and private equity funds in the sale of industrial investments, including land, across the Western United States.

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Darren Kenney

Darren Kenney is the head of capital deployment, west region at Prologis. In this role, he oversees capital deployment and investment activities, including acquisitions, redevelopment, and development across California. Kenney joined Prologis in 2008 as a capital deployment analyst, underwriting transactions in Europe and Asia. In 2010, he transitioned to the West region, where he focused on underwriting, sourcing, and managing opportunities in Seattle, Portland, Southern California and the Bay Area. He has also led the company’s urban infill investment strategy in select markets, including Prologis’ expansion into San Diego. A Bay Area native, Kenney holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Southern California. He is an active golf member of the Olympic Club of San Francisco.

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Marty Khait

Marty Khait is the co-founder and managing principal of Yukon Real Estate Partners, a food logistics real estate development and investment firm. Khait and his team at Yukon have gained the trust of major firms such as Coca-Cola, CJ Logistics, Giant Eagle, Rich's Foods, and CoreX Partners to solve their real estate needs. Additionally, Khait serves as a principal of FindColdStorage.com, leading a team whose mission is to search far and wide for suitable pallet space for the nation’s top food manufacturers and suppliers. Khait’s insights on cold storage and the food industry have been featured in The Dallas Morning News, numerous City Business Journals, and a regular column for Refrigerated and Frozen Foods Magazine.

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Melissa Kroskey, AIA, SE

As both a licensed architect and structural engineer in the state of California, Melissa Kroskey has a broad perspective on the industry as well as design expertise from seismic to hurricane regions. Over the past six years, she has led mass timber education for U.S. real estate developers and contributed to numerous publications for the wood industry, Morningstar, Urban Land Institute, and others. She has authored resources on topics ranging from the financial performance of mass timber to its role in healthy forests and wildfire resilience. More recently, she has been examining how mass timber can add value to warehouses and logistics facilities.

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Michael Longo

Mike Longo is an investment sales professional and a mutual partner within National Partners - West Region and the SoCal Capital Markets Team. Based in Los Angeles, he is responsible for managing the disposition of institutional commercial property across the West Coast, focusing on multi-market dispositions and capitalizations of institutionally commercial property in Southern California. Since joining CBRE in 2010, Longo has participated in over $20 billion of commercial property transactions.

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Kate Lyle, NCARB

A licensed architect in the State of California, Kate Lyle, NCARB, has been involved in the industry since 2005, specializing in complex project types including cold storage, food processing and food distribution since 2011. At her previous company, Lyle coauthored the e-book "Best Practices in Cold Storage Facility Development" for NAIOP and has also assisted in planning NAIOP’s I.CON Cold conference for the past two years. She sits on the Controlled Environments Building Association (CEBA) Board of Directors, is part of CEBA’s Construction and Codes Committee, and involved in subcommittees focused on food safety and requirements for ventilation in refrigerated facilities.

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Mike Martella, CEcD

Responsible for executing activities to generate new business development leads, supporting the growth of Gilbert-based businesses, and managing a pipeline of economic development projects. Before this role, he served in similar capacities for Fountain Hills, AZ, Winnetka, IL, and Bensenville, IL, having over 15 years of government economic development experience.

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Ryan McEvoy

Ryan McEvoy is a leader in sustainable real estate development with over two decades of experience in high-performance buildings, renewable energy systems, and environmental stewardship. As the founder of GAIA, he drives innovative strategies to help developers, property owners and architects achieve energy efficiency, sustainability and ESG goals. McEvoy's career highlights include spearheading the world’s first LEED speculative commercial building and co-chairing initiatives like Los Angeles' largest solar Feed-in Tariff program. A recognized thought leader, he has presented at renowned conferences, contributed to industry publications, and taught sustainable practices at leading universities. His work reflects a passion for creating resilient, sustainable communities worldwide.

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Amelia McLear

Amelia McLear serves as head of strategic partnerships for Amazon's Global Sustainable Development organization. She previously led strategic communications for multiple Amazon business lines within the company's operations and consumer business. Prior to Amazon, McLear led communications and public affairs at TaskRabbit and spent nearly nine years at Walmart leading public affairs and community development in western U.S. states. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two sons.

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Jacob Morgan

As vice president of development, I lead the Prologis Utility Solar and Energy Storage team. We are on a mission to deploy one gigawatt of projects of onsite solar and storage by 2025. Today, we have solar projects in 12 countries and energy storage projects in 7 countries. Prior to joining Prologis, Morgan was the director of development at Broad Reach Power focusing on developing energy storage projects across California and Texas. He has served in various roles in energy storage and solar PV and storage development, including site selection, acquisition, permitting, energy storage technology assessment, RFO/energy contract management, and energy generation shifting strategies for existing PV and wind projects.

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Gabriel Padilla Maya

Gabriel Padilla Maya, General Director of the National Auto Parts Industry (INA), has over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors, promoting business development, international trade, and investment for Mexico. His career includes strategic roles in exporting companies, leadership in business organizations, and consulting for the internationalization of companies. In the public sector, he has held key positions, such as head of investment promotion at ProMéxico and chief advisor coordinator at the Secretariat of Economy and SAGARPA, among others. He is also the founder of Trade Front Advisors LLC, a company specializing in business internationalization strategies. His expertise in foreign trade is essential for positioning Mexico as a global leader in the auto parts industry.

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Jonathan Port

Jonathan Port is an expert in sustainable energy, solar design and sustainable real estate development. He founded Permacity in 2003 and grew the company into a leading solar developer and engineering procurement contractor in the United States, and has more than 300 megawatt of completed solar rooftop and carport experience. Port is also an inventor with 11 issued solar patents including SolarStrap®, a revolutionary advancement in mounting technology for solar PV systems on industrial flat roofs, along with other technologies for solar installation, mounting, wiring, and carport design. Port’s accomplishments include completion of the largest solar roof installation in the world at the time, a two million-square foot installation at a four-building site supplying the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power with 16.4 megawatt of in-basin solar power.

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Enrique R. Portillo

Enrique Portillo specializes in tenant representation and capital markets at Cushman & Wakefield’s Mexico City office, serving clients across Mexico City, Toluca, Puebla, and the Bajío region, including Querétaro, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, and San Luis Potosí. Before rejoining Cushman & Wakefield in 2014, Portillo was the managing partner and founder of Locate Industrial (2011–2014), a tenant/buyer representation firm based in Ciudad Juárez and León, Guanajuato, where he advised foreign companies on establishing manufacturing and logistics operations in Mexico. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of development and marketing at Intermex Industrial Parks (2009–2011), leading marketing efforts across multiple offices and participating in 34 transactions totaling 2.6 million square feet.

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Sage Rheinschild

Sage Rheinschild specializes in cold storage food beverage industrial real estate on a national scale alongside Tim O'Rourke, who leads the vertical at JLL. She focuses on tenant representation, leasing, capital markets, and supply chain logistics analysis. Incorporating her prior experience in ground-up development, existing facility management, and acquisitions/dispositions. Rheinschild helps clients navigate the complexities of this specialized sector by providing both tactical and solutions-driven guidance. Collaboration and thoughtful industry engagement are central to her approach, ensuring clients stay ahead of the evolving demands of temperature-controlled facilities. By bridging market insights with real-world applications, she empowers clients to make informed, strategic decisions.

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Carolyn Salzer

Carolyn Salzer leads the research and insights group for KBC Advisors where she leads the team and contributes to the coordination and production of local, national and corporate research analyses. She oversees quarterly reporting and statistical production for 85 markets within the Americas. In addition to reporting and statistical production, she assists with business development and client facing engagements.

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Patrick Schlehuber, CFA, CPA

Patrick Schlehuber has been leading Rexford Industrial’s property investment initiatives since 2009 and serves as a key member of the company's Investment Committee. Under his leadership, Rexford’s investment team has completed over 450 property acquisitions and dispositions, amounting to more than $12 billion and adding nearly 50 million square feet to the company's portfolio. With over 25 years experience in investment and finance, Schlehuber brings deep expertise across acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, construction and leasing throughout California. He is actively involved on the boards of NAIOP SoCal, NAIOP San Diego, the Foundation for Learning, Athletics, and Growth (F.L.A.G) and The City of Hope Los Angeles Real Estate & Construction Council.

Before joining Rexford, Schlehuber was an Investment Officer at First Industrial Realty Trust, a publicly traded industrial REIT, and gained additional experience in investment banking and financial consulting at RA Capital (formerly Batchelder & Partners) and Arthur Andersen. A Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois-Inactive), he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

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Eric Schmutz

Eric Schmutz, NAIOP’s Senior Director of Federal Affairs, has nearly 30 years of experience working in Washington, D.C., in political campaigns as well as both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. His work encompasses various aspects, including federal tax policy, environmental regulations, and financial services issues. Schmutz is a native Kansan, a graduate of Kansas State University, and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Betsy, daughter Eleanor, son Henry, and the family dog Otis.

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Justin Smith

Since beginning his career, Justin Smith has successfully completed over 700 transactions across the country. He has been involved in $600 million worth of property transactions and roughly 10 million square feet.

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Curtis Spencer

Curtis Spencer is the CEO of IMS Worldwide, Inc. (IMSW), headquartered in Houston, Texas. Spencer is a nationally regarded expert on matters related to logistics and intermodal shipping trends, ports, inland ports and rail-served logistics centers and how they impact industrial real estate; development and utilization of Foreign Trade Zones for importers and exporters; and impact of e-commerce on logistics and supply chains and industrial real estate.

Under Spencer’s leadership, IMSW is now a leading consulting firm for developers and real estate trusts who seek his guidance as it relates to value propositions for industrial real estate, port efficiencies and site selection differentiators. IMSW has completed over 520 separate, specific FTZ projects.

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Brent Steele

Chief Investment Officer at Logistics Property Company, Brent is responsible for expanding the company’s development and investment programs, capital markets exposure and corporate growth. Prior to joining Logistics Property Company, Brent was Head of the Americas Real Estate Team at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) where he invested more than $$6 billion of equity investments across all product types. He was a Senior Director with CBRE Global Investors in Los Angeles (now CBRE Investment Management) where he executed on value-add and opportunistic investments across all product types, and a Senior Associate at AIG Global Real Estate.

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Aquiles Suarez

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.

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Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D.

Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D., founded Beacon Economics LLC in 2006. Under his leadership, the firm has become one of the most respected research organizations in California serving public and private sector clients across the United States. In 2015, he also became director of the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development and an adjunct professor at the School. An expert in economic and revenue forecasting, regional economics, economic policy, and labor and real estate markets, he has consulted for private industry, cities, counties, and public agencies in Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Bay Area, San Diego, the Inland Empire, Seattle, Orange County, Sacramento, Nevada, and other geographies across the nation.

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Jason Tolliver

Jason Tolliver leads Cushman & Wakefield's logistics and industrial real estate advisory business in the Americas, overseeing the integration and delivery of services to help clients identify and implement optimal real estate strategies. He is an attorney and advisor with over two decades of experience in regional, national, and international commercial real estate, law, and economic development. Before leading the Americas industrial business, Tolliver served as executive managing director of investor services and global head of logistics and industrial research, providing occupiers and investors with forward-looking advice on trends affecting capital markets and commercial real estate in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Tolliver practiced corporate law. He also held several economic development roles, including leading international business development for the State of Indiana and later overseeing commercial accounts for the electric utility AES Indiana. He began his career as a translator for the Japanese government, supporting community and economic development projects throughout Southeast Asia.

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Brett Turner

Brett Turner is the senior managing director of acquisitions and dispositions at BKM Capital Partners and serves as the co-chair of the investment committee. Turner oversees the sourcing and underwriting of potential commercial real estate acquisitions as well as dispositions. Since helping found BKM in 2013, Turner has generated $3.6 billion in transactions across the Western United States. Turner brings over 20 years of experience to his position at BKM, allowing for a broad range of industry expertise, including acquisitions, dispositions, finance, development, asset management, environmental remediation and leasing. Throughout his career, Turner has successfully executed $4.3 billion across more than 26 million square feet in sale transactions throughout the Western United States.

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Sergio Valentini, RIBA, International AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Sergio Valentini has been involved in the industry for over 20 years and as the Southern California Regional Principal, he oversees all aspects of growth, management, design and client relationships for the Southern California region offices. He has extensive international experience in architecture and planning of various building types including office, industrial, entertainment, retail, mixed-use and aviation. Valentini is heavily involved with development, coordination and supervision of various scale projects for developers, corporate and public clients. He is also very active in the industry with various professional associations such as NAIOP, ULI, SIOR and more. He has lectured at several universities and conferences and has been on the jury of design competitions. His research work has been published in various magazines, and he has proven to be a true expert in the field and an industry thought leader.

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Nicole Welch

Nicole Welch, equity owner and Managing Director, is an Asset Management Officer at Clarion Partners. Nicole is a member of the Firm’s Operating Committee. Based in Dallas, She works with the Industrial Group and is responsible for managing the Western Region totaling over 82 million sq. ft. Nicole was previously with JLL for nine years as a broker focused on big box industrial in Southern California. Additionally, Nicole is a member of Clarion’s DEI Council and the Clarion Partners Women’s Leadership Network. Nicole joined Clarion Partners in 2017 and has been working in the real estate industry since 2004. She is a Member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (“NAIOP”) Inland Empire and Southern Nevada Chapters.

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