2012 Executive Committee
The Corporate Executive Committee is led by the Chairman of the Board and is elected annually.
Chairman
William E. Hunt
Elmhurst Group, Pittsburgh, Penn.
William Hunt is President and CEO of the Elmhurst Corporation, which owns and manages more than 2.5 million square feet of office, flex and distribution space in the Pittsburgh region. Specific holdings include the Doubletree Hotel Pittsburgh City Center, the RAND Building, the Airside Business Park, Pittsburgh Airport Business Park, McClaren Woods Business Park, and One North Shore Center. Elmhurst's non-real-estate investments include Metis Secure Systems, Prospera Hospitality Management, and ADS Security located in Nashville, Tenn.
In addition, Hunt is actively involved in community affairs and charitable organizations, including the Duke University Graduate School of Visitors (Chair), the Carnegie Museum of Art (Chair), NAIOP (Corporate Board Chair-Elect), Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (former Chair), Pittsburgh Public Theater (former Chair), as well as a Board member of the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation.
Hunt joined NAIOP in 1994 and is a member of the Private Developers I National Forum. He also serves as a Research Foundation Governor.
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Chairman-Elect
Eugene F. Reilly
Prologis, Boston, Mass..
Gene Reilly, as Prologis' chief executive officer for the Americas, oversees all aspects of business performance in Prologis' operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America.
Reilly joined AMB Property Corporation in 2003 and has 27 years of experience in real property investment, management and operations throughout the Americas. Prior to joining AMB, he was chief investment officer of Cabot Properties, Inc., a private equity industrial real estate firm in which he served as a founding partner and member of its investment committee and board of directors. Reilly served with Cabot and its predecessor companies, including Cabot Industrial Trust, for 11 years. He has served on the board of directors of Grupo Acción, S.A. de C.V., a leading development company in Mexico, and currently serves on the board of directors of Strategic Hotels and Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:BEE), a publicly-traded Real Estate Investment Trust.
Reilly joined NAIOP in 2000 and previously served on the Board of Directors of NAIOP Massachusetts and the Corporate Industrial Education Committee. He is a member of the Investment Management II National Forum. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.
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Vice Chair, Government Affairs
Jonathan Tratt
Tratt Properties LLC, Phoenix, Ariz.
Jonathan Tratt has been active in the Phoenix real estate market for more than 20 years, with extensive experience in sales, leasing, developing and managing industrial properties. In 1986, he started his brokerage career as an industrial specialist with Iliff Thorn and in 1992, he founded Industrial Brokerage Inc., the predecessor to Tratt Properties LLC. In 2000 brokerage operations ceased and the company name change to Tratt Properties. To date, Tratt has developed and acquired more than 3.5 million square feet of institutional quality warehouse/distribution properties.
Tratt is a member of the Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne, Pa. He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Dayton and a M.B.A. in International Management from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz.
Tratt joined NAIOP in 2001 and serves on the Board of Directors for NAIOP Arizona, is a NAIOP Research Foundation Governor and a NAIOP-PAC Trustee. He has also served as chair for NAIOP's Industrial Development II National Forum.
Vice Chair, Education
Ashley J. Powell
RREEF, San Francisco, Calif.
Ashley Powell joined RREEF in 1998 and has acquired more than 40 development and value add projects totaling 14,474,000 rentable square feet of commercial properties and 2,000 apartment units. He has more than 26 years of experience in commercial real estate and has sourced and closed $1.8 billion of transactions with RREEF. Powell is responsible for the acquisition of office, industrial, retail and multifamily properties in the Southwest United States. Prior to joining RREEF in 1998, Powell was a principal with Snyder Langston Inc. and previously held senior positions with Transpacific Development Company, Bentall Development Company and CBRE.
Powell joined NAIOP in 1998 and is a former president for NAIOP San Francisco. He is a member of the Industrial Development I National Forum. Powell received a B.S. from Brigham Young University in Construction Management.
Vice Chair, Membership and Chapter Relations
Jean Kane
Welsh Companies LLC, Minnetonka, Minn.
Jean Kane oversees operations of Welsh Companies LLC's real estate services group including Welsh Property Management, NAI Welsh, Welsh Construction, Genesis Architecture, Welsh Development and FaciliTech. Through hands-on leadership and straightforward communication, she leads the teams' strategic direction in achieving the objectives of the company and its clients.
Active in the business community for more than 20 years, she currently serves on several executive committees for various local and national business associations and is committed to working with other corporate and community leaders to cultivate economic growth in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota.
Kane joined NAIOP in 1992 and is a member of NAIOP Minnesota. She is an alumna of the Harvard University Leading a Real Estate Company program and served as chair of the Development conference planning committee in 2011.
Secretary and Vice Chair, Information and Research
James T. Neyer
Al Neyer Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
Jim Neyer leads Al Neyer's real estate development activities with a balanced focus on market driven investment. He has more than 25 years experience in commercial real estate, development, financing and construction. He is a principal and a member of the Al. Neyer Executive Team and has the hands-on expertise and strategic perspective to drive results for Al. Neyer and its investor partners. Neyer serves as a faculty member for NAIOP's Center for Education.
In addition to his work with NAIOP Corporate and NAIOP Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, he is involved with Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. and several other professional and community organizations. Neyer received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Marquette University.
Treasurer
Gregory J. Walz
Northwestern Investment Management Company, Milwaukee, Wis.
Greg Walz is a managing director for Northwestern Investment Management Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, where he is responsible for directing and managing the mortgage loan investment activities and portfolio management for the eastern portion of the United States. Prior to this position, Walz was responsible for managing the Atlanta Regional Office for 25 years investing in both debt and equity investments along with oversight of the portfolio, including asset dispositions.
Walz holds a B.A. and a M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He joined NAIOP in 1985 and is also a member of ICSC. Walz serves on the Board for NAIOP Wisconsin. He is a member of the Capital Markets III National Forum.
Chairman, National Forums Committee
Ralph Heins
Primera Companies Inc., Dallas, Texas
Ralph Heins, together with his wife, Cornelia, founded Primera Companies in 1989. Prior to Primera Companies, Heins spent five years with Coldwell Banker Commercial as an investment specialist in the Minneapolis, Minn., office.
In early 1992, Heins relocated Primera to Dallas, Texas, where he built a 3 million square foot real estate portfolio with focus on bulk state-of-the-art distribution centers, managed and leased by Primera. He also co-owns and manages 400,000 square feet of office space including his most recent project, Tennyson Place, in the Legacy Business Park in Plano, Texas. Tennyson Place is a small-suite concept office building.
Heins joined NAIOP in 1992 and is a NAIOP-PAC Trustee. He is also a member of NAIOP's Family Owned Business National Forum. Heins was raised in Switzerland and holds a comparable M.B.A from the University St. Gallen. He has lived in the United States for more than 20 years.
Chairman, Business Development Committee
Ted Willcocks
Manulife Financial, Toronto, Ont.
As Global Head of Asset Management, Ted Willcocks is responsible for overseeing the operations, asset management, leasing and property management functions for Manulife Real Estate's portfolio of office, industrial and residential properties across Canada and the United States.
A member of NAIOP since 2002, he served on the Corporate Board of Directors in 2009 and 2010 and as President of NAIOP Greater Toronto in 2011.
Chairman, Industry Trends Task Force
Steven D. Martin
SDM Partners, Atlanta, Ga.
Steve Martin is managing principal for SDM Partners. Martin and SDM Partners are focused on acquiring opportunistic office and industrial deals in Atlanta and the southeast.
Martin joined NAIOP in 1992, serving on the NAIOP Georgia board for a number of years and as the NAIOP Georgia president in 1999. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Jacksonville State University and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Immediate Past Chairman
Alex Klatskin
Forsgate Industrial Partners, Teterboro, N.J.
Alex Klatskin, FAIA, is a partner with Forsgate Industrial Partners, a private industrial real estate development and investment firm based in Teterboro, N.J. Forsgate has built and owns 10 million square feet of industrial property. Before joining Forsgate in 1992, he was with the New York City architectural firm of Kohn, Pedersen, Fox and Associates, working on commercial projects in London and New York.
Klatskin joined NAIOP in 1998 and is a former president of NAIOP New Jersey. He is founder of the Family Owned Business National Forum, a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees and is a PAC Trustee. He is a past President of NAIOP New Jersey, former Chairman of NAIOP's PAC Trustees, past Vice Chair of the Membership & Chapter Relations Committee and a former member of the Tax & Finance Sub-Committee. Klatskin serves as Chairman of the Foundation's Research Committee.
In addition, Klatskin is a member of the Washington, D.C., based Real Estate Roundtable and is a member of the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural League of New York and the American Real Estate Society. He has been a visiting architectural critic at the Universities of Michigan and Illinois, Florida A&M, Catholic University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he has been a visiting lecturer in the real estate programs of Cornell and Johns Hopkins Universities.
Klatskin holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois and a Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland. He is a registered architect in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and a licensed professional planner in New Jersey.
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