Speaker Bios

Keynote Bios

Mark Dotzour, Ph.D.
Chief Economist and Director of Research
Texas A&M University

Dr. Dotzour is the Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He has been with the Real Estate Center since 1997. Since then, he has published 49 articles in prominent industry magazines and given more than 625 speeches. His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week. As Chief Economist, he is currently doing market research to monitor how global and national trends are likely to impact residential and commercial real estate markets.

Dotzour previously served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years. Prior to that he taught Land Economics in Slovakia in 1993 and also served as a visiting research scholar at Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1993. He has presented his research findings to audiences in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

John Kasich
Former Nine-Term Congressman, Chairman of the House Budget Committee and FOX News Contributor

Newsweek named John Kasich one of its significant "100 people for the 21st century," citing his nine terms as a congressman in Ohio, his work on balancing the national budget as chairman of the House Budget Committee, and his service as chair of the congressional committee on welfare reform. Encouraged by the Republican Party, Kasich ran for president in 1999, and he currently chairs a nonprofit association, The New Century Project Issues Forum. His two New York Times bestsellers, Courage Is Contagious and the recent Stand for Something: The Battle for America's Soul, call for Americans to strive to be compassionate, unified citizens.

Admired for his dedication to ethics and ideals by the likes of Bono, George Stephanopoulos, coach Mike Krzyzewski and Bill O'Reilly, Kasich speaks to the warping of values-not just about it-and offers common-sense, real world solutions. He is a contributor to several Fox News shows and is a frequent guest host of The O'Reilly Factor. Whether speaking from the news desk at FOX, or from a podium before live groups, Kasich's ability to stimulate change within the individual is unmistakable.

Session Speakers

Ted Antenucci
President and Chief Investment Officer
ProLogis

Ted R. Antenucci is ProLogis' President and Chief Investment Officer and also serves on the board of directors for ProLogis European Properties (PEPR), a public fund trading on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam. Before joining ProLogis in September 2005, Antenucci served as President of Catellus Commercial Development Corp., with responsibility for all development, construction and acquisition activities. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Catellus Commercial Group, where he managed the company's industrial development activities throughout the western United States, including northern and southern California, Denver, Chicago, Dallas and Portland.

Shane Baldwin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Silver Leaf Financial

Shane Baldwin is CEO and founder of Silver Leaf Financial, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. His ambition, determination and belief have propelled him into becoming the driving force behind his company. Silver Leaf focuses on purchasing pools of performing and non-performing first deed of trust loan pools from the FDIC and other financial institutions for the purpose of prompt monetization.

Phillip Benjamin
Senior Managing Director
Crimson Real Estate Advisors L.P.

As Senior Managing Director of Finance, Phillip Benjamin oversees all of the financial analysis, structuring, pricing and capitalization of potential investments for Crimson Real Estate Fund. Crimson Real Estate is a newly formed fund that, in concert with USAA Insurance Company, is seeking real estate investment opportunities that will capitalize on the current lack of liquidity and execution capability in the market.

Stephen K. Bronner
Managing Principal
Parmenter Realty Partners

Stephen Bronner is involved in the strategic planning of Parmenter Realty Partners and is responsible for investment acquisitions, asset management and investment sales in the Central and Southwest region. He has more than 25 years of real estate experience, including involvement in development, acquisitions and asset management. Bronner and Darryl Parmenter first worked together in 1995 at Lincoln Property Company. Bronner has structured acquisitions and/or financed transactions totaling in excess of $1.7 billion, representing separate account clients such as Stanford University, New York State Teachers Retirement Fund, The Alaska Permanent Fund and California Public Employee Retirement System.

Prior to joining Parmenter Realty Partners, he served as a senior acquisitions officer at Sarofim Realty Advisors and Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel Inc. His previous experience also includes directing the real estate acquisition strategies at IBEX Institutional Advisors. Prior to IBEX, he held positions with The Worthing Companies, Salomon Brothers and Lincoln Property Company. He serves on the board of directors for the NAIOP North Texas and was President of the chapter in 2005. Bronner was elected to the Corporate Board of Directors for NAIOP in 2006 and now serves on the Executive Committee.

Michael Caprile
Vice Chairman/Investment Properties
CB Richard Ellis

Michael Caprile has over 30 years of investment sales experience within the commercial real estate profession. Since 2007, Mr. Caprile and his team concluded with an aggregate consideration in excess of $1.6 billion nationwide. Prior to joining CB Richard Ellis, Mr. Caprile was acting as a principal for a private independent acquisition group specializing in commercial properties.

Mr. Caprile specializes in the acquisition and disposition of institutional office/industrial and transportation infrastructure related investment assets. With an in-depth understanding of complex financing strategies and an uncanny perception of commercial real estate, its cycles, trends and participants, Mike and his team have been able to consummate major investment transactions for some of the highest profile institutional owners of real estate on both a regional and national level.

Bruce Cohen
Chief Executive Officer
Wrightwood Capital

Bruce Cohen serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of Wrightwood Capital. Mr. Cohen oversees the firm’s investment activities, portfolio management, new product development, and investor relations.

Mr. Cohen holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Tufts University. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Pension Real Estate Association, the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and the Real Estate Roundtable, where he formerly served as the Co-Chair of the Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee and Chair of the Research Committee. In addition, Mr. Cohen is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, and serves on the Real Estate Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as on the Board of Directors for The Children’s Museum of Chicago.

Derrick K. Collins
Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Derrick Collins serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Finance at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management where he teaches the courses Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing, and Entrepreneurial Finance. Mr. Collins also extends his private equity experience into business practice by serving as a General Partner of the business advisory firm, Hickory Trestle, and private equity advisory firm, Magna Saxum Advisors. Prior to this, he served as a General Partner of Polestar Capital Partners, a venture capital partnership focused on investing in minority-controlled technology companies.

Mr. Collins’ current and past board affiliations include Chicago Community Ventures, Adamation, Inc., BridgeStream, Inc., ViaNovus, Inc., the National Association of Investment Companies, and co-founder and board member of the accelerated entrepreneurial program, the Runners’ Club. Derrick earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

James B. Connor
Executive Vice President, Midwest
Duke Realty Corporation

As Executive Vice President for Duke Realty Corporation, Jim has responsibility for the company’s Central Region. With offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Dallas and Houston, Duke’s Central Region has an annual development volume in excess of $350 million dollars, owns more than 39 million square feet of properties and 1,500 acres of undeveloped land. Jim is a member of the company’s Executive, Operating and Investment Committees.

Previously, Jim served as Senior Vice President of Duke’s Chicago Operations, where he was responsible for Duke's Chicago office and industrial portfolios. He led and directed the leasing, acquisition and development activity, building Duke’s Chicago portfolio to more than 10.8 million square feet. Jim joined Duke Realty in 1998.

Jim is active in the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), where he has served on the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Admissions Committee and President of the Chicago Chapter, the Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE), NAIOP and CoreNet Global.

Ben Davis, LEED AP
Attorney
Atkinson, Thal & Baker PC

Ben Davis is an attorney with Atkinson & Thal PC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Atkinson & Thal specializes in complex commercial litigation, business litigation and natural resources litigation. Davis is admitted to practice law in both Texas and New Mexico.

Paul D'Arelli, Esq.
Attorney
Greenberg Traurig

Paul D'Arelli, Esq. is a Shareholder with the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. He was the fifth attorney in the United States and the first in Florida to become a LEED® Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green Building Council. Mr. D'Arelli is Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig's Green Building & Sustainability Group and works with other firm attorneys across many disciplines to manage the host of legal and risk management issues inherent in the implementation of a green building strategy, from entitlements and incentives, to design and construction contracts, project governance, marketing, leasing, insurance and more. Paul has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Miami School of Law in Real Property Development and is also a licensed California general contractor and has prior experience as a builder.

Dale Dekker, AIA, AICP
Principal
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

Dale Dekker, AIA, AICP, is a principal with Dekker/Perich/Sabatini. As an original founder of D/P/S, Dale has more than 30 years of experience as a registered architect and planner. Dale is a registered architect in New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Texas and Nevada. He is a certified planner by the American Institute of Certified Planning, a licensed interior designer in New Mexico and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

George A. Dionisopoulos
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP

George A. Dionisopoulos, a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, is the chair of the firm's Estates & Trusts Practice. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, a past president of the Milwaukee Estate Counselors Forum and is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® and the lists of Wisconsin Super Lawyers in the estate planning field.

Dionisopoulos advises individuals and families regarding appropriate tax and estate planning arrangements to carry out their specific objectives. He regularly provides counsel to corporate and individual fiduciaries regarding all facets of trust and estate administration, including audits with the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities. He has extensive experience with the specialized needs of closely held business owners and corporate executives and has assisted many private clients in successfully transferring family businesses from one generation to the next.

Dionisopoulos is a frequent speaker on tax and estate planning topics, including recent presentations at the Corporate Practice Institute, the Chicago-Kent Annual Tax Seminar, the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel and the Trusts and Estates Section of the National CLE Conference. He is the author of "The Wisconsin Marital Property Law and Its Effect on Estate Planning" and a co-author of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners. He formerly wrote a regular column on business succession planning for the Milwaukee Journal.

Dean Dornbos
Managing Director/Debt & Equity Finance
Cushman & Wakefield

Dean F. Dornbos serves as Managing Director of the Cushman & Wakefield Debt and Equity Finance Division. During a 24-year career, he has been involved directly in the management, origination, production, and procurement of more than $5 billion of real estate capital for commercial properties totaling in excess of 100 million square feet.

He has a diverse scope of successfully closed transactions involving record setting levels and cutting edge, creative solutions for clients. His professional expertise involves the structuring, negotiating, and closing of financial vehicles including first mortgage debt, construction loans, bridge financing, mezzanine loans, participating debt, preferred equity, joint ventures, unsecured vehicles, subscription facilities, entity level capitalizations, and sale leasebacks. His transaction experience includes all major commercial property types, including office, retail, industrial, multi-family, condominium, hotel and land uses. Dornbos has developed a prominent client base by arranging debt and equity financing for a notable client base including numerous institutional Pension Fund Advisory, REIT, Private Equity Fund and national development companies.

As a licensed attorney, he additionally brings an extensive knowledge of the documentation and negotiation requirements pertinent to the complexities of significant commercial real estate transactions.

Paul Fisher
President
CenterPoint Properties

Mr. Fisher is President of CenterPoint Properties Trust, a Chicago-based property company focused on industrial real estate and related rail, road and port infrastructure. CenterPoint, a publicly traded REIT between 1993 to 2006, is owned by CalEast Global Logistics, LLC, a joint venture between the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). and LaSalle Investment Advisors. A founder of CenterPoint, Mr. Fisher served in the past as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. In February, 2005 Institutional Investor reported Mr. Fisher was rated by investors and analysts as one of America's best CFO's. Prior to joining the Company in 1991, he held a variety of executive positions with real estate firms and investment banks in Chicago and New York.

Mr. Fisher began his career practicing law after earning his Doctor of Law degree in 1980 from The University of Chicago Law School. He graduated in 1977 from The University of Notre Dame, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Fisher serves on the advisory board of the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and serves as a sustaining sponsor for the DePaul Real Estate Center.

John Gattuso
Senior Vice President and Regional Director/ Urban Region
Liberty Property Trust

John Gattuso is Senior Vice President and Regional Director of Liberty Property Trust, one of the nation's largest real estate investment trusts specializing in office and industrial properties. The company owns and operates more than 74 million square feet of space in 18 markets in the United States and Great Britain. As Senior Vice President/Regional Director, Gattuso is responsible for the company's urban and national development projects.

In his current position at Liberty, he has advocated a move toward sustainable and environmentally responsible development. Recently completed sustainable projects for which he has been responsible include the 1.3 million square foot TJX Distribution Center, a project that has been recognized as a Smart Growth development by the Sierra Club, and the Plaza at PPL Center located in downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania, a LEED Gold Certified project. His current project roster includes the redevelopment of a significant portion of the former Philadelphia Navy Yard into a mixed-use urban office/research park.

Mark Gibson
Executive Managing Director
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P.

Mark Gibson is an Executive Managing Director for the firm and one of its founding partners, located in the Dallas office of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P.). As part of the HFF Executive Committee, Gibson is responsible for the overall direction of the firm's 18 offices throughout the nation.

He joined HFF in 1984 and has been involved in real estate financing and asset sales for major corporate, institutional and entrepreneurial owners, both nationally and internationally.

Eugene J Godbold
President, Commercial Real Estate Banking
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Eugene J. Godbold, Jr. is the Commercial Real Estate Banking president for Bank of America. Godbold manages the Commercial Real Estate, Home Builder, Community Development Banking and Real Estate Corporate Banking divisions at Bank of America. With offices from coast-to-coast, Bank of America Commercial Real Estate Banking is the largest provider of commercial real estate financial services in the country. Godbold leads a team of real estate professionals, who provide project and corporate finance and comprehensive financial solutions for a broad array of clients including public and private Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), funds, as well as commercial and residential development companies.

Timothy J. Gunter
Chief Executive Officer and President
IDI

As CEO and President of IDI, Tim Gunter is responsible for the overall direction of one of the nation's largest developers of industrial real estate. Instrumental in the formation of IDI in 1989, Gunter became CEO in 2008 when IDI founder and CEO, Henry D. Gregory Jr. retired.

Gunter's goal is to carry on Gregory's legacy - a commitment to developing state-of-the-art industrial buildings to benefit tenants, investors and surrounding communities. A key component of his vision for the future is its sustainability program, which includes successful environmental mitigation efforts, the protection of habitat during construction and the implementation of new technologies that reduce energy consumption.

Prior to his promotion to CEO, Gunter served as President for two years, before which he was chief operating officer.

Alissa Helgesen
President
Circle Realty Advisors

With over twenty years of experience in the commercial real estate industry, Alissa Helgesen established Circle Realty Advisors to provide institutional-quality investment services to companies seeking entrepreneurial solutions. Circle Realty Advisors offers acquisition, disposition, due diligence, and asset/property management services to its clients and is a Women's Business Enterprise.

Prior to establishing Circle Realty Advisors, Alissa Helgesen was Vice President, Acquisitions & Dispositions for Duke Realty Corporation's Midwest markets. Subsequent to joining Duke, she completed transactions totaling more than $734 million in office, industrial and retail property types. Ms. Helgesen was a member of Duke's management committee.

Ms. Helgesen holds a Bachelor's degree in Real Estate Finance from the University of Illinois-Champaign and a Master's degree in Real Estate Appraisal and Investment Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Affiliations include, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (prior NAIOP Board Member), CREW Chicago (Member of the Programs and Membership Committees), Association of Industrial Real Estate, and the University of Wisconsin and Illinois Real Estate Alumni Associations. Ms. Helgesen is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois.

Judith Heerwagen, Ph.D.
J.H. Heerwagen & Associates,Inc.

Dr. Heerwagen is an environmental psychologist whose research and consulting focus on the social impacts of design. She was a research faculty member at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture and a staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory before starting her own research and consulting business in Seattle. At both the University of Washington and PNNL, her research focused on energy efficiency, sustainable architecture and habitability. She has lectured widely on the human factors of sustainable design, workplace productivity and the impacts of physical space on emotional, social and cognitive functioning. Dr. Heerwagen's clients are drawn from both the public and private sectors.

In 2005, she was named Environmental Champion by ASID. She has been a member of the U.S. Green Building Council since 2000 and currently serves as the vice chair of the USGBC research committee. She is a co-editor of Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life (Wiley, 2008).

Michelle Henrie, LEED AP
Attorney
MHenrie Land Water Law

Michelle Henrie, LEED AP is an attorney who handles all aspects of land development as well as water law throughout New Mexico. She is a member of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Water Task Force and Secretary of NAIOP New Mexico.

Wade W. Judge
Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer
LaSalle Investment Management/Acquisitions

Wade Judge is Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Private Equity business and is the Chairman of LaSalle's Investment and Allocation Committees.

Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Judge was responsible for directing the Acquisition Group's office, industrial, retail and residential investment activity throughout the United States for 10 years. Before he came to Jones Lang LaSalle in 1975, Judge was with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York City for one year. Prior to joining LaSalle Investment Management in 1992, Judge worked for the Chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle (1975-1977) and was a senior officer in the firm's Development Group (1978-1991).

Katie Kieffer, LEED AP

In her role as New Business Associate with NorthMarq Real Estate Services LLC, Katie Kieffer conducted new business development work such as: demographic and market research, marketing initiatives and creative client proposals. She also managed green and sustainability initiatives for NorthMarq's nearly 2 million square foot managed portfolio. In addition, she spearheaded special project work to streamline systems and foster new business development. She interned at United Properties in the Brokerage Department from 2003 through 2005. After graduating from the University of St. Thomas, she joined United Properties, NorthMarq's predecessor, in 2005 as an operations assistant.

Keiffer is an active member of NAIOP, serving on both the Developing Leaders and Public Policy committees. She chairs the Minnesota Developing Leaders Committee and also serves as the chair of NAIOP's Young Professionals Forum II. In 2007, NAIOP Minnesota recognized Katie's contributions, naming her NAIOP's Volunteer of the Year. In addition, she is involved in Big 10 Speakers, where she was recognized as the 2006 All Star and Most Valuable Member. She is a LEED Accredited Professional through the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is a member of NorthMarq's Green Team.

Steve Livaditis
Senior Managing Director and Partner
Eastdil Secured, LLC

Mr. Livaditis is a Senior Managing Director and Partner of Eastdil Secured, LLC and is a member of the Board of Directors and Management Committee of the firm. He is responsible for structuring transactions and the full spectrum of capital solutions across all asset classes, including: Asset sales and partial interest sales; Joint ventures on to-be built and existing assets; Construction, permanent, fixed, floating and hedged financing; and Capital raising and forward formation.

Mr. Livaditis brings 24 years of finance, lending and real estate investment banking experience and has been involved in many of the largest real estate equity and finance transactions in the U.S. Mr. Livaditis' real estate investment banking experience began at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and prior to joining Eastdil Secured, he spent eight years at Cushman & Wakefield as a Senior Director.

Mr. Livaditis is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He serves on the board of directors for the Illinois Landmark Preservation Council. Mr. Livaditis is a licensed General Securities Representative (GS, S-7) with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and an Agent (AG, S-63) in the State of Illinois and he is a Licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Illinois.

Thomas M. McCahill
Managing Director
Transwestern Realty Finance Partners LLC

Thomas M. McCahill is Managing Director of Transwestern Realty Finance Partners LLC. McCahill is responsible for all investment origination and portfolio management activities and for all aspects of the firm's operations.

Prior to joining Transwestern Realty Finance, McCahill spent more than 25 years at MONY Life, most recently as President of MONY Realty Capital where he directed a staff of more than 50 professionals in five regional offices and the management of more than $2 billion in real estate debt and equity investments. Under his leadership, the real estate group developed a number of investment programs, including MONY's construction-to-permanent loan program, its securitized lending operation and its mezzanine and B-Note investment programs, which subsequently led to the creation of the MONY/Transwestern mezzanine funds and the MONY B-Note Value Fund.

Michael McDonald
Managing Director
Eastdil Secured

Mike McDonald is a Managing Director and Partner of Eastdil Secured. He co-founded the Atlanta office of Eastdil Secured (predecessor Eastdil) in 2000. Prior to joining Eastdil Secured, McDonald was a Vice President of Ben Carter Properties where he focused on office and retail investment sales, acquisitions on behalf of the firm and an offshore investor and office and retail development activities. He is one of the leading investment sales professionals in the Southeast and has been involved in more than $6 billion of transactions over the past three years across the product type spectrum, including office, retail, industrial and multi-family assets.

Steve Modory
Co-Managing Partner
Champion Partners

Steve Modory joined Champion Partners in 1993 and has been responsible for managing various commercial real estate development, investment and capital markets activities. Prior to joining Champion, Modory was a portfolio manager for Trammell Crow Ventures. He has been involved with more than 35 million square feet of real estate properties, the aggregate value of which exceeds $3.0 billion. Modory is the immediate past Chair of the Office Development Council of the Urban Land Institute, a Board Member of The Real Estate Council of Dallas and the Board Chair for the Red Cross Dallas Area Chapter.

Dirk Mosis III, CCIM
Executive Managing Director, Opportunity Fund
USAA Real Estate Company

Dirk Mosis serves as Executive Managing Director of USAA's Opportunity Fund. The Fund is a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate assets including office properties, mixed-use properties, multi-family, hotels and retail shopping centers that offer opportunistic investment returns. He has 28 years of commercial real estate experience, 7+ years with USAA and related entities.

Michael Mullen
Chief Executive Officer
CenterPoint Properties

Michael M. Mullen is the CEO and Co-Founder of CenterPoint Properties. CenterPoint is the largest owner/developer of industrial real estate in the metropolitan Chicago area. The company owns, leases and manages approximately 42 million square feet of facilities. Additionally, CenterPoint owns or controls more than 6,000 acres of property for future development. CenterPoint Properties was a publicly traded NYSE listed company for approximately 12 years. During that period it delivered an average annual return to its shareholders of 23 percent per year compounded. CenterPoint was acquired in March of 2006 by CalEast Global Logistics, a venture between CalPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System) and LaSalle Investment Management.

Mullen was the 2007 NAIOP Chairman and currently serves on NAIOP's Corporate Board of Directors.

Christopher Peatross
President and CEO
CarrAmerica, Trizec and Equity Office Properties

Christopher Peatross currently serves as President and CEO of CarrAmerica, Trizec and Equity Office Properties, a leading real estate investment, development and operating company. The combined portfolio holdings consist of approximately 60 million square feet nationwide.

His extensive real estate background includes developing, leasing and investing in large-scale commercial real estate transactions throughout the Western United States. He served as NAIOP President in 2008 and is a Council Member of the Urban Land Institute.

Alan L. Pontius
Managing Director/National Office and Industrial Properties Group
Marcus & Millichap

Al Pontius is the managing director of the National Office and Industrial Properties Group (NOIPG). In this role he also directs the firm's Healthcare Real Estate Group and serves as co-director of the firm's Net Leased Properties Group (NLPG). His career with Marcus & Millichap began as a sales associate in 1985 and he consistently ranked among the firm's Top 25 associates in this capacity. In 1993 he was appointed regional manager of the Palo Alto office. Pontius was promoted to senior vice president in 2000 and assumed his current role in 2002. His industry trade affiliations include NAIOP and ULI, where he is regularly called upon to present on United States real estate investment trends.

Jim Postweiler
Managing Director
Jones Lang LaSalle

Mr. Postweiler is a Managing Director in the Jones Lang LaSalle Capital Markets group. He is responsible for co-leading the firm’s Capital Markets team in Chicago and for growing its investment sales and finance capabilities in the Midwest. Mr. Postweiler has more than 20 years of experience in investment sales, mortgage financing and sale-leaseback transactions.

Steven E. Pumper
Executive Managing Director, Investment Services and Asset Services Groups
Transwestern

Steve Pumper utilizes his 24 years of commercial real estate experience to lead and coordinate the national operations of the Investment Services and Asset Services Groups. He oversees all aspects of Transwestern's investment and finance platform including, asset sales, financial advisory and corporate real estate finance for all product types including office, industrial, retail, healthcare and multi-family. He also oversees the firm's national business development efforts for strategic agency leasing and property management services. Pumper is also a member of Transwestern's board of directors.

Prior to joining Transwestern, Pumper was senior managing director for Insignia/ESG, where he was responsible for institutional business development regarding investment sales, management, leasing and financing opportunities. He also served as an officer and vice president of the Real Estate Roundtable (RER), formerly known as the National Realty Committee (NRC).

Stephen R. Quazzo
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Transwestern Investment Company LLC

Stephen R. Quazzo is Co-Founder and CEO of Transwestern Investment Company LLC, a Chicago-based real estate principal investment firm established in 1996. Quazzo is also a Director of Transwestern Commercial Services LLC. ("TW").

During the last 11 years, Transwestern Investment Company has acquired interests in more than 430 office, retail, industrial and multifamily properties representing a gross investment of more than $9 billion. Currently the firm is seeking U.S. equity investment opportunities for Aslan Realty Partners III LLC, an $800 million fully-discretionary office, retail and industrial fund; Transwestern Multifamily Partners LLC, a $226 million fully-discretionary apartment fund; and U.S. mezzanine opportunities for Transwestern Mezzanine Realty Partners II LLC, a $300 million fully-discretionary fund. In addition, the firm now manages public real estate securities through its Transwestern Securities Management subsidiary. Previously Quazzo served as President of Equity Institutional Investors, a subsidiary of investor Sam Zell's private holding company, and was a Vice President in the Real Estate Department of Goldman, Sachs & Company. He is a Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute, a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois. In addition, Quazzo serves as a Director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HOT). Quazzo also serves as a Trustee of The Latin School of Chicago and is a Chicago Advisory Board member of City Year, a national service organization.

Eugene F. Reilly
President, The Americas
AMB Property Corporation

Eugene Reilly is President, the Americas for AMB Property Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for AMB's business in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Mr. Reilly joined AMB in 2003 and has 25 years of experience in the development, acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of industrial properties 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. Mr. Reilly served with Cabot and its predecessor companies, including the NYSE-traded 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.

Mr. Reilly is a member of NAIOP where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts chapter, the National Industrial Education Committee and currently serves on the NAIOP Corporate Board of Directors. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.

Wayne Rivers
Co-Founder and President
The Family Institute Inc.

Wayne Rivers is the co-founder and President of The Family Business Institute Inc. He has authored three books on the subject of business families: The Top Nine Reasons Family Businesses Fail - And the Eight Building Blocks for Creating a SUSTAINABLE Closely Held Business, Prescriptions For a Healthy Family Business and You Don't Have To Die To Win - Success and Succession For Family Businesses. Wayne has appeared on CNN, the CNBC special "American Family Business," "BusinessWeek: WEEKEND" and on the Retirement Living Network.

Rivers has been quoted on the subject of family and closely held businesses by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, CFO, Family Business, The New York Times, Washington Post, Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's New York Business, The San Francisco Business Times, and by other trade, local, regional and national publications. He has written hundreds of articles for various magazines and trade publications and has produced an acclaimed quarterly newsletter, Family Times, for more than ten years. He has done workshops and lectures for Harley-Davidson, CCA Global, ACA International, The Associated General Contractors of America, American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys, Window and Door Manufacturers Association, National Funeral Directors Association, National Air Filtration Association, Northwestern Mutual Life, Mutual of New York, University of Pittsburgh, Wake Forest University, Virginia Tech, Babson College, UNC Asheville, Methodist College and many others.

Rivers is a member of the Closely Held Business Committee of The Associated General Contractors of America. He has also recently completed The Family Firm Institute Certificate in Family Business Advising Program; this program benefits both family business advisors and their clients by establishing knowledge standards for better serving family-owned enterprises.

Andrés Tapia
Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader
Hewitt Associates

Andrés Tapia is Hewitt's Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader, responsible for leading the company's internal and external diversity vision and strategies.

He is a published writer and prominent speaker. As a journalist, he covered social trends in the United States and Latin America via articles appearing in publications such as the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Diversity Executive, VOCÊ (Brazil), Benefits Quarterly, and Hemispheres magazine. He has been interviewed by major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, CNN en Español, and FORTUNE magazine in the United States, La Nación and El Clarín in Argentina, El Mercurio in Chile, VOCÊ, Valor, and Revista Amanhã in Brazil, and HR industry publications such as HR Magazine, Benefit News, and Benefits Canada Magazine.

His experiences in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, India, Kenya and throughout Latin America and his native Perú have equipped him with a true global perspective. By working with Hewitt, and with dozens of its FORTUNE 500 multinational clients, as well as with public schools and law enforcement agencies, Tapia is grounded in the cross-industry implications of achieving a diverse, high-performing workforce. He has developed actionable insights into how varying worldviews can impact health, wealth, learning, safety and workplace performance.

The insights and lessons from these experiences are captured in his book, The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity to be published in spring 2009 by Hewitt. Prior to this role, Tapia worked as a performance and knowledge management leader for several of Hewitt's lines of business. Tapia has worked at CSC and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) doing performance consulting, instructional design and technical writing.

Dale H. Taysom
Managing Director, Transactions
Prudential Real Estate Investors

Dale H. Taysom joined Prudential in 1977. He is currently Managing Director of PREI and Head of Global Transactions. This includes responsibility for coordinating global acquisition and disposition activity for institutional portfolios managed by PREI. Taysom has held this position since 2007 and prior to that was Head of U.S. Transactions from 1993-2007. Taysom is a member of PREI's domestic and international investment committees and a member of the Global Management Committee.

His previous assignments with Prudential have included responsibility for mortgage loan origination, asset management, acquisitions, sales, development and portfolio management. He has served in Prudential offices in Miami, Denver, New York City, Newark and Atlanta. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, on the Board of Directors of the National Multi-Housing Council and a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers.

Cedric D. Thurman
Senior Vice President/Chief Diversity Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle

Cedric D. Thurman is Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for North America for Jones Lang LaSalle. In this role, he is responsible for creating and implementing a multi-year, multi-phased strategic plan that will define, assess, nurture and cultivate a culture of diversity and inclusion. He is also responsible for designing and implementing programs to increase the number of women and minorities hired, retained, developed and promoted in the firm. Thurman co-chairs Jones Lang LaSalle's Diversity Council along with Peter C. Roberts, CEO of the Americas.

Thurman has been with Jones Lang LaSalle since 2000. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, he was Principal of the Alexander Management Group, a consulting firm providing general management consulting services to small business owners. Prior to starting the Alexander Management Group, Thurman served as Interim CEO of Third World Press, the oldest continually operating African American owned publishing company in the country. Before joining Third World Press, Thurman served two years as President of Beverly Bank-Chicago, part of Beverly National Bank Corporation. Thurman was the first and only African American Bank President in the history of the holding company.

Gregory Vorwaller
Chief Operating Officer, Capital Markets/President, Investment Properties
CBRE Capital Markets

Greg Vorwaller directs all operations of CB Richard Ellis Capital Markets, and Investment Properties which specializes in the acquisition and disposition of income-producing properties for third-party owners. Vorwaller joined CB Richard Ellis in 1993, as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for the Midwest Region.

Prior to accepting his responsibilities with CB Richard Ellis, he was Vice President in the Real Estate Financial Department of The First National Bank of Chicago, where he was responsible for advising corporate and real estate clients on alternative means of meeting financing requirements. He is also well known in the pension fund industry where he served as a senior consultant with Institutional Property Consultants and founded the real estate consulting practice of William M. Mercer's Asset Planning Group. Over the course of his career, Vorwaller has been responsible for more than $6 billion in property sales, debt financings and sale/leaseback financings.

Mark Wilsmann
Managing Director, Real Estate Portfolio Management
MetLife Inc.

Mark Wilsmann is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Portfolio Management at MetLife. In this role, he is responsible for managing the company's $36 billion commercial mortgage portfolio, including product line, strategy, pricing and origination activities via eight domestic and four international offices. He is also responsible for overseeing MetLife's $10 billion wholly-owned and joint venture equity real estate portfolio and chairing the firm's real estate investment committee. Under his leadership, MetLife has consistently been a leader among life companies in commercial mortgage lending, with annual transaction volume of $5-$10 billion.

Casey Wold
Senior Managing Director/ Head of Midwest, Atlanta and Boston
Tishman Speyer

Casey Wold joined Tishman Speyer in 2004 and has responsibility for the Midwest, Atlanta, Boston and Washington, D.C. regions. He is also a member of the Management and Investment committees. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, he served as chief operating officer and chief investment officer of Trizec Office Properties, a national REIT based in Chicago. From 1995 to 2001, he served as president of TrizecHahn Office Properties, the U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based TrizecHahn Corporation, where he led the development of one of the industry's premier leasing and property management operations, spearheading the company's office property growth strategy throughout North America with transactions totaling more than 75 million square feet. Before joining TrizecHahn, Wold was an executive vice-president at Equity Office Properties, heading the acquisition group for nearly eight years. He has also held positions with The Cambridge Companies, Wells Fargo and First National Bank of Chicago.