Cory Bultinck

Cory Bultinck is the national real estate practice leader at Wipfli. Prior to being the national leader, he led Minnesota’s construction and real estate practice. His clients and team value his passion to help others, tenacious approach to his clients’ success and ability to find unique solutions to the most challenging problems.

Bultinck is proactive in providing real estate industry-specific business, operational and tax advisory solutions. He often works collaboratively with his clients and key stakeholders, including attorneys, investors, advisors and strategic partners. His collaboration and commitment to success have led to many life-long client relationships and a dedicated real estate team that strives toward that same client success.

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Marino Colatruglio

Marino Colatruglio is a senior executive with over 30 years of experience driving enterprise-wide strategies in real estate, procurement, and tax planning. As vice president of global workplace and corporate real estate at Cardinal Health, he leads a global team that oversees more than 800 locations totaling over 33 million square feet. His mission centers on delivering the right real estate at the right time and price – supporting business continuity while safeguarding Cardinal Health’s core assets: People, Products, Property, and Information.

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Jeff Dillon

Jeff Dillon is the chief investment officer at VanTrust, where he leads the company’s investment strategy and portfolio management. He is responsible for all aspects of the investment lifecycle, including sourcing, underwriting, and structuring acquisitions and dispositions. In addition, Dillon provides strategic oversight of VanTrust’s real estate portfolio – managing asset allocation, monitoring performance, and implementing risk management strategies to ensure long-term value creation and alignment with company objectives.

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Sandy Doyle-Ahern

Sandy Doyle-Ahern is the president of EMH&T, Central Ohio’s leading economic development and public infrastructure design firm. She joined EMH&T in 1997 and became EMH&T’s first female shareholder in 2006 and vice president in 2008. Doyle-Ahern was named president of the company in 2012. From public infrastructure improvements and urban revitalization, to single- and multi-family developments, to design services for projects in healthcare, education and energy, Doyle-Ahern has guided EMH&T to leadership in both the public and private sectors in a diverse array of markets. She lends her talent and leadership skills to a range of organizations with missions to support housing, workforce development, and healthcare. In addition to being a member of the Columbus Partnership, she serves on the board of directors for Downtown Columbus, Inc., Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus State Community College, OhioHealth, and the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation.

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Akiva Freeman

Akiva Freeman has 10 years of experience with office and industrial assets for a large REIT, followed by 5 years of brokerage and consulting services throughout the Midwest and Southeast. The last 10+ years Freeman has spent in corporate real estate overseeing transactions, office services, lease administration and project management, with a particular focus on supply chain real estate.

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Matt Garver

Matt Garver is a development professional with Prologis, based in Chicago. He leads site due diligence efforts across the central United States, evaluating land opportunities for risk, feasibility, and entitlement readiness to support data center development. With a background in civil engineering and experience spanning design, permitting, and construction coordination, Garver brings a practical, data-driven perspective to complex development challenges. His work helps position Prologis projects for success by aligning infrastructure, regulatory, and customer requirements in rapidly evolving markets.

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Ashley Grigsby

Ashley Grigsby serves as managing director of Transwestern Development Company (TDC), which develops commercial real estate for itself, its partners and clients throughout the United States. She leads the execution of lending and financial placement for projects across logistics, multifamily, office and mixed-use properties, and plays a key role in cultivating and strengthening the firm’s commercial lending relationships. Grigsby joined Transwestern in 2015 and brings more than 30 years of commercial real estate lending experience to her role. Over the past decade, she has orchestrated the debt financing of over $4 billion in development projects across multiple product types. Collaborating across the Transwestern enterprise, her efforts have helped write dozens of real estate success stories for the firm.

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Stephen Hess, LEED AP, IAMC

Stephen Hess’ development experience spans 30 years, and includes office, retail and industrial. In 2006 he accepted a position with Exel Inc., today known as DHL Supply Chain. Since that time, he has been responsible for developing over 14 million square feet of warehouse space across North America. The move to DHL enabled him to learn the basics of logistics from an operators view and provided DHL the opportunity to be more actively involved in the development industry.

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Rob Huthnance

Rob Huthnance serves as president of CT Realty, overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations across the United States, as well as acquisitions, development and investment initiatives. Prior to CT, Huthnance spent over 15 years as a senior officer at Prologis where he had overall market and capital deployment responsibilities throughout the state of Texas and border markets in Mexico. Huthnance was president of the North Texas Chapter of NAIOP.

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Spencer Levy

Spencer Levy is the global client strategist and senior economic advisor for CBRE, the largest commercial real estate firm in the world. He is part of CBRE’s Global Client Care team, a group of professionals around the world who are responsible for account management and client experience programs for the company’s largest clients. In addition to his client-facing role, Levy serves as a primary company spokesperson and is considered one of the most insightful commentators on issues of importance to commercial real estate. He is frequently quoted in major business publications and is the host of CBRE’s award-winning podcast The Weekly Take, the most heavily downloaded podcast in commercial real estate.

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Stephen Lindley

As senior vice president of investments, Stephen Lindley leads deployment across the Ambrose markets in the Midwest, Mountain States and Florida, including managing land inventory, broker relationships and tenant pursuits. Prior to Ambrose, Lindley spent seven years at Strategic Capital Partners, where he led the firm’s office leasing efforts and helped grow the company’s industrial development business across the Midwest and Southeast as vice president of leasing.

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Tim Muckley

Tim Muckley is the vice president of corporate real estate for the Sherwin-Williams Company at its corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, and oversees Sherwin-Williams’ global portfolio of over 700 manufacturing, warehousing, research and development and office locations throughout the world. Before joining Sherwin-Williams in 2011, Muckley served as general counsel for a regional real estate developer where he was responsible for all legal aspects of the acquisition, construction, leasing, property management and disposition of the company’s multi-state/multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio.

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Matthew O'Hare, CDCS

Matthew O’Hare is a seasoned executive with 30 years of expertise in mission-critical infrastructure, data center development, and high-performance computing environments. As a Certified Data Center Specialist and industry thought leader, he has guided Fortune 500 companies, national laboratories, electrical utilities, and financial institutions in designing and delivering resilient, high-efficiency data centers. He now serves as the managing director of Power Construction, Inc.'s Data Structures Group focusing on the data center and power generation markets. In addition to his executive roles, Garver serves as vice president of AFCOM Chicago, where he actively contributes to industry collaboration and education. He has authored articles for Mission Critical Magazine and BICSI News, sharing insights on emerging trends in data center technologies. Garver also sits on multiple advisory boards providing strategic council and guidance for the industry.

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Chi Osu

Chiagorom (Chi) Osu is a senior real estate executive with over 17 years of experience in acquisitions, development and economic development across multiple property types. He currently serves as head of U.S. logistics development at Mapletree Investments, where he leads the firm’s U.S. logistics development platform and oversees all aspects of the investment and development lifecycle. Osu’s track record includes more than $3 billion in nationwide acquisitions, developments, and recapitalizations, representing more than 8 million square feet of institutional-grade assets. His career includes senior roles at Prologis, Lotus Equity Group, and Loeb Partners Realty. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Temple University and holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Finance and Investments from New York University.

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Mike Settineri

Mike Settineri is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the energy group. In addition to his legal experience, he has 11 years of project engineering and operations management experience, including design and construction of large capital projects. Settineri has advised clients on a wide range of energy and utility matters including the development of renewable energy facilities, grid interconnected power plants and power supply from the competitive markets. Settineri has also appeared and argued eleven times before the Supreme Court of Ohio on appeals involving energy and utility matters.

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Steve Weikal

Steve Weikal is a lecturer, researcher, and thought leader focused on innovative new technologies and business models that are reinventing traditional ways of developing, transacting and managing real estate. He is the industry chair of the Real Estate Transformation Lab at the MIT Center for Real Estate, which explores how emerging technologies impact the commercial real estate industry, and is also the managing partner of MET Fund II, which invests in early-stage, MIT-connected start-ups focused on solutions for the Built Environment Transition.

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Scott J. Ziance, Esq.

Scott Ziance founded and leads the national economic development incentives team at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, which has one of the largest law firm-based incentives practices in the country. He also founded and chairs the board of managers for Vista Site Selection, LLC, the firm’s ancillary business composed of site selection professionals, data scientists and economists. Together, the team members have led projects in all 50 states and on three continents. Personally, Ziance has led incentives work for the construction of more than 100 distribution/fulfillment centers throughout the U.S. and has led incentives work on dozens of hyperscale data center projects in five different time zones. He has chaired the NAIOP of Ohio chapter board and the NAIOP Central Ohio chapter board and is a member of the NAIOP Corporate board.

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