Rohan A’Beckett

Rohan A’Beckett is a vice president of the logistics platform of Brookfield, where he is a market officer for the investment team responsible for sourcing opportunities for new, ground-up development. He is based in Los Angeles where he covers the key markets of Southern California, Phoenix and Denver. Joining the team in August of 2021, A’Beckett has since sourced and transacted on land acquisitions that represent a total developable area of 9.55M SF and a total GAV of $$3.3B on completion.

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Kaitlin Arduino

Kaitlin Arduino is president of Murphy Development Company, a leading developer of corporate industrial parks in San Diego with a 40+ year history. Arduino is responsible for day-to-day management of MDC, as well as all aspects of the development cycle including land-use analysis and site selection, entitlement and permitting. She manages new acquisitions and all dispositions of MDC’s assets. Murphy Development’s latest venture is in multifamily development, where they recently entitled 80 acres in a growth area of Boise, Idaho. Arduino served as NAIOP San Diego board president in 2025.

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Ben Bartel, P.E.

Ben Bartel, P.E., brings more than 25 years of experience providing engineering and energy consulting services across the United States. He is a partner at National Property Consulting Group (NPC) and serves as a principal mechanical engineer based in Chicago, Illinois. Bartel has extensive experience in Property Condition Assessments for real estate acquisitions, specialty mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) evaluations, energy audits, sustainable and green building consulting, construction loan monitoring and draw reviews, and accessibility (ADA) compliance assessments.

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James Bohnaker

James Bohnaker is a principal economist within Cushman & Wakefield’s global think tank. He provides thought leadership, economic outlook presentations, and forecasting support to the firm’s leadership for a variety of property types and stakeholders. Bohnaker has an extensive background as a global macroeconomist and has provided strategic consulting for many of the world’s largest investment banks and corporations while in previous roles at Moody’s Analytics and S&P Global. He also previously worked at CBRE where he was a leading member of the firm’s economic and real estate forecasting platform.

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Gunnar Branson

Gunnar Branson is the CEO of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), an essential forum that provides high value thought leadership for real estate leaders from around the world. AFIRE’s members includes nearly 180 leading global institutional investors, investment managers, and supporting partners from 24 countries representing approximately US$$4 trillion in real estate assets under management (AUM) in the U.S. Branson has worked across commercial real estate, professional services, education and association leadership. Prior to joining AFIRE in 2018, he served as CEO of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM), and before that, led strategy, innovation and marketing for Fortune 500 and mid-market companies. He serves on the board of directors for Affordable Homes & Communities (AHC), a developer, owner and operator of affordable housing in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He also serves as an advisory board member for NYU Stern’s Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance.

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Leonard Brody

Leonard Brody is an award-winning techno-economist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and two-time Emmy-nominated media visionary. He has played a key role in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for startup companies, been through one of the largest IPOs in history, and has been involved in the founding and successful exit of numerous companies to date.

Drawing from his work as a creator in the future tech space, he leads a gripping discussion on “The Great ReWrite,” his latest book exploring the confluence of events that have ignited the massive cultural and technological shifts driving the current disruption in business and the world. He possesses expert-level understanding of various industries, including finance, real estate, tech, media, and consumer goods, and has advised clients ranging from tech giants, high-powered entrepreneurs, and the British Royal Family.

Brody is the co-founder and executive chairman of Caravan, a joint venture with the Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he oversees the building of new ventures for some of the most well-known celebrities and political leaders in the world, including Carrie Underwood, Tom Hanks and Joe Biden. He is also one of the proud owners of the professional soccer team Coventry City in England.

Previously, Brody was the president of the Innovation and Digital Group for Anschutz Corporation, one of the largest live sports and entertainment businesses in the world. The company is one of the premiere concert promotion businesses in the world and owns assets such as the O2 Arena in London and the Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center), as well as the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Galaxy, and Los Angeles Kings sports teams. Before that, he was a co-founder and CEO of NowPublic.com, a media company that was later sold to Anschutz.

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Jay Carle

Jay Carle, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, delivers strategic counsel at the intersection of law, data and technology. He partners with legal, compliance and technology leaders to build defensible, efficient and future-ready programs. Carle has more than a decade of experience in systems administration, security and project management, and he brings hands-on fluency to complex data challenges. He also advises clients on AI implementation readiness and compliance, helping organizations assess legal risk and develop governance frameworks for emerging technologies.

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Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins is executive vice president and head of EastGroup’s Western region. He is responsible for EastGroup’s operations in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. Prior to joining EastGroup in May of 2017, Collins served as vice president and asset manager for Clarion Partners. Collins received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the McCombs Business School at the University of Texas.

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Luke Corsbie, PE, PLS, LEED AP

Luke Corsbie is a licensed civil engineer and land surveyor with over 22 years of experience in land development. Under his leadership at Ware Malcomb, the civil engineering team has grown significantly by earning the trust of his clients with his practical approach to solving complex problems on each of his projects and his commitment to high quality service. Corsbie’s expertise spans nearly all project types. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Purdue University.

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Amanda Criscione

Amanda Criscione is vice president, Development, at Link Logistics, responsible for development activities including due diligence, entitlements, design and vertical construction. With 16 years of experience in the industrial space, she has been involved in many facets of industrial real estate, including leasing and property management, and has played an active role in over 15 million square feet of development on the West Coast.

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Amanda Eastwick, SIOR, CCIM

Amanda Eastwick is a director at Cushman & Wakefield, specializing in industrial tenant and buyer representation throughout Northern Nevada and nationally. With nearly two decades of experience in the real estate industry, Eastwick brings grit, strategy and deep market knowledge to every deal. She’s built her career by helping businesses solve complex space challenges, because she believes real estate should be a strategic advantage, not just a line item. She is a proud SIOR and CCIM designee, a business consultant, and a committed mentor to women in commercial real estate. She also serves on local boards and actively contributes to regional economic growth initiatives.

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Mike Englhard

Mike Englhard has developed more than $5 billion in real estate, retail to industrial to energy infrastructure. Joining Terawatt brings together his passion for building new organizations as well as new products. Englhard graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Construction Management.

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John Gaglio

As president of Newport Utility Consulting, John Gaglio leads one of the region’s most trusted firms specializing in high-power infrastructure for commercial and industrial development. He has successfully energized millions of square feet of real estate, delivering reliable, scalable utility solutions for some of the most demanding projects in the market. Known for bridging the gap between developers, utilities, and engineering teams, he brings a rare blend of technical precision and strategic foresight. Gaglio’s work ensures that power-intensive facilities – from advanced manufacturing to large-scale logistics – come online efficiently, safely, and are built for long-term growth.

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Matthew Goelzer, AIA, LEED AP

Matthew Goelzer is principal and client programs market leader at the global architecture and design firm MG2. With 30 years of experience across the industrial asset class, he leads a design practice focused on providing clients with full life cycle design services to enhance business success from port of entry through point of sale. MG2’s industrial portfolio includes warehouse, distribution, IOS, manufacturing, mission critical, food processing and cold storage with projects across North America and Asia. MG2 is an affiliate of Colliers Engineering & Design.

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Angela Gomez-Jones, RPA, CPM

During her over 20-year career in property management, Angela Gomez-Jones has managed or had oversight of almost every product type in numerous markets for a multitude of ownership groups. Starting January 2023, Gomez-Jones turned her career towards real estate-focused recruiting and consulting with Endeavor Agency. Endeavor primarily serves the CRE space, having recruited top talent for the leading property and asset management firms in the industry. Gomez-Jones is past BOMA president and 2026 CREW Orange County president.

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Rachel Hickenbottom

Rachel Hickenbottom is senior vice president, development, at Link Logistics, responsible for leading a team that is focused on executing development projects across the firm’s West region, including the Southern California, Northern California and Seattle markets. Hickenbottom joined Link Logistics in 2020 and has more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience. She has held roles across business functions including entitlement, development, construction, leasing, property management, legal documentation and accounting. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting and a master of business administration from California State University, Fullerton. She holds a California real estate salesperson license and is an active member of CREW Inland Empire and CREW Orange County. She recently served as the 2025 chair for Ascend, Link Logistics’ Employee Resource Group dedicated to supporting women in the workplace. Hickenbottom has also served on the City of Brea’s Traffic Committee since 2021.

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Peter Kroner

Peter Kroner has been with Avison Young for nearly five years, leading the Market Intelligence platform for Industrial and Land since 2023. In his role as lead of Industrial Market Intelligence, he has helped to craft AY Tech proprietary technology and tools that drive business development opportunities, focused largely on off-market targets for developers, investors and users alike. With a continued focus on supply chain clusters that are quickly emerging as a result of the +$$3.5T of new announced manufacturing capacity Avison Young is tracking, the Industrial Market Intelligence team is creating proprietary tools that network and map each component needed for the production of a variety of emerging industries, such as pharmaceutical production, rare earths magnet production, power production and storage, food production (freezer and cooler cold-chains specifically) to name a few.

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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 seven 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 is the author of Wood in Industrial Buildings and has developed resources on topics ranging from the financial performance of mass timber to its role in healthy forests and wildfire resilience.

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Tayler Lee

Tayler Lee is senior director at Cabot Properties, where she leads acquisitions and development initiatives across the South Central United States. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Lee began her career at Neiman Marcus on the corporate buying team before transitioning into real estate, with experience spanning multifamily and industrial investments at Thackeray Partners and Greystar.

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Melinda McLaughlin

Melinda McLaughlin is senior vice president, global head of research, for Prologis. In addition to leading the global research team, she focuses on tracking, analyzing and forecasting logistics real estate fundamentals and structural industry trends, and translating insights into strategic decision-making for the company. Her other areas of specialization include supply chain reconfiguration, location differentiation and econometric modeling. Prior to joining Prologis in March 2015, McLaughlin was a vice president at Rosen Consulting Group, a boutique firm that provides economic, housing and commercial real estate strategic consulting services to a diverse roster of clients. She holds a bachelor of science in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in real estate. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

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Roland Neary

Roland Neary is vice president of business development at Deacon Construction, bringing more than 30 years of hands-on construction and development experience to commercial projects throughout California. He previously owned and operated a large commercial concrete and framing company for over 20 years, as well as a material supply company for more than a decade, managing projects of all sizes with up to 120 employees. Although retired from ownership, he retains active B and C-8 contractor licenses and draws on his deep field experience in his current role. Neary is a board member of the California Business Properties Association and is actively involved with several NAIOP chapters, including service on the Sacramento Valley chapter board and conference planning roles. He is known for his collaborative approach and passion for bringing together multidisciplinary teams to deliver successful, context-sensitive projects.

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Will Pearce

Will Pearce is the CEO and co-founder of real estate legal AI platform Orbital. This legaltech helps lawyers and property professionals get an immediate understanding of real estate matters, using trusted data, mapping and purpose-built AI, and powers 200,000+ real estate transactions per year for leading law firms and real estate businesses. Since co-founding Orbital in 2018, Pearce has led the company’s expansion from London to New York, and in January 2026 announced Orbital’s $60M Series B to accelerate its mission of automating real estate legal processes in the U.S. and UK.

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Richard Prokup

Richard Prokup is the Chief Executive Officer, United States, for Singapore-based Mapletree, overseeing the group’s nationwide non-REIT business operations. Since the U.S. platform's inception, he has spearheaded its development, scaling it to over $15 billion in assets. With more than 35 years in commercial real estate, Prokup has built a nationally focused career spanning private and public companies, overseeing more than $30 billion in assets and driving over $10 billion in acquisitions and development. Before joining Mapletree in 2018, Richard spent 14 years at First Industrial Realty Trust, where, as senior vice president of operations, he oversaw operations for the central region, after previously holding leadership roles at Grubb & Ellis and M&J Wilkow. He holds an MBA from the University of Memphis.

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Jonathan Shardlow

Jonathan Shardlow serves as an intermediary and educator representing landowners, developers and businesses in a variety of land use litigation and transactional matters. He enjoys a multifaceted resolution-oriented role working with stakeholders to see development projects through to approval. Shardlow focuses on California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance and litigation, advising private clients on state and federal environmental laws.

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Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Christopher Thornberg has been called many things throughout his career, but his favorite thing to be called is correct. Notably, he predicted the collapse of the sub-prime real estate bubble in 2006 and the Great Recession that followed. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was one of the few economists on record to correctly push back against the forecasting community’s panicked predictions of a depression. In the past two years, he has again stood against the grain and stood out for accurately forecasting that there would be no recession. Thornberg left a teaching position at UCLA’s Business School in 2006 to found Beacon Economics, and under his leadership, the firm has become one of the nation’s most respected economic research organizations. He consults globally for private industry, cities, counties and public agencies.

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Vince Tibone

Vince is a managing director at Green Street and leads the firm’s U.S. industrial and retail research. He follows the publicly traded industrial REITs and writes research reports on topics impacting the industrial sector broadly, such as tariffs, ecommerce, and supply barriers. Prior to joining Green Street in 2015, Tibone was an analyst on the Global Trade & Supply Chain Finance team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he advised national retailers. He earned an MBA from Columbia Business School, graduating with dean’s honors and distinction, and has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

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Denice Tokunaga

Denice Tokunaga, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, works with clients to capitalize on opportunities in commercial real estate, with a particular focus in the industrial space. She has a proven track record of facilitating growth for both domestic and international clients, including real estate developers, public and private companies, private equity and pension funds, and works with clients to scale their real estate portfolios to support their growth across the U.S. and globally. Tokunaga is recognized for her strategic approach to complex cross-border leasing projects, build-to-suit, data center development and acquisitions, and her commitment to reimagining traditional spaces for end-user benefits has established her as a leader in the field.

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Cameron Trefry

Cameron has been involved in the industry and a part of the Ware Malcomb team since 2007. As Regional Vice President, Cameron is responsible for the overall leadership of the Midwest Region, including the Chicago, Oak Brook, Washington, D.C., and Columbus offices. In addition, Cameron oversees the overall growth and leadership of the Ware Malcomb Industrial Cold & Food Practice companywide. A member of Ware Malcomb’s Executive Team, he serves as an Account Executive on select national corporate accounts and provides extensive Industrial Design expertise to clients.  

Cameron is a licensed architect, LEED Accredited Professional, and has experience in all facets of architecture, including manufacturing, distribution, cold storage, food processing, office, and R&D. As a recognized expert in the commercial real estate industry, he has served as a speaker, panelist, and moderator for conferences such as the Chicago Industrial Properties’ Transportation and Logistics Conference, NAIOP I.CON Impact Projects Conference, and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Industrial Strength Connections Summit. Cameron is also one of the NAIOP Research Foundation Visionaries and actively participates in NAIOP conference planning committees.

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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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Garry Weiss, SIOR

Garry Weiss, SIOR, is Vice President - National Director Business Development & Strategic Initiatives, with ARCO/Murray located in Chicago, Illinois. With offices nationwide, ARCO Murray offers design-build, general contracting, site selection, engineering, project management, and other services. Garry is responsible for ARCO/Murray’s national presence among owners, operators, and developers in the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and Light Industrial sectors. Garry earned a Bachelor of Arts in Real Estate Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive experience serving the CEA and industrial market’s real estate needs throughout the entire supply chain. Prior to ARCO/Murray, he held positions at GSW Ventures, Ltd., Enova Decisions, Vista Industrial Aggregators, JLL, and First Industrial Realty Trust. Garry is a member of the NAIOP Chicago chapter.

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Abbie Wertheim

Abbie Wertheim is a partner with Panattoni Development Company, overseeing all aspects of industrial development across Northern California, including origination, design, entitlement, construction, leasing and disposition. Since joining Panattoni in 2020, she has progressed through multiple leadership roles and now leads the Northern California development team on both build-to-suit and speculative projects. Wertheim brings a diverse background in brokerage, real estate economics, and public-private partnerships, and remains actively involved in several industry and community organizations.

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Courtney Wing

Courtney Wing is vice president, development and construction, at Newcastle Partners, a commercial real estate investment and development firm focused on West Coast gateway markets. She oversees all aspects of the development lifecycle, including entitlements, permitting and construction execution. Wing serves on the NAIOP SoCal board of directors and is chair of NAIOP SoCal's Legislative Affairs Committee. She was recently named a NAIOP Research Foundation Visionary, one of only five rising professionals selected nationally.

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Skyler Wonnacott

Skyler Wonnacott is vice president of government relations at the California Business Properties Association (CBPA), bringing more than a decade of experience in California legislative, communications and campaign strategy. His career includes senior roles at the state capitol with assemblymembers Jim Beall, Jr., Jim Cooper, and Stephanie Nguyen, most recently serving as chief of staff and principal advisor on legislative priorities and committee strategy. Wonnacott has led high-profile legislative and media efforts, directing communications, managing complex policy issues, and navigating high-stakes political environments. He has also founded and led SkyBlue Campaigns, advising state and local candidates on messaging, grassroots advocacy, and campaign operations. Known for his strong relationships within the state capitol, Wonnacott plays a central role in advancing CBPA’s legislative agenda and coalition efforts across California.

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Cecilia Xu

Cecilia Xu is the managing principal of GT Global Advisory Inc., a commercial real estate advisory and investment platform focused on structuring cross-border joint ventures and deploying foreign capital into North America. The firm also operates as a single-family office, providing flexible debt and financing solutions to real estate developers.

Previously, Xu served as global capital placement director at Cushman & Wakefield, where she advised international institutional and family office investors on the deployment of billions of dollars across North American real estate sectors. A Harvard Business School alumna, Xu brings deep expertise in cross-border investment, capital structuring, and strategic advisory to her work at GT Global Advisory.

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