Leo Addimando

Leo Addimando is the cofounder and CEO of Alterra Property Group and Alterra IOS, where he oversees the firm’s overall strategy, operations and investment platform. With more than 20 years of experience in real estate, he has led over $5 billion in acquisitions across 40+ U.S. states, including approximately 480 industrial transactions.

Originally focused on multifamily and mixed-use development, Alterra expanded into industrial outdoor storage (IOS) in 2016 after identifying the sector’s long-term potential. Under his leadership, the firm has become a leading institutional player in IOS, recognized for its scale, data-driven investment approach and ability to execute quickly in a historically fragmented market.

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Michael Beckerman

Michael Beckerman has spent his entire 40-year career in the commercial real estate sector, working at the intersection of real estate and technology. Early on, he built and exited the largest commercial real estate media relations firm in the U.S. before pivoting exclusively into technology.

He became a foundational architect of the proptech asset class and is the most active angel investor in the space, with a portfolio of over 50 technology investments.

Beckerman is currently CEO of CREtech, the largest annual conference for AI across the built world in the U.S., drawing roughly 3,000 senior executives in New York each year. He also serves as a venture partner at Montauk Capital, where he supports the firm’s infrastructure technology portfolio across the built environment.

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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.

Bultinck is member of both CREDA Minnesota and CREDA Wisconsin chapters.

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Alba Colavitti

Alba Colavitti is an associate principal with MG2, an affiliate of Colliers Engineering & Design, where she leads industrial and logistics initiatives across North America. She has spent nearly three decades working with manufacturers, distributors and developers to bring complex industrial projects from concept through construction. Her experience includes food and beverage facilities, manufacturing operations, pharmaceutical environments and large-scale distribution centers. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with clients to align facility investments with operational goals, growth strategies and changing supply chain requirements.

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Craig Cowie

Craig Cowie heads the US Investments team for Affinius and is a voting member of the investment committee.

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Sam Dragan

Sam Dragan is a founder and co-chair of the CBRE Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) specialty group based in Denver. The specialty group is comprised of CBRE professionals focused on IOS properties across North America. Dragan and his team provide a wide range of services from local to Fortune 500 clients for industrial properties. He has been a top title producer in the Colorado CBRE office in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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Julie Ferguson

Julie Ferguson is an accomplished commercial real estate leader serving as president of Ryan Companies’ Southern division, where she drives strategic initiatives, business development and operational performance across the South Central and Southeast regions. She oversees profitability, partners with regional leaders on business planning, and plays a key role in executive decision-making to support organizational growth and client success. Previously, as executive vice president of Ryan’s senior living sector, Ferguson leveraged 20+ years of senior living experience and expertise to nearly double the portfolio’s unit count and managed a $$2 billion asset portfolio while securing significant capital investment.

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Shawn Hesse, NCARB, RA, LFA, LEED AP, CSRM

Shawn Hesse is a senior leader in JLL North America's Sustainability consulting team, focused on manufacturing, industrial, logistics and data center real estate clients. With over two decades of experience as an architect, facilitator and sustainability consultant, he specializes in developing sustainability targets and crafting sustainability and resilience strategies to achieve them. His team leads development of sustainability strategy, green leasing, sustainability reporting, decarbonization planning and climate risk analysis for global clients. He has advised on high-performance buildings, achieving certifications, implementing carbon accounting practices, setting Science-Based Targets and green leasing strategies for portfolios spanning 200 million square feet.

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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 that 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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Daniel Levison, CCIM, SIOR

Daniel Levison’s commercial real estate career involves hands on experience collaborating with property owners, occupiers and investors spanning over four decades. Acting as a principal and broker, he has been involved in over $100M of commercial real estate transactions. During his career Levison has also been instrumental in creating multiple technology startups focused on commercial real estate all of which are still utilized in the industry today. In 2020, Levison created Commercial Property Consultants to provide clients a personalized hand holding experience to guide them through the process of purchasing or disposing of their commercial real estate assets. Levison provides a unique perspective for his clients through having owned, renovated, repositioned, managed, marketed and disposed of over $35M of commercial real estate for his own account.

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Lisa McCracken

Lisa McCracken oversees NIC’s research and analytics team, which develops actionable, data-driven insights, research and thought leadership for the senior housing and care sector. She also oversees a robust research agenda with nationally recognized partners such as the MIT AgeLab, NORC at the University of Chicago, the Milken Institute and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies to help the next generation of senior housing and care leaders address the evolving marketplace. She is a nationally recognized thought leader and public speaker.

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Brett Milburn

Brett Milburn is a principal and director of digital solutions at Langan, where he helps clients apply AI, geospatial analytics and enterprise technologies to improve decision-making across commercial real estate and the built environment. With more than 25 years of experience in the AEC industry, he focuses on site selection, due diligence, design support and facilities and asset management. He is known for bringing a practical, real-world perspective to the use of AI in commercial real estate, helping bridge emerging technology with the business realities of design, development and operations.

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Arick Morton

Arick Morton is the CEO of NIC MAP, the trusted intelligence partner exclusively built for the senior housing industry. Under his leadership, NIC MAP has transformed how the industry leverages data, becoming the first official data partner of Argentum and ASHA and introduced AI technology to enhance market insights. With 20+ years of market data on 35K+ properties, the platform serves over 8,000 customers nationwide. Morton serves on the Argentum Board of Directors, ASHA Advisory Board and was named a GlobeSt.com Senior Housing Influencer.

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Ian Nichols

With nearly two decades of progressive accounting experience, Ian Nichols has cultivated a strong foundation in financial management and strategy. Starting his career in public accounting at KPMG, Nichols specialized in serving commercial real estate clients before transitioning into private equity. Most recently, he held the position of CFO at a private real estate owner / operator / developer.

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Anand Parthasarathy

Anand Parthasarathy, AIIA, CxA, LEED Fellow, GMM, WELL AP, is a practice lead and registered architect specializing in building performance modeling, commissioning and green building certifications. As an advocate for sustainability, Parthasarathy oversees LEED Volume Programs, applying his deep technical expertise to help developers meet environmental goals while honoring cultural and historical context. He holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

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Tim Richey

Tim Richey serves as an executive vice chairman for Newmark’s Capital Markets division, focusing on office and multifamily sales throughout Colorado and the surrounding region. Known as one of the most respected and prolific institutional capital markets brokers in the Rocky Mountain Region, Richey has closed over $$20 billion in transaction value during his career, which includes advising on 70% of the high-rise office and mixed-use sales across the Denver skyline.

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Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor is managing director, Residential, at AREP, where he leads residential investment, development and operations strategy, drawing on more than 35 years of experience across rental, mixed-use, condominium, townhouse and community-focused assets. Since joining AREP in 2016, he has helped advance value-add and opportunistic residential strategies in emerging markets, with deep experience partnering with institutional and private equity investors. Previously, Taylor served as operating partner at Jair Lynch Development Partners, where he helped build an institutional-grade platform and deploy more than $100 million in equity capital, and founded The Bozzuto Group’s urban-focused Washington, D.C., practice. He holds degrees in engineering and business from the University of Colorado and the University of Denver and has been active across a broad set of industry and nonprofit organizations, including ULI, NAREIM, Lambda Alpha International, HomeAid DC, and the Maryland Governor’s Green Building Task Force. Taylor was recently recognized by the Washington Business Journal in its 2026 Real Estate Dealmakers’ Awards.

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Cameron Trefry, RA, LEED AP

As regional vice president, Cameron Trefry provides overall leadership of the Midwest and Northeast regions including offices in Chicago; Oak Brook, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; Newark, New Jersey; Princeton, New Jersey; New York City and Washington, D.C. In addition, Trefry oversees the firmwide leadership of industrial cold and food, science and technology and data centers. 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. He is a member of NAIOP Chicago, was selected for the NAIOP Research Foundation Visionaries class of 2023-2025, and has served on the planning committee for several NAIOP conferences. In 2025, Trefry was appointed to the NAIOP Research Foundation as Governor.

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Sergio Valentini, RIBA, Inter'l AIA, LEED AP BD+C

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

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Breana Wheeler

Breana Wheeler became BRE's director of operations in the U.S. in June 2016. BRE developed BREEAM, the world’s first and leading science-based suite of standards defining and validating sustainability performance in the built environment. Launched in 1990, BREEAM has issued over 850,000 certificates to assets in 100+ countries for new construction and renovation projects as well as operational existing buildings.

Wheeler oversees the development and deployment of the BREEAM family of standards in the U.S. Additionally, she supports the research teams for resilience and social impact in BREEAM. Prior to joining BRE, Wheeler worked for ten years as an internal advisor on environmental and sustainability risk management for large, multinational corporations.

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