Mamadou Baldé

Mamadou Baldé is a senior managing director and the market leader for CBRE Greater Philadelphia. In this role, he oversees all business operations for all Greater Philadelphia Advisory Service lines of business, including leasing, sales, valuations, and debt and structured finance. His leadership spans six offices, including Philadelphia Downtown, Philadelphia Suburban, Allentown, Harrisburg, Mt. Laurel, and Wilmington, covering Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

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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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Kelly Beaudreau-Hwang, RA

Kelly Beaudreau Hwang, RA, is a senior project manager, principal and Registered Architect at BL Companies, with more than nine years of leadership at the firm. She specializes in managing complex industrial projects, bringing a disciplined, solutions-driven approach to navigating technical, regulatory and operational challenges. Beaudreau-Hwang is known for her ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, balance client objectives with project constraints, and deliver high-quality outcomes on demanding schedules. Her depth of experience and steady leadership make her a trusted advisor to both clients and colleagues.

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Michael Bennett

As Managing Director – Head of Development, Michael Bennett oversees conceptualization, development and construction activities for current and future projects at Kadima Industrial Partners. He is responsible for advancing the company’s thought leadership on next generation urban infill and creative logistics properties. Bennett designed, managed and advised on over 200 million square feet of logistics and advanced manufacturing space in North America with a focus on the Northeast region. Bennett is a member of NAIOP’s Real Estate Development IV Forum, a collaborator in the October 2020 NAIOP Research Foundation’s “The Evolution of the Warehouse,” was a former principal with Ware Malcomb, and has been a panelist at previous NAIOP events. In 2019 he was named an Industrial Influencer by GlobeSt Real Estate Forum.

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Lauren Black

Lauren Black serves as vice president for TCC’s Northeast office. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of the industrial development process including site planning, market and feasibility analysis, financial modeling and underwriting, due diligence, design and value engineering, and leasing and disposition. She has applied her expertise to a number of significant projects in the Lehigh Valley, including the buildout at LVIP (Steel City Project), the Lehigh Valley Trade Center II and III, and the Lehigh Valley Exchange, which is currently in development.

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Gregory Boler Jr.

Gregory Boler Jr. serves as founder and managing partner for KMT Partners LLC. KMT is a minority-owned commercial real estate investment firm that sources and executes unique commercial and industrial development opportunities within primary and emerging markets across the East Coast. For most of his career, Boler has focused on the industrial and logistics sector and has nearly 15 years of commercial real estate experience. Over his career, Boler has sourced and executed more than 20 million square feet of development, which is equivalent to $2.5 billion of stabilized value.

He is actively involved with the Georgia chapter of CREDA, serving as the president and previously as treasurer, education chair and founding the Diversity CRE Internship Program. He also serves as CREDA Corporate's executive committee and board of directors. He received his Master of Science in commercial real estate from Georgia State University.

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Adam Bortz, PMP, CEBA Professional

Adam Bortz, a vice president at NELSON Worldwide, is the National Practice Strategy Leader for the firm’s industrial practice. He leads the overall strategy and client engagement, and curates the firm’s approach to industrial projects nationwide. With over 40 years of combined firm experience behind him, Bortz specializes in complex industrial environments including logistics, cold storage, life sciences manufacturing and emerging asset classes like data centers. He is recognized for bridging operational performance with thoughtful design, bringing a systems-first approach to highly technical facilities. Bortz is also an active voice in the industry, contributing to a number of commercial real estate organizations like NAIOP, where he regularly participates in discussions on market trends and innovation while advocating for good design in industrial real estate.

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Inga Caldwell

Inga Caldwell is a member of the environmental department at Cole Schotz, a full-service law firm with offices across the Northeast and in Texas and Florida. She advises clients across a broad range of industries on environmental risk and liability in complex business transactions, real estate development, site remediation, enforcement matters, environmental litigation and industrial operations. Caldwell holds a Wharton certificate in “AI for Decision Making: Business Strategies and Applications,” and is a frequent speaker on the practical application of artificial intelligence in the environmental law field.

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Emily Cannon

Emily Cannon serves on the board and as CIO of Dogwood Industrial Properties, a TPG Real Estate platform that acquires, owns and operates high-quality infill and distribution industrial real estate in growth-oriented, core markets across the U.S. Since Cannon joined Dogwood at its inception in 2019, the portfolio has deployed across three of TPG’s Real Estate funds, totaling approximately $13 billion in equity, with Dogwood purchasing more than 20 million square feet. The team invests in 30+ key markets across the U.S. via existing asset/portfolio and platform acquisitions, forward transactions and LP development partnerships.

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Mac Carbonell

Mac Carbonell, Founder and Creative Director of VERDANT (BA, Yale; MFA, School of Visual Arts), brings a rare artistic foundation to a landscape design-build studio that blurs the boundaries between architecture and horticulture. Over his 20+ year career, he has redefined city blocks, crafted keystone botanical installations for world-renowned partners, and transformed both intimate private spaces and public commercial environments into thriving, immersive and sustainable ecosystems.

VERDANT's full-scope approach spans every stage, from initial concept and installation to long-term care and management. This end-to-end involvement affords VERDANT the unique ability to consider how a landscape evolves: how materials weather and mature, how plants behave across seasons and urban micro-climates, and how thoughtful design grounded in craftsmanship, materiality, and modern sensibility shapes the experience of a place. This process produces spaces built not just to endure, but to grow more intentional, calming and reflective with time.

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Patrick Connelly

Patrick Connelly has a career within the New Jersey commercial real estate sector that spans over three and a half decades. He has extensive experience and leadership in asset management, leasing, development and construction projects. He is the Chief Operating Officer at Federal Business Centers, Inc. He brings in-depth knowledge and a thorough approach to all facets of work, having cultivated his experience of dealing with varied real estate related matters such as acquisition, development and management over the years. He serves on committees and boards within organizations such as NAIOP.

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Drew Cooper

Bolstered by his environmental litigation work, Drew Cooper has a keen understanding of how and where things could go askew. More importantly, he knows how to prevent bad things from happening -- both now and later. He is determined to help close the deal by finding ways to eliminate the specter of unacceptable environmental liability.

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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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Canaan Crouch, PG

Canaan Crouch, PG (California Professional Geologist #8033), brings over 21 years of experience in the environmental consulting and risk management industries. With previous work experience including environmental consulting for a variety of private clients throughout Southern California, followed by nine years environmental insurance underwriting experience running the west coast operations for ACE Envrionmental (now Chubb). Crouch has been on the brokerage side of the insurance industry since 2014 and currently runs the environmental and energy practice at Jencap, a national insurance brokerage headquartered in New York.

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Andrew Dorn

Strategic and results-driven Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHSS) professional with over 15 years of cross-disciplinary experience, including legal, technical and corporate leadership roles. Licensed professional engineer (PE) and licensed attorney in Illinois. Currently serving as senior manager at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $16 billion diversified industrial global manufacturer with over 400 locations.

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Kevin Dudley

Kevin Dudley joined CBRE in 2010 and was promoted in 2024 to vice chairman, becoming the youngest professional ever in CBRE’s Industrial & Logistics practice as well as the first Black professional at CBRE to achieve this title. Dudley and his team have become one of the “go-to” industrial real estate advisors, and consistent leaders with a reputation for their hard-working persona. He holds a pivotal role in crafting strategic plans for the team’s corporate clients, creating customized strategies and ensuring successful outcomes. Since 2020, Dudley’s team has been one of the top industrial teams in the country where their transactions are valued at more than $6.3 billion.

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Tony Ewing

Tony Ewing is the regional senior vice president for Dalfen Industrial’s Northeast region, overseeing New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. He is responsible for acquisitions, development and capital deployment strategies, and oversees the operational aspects in this region. Prior to joining Dalfen, Ewing was a regional investment officer with EQT Real Estate, where he was responsible for overseeing transactions throughout the mid-Atlantic U.S. and managing a 6-million-square-foot industrial portfolio. Prior to EQT, he held key roles at Liberty Property Trust (NYSE: LPT), including vice president of leasing and development. Ewing received his MBA in Real Estate from The Wharton School.

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Erik Foster, CCIM

Erik Foster is focused on executing real estate capital markets and asset advisory services across his firm’s global platform that translate to tangible results for clients in the industrial, healthcare and office property sectors. He is a proven leader with 25 years of experience and $9 billion in completed transactions, including dispositions of multi-market portfolios, mission critical corporate facilities, global logistics properties and national healthcare portfolios. He leads a national team that represents global, institutional REIT’s, private equity firms and privately held commercial investors in diverse assignments ranging from local/regional opportunities to large, multi-market international portfolios. Additionally, as the Head of Industrial Capital Markets, Foster leads the firm’s industrial capital markets platform that spans the entire transaction process, from early construction strategy and development capitalization to market positioning and disposition analysis/execution for commercial assets.

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Jack Fraker

Throughout his career, Jack Fraker has been a consistent top national producer in industrial and logistics sales, representing some of the country’s largest corporations, global investors, pension fund advisors, REITs and corporate tenants. He has personally completed over 1,800 industrial & logistics capital markets transactions totaling 1.5 billion square feet and $85 billion in more than 60 U.S. cities, Mexico, Europe, Japan and South America. He has also advised on approximately 12,000 acres of development sites and over 300 office/industrial leasing assignments. As a partner with other firms prior to Newmark, Fraker was cumulatively involved in over 3.3 billion square feet and $220 billion in various projects.

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Jessica Fraser

Jessica Fraser is a senior vice president with Trammell Crow Company, leading the firm’s industrial development efforts throughout the NYC Metro region. She is responsible for overseeing the team’s projects and sourcing new opportunities across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Previously, she held roles at Prologis, Macy’s and Simon Property Group. Fraser earned her MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where she also serves on the Leonard N. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies’ Advisory Board.

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Keith Funston

Keith Funston has been with Cabot for 7 years where he is responsible for sourcing and closing industrial property investments for the East region. Before joining Cabot, he cofounded Tunbridge Partners, an investment company partnership with Hodes Weill & Associates, focused on acquiring GP stakes in real estate investment management companies. Before that, he was a principal with Hodes Weill & Associates representing real estate investment managers on M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory assignments. Before Hodes Weill, Funston focused on acquisitions, asset management and leasing at Shore Assets and Grubb & Ellis in New York. He earned an MS in Real Estate Finance from New York University.

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Michael Golarz

As an executive vice president with Colliers, Michael Golarz specializes in major industrial projects and properties throughout the nation. Through the course of his career, he has developed expertise in acquisitions, dispositions, lease negotiations, ground-up development and redevelopment of both greenfield and brownfield sites, and many other aspects of industrial real estate. This skillset, along with a deep understanding of the markets, allow him to be a trusted advisor to his clients. Golarz leverages his years of experience to assist corporate clients in their evaluation of their real estate needs. This facet of his business affords him the opportunity to understand national trends and factors which can affect his client’s real estate holdings and strategic planning. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in numerous transactions totaling over $1.5 billion in aggregate value.

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Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman is responsible for all capital deployment and disposition activities across the firm’s portfolio. He joined Link in 2019, bringing significant experience in real estate finance, investments and dispositions. Most recently, he was chief financial officer of Colony Capital’s industrial platform where he held responsibility for the overall financial management of the platform and assisted with debt placement, fundraising and investor relations.

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David Greek

David Greek, as a key leader at Greek Real Estate Partners, directs the firm’s strategic vision. He spearheads new business ventures and oversees project acquisitions, taking charge of site selection, valuation modeling, financing, transaction negotiations and deal packaging for clients. He is an active member of NAIOP and the Developers Political Action Committee of NJ, and serves on the Georgetown Steer’s Center Advisory Board. Additionally, he is the chair of Circulate NJ, reflecting his ongoing commitment to economic growth, professional development and environmental rehabilitation.

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Steven Harper, AIA

Steven Harper is a founder and managing partner at Modellus Novus, where he oversees the growth and finances of the firm, as well as execution of strategic priorities. He is LEED and NCARB certified, licensed in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Florida, and is also a board member and treasurer of Plus Pool, a non-profit committed to free and safe access New York City swimming waters. He previously worked at Kohn Pederson Fox in New York and Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Chicago.

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Phil Haslehurst

Phil Haselhurst leads marketing at LoopNet, helping tenants, brokers and owners find and close deals through the world's leading commercial real estate marketplace. He works across teams to make it easier to list properties, reach the right audience and get deals done.

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Gregory Healy

An American with a truly global occupier perspective, Gregg Healy has spent much of his career leading manufacturing and distribution organizations while living throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. A graduate the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business (MBA), his international foundation was shaped early through study in Norway and Japan, where he earned a full scholarship from the government of Japan. With a sharp lens toward understanding what occupiers require, he now leads the industrial services platform for Savills North America as a trusted advocate and partner, focused on developing technology and tools that transform disparate data into forward-looking insights.

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Justin Horowitz

Justin Horowitz is a senior managing director at Cooper-Horowitz, a family-owned capital markets advisory firm, where he leads the Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) platform that he formed at the company. Horowitz has placed over $3.5 billion of IOS debt across 32 states since starting the IOS platform in 2021. Prior to Cooper-Horowitz, he worked at Savills Studley on the New York investment sales team; before that, Horowitz worked at Brickman, where he focused on the management and leasing of their New York office portfolio.

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Jason Jaffe

Jason Jaffe is a Los Angeles–based real estate executive specializing in build-to-suit industrial development, with a focus on complex, infrastructure-intensive facilities tailored to tenant operations. As senior director of enterprise business development at ProFood Properties, ATOMS' net lease investment platform, he leads national leasing and development efforts for purpose-built food production and cold logistics real estate. He brings over a decade of experience across industrial, retail and office, with a track record of structuring long-term, scalable solutions for sophisticated operators.

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Jeff Jenkins

Jeff Jenkins serves as vice president, acquisitions at WareSpace. He leads the firm's national real estate investment strategy for their growing small warehousing platform. Since WareSpace's founding in 2021, Jenkins has scaled the platform across 14 markets and deployed over $500 million in asset value across infill industrial, flex, retail and office properties. Prior to WareSpace, he served in asset management at Prologis, collaborating with a team managing and leasing over 30 million square feet of industrial space.

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Clint Kehres

A love of building fuels Clint Kehres' passion and energy as a leader on construction projects large and small. He focuses on a teamwork approach to achieving a common goal, and getting all parties involved “pulling the rope in the same direction.” Extensive communication and collaboration is a requirement for success on all building projects. Working his way up through the ranks, with over 30 years’ experience, allows him to always look forward to the next challenge. He has a reputation for being fair, straightforward and knowledgeable amongst his peers in the industry.

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Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy serves as CEO of the New Jersey chapter of NAIOP where he oversees all operations. He also serves as executive director of NJ Developers’ Political Action Committee (DPAC), which works to generate contributions to help support those legislators, candidates and public officials who understand the vital contributions the commercial real estate development industry makes to communities throughout New Jersey and to the state's overall economy. Prior to his role with NAIOP NJ, he served as senior director at the Utility & Transportation Contractors Assoc. of NJ, Assistant Commissioner at the NJDEP, and as Deputy Director of the NJ Office for Planning Advocacy. He is a licensed professional planner with a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy.

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Dale Koch, PE

Dale Koch, P.E., is a principal at Bohler in the New York metro region with over 15 years of experience. He leads land use strategy, entitlement navigation and community engagement for complex industrial development in land-constrained markets. His work frequently involves repositioning underutilized and functionally obsolete sites into Class A logistics and cold storage facilities by aligning design, infrastructure and municipal priorities early in the process. Recognized as one of New York Real Estate Journal’s 2025 Innovators in CRE, Koch is a trusted voice on zoning constraints, municipal processes and evolving community expectations, with regular features in Long Island Business News and NYREJ. He is known for helping teams anticipate entitlement hurdles, evaluate redevelopment feasibility and move projects from concept through approvals with clarity and confidence.

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Leslie Lanne

Leslie Lanne is a vice chairman at JLL, specializing in institutional landlord and tenant representation in the Northeast Region, which includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Lanne is also the East region lead for JLL's Industrial Council and runs JLL's International Urban Logistics practice.

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Mark G. Levy

Mark Levy is the Chief Investment Officer of FRP Holdings, a role he assumed upon the sale of Altman Logistics Properties, where he served as President and Founder, to FRP in November, 2025. Mark oversees all capital deployment and structuring including the firm’s daily operations and strategic initiatives.

Over his extensive real estate career spanning over 25 years in logistics development, Mr. Levy has deployed over $12 billion of capital, including large-scale, multi-phase logistics development projects across South Florida, New Jersey, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and the Mid-Atlantic.

Before his tenure at Altman, he served as Chief Investment Officer at HRP Group, where he was instrumental in directing large-scale redevelopment projects nationwide and played a crucial role in establishing HRP's logistics platform, successfully overseeing the acquisition, development, and management of 20 million square feet of logistics space. Mr. Levy’s extensive experience encompasses senior leadership and capital deployment positions, including Head of Capital Deployment for the Eastern United States at Prologis, Vice Chairman at JLL, Senior Vice President for Florida at both Duke Realty and Opus, and Senior Investment Officer at Sumitomo Corporation of America.

A native of Philadelphia, PA, Mr. Levy earned his degrees in Economics and English from Syracuse University. Among his many professional associations, he is a member of the Zell Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is an advisor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a member of the United States Capital Historical Association, an adjunct instructor of Georgetown University’s Master’s in Real Estate Capstone Program and serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County.

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Nolan Lewin

Nolan Lewin is an accomplished entrepreneur and operations executive with deep experience scaling high-growth food and beverage brands. He has played a key role in expanding companies, driving operational excellence and market growth. He has held plant leadership roles with LiDestri Foods, Hanover Foods, and Stay Fresh Foods (High Pressure Processing SME), where he improved efficiency, quality and team performance. Lewin currently serves in a leadership role at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, supporting emerging brands through commercialization and scale-up. In addition to his corporate work, he is the founder of American Harvest and owner of Copper Mountain Restaurant, reflecting his passion for building and growing impactful food ventures.

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Jason Lundy

Jason Lundy is a managing director in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas and a member of the Northeast Industrial Capital Markets platform. He represents and advises both institutional and private clients in the disposition and acquisition, or development of industrial assets. His expertise includes warehouse, manufacturing and distribution, shallow-bay and flex product, outdoor storage, and ground-up development. He also provides advisory services for equity placement transactions within the industrial and development sectors throughout the capital stack.

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Clark Machemer

Clark Machemer is a senior managing director with Crow Holdings Development (CHD), overseeing the company's industrial development operations in the Northeast. His responsibilities include site selection and acquisition, team building, securing project entitlements, coordinating project design and construction, and managing project capitalization. In addition to his role at CHD, he actively works to promote a positive perspective of the development industry. Throughout his 25-year career Machemer has been involved in the leasing and development of more than 19 million square feet of industrial space, one million square feet of office space, and 250 residential units. Prior to joining CHD, he was previously with Rockefeller Group and he began his career at Andersen Consulting.

Machemer holds a Master of Science in real estate development from Columbia University. He is an engaged member of CREDA, serving on CREDA New Jersey’s executive committee as past president and slated to assume the role of chair of the board of directors for CREDA in 2027. Additionally, he is a former chair and current board trustee of Pillar Care Continuum. His leadership and impact have been recognized through multiple inclusions in NJBIZ’s “Real Estate Power List” and consistent recognition among the region’s foremost real estate professionals by publications such as, ROI-NJ, and BINJE.

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Sarah Maginnis

Sarah Maginnis has served as executive director of NAIOP Greater Philadelphia since 2018, leading the organization’s strategy and industry engagement. Under her leadership, the chapter has expanded its programming with new events, speaker series and fundraising initiatives. She is widely recognized for advancing impact in commercial real estate through efforts like the NAIOP-Drexel Summer Program, internships and impact-focused events. Maginnis also plays an active role in advocacy, including co-founding the Philadelphia Real Estate Alliance and testifying before legislative bodies. Her work has earned numerous honors, including Executive Director of the Year (2025) and Philadelphia Business Journal’s Most Admired CEO, following earlier roles at Liberty Property Trust.

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Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald brings 15 years of real estate experience to Panattoni Development Company. Prior to joining PDC in 2020, he was a vice president of development at NorthPoint Development, with responsibility for development and acquisitions in the East and Southeastern United States. During that time, and over the past several years, he has participated in the acquisition and entitlement of over 3,000 acres of land. He has also managed over 5 million square feet of vertical development and leasing of speculative industrial development.

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Peter Millar

Peter F. Millar is an Executive Managing Director at CW. Mr. Millar has 27 years of experience in the field(s) of construction and engineering. Mr. Millar has 27 years of experience completing Property Condition Assessments (PCAs), and 27 years include the assessment of multifamily housing properties. He has conducted more than 1,000 PCAs in accordance with ASTM2018, more than 250 PCAs in accordance with Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting Standards, and more than 250 PCAs in accordance with Freddie Mac Guidelines. He is experienced in assessing site improvements, building structures and envelopes, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for evidence of deferred maintenance or problematic or deleterious materials. He has been responsible for estimating Immediate Needs Reserves, as well as On-Going Reserves need to maintain a property, based on his observations and interviews with personnel familiar with the property.

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Christopher Minghenelli

Christopher Minghenelli serves as senior vice president, Panattoni Data Centers. Panattoni Development Company is the largest privately held industrial real estate development company in the world. Minghenelli is responsible for the company’s data center development management and investment decisions within North America.

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Saidakhror Mukhtorov

Saidakhror Mukhtorov is a vice president of asset management at Arden Logistics Parks, where he focuses on institutional investment strategy and portfolio-level value creation across a diversified shallow-bay/flex portfolio spanning six U.S. markets across the Northeast and Midwest, totaling approximately 5 million square feet. He brings a market-driven perspective on industrial real estate, with emphasis on leasing strategy, portfolio optimization and the evolution of tenant demand.

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Scot Murdoch, AIA

Scot Murdoch, AIA, is driven to deliver improved performance, process and value for clients. Murdoch has designed and executed millions of square feet of industrial logistics and manufacturing projects at varying scale and complexity for innovative corporate and development clients across the world. His ability to think at both grand and granular scales simultaneously results in comprehensive design solutions that exceed client expectations. A forward-thinking problem solver, he is motivated by designing for the future of industry. He explores themes of next generation industrial development in his practice informed by his passions for the restoration of brownfield sites, sustainable design focused on decarbonization, and renewable energy initiatives including green energy production. Murdoch is currently leading the transformation of the New York industrial landscape through his expertise in developing urban sites into multistory, mixed-use production and logistics facilities. The design solutions driving a new intensified stack of industrial mixed-use is redefining urban planning and facilitating industry’s ability to exist harmoniously within the community it is serving. His vibrant portfolio of work takes into consideration the delicate balance of an innovative future and foundational past and dichotomy of technology and humanity, resulting in meaningful impact.

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Chris Murphy

Chris J. Murphy is a founding partner of Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP (MSW) and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He chairs both the land use, zoning and redevelopment practice, and the tax credits and incentives practice, overseeing two of the firm’s core statewide platforms and helping guide MSW’s strategic growth and direction. His work spans local planning and zoning boards, county agencies and state regulatory bodies, where he is known for navigating complex entitlement processes and advancing transformative redevelopment initiatives.

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Josh Neill

Josh Neill is president and Chief Investment Officer of Outpost, a transport infrastructure platform building the backbone of modern logistics through a nationwide network of truck terminals, drop yards and technology-enabled operations. Outpost is aggressively expanding its real estate footprint while developing a gate automation platform that serves shippers, fleets and 3PLs.

At Outpost, Neill leads investments, capital deployment, development and asset management. He brings more than 16 years of experience overseeing over $3 billion of U.S. real estate and infrastructure investments. Prior to joining Outpost, he co-founded a real estate development platform and led major industrial and infrastructure projects, including Amazon’s first last-mile distribution facility and Denver Union Station.

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Tim Oberweger

Tim has more than 20 years of experience as a title insurance professional and attorney in New York, Connecticut and the Supreme Court of the U.S. His skills and knowledge to handle complex real estate transactions across the country differentiate him from other title professionals. Tim is the Chief of Staff of CREDA NYC Metro – the fastest growing chapter of CREDA – which received the CREDA Chapter of the Year award. He was recognized as CREDA’s Chapter Executive of the Year for 2025.

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Alex Olshansky

Alex Olshansky is managing partner of APEX IOS, a New York-based operating platform that invests in IOS nationally in major and growing markets. Before founding Apex, he was a founding partner and head of investments at Zenith IOS. Over the course of his career, he has acquired more than $1 billion in IOS assets across 80 transactions.

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Kathryn Peacock

As principal and strategic director of environmental services, Kathryn Peacock leads Partner’s Enterprise Environmental Services platform, delivering a comprehensive, integrated consulting approach that unifies environmental due diligence, remediation, EHS and compliance, and sustainability — supported by robust building sciences expertise. A 25-year veteran of the environmental and engineering consulting industry, Peacock helps organizations manage risk and create value across the full property lifecycle.

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Matthew Player

Matthew Player is the founder and CEO of Zoneomics, a zoning data and intelligence platform powering real estate, AEC and AI applications across the U.S. Under his leadership, Zoneomics has built one of the most comprehensive zoning datasets in the country, enabling developers, investors and technology platforms to analyze land use and development potential at scale. The company’s data is used by organizations including Google Earth, Redfin, Moody’s and leading proptech platforms. Player focuses on transforming zoning from fragmented regulatory text into structured, actionable data that can power automation, underwriting and site selection workflows. He is passionate about building the foundational data layer for the next generation of real estate technology.

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Garth Priber, AIA

With a 25-year career background in construction, architecture and engineering, Garth Priber has spent the last seven years with ProFood Properties and CloudKitchens creating unique approaches and teams to design and deliver hundreds of complex F&B production facilities globally.

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Rebecca Rockey

Rebecca Rockey is the head of quantitative insights and principal economist at Cushman & Wakefield. In her decade at the firm, her responsibilities have evolved significantly. Her focus spans economics, demographics, financial markets and commercial real estate – both at the macro and micro levels. She manages the production of national/metro-level commercial real estate forecasts for various property types across the Americas, develops predictive econometric and statistical models to enhance the firms’ analytical capabilities and contributes to numerous white papers, webinars, media requests and industry/client presentations. In her global role, she extends this expertise to other regions. More recently, she has become a strategic internal and external advisor across service lines and regions, connecting research themes to actionable and tactical views on the market.

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Mark Russo

Mark Russo is vice president and head of industrial research at Savills, leading industrial research across North America. Since joining the firm in 2021, he has focused on elevating how industrial market trends are analyzed and communicated—turning complex data into insights that drive real estate decisions. He oversees research initiatives spanning more than 20 billion square feet of industrial space across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Russo develops analytics platforms that bring clarity to occupiers, investors and brokers navigating a rapidly evolving sector. He leads flagship publications including the Ports Report and Manufacturing Report and has built integrated market tracking systems that enhance Savills thought leadership and client strategy. Prior to Savills, Russo held research roles at Newmark and LaSalle Investment Management. At Newmark, he helped build a national industrial research platform and led research initiatives for the firm’s New Jersey office. At LaSalle’s global headquarters in Chicago, he managed proprietary forecasting models covering major U.S. industrial markets.

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Diana Schapiro

Diana Schapiro leads CREDA’s flagship Forums program, overseeing more than 70 Forums that collectively engage more than 1,100 members. She is responsible for launching new Forums focused on timely industry trends and ensuring the program continues to reflect the evolving needs of CREDA’s membership. Schapiro also spearheads the Developing Leaders Forum program, designing its two-year curriculum and curating speakers, topics and experiences that build industry expertise and leadership skills.

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Matt Schlindwein, P.E.

With over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, Matt Schlindwein has played a key role in driving large-scale capital market transactions across a wide portfolio of industrial and logistics assets. At Greek Real Estate Partners, he leads a team of top-tier design and construction professionals, delivering Class A warehouse developments and value-add projects that consistently attract institutional investors. His deep expertise in local land use and environmental regulations, along with his knowledge of real estate finance, ensures that projects are strategically optimized for long-term value creation. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and serves as president of the NAIOP New Jersey chapter.

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Josh Sewald, PE, PP

Joshua Sewald is a senior principal of Dynamic Engineering Consultants and was elected to the board of directors in January 2023. Sewald joined the firm as a junior design engineer in 2011 and has successfully developed himself into a senior equity partner at the firm. He provides practical experience with commercial, residential and industrial land development projects. His primary experience extends throughout the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Texas and Florida.

His main goal is to become an extension of a client's development company and act as a liaison for land development services.

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Anne Strauss-Wieder

Anne Strauss-Wieder is a nationally respected senior executive with over 45 years of public and private sector experience involving supply chains, industrial and economic development, resilience, and freight movement. She was the 2022 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Strauss-Wieder is in leadership roles in several national professional organizations. She was an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s advisory committee on supply chain competitiveness and the U.S. Maritime Administration’s marine transportation system national advisory committee. She is a senior freight and logistics researcher and teaches a graduate class on freight and public policy at Rutgers. Strauss-Wieder has a Master's in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania and was a 2010 Lead New Jersey Fellow.

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Joseph Swain, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Joe Swain is an associate principal and architect with Mithun, a multidisciplinary design practice with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He specializes in modular and prefabricated systems and has worked with mass timber for over a decade, from schools and offices to large-scale residential and industrial projects. He has worked on ICC Tall Wood code-related research, including most recently a pair of CLT exterior wall fire tests, and leads Mithun’s working group on timber and forestry, which explores the relationship between carbon in timber and forest health and management.

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Brian Tilton

Brian Tilton is the senior portfolio manager for Nuveen Real Estate’s U.S. Cities Industrial Fund, an open-end fund acquiring and managing well-located, income-generating institutional-quality industrial properties in select U.S. markets. Prior to joining Nuveen Real Estate, Tilton was a portfolio manager in Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (“CPP Investments”) Real Estate Investment group based in New York. He was responsible for sourcing, underwriting and structuring programmatic joint ventures and equity investments in the industrial and student housing sectors across the U.S. Before that, Tilton was with Almanac Realty Investors, LLC, where he invested in real estate operating companies, and Ventas, Inc., investing in healthcare real estate. He received an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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Aaron Twersky

Aaron Twersky is an award-winning marketing strategist with a proven track record at establishing and advancing commercial real estate brands, portfolios and single assets via innovative solutions. He founded Atlantic Agency after spending more than 10 years in-house as vice president of Marketing and PR for different owners, operators and developers. He is a space utilization, Proptech and alternative energy junkie, with significant experience marketing Class A office, urban retail, multifamily and industrial properties. His client work has been featured in the WSJ, NYT, Boston Globe, Forbes, Fast Company, Commercial Observer, New York Real Estate Journal, The Real Deal and many more outlets.

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Michael Walsh

Mike Walsh is Link Logistics’ senior vice president and market officer for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, overseeing leasing, property management and construction for the firm’s portfolio in the area. Prior to joining Link in 2019, he was senior vice president of asset management for the Northeast at Gramercy Property Trust. He also worked as an industrial broker at Cushman and Wakefield in Baltimore, Maryland, and as associate vice president at Cassidy Turley.

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Brian Whitmer

Brian Whitmer is a co-founder and managing partner at Doors & Spaces Industrial. He is responsible for the strategic vision and management of the firm, as well as acquisitions, financing and investor relations. He previously served as vice chairman at Cushman & Wakefield, where for nearly 20 years he was responsible for marketing investment properties for sale and arranging joint ventures in the tri-state area surrounding New York City.

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Seth Zuidema

Seth Zuidema is a director with Cushman & Wakefield's Tri-State Capital Markets Group, where he has been with the firm since September 2019. To date, he has been involved in more than $7.5 billion of industrial, IOS and industrial land sales throughout NJ/NY/CT, totaling over 135 transactions.

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