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REIAC – SOUTHWEST CHAPTER

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LEADERSHIP

ARTHUR J. FERRARI, III
President

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JIMMY LINDBLOM
Secretary

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MIKE BAUMGARDNER
Director
Programs Chair

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JOHN KINSER
Director
Membership Chair

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PHIL McKENZIE
Treasurer

KARLA MORAN
Past President

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CHERI BRADY
Founding Board Member

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MARK STAPP
Director

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BRETT RUFER
Director

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DAWN CARTIER (ViVi)
Director

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DAN HENDERSON
Director

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TED NORTHROP, JR.
Director

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CATHY THURINGER
Director

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MARK SINGERMAN
Past President
Community Outreach Chair

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DAVID KROSS
Past President

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DICK LUND
Past President

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DANNY SWANCEY
Director

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CHRIS ANDERSON
Director

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DANIELLE FEROLETO
Director

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UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS

2025

January 23, 2025 | REIAC SW Fireside Chat with Michael Crow, PhD
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February 27, 2025 | Let’s Play Ball | Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
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CHAPTER HISTORY

REIAC Southwest was founded by Larry Heath, who at the time was working with Vestar Development Company. The inaugural event was held November 4, 1999. Since then, it has blossomed into one of metro Phoenix’s most prestigious commercial real estate networking organizations, thanks to the dedicated assistance of numerous board members and sponsors.

Past Presidents:

Karla Moran | 2022-2023
David Kross | 2020-2021
Mark Singerman | 2015 – 2019
Todd Jarman | 2013 – 2015
Dick Lund | 2012 – 2013
Phillip Hamilton | 2010 – 2011
Christine Zeihen | 2008 – 2009
Larry Heath | 2007 (1 year term)
Chis De Savino | 2005 – 2006
Jeff Mast | 2003 – 2004
Larry Heath | 1999 – 2002

MEMBERSHIP

REIAC membership standards are proprietary and determined by its directors. In general, membership is by invitation only and limited to individuals who are at senior management levels of well-established real estate investment entities. These entities must be acting as principals in the areas of acquisitions, dispositions, asset management and debt procurement.

Potential members must the requisite experience, competence and ethics within their respective fields and have a desire to utilize their skills in a manner that will improve the community and the profession.

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PAST EVENTS

2024

December 5, 2024 | REIAC SW Holiday Party
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November 14, 2024 | REIAC SW Distinguished Speaker Event with Ken McElroy, co-founder and CEO MC Companies
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October 11, 2024 | Arizona’s Increasing Energy Demands and Economic Development
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September 19, 2024 | Fall Mixer: Sip, Nibble, Chat, Repeat
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June 20, 2024 | Key Projects & Market Update: Build to Rent, Industrial, and Retail
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May 02, 2024 | ASU MRED Rockefeller Challenge
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April 09, 2024 | Fireside Chat with F. Francis Najafi
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March 11, 2024 | Spring Training Game (Members Only)
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March 06, 2024 | Where Do All The Offices Go?
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February 21, 2024 | Office Markets Panel
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2023

November 30, 2023 | REIAC SW Holiday Party
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November 8, 2023 | REIAC SW Distinguised Speaker Event featuring: Joshua Simon, Founder and CEO of SimonCRE
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September 21, 2023 | REIAC SW Capital Markets Panel
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August 24, 2023 | REIAC SW Summer Mixer with LAI
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June 8, 2023 | Economic Forecast: Is Arizona Immune to the Economic Downturn?
Event Details | Anna Sepic Member Perspective
May 3, 2023 | 10th Annual ASU MRED Rockefeller Challenge
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April 13, 2023 | United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement
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March 9, 2023 | Sustainable Development
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February 16, 2023 | Annual Fireside Chat featuring Charley Freericks
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January 12, 2023 | Capital Markets
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2022

December 1, 2022 | REIAC SW Holiday Party
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November 10, 2022 | Park Central Mall Case Study
Ted Northrop Member Perspective
August 24, 2022 | Sip, Nibble, Chat, Repeat
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May 4, 2022 | 9th Annual REIAC Rockefeller Group Challenge
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April 19, 2022 | CASA GRANDE – The Next Industrial Frontier
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March 24, 2022 | Members Only Spring Fun Event
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January 18, 2022 | CHANGES IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS: Looking Ahead at Debt and Equity in 2022 (Virtual)
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2021

December 16, 2021 | REIAC SW Signature Event | Congressman David Schweiker
Phil McKenzie Member Perspective | Press Release
December 2, 2021 | REIAC SW Holiday Party
Lon’s at Hermosa Inn
November 3, 2021: 4Q Breakfast Series:
Is There Enough Water?
Cynthia Hammond Member Perspective | Event Recording | Printer Friendly Flyer
September 30, 2021: REIAC SW Fall Mixer | Sip, Nibble, Chat, Repeat
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September 1, 2021: 3Q Breakfast Series: SoCal/Arizona Investment Flows
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August 31, 2021: LAI Phoenix & REIAC SW Fall Event – Return to Watering the Sun Corridor
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May 11, 2021: 2Q Breakfast Series: Affordable Housing… Where Is It?
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April 28, 2021: 8th Annual REIAC/Rockefeller Group Challenge
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March 24, 2021: Spring Event
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February 16, 2021: Fireside Chat
Karla Moran Member Perspective | Printer Friendly Flyer
January 7, 2021: 1Q Breakfast Series
Dick Lund Member Perspective | Printer Friendly Flyer

2020

December 8, 2020; 4Q Breakfast Series
Cheri Brady Member Perspective | Printer Friendly Flyer
September 23, 2020: Virtual Fall Event
Keyvan Ghahreman Member Perspective | Printer Friendly Flyer
September 10, 2020: 3Q Breakfast Series
Mark Ohre Member Perspective | Printer Friendly Flyer
June 4, 2020: 2Q Breakfast Series
May 6, 2020: 7th Annual REIAC Rockefeller Challenge – ONLINE!
Arizona Country Club | 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
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April 16, 2020: REIAC Spring Event – CANCELED
“Alert” – DOJ/FBI on Cyber Intrusions and Blockchain: Explained
March 19, 2020: March Madness Mixer
The Casual Pint | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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March 12, 2020: 1Q Breakfast Series
CoStar, 7:30 am – 9:00 am
4Q 2019 Gold Sheet | Presentation Slides
February 12, 2020: Fireside Chat
Camelback Golf, 4pm – 6:30 pm
Printer Friendly Flyer | Tre Ferrari Member Perspective
January 2020 REIAC Newsletter
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Arthur J. Ferrari, III
REIAC Director
President
LineageCRE

Arthur, or better known as “Tre” amongst his colleagues, is the President of LineageCRE, where he oversees business development and day-to-day operations. In 2014, Arthur joined LineageCRE and brought his background and expertise to help expand our property management footprint throughout the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. He has a very personal, hands-on approach and he makes himself readily available to his clients.

Prior to joining the LineageCRE team, he was the Director of Finance for Abart Properties Corporation, a private commercial real estate investment and development company, where he honed his skills of underwriting, due diligence review, contract negotiations, financing oversight, asset management and investor/tenant relations.

Arthur is very active in industry groups and the Arizona community. He’s a member of BOMA, Lambda Alpha and REIAC’s Phoenix chapter and participates in NAIOP. He supports the charities of Lion’s Club and Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He attended Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in global business financial management.

Jimmy Lindblom
REIAC Secretary
Willmeng Construction, Inc.

Jimmy Lindblom is a native of Arizona and lives in Gilbert, AZ with his wife Rachelle, and 5 children. He currently serves on the Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission and is Chairman for the East Valley Partnership. Jimmy is a Board Member for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and serves as Vice Chair of the Political Affairs committee. Jimmy graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Accounting and received his Juris Doctorate at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Jimmy is part of Willmeng Construction’s leadership team and currently holds the position of Vice President of Economic Development and Infrastructure . He enjoys spending time with his family, especially in the mountains, hiking, golfing, fishing, and riding snowmobiles.

Mike Baumgardner
REIAC Director & Programs Chairs
Managing Director
LevRose Commercial Real Estate

As the Managing Director for LevRose, Mike is making an impact assisting in the growth of each of his team members, while helping to ensure their clients expectations are consistently exceeded.

Mike has been a major part of the Arizona Commercial Real Estate industry since 2003 when he joined Costar. After being named the 2011 Top Performer for this national firm, Mike went on to win several “President’s Club” awards. Mike eventually became the Regional Director of Sales for Costar operations in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah managing both Costar and Apartments.com sales teams. In this role, he helped to cultivate relationships with existing clients while continuously assisting with new business opportunities.

Prior to Costar, Mike was in the major accounts division of ADP Payroll Services as well as working for Mobil Oil covering the west coast as a regional manager.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International business from Western Michigan University and has lived in Arizona since 1998.

John Eisner
REIAC Director
Senior Vice President, Director of Commercial Real Estate, Southwest Region
Enterprise Banking & Trust

John Kinser leads the Commercial Real Estate banking group at Enterprise Bank & Trust. In addition to leading the production team in Arizona, his duties include leadership and mentoring of all CRE professionals in the Southwest markets of Arizona, Southern California, Nevada and New Mexico. Prior to his banking career, John spent 19 years at NorthMarq Capital where he was responsible for originating life company, CMBS and Agency debt (Freddie/Fannie/HUD). John holds a BS in Finance and an MBA, both from Arizona State University.

Karla Moran REIAC Vice President Senior Project Manager, Economic Development, SRP

Karla Moran is a project manager for Salt River Project. Ms Moran works in collaboration with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, the Arizona Commerce Authority, regional and state entities, and local municipalities to help ease a company’s relocation process. Moran has been in economic development with over 10 years of experience in a variety of roles at Arizona Commerce Authority and the Town of Gilbert.

Moran attended Arizona State University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She is also pursuing her Certified Economic Developer designation with the International Economic Development Council and her Arizona Economic Development Pro certification. Moran is actively involved with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), the Arizona Association for Economic Development and various other industry organizations. She serves on the board of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and is a GPEC Certified Ambassador.

Cheri Brady
Director & Founding Board Member
Vice President & Senior National Account Manager, National Commercial Services Division
First American Title Insurance Company

Cheri Brady is Senior Vice President and Senior National Account Manager for the National Commercial Services division of First American Title Insurance Company, an international provider of title, escrow and information related products and services and the longest established Arizona title insurance underwriter.

Ms. Brady began her title and escrow career in 1977 in Boise, ID. and in 1987 moved to San Diego, CA to take the position of VP, Regional Director for HomeFed Bank’s Escrow Department where she managed the activities of a region with 6 branches. In March of 1993 Ms. Brady moved to Phoenix, AZ and joined the First American family and during her tenure with First American she has worked in both the National Commercial Services and Home Builder divisions.

Ms. Brady currently serves as a Director for the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council (REIAC) from 2000 to present. She was an Honorary Commander of the 310 Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base (2009 to 2011) and is a member of Fighter Country Partnership. She completed her second term on the Board of Valley Partnership (2002 to 2009) and prior to that term chaired its State Legislative Committee where she followed legislation that affects our real estate community. She served as a Director for The National Association of Industrial and Office Properties of Arizona (NAIOP) from 1994 to 2008 and chaired the Public Affairs Committee. In 2001 she was appointed to the National NAIOP State and Local subcommittee that focused on development issues nationwide.

Ms. Brady earned a B.S. of Business Management from the University of Phoenix. Her husband is Dr. Reed H. Day, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and has an adult son, RJ Brady. Ms. Brady enjoys golf and wine collecting as hobbies.

Mark Stapp
REIAC Director
Executive Director
Master of Real Estate Development Program and Fed E. Taylor Professor in Real Estate in the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU

Mark Stapp is the executive director of the Master of Real Estate Development program and Fred E. Taylor Professor in Real Estate in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He also serves as a faculty associate in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU. As an active member of the Phoenix development community, Stapp is currently on the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation Phoenix (LISC) and has been part of various business enterprises and development projects for over past 30 years. He has served as the vice chair for the Board of Directors of the Valley Forward Association and is a member of the Provosts Advisory Council for Arizona School of Health Sciences and Oral and Dental Health.

He is the managing partner of Pyramid Community Developers, LLC, a development management firm and provider of asset management and design consultation services. He is also U.S. operations president for Naef International Management, a Swiss investment company. He previously served as chairman of the Board of Taliesin Architects, Inc., for 10 years; was vice president of Planning and Development Services for Lendrum Design Group; served as managing director of Mountain West Research and was senior vice president of The Ellman Companies.

Stapp completed his undergraduate work in environmental studies and urban design at William Paterson University, did his graduate work in urban economics at Arizona State University and was a member of the 2000 Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive and Professional Education program. Stapp received a Doctor of Humane Letters from A.T. Still University for his work in community sustainability, health and wellness.

Brett Rufer
REIAC Director

Brett is a partner in Snell & Wilmer's real estate group, where he works on some of the most diverse, significant and challenging real estate projects handled by the Firm. Brett has been team leader on the Firm's most high-profile transactions. His practice is concentrated in real estate and business transactions and he has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects and phases of residential and commercial real estate deals. Brett’s recent work involves complex commercial transactions, including a recent transaction representing Lucid Motors in connection with their 1,400 acre manufacturing plant in Arizona. Brett has also been very active representing clients in the build-for-rent and residential rental space, assisting clients like American Homes 4 Rent in various transactions and opportunities. Additionally, Brett focuses on various other niche and nuanced areas of real estate law, including real estate broker and property management regulation and administration and residential sales and development.

Dawn Cartier
REIAC Director
President & Founder, CivTech, Inc.

Dawn Cartier is the President and founder of CivTech, Inc., an Arizona-based transportation planning, traffic engineering and design firm. Ms. Cartier founded CivTech in 2002 with an established reputation for listening to her client’s needs and an ability to work through complicated issues. Her client portfolio includes federal, state and local agencies, private clients as well as other design professionals.

Ms. Cartier directs in-house professional engineers, technicians, designers and personnel capable and experienced in all service areas of traffic engineering including: traffic signal design, signal warrant studies, intersection safety studies, traffic calming studies, and intelligent transportation design. CivTech has prepared numerous traffic engineering documents and plans as part of multi-disciplinary projects including change of access reports, corridor analysis and design, and project assessments for federal funding. Ms. Cartier received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1996 from Northern Arizona University and is a licensed engineer in several states.

Ms. Cartier currently serves as a Southwest Board Member of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council. She also serves as a board member of the Arizona Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies and is the past chair for the ADOT DBE Task Force. She is an active member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Pinal Partnership and American Public Works Association.

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Dan Henderson
REIAC Director

Dan Henderson, CEcD, is currently the Economic Development Director for Gilbert, Arizona and since 2007 he has been responsible for the economic development, redevelopment and tourism lines of services in the community. Since joining Gilbert, Arizona in this executive leadership role with Gilbert, Dan and the EcDev team have facilitated more than $3 billion in capital investment, over 12 million new or expanded square-feet, and created or retained 25,000 jobs.

Mr. Henderson serves as a Commissioner for the City of Chandler Transportation Commission and Board of Adjustments, serves on the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council (REIAC) Board, and is guest lecturer at Arizona State University for the Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program teaching corporate real estate in partnership with CoreNet Global. Dan has been named by Consultant Connect as one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers, and in 2018 the Arizona Association for Economic Development (AAED) honored the Gilbert Office of Economic Development as the Large Organization of the Year and as Economic Developer of the Year (Large Community).

Ted Northrop, Jr
REIAC Director
Regional Vice President & Partner
Atwell

Ted Northrop, Jr. is a Regional Vice President and Partner at Atwell, an international consulting, engineering, and construction services firm. He has more than 21 years of experience in land development consulting throughout the southwest United States and has been instrumental to the growth and success Atwell has seen over the past decade. Mr. Northrop oversees operational activities throughout the southwest and contributes to corporate strategy, client relations and business development initiatives as a shareholder. He is a Member of Atwell’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Northrop’s professional experience includes due diligence, entitlements, design, project delivery, and management of master planned communities, commercial and retail developments, institutional facilities as well as transportation, municipal and federal projects. He challenges project managers and staff to see the client’s larger vision and how they can positively impact overall development goals. He believes this approach allows the consultant to continually find efficiencies and practices that deliver value throughout the duration of a project which maximizes clients’ return on their investment.

Mr. Northrop directs in-house professional engineers, surveyors, environmental and natural/cultural resource specialists in Commercial Real Estate services that include Due Diligence (Land Surveys, Environmental Assessments, Site Investigation Reports, Development Cost/Risk Analysis), Site Design (Test Fits, Site Planning, Landscape Design, Civil Engineering), Entitlements (Site Plan/Zoning Approvals, Variance/Special Use Permits, Subdivision/Plat Approvals), Project Delivery (Permitting, Program Management, Construction Management), and Operations (Remodel, Expansion, Maintenance and Portfolio Management Support). He is a licensed professional engineer in several states and has his contractor’s license in the State of Arizona.

Cathy Thuringer
REIAC Director
Trammell Crow Company

Catherine Thuringer has responsibility for the Development and Investment Group for Trammell Crow Company and High Street Residential, TCC’s residential subsidiary, in the state of Arizona. With more than 30 years in the real estate industry, her experience encompasses leading all phases of development from site acquisition through land use/entitlements, design/construction, marketing, financial performance and project disposition and includes more than ten million square feet of development projects with a market value approaching $2 billion.

Cathy serves as one of nine members of Trammell Crow Company’s Executive Committee,which sets the strategic direction and business goals for the firm at large. Additionally, she is a member of TCC’s Leadership Council, a senior leadership group that is charged with vetting and implementing strategic company initiatives. She also frequently participates as a subject matter expert for TCC’s National Investment Committee reviewing the Company’s investment in development projects throughout the United States.

Mark Singerman
REIAC Past President
Regional Director - Arizona
Rockefeller Group Development Corporation

Mark Singerman is a Vice President and Regional Director for Rockefeller Group International, Inc. He is responsible for identifying development opportunities and the development process for the company’s projects throughout Arizona including in-depth financial and market analyses and directing the consultant teams including architects, engineers, leasing agents and coordinating with in-house construction management.

His extensive real estate career began in 1976 in the Midwest as a retail Leasing Representative for Developers Diversified REIT in Cleveland, OH. This was followed by 43 years in Southern California, Michigan and Arizona with several large developers including regional mall developer Ernest W. Hahn, Inc. and Trizec/Hahn. He has directed the acquisition, development and construction of numerous office, industrial and retail projects as well as single and multi-family residential and large scale mixed-use master-planned communities in California, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Ohio and Florida.

Mr. Singerman holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, with honors in Personnel Management, from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from California State, Dominguez Hills Campus.

David Kross
REIAC SW Past President
Senior Vice President
Logistics Property Company (LPC)

Dave is a Senior Vice President for Logistics Property Company (LPC) and their first employee in Phoenix. Dave is handling projects around the Valley for LPC as well as involved in projects out of town.

Prior to joining LPC, Kross worked for Cypress West Partners, a privately held medical developer, based in SoCal; Irgens, a privately held medical/office real estate developer based in Milwaukee, WI; and Duke Realty, a publicly traded national REIT, managing developments in markets across the country. He moved to Phoenix in 2007 to assist in opening Duke’s west coast office.

Dave received his Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees with a focus in Structural Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has his Arizona real estate brokers license and holds a commercial contractors license in Arizona as well.

Kross is a Former President of REIAC and a current NAIOP member. Dave resides in Scottsdale with his wife, Connie and their three children.

Dick Lund
REIAC Past President
Principal
Biltmore Holdings

Dick has been active in commercial real estate since 1978. He began his commercial real estate career with Grubb & Ellis, where he rose to the position of national director of real estate investments, managing investment sales persons in 54 offices nationwide.

Dick leveraged that expertise and formed Biltmore Holdings which has been directly involved in ownership of over $1.3 billion in real estate ownership and development in a 15 year period. Dick has served on the boards of several industry and charitable organizations.

Danny L. Swancey
Director
Partner/EVP
ViaWest

Danny is involved in all aspects of ViaWest Group with primary emphasis on company strategy, culture, deal-sourcing, and operational performance, as well as, cultivating strategic relationships. Danny co-chairs the company’s investment committee and serves on the senior management committee. He has over 18 years’ experience working in senior management positions for both public and private real estate investment companies.

Prior to joining ViaWest in 2011, Danny served as Vice President for two publicly-traded REITs: Parkway Properties and Pacific Office Properties. Danny has been involved with the acquisition/disposition, repositioning, and management of over $2 billion of commercial real estate transactions. As a former military officer, Danny also brings a wealth of operational and leadership experience. While in the Army, he served throughout Europe and the Americas for five years, achieving the rank of Captain.

Danny is a graduate of The United States Military Academy at West Point, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He subsequently received an MBA from Yale University. Danny serves on the board for NAIOP (AZ Chapter) and REIAC (Southwest), is a former Board Chairman for NAIOP AZ, and actively participates in numerous civic and charity endeavors. He is also a past recipient of the Phoenix Business Journal’s Forty-Under-40 (Class of 2015).

Danny resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Danielle and three children.

Chris Anderson
REIAC Director
Managing Director and Regional Partner
Hines

Chris Anderson is the Managing Director and Regional Partner for Hines’ operations in Arizona and New Mexico.

From 2006 to 2013, Chris served as vice president of development for Forest City Enterprises, Inc. in Albuquerque, NM, and was responsible for their Mesa del Sol 12,900-acre master-planned community. Prior to that, he was a senior project manager for Hines starting in 2000, and was involved in the development of 24th at Camelback I in Phoenix; the development management of the Glendale Arena (now Jobing.com Arena); and the land acquisition for the Scottsdale Corporate Center.

Anderson holds a Masters of Real Estate and a Masters of Construction Management from the University of Denver, and a BS in Finance with a concentration in Real Estate from Arizona State University.

Danielle Feroleto, CPSM
REIAC Director
Owner & President
Small Giants

Danielle Feroleto, CPSM, founded Small Giants in 2006. The firm’s foundation of exclusively serving the CRE and AEC industries was borne out of Danielle’s background in commercial construction in several capacities, including editor for two construction publications, and marketing and business development for a large general contractor for nearly a decade. The result has been passion, application and understanding the industry to serve more than 300 clients in achieving their goals and visions to compete at the highest level. In 2015, Danielle was named one of the “Most Influential Women in Commercial Real Estate.”

Positioned in the heart of strategy, Danielle contributes her time to clients with the facilitation of strategic plans, executing client and trade partner perception studies, and leading project pursuits through competitive coaching, strategy and executing innovative persuasive approaches.

With her never-ending passion for strategy, execution and mentoring, Danielle pioneered the first marketing and business development course at the Del E. Webb School of Construction at ASU in 2014, where she has served as an associate faculty member, educating hundreds of future construction professionals. In addition, her book “The Truth Helps: An Honest, Straightforward Guide to Project Interview Success,” has served as a guiding light for teams to win projects.

Danielle has received several formal acknowledgments for her leadership, influence, work in the community and thought-leadership. While her enthusiasm for CRE remains constant, her interests are ever-changing and have led her to learn more about competitive running, swimming, and even archery.

Danielle earned a Masters in Mass Communication from ASU, and she currently resides in Phoenix with her husband and daughter.

STEVE REINSTEIN, CEO
Long Beach Judicial Partners

Stephen Reinstein is CEO of Long Beach Judicial Partners LLC, Meridiam Infrastructure’s project company, which has a signed a long-term contract with the State of California’s Judicial Council to finance, design, build and operate and maintain a new 545,000 SF courthouse in Downtown Long Beach, California. This project represents the first availability-pay, social Public Private Partnership to reachfinancial completion in the United States. With a total capital value of $495 Million, this development program includes 31 courtrooms, holding cells and administrative space for the Superior Court, 100,000 square feet of office space for five Los Angeles County justice agencies and 5,000 SF of retail space, as well as a 1,000 space parking structure renovation. Construction of this unique fast track, design-build project commenced in Spring 2011, with occupancy scheduled for Fall 2013.

With over 30 years of commercial real estate industry experience, Mr. Reinstein has played instrumental roles in financing or implementing many innovative development projects throughout the U.S. for Metropolitan Life, Homart Development, the Howard Hughes Corporation, Regent Properties and ICO Development. Mr. Reinstein’s background includes full cycle development of approximately Three Million SF of “from the ground up” and “value add” projects at a cost of over $400 Million, as well as extensive acquisition, investment, entitlement and public private partnership experience.

Mr. Reinstein holds a BA from Duke University, a Master of City Planning from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. He is a founding Board Member and former Chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Photographic Arts Council.

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www.lb-jp.com

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