Beth Azor

Chief Executive Officer | Azor Advisory Services, Inc.

Beth is the founder and owner of Azor Advisory Services (AAS), a leading commercial real estate advisory and investment firm based in Southeast Florida. As its principal, Beth currently owns and manages five shopping centers in Florida and travels the country consulting with, brokering deals for and training associates in the commercial real estate industry. A partial list of Beth’s clients includes Phillips Edison & Co., Brixmor Properties, The Shopping Center Group, Urban Edge Development and DLC Management Group. She also has over thirty years of experience in managing, developing, redeveloping and teaching commercial real estate leasing agents all over the country.

DeLea Becker

Owner / Founder | Beck-Reit Asset Management, LLC

DeLea is Founder & Broker for Beck-Reit Commercial Real Estate & Beck-Reit Asset Management. In addition, DeLea owns Beck-Reit & Sons, Ltd. – a company that has successfully been in business for 23 years. Award wins include Women of Commercial Real Estate Top 25 Most Influential 2021, CREW Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 - Commercial Real Estate Women, and National Association of Realtors Commercial Broker Award 2019.

Alison Beddard

Managing Principal | Cushman & Wakefield

Based in Seattle, Alison oversees the strategic growth of the firm’s business lines in the Seattle and Bellevue regions. She was involved in many high-profile transactions in Salt Lake City including the largest healthcare BTS transaction in the state for the University of Utah in 2017 and the American Express 100,000 RSF BTS relocation. She was recognized as one of “Thirty Women to Watch” by Utah Business Magazine, as well as a 2017 “Women of Influence” Honoree by Real Estate Forum Magazine. She has held various leadership roles in numerous industry and community groups in Utah including the ULI, NAIOP, Salt Lake City Downtown Advisory Group, the Utah Pride Center, Zions Bank Women’s Financial Group, and CREW Utah.

Re’Nauta Bell

Senior Associate | Cushman & Wakefield

A member of Cushman & Wakefield’s Office Tenant Representation practice, Re’Nauta assists corporations and privately held firms with their commercial real estate endeavors. She provides unbiased and professional commercial brokerage services for office tenants and is adept at creating unique problem-solving strategies. Re’Nauta serves as the president of the Atlanta chapter of AAREP (African American Commercial Real Estate Professionals). She is a graduate of the CREW Leadership Program, a graduate of the ACBR Diversity Mentorship Program, and a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s Strategic Diverse Partnerships committee and Supplier Diversity Leadership Council (SDLC) where she works closely with the CPO, CDIO and Head of Supplier Diversity. She is also a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s ERG BUILD (Blacks United in Leadership & Development).

Carrie Bobb

Founder & CEO | Carrie Bobb & Co.

Carrie is the CEO of hellojenny, Founder & CEO of Carrie Bobb & Co., and Co-Founder of The Carrie Bobb Foundation. Throughout her career, Carrie has represented landlords such as IQHQ, Asana Partners, Kilroy Realty, Bosa Development, Protea Properties, TRC, Heitman and Reg,ency Centers. Carrie has completed over $2 billion in total consideration with retailers such as SoulCycle, Cinepolis, Sephora, Blue Bottle Coffee, North Italia, International Smoke, Salt & Straw, Drybar, and several others.

Natalie Bode

Vice President | esrp

For the past 13 years, Natalie has represented companies that occupy office and warehouse space across North America with their real estate needs, helping her clients develop data-driven strategies, which enable them to select optimal locations for operations.

Deb Boucher

Executive Managing Director | Cushman & Wakefield

Deb provides Cushman & Wakefield leadership to specialty practice groups of local and national experts dedicated to all aspects of Science + Technology (S+T) real estate. Deb has an exhaustive knowledge of life science company drivers and behavior making her subject matter expertise highly sought after for speaking engagements. Developers frequently seek her strategic advice on how to make/keep their projects desirable to users of highly technical space. Given that well over 90% of her work is S+T focused, she is nationally recognized as the dominant life science broker in the Southeast thus providing her clients with the highest levels of negotiating power, regardless of size.

Angela Cain

Angi Cain REALTOR® | Keller Williams (Platinum Partners)

Angela is an effective leader with demonstrated ability to develop high performing cross functional teams and transform business operations. She is passionate about making an impact and improving people's lives through leadership, innovation and development. A Lean Six Sigma Business Excellence Green Belt currently serving as innovation Leader, Angela spearheads projects, mentors professionals, and consults with stakeholders to add value to Black & Veatch, its business partners and clients.

Amy Calandrino, CCIM

CEO / Founding Principal / Broker | Beyond Commercial

Amy is the Founding Principal of Beyond Commercial, a Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) certified commercial real estate firm. Amy leads a team of commercial real estate experts who deliver tremendous value to business owners and investors across all asset classes. Amy’s recent accolades include: 2021 “Winter Park Magazine” People to Watch; 2021 “Orlando Business Journal” Women Who Mean Business; 2021 #CREi Top LinkedIn Influencers in Commercial Real Estate; and 2020 Orlando Regional REALTORS® Association (ORRA) Young Professional Network “20 Under 40” Rising Star.

Alexia Crowley, CCIM

Vice President | Colliers

Alexia brings 21 years of commercial real estate experience focused on exclusively healthcare transactions. She brings a broad range of healthcare experience, working with institutional grade assets, as well as investment sales. Some of her past clients include CIII Capital Partners, Welltower, WHASN, Odyssey Real Estate Capital, Spinal Rehabilitation Center, and Smith Plastic Surgery.

Emily Currie

Associate Vice President | Colliers

Emily specializes in landlord and tenant representation for the leasing and sale of office properties. With more than 13 years of experience, Emily is an established and respected industry expert, with demonstrated success in office property sales and leasing. She has completed transactions totaling more than 2.5 million square feet and $304 million in consideration for the sale of office, retail, industrial and multifamily assets.

Andrea Davis

Owner & Designated Broker | Davis Commercial AZ

As principal of Davis Commercial AZ, Andrea Davis specializes in site selection, property comparison analysis, negotiations, and establishing productive relationships with tenants, landlords, buyers, and sellers. Passionate about meeting the real estate objectives of her clients, Andrea has closed over $250M in property, totaling over 140M square feet throughout her 25 years of brokerage experience. She is honored to be a recipient of the Chairman’s Gold Circle Award, and a CCIM member since 2008.

Linda Day Harrison

Founder | theBrokerList

Linda has over 30 years of professional commercial real estate experience. Her vast expertise includes commercial leasing and commercial and residential property management, repositioning, and marketing for the disposition of commercial properties and receiverships. theBrokerList was developed to connect CRE Brokers with a network of verified CRE professionals. theBrokerList, known as the Switzerland of CRE, brings together both large and small companies no matter their affiliation.

Casey Flannery

Senior Associate | Cushman & Wakefield

Casey specializes in office landlord representation in Memphis, Tennessee. She works directly with landlords and owners presenting her knowledge to create maximum value for their assets. Casey was the first leader of Cushman & Wakefield’s Women’s Integrated Network and co-leads very popular #CREChat on Twitter.

Kim Ford

CEO | Rise Pittsburgh

Kim has over 20 years of real estate experience representing clients in Pittsburgh and over 200 U.S. markets. As an Exclusive Tenant Representative, she launched her own commercial real estate brokerage in 2009 (Cresa Pittsburgh), recently rebranded as Rise Pittsburgh. Rise Pittsburgh is a tech-enabled boutique real estate agency focused on providing a world-class professional experience for every client.

Garland Fuller

Sr. Diversity Recruiting Business Partner | CBRE

Garland is a hyper-connector, talent/career strategist, and leadership business, partner. She has 8 years’ experience within the commercial real estate industry and over 15 years’ experience within talent acquisition. She is an adjunct professor at the USC Price School. Garland is also the creator and host of “Full Circle with Garland,” a weekly podcast where she dives into conversations with diverse entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders who share her interest in greater social impact, true inclusion, and sustainable wealth building.

Kristin Geenty

President | The Geenty Group, Realtors

Kristin’s Sales Experience has cut across all disciplines of the Commercial-Industrial Real Estate Sales Field. She has been recognized by her peers at the Greater New Haven Association of Realtors, Commercial Investment Division (CID) every year since she began her career, with awards for the Largest Office Transaction in the association and the most challenging transaction. Kristin is the Past President of the 105 member New Haven CID. She was recently designated a member of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors.

Sheena Gohil

Executive Managing Director | Colliers

Sheena is a commercial real estate broker, specializing in advising tenants on their real estate decisions throughout the New York City metro area, nationally and internationally. She has worked on complex transactions as a result of unique disposition requirements, acquisitions in highly constrained markets, and other challenging initiatives. Most notably, Sheena led the completion of a 120,000 SF lease transaction in Midtown Manhattan during COVID. In addition, she worked on the lease restructuring of a 430,000 SF headquarters lease in Downtown Manhattan.

Nikki Greenberg

Head of Technology Strategy & Digital Management | QICGRE

Nikki is an innovation strategist and thought-leader for the real estate industry. She can be found speaking at leading industry conferences about robots, gen-z, and disruptive innovations around the world. She previously led the marketing team of the Fortune-500 global developer Greenland Holdings in Australia where she launched Park Sydney, a $1.2 billion mixed-use project in inner Sydney. In 2021 she was recognized as a Top 25 Most Influential CRE Innovator, and in 2020 as a Top 100 Real Estate Professional. In 2005 Nikki could be found in Thailand rebuilding villages affected by the South East Asian Tsunami.

Tracy Hawkins

VP, Work Transformation | Twitter

Tracy is a highly motivated and results-orientated corporate real estate and facilities management specialist with over 15 years of experience ranging from small boutique media companies to large multinationals and household names with multi-million dollar budget responsibility. Adept at gaining respect from stakeholders at all levels, she has extensive experience operating in Europe and the Middle East, partnering with teams in America and Asia, and, has both client-side and service provider experience equipping her with a unique viewpoint and extremely high standards.

Debra Hazel

Sr. Communications Executive | Debra Hazel Communications

Debra is a media professional with a particular focus on international retail and commercial real estate, working with clients around the globe while continuing to write about the industry for various publications. She founded Debra Hazel Communications in 2005 after nearly two decades of reporting and analyzing the expansion of chain retail and shopping center formats for U.S. trade magazine Chain Store Age. As Editor and Editor-at-Large for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ monthly magazine Shopping Centers Today, she travels the world to report on the growth of retailers and the shopping center industry abroad. Debra now uses that specialized knowledge and relationships with media to provide her corporate clients with a global business perspective on their communications and is frequently called upon by other firms in need of her expertise.

Chloe Heiligenstein

Brokerage Associate | Colliers

Chloe is a commercial real estate broker in the Charleston office where she prides herself on her time management, organizational skills, and ability to persistently follow through for her clients. She is a Member of the Young Professionals Committee with CSCMP, has served on the Students Subcommittee, and now serves on the Digital Team. She is also a Member of the Communications & Sponsorship Committee with CREW Charleston. On a Global Level, she holds a position on the US Emerging Industrial Leaders Council in Colliers, as well as a position on the CREW Network Emerging Leaders Council. She is an active Member of Charleston Women in Trade & the Maritime Association.

Faith Hershey

Marketing Manager | Regency Centers

At Regency Centers, Faith spearheads and implements marketing to support leasing for 420+ operating properties totaling 57 million SF nationwide. Regency Centers is the preeminent national owner, operator, and developer for grocery-anchored centers strategically placed in dense affluent trade areas. Faith consults and collaborates with 20+ dealmakers to support leasing efforts and manage marketing tactics. This includes designing leasing collateral such as flyers, brochures, direct mail, invitations, retailer books, and signage. She also oversees all B2B email marketing including the strategy, design, analysis and development of a national broker database within HubSpot.

Elisa Konik

Senior Director, Decision Support | Cushman & Wakefield

Elisa is a member of C&W’s Brokerage Services team based in Oakland, California. She helps clients design and execute real estate strategies within the Bay Area, nationally and globally across diverse portfolios and occupier/investor requirements. Elisa has consulted on-site selection initiatives across the world, in addition to strategic planning for several multi-national real estate portfolios. Throughout her career at C&W, Elisa has designed several award-winning Best Practices.

Anne Klein

Executive Managing Director | Newmark

Anne is a 33-year veteran and a 12-time National Top Office Producer, of the commercial real estate industry. In addition to representing tenants in the U.S. and throughout the world, she has extensive experience representing local and institutional owners to market their properties, increasing the value through successful leasing and sales. Her recent lease transactions include work for Verizon, PNC Bank, and Actelion Clinical Research.

Marissa Limsiaco

President and Co-Founder | Otso

Over the past 20 years, Marissa has broken barriers as part of a small percentage of women who graduated from West Point, led soldiers in combat, and today leads a company revolutionizing the commercial real estate industry. She is the recipient of West Point's prestigious Army Athletic Association Trophy, a decorated combat Veteran, and named one of the most influential women in commercial real estate. In an environment where only 2.3% of venture capital goes to women, Marissa has raised millions for her companies.

Tressa LoVasco

Founder and CEO | LoVasco Creative Group

LoVasco Creative Group started in 2013 as a social media branding company for small businesses. In 2018, Tressa transitioned to the commercial real estate niche to support the marketing tenant rep efforts of her broker B2 and Company. In 2020, she recognized that the presence of Commercial Real Estate professionals was missing from social media and the digital space, and adapted LCG to fill that gap.

Sarah Malcolm

Founder, EVP Managing Director | Quiet Valor

Sarah is the Founder, EVP Managing Director of Quiet Valor, an Ad Agency servicing companies within the Tech, BioTech, Real Estate and Healthcare Innovation space. She takes brands with zero traction and builds them into something incredible. Named Top 25 Women Founders in Commercial Real Estate, Sarah’s gift for building authentic relationships through the latest in digital marketing innovation makes her a sought-after industry voice. Her passion for bringing together people in new ways is what has won her work awards and captured the attention of Forbes, where she is a Featured Contributor.

Gloria Mamwa

Regional Head of Property, Africa and the Middle East | Standard Chartered Bank

Gloria is a Corporate Real Estate Executive based in the United Arab Emirates with over 20 years of experience in leading, developing, and overseeing the delivery of real estate strategies; Business and Enterprise Alignment; People and Talent Development and Project Management; and, Senior Management experience gained through working in an international organization and being a member of the global function’s management team; consultancy in the USA and East Africa.

Wendy Mann

CEO | CREW Network

With 30 years of association management experience, Wendy brings a passion for commercial real estate, her strategic vision for the association, and a commitment to mentoring and advancing women to the CREW Network. She is dedicated to working collaboratively with like-minded organizations and companies that make diversity and inclusion a priority. Wendy has committed to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.

Jessica Mizrahi, SIOR

Director | Cushman & Wakefield

Jessica is a broker on the Central Florida Cushman & Wakefield Industrial team - the #1 industrial leasing and sales team where they collectively collaborate and oversee more than 14.5 million square feet of agency work throughout the region. In 2021, she participated in approximately 120 transactions equating to 12 million square feet of industrial space leased and an estimated $2 billion in transaction value. Landlord clients served include McDonald Development Co., Agellan Commercial REIT, Black Creek Group, Cabot Properties, and Chestnut Hill Investments.

Ra'eesa Motala

VP - Industrial and Corporate Solutions Broker | Rokos Advisors

Ra'eesha is an experienced industrial and corporate solutions specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the commercial real estate industry. She is recognized as a 2020 “40 Under 40” honoree, one of Minneapolis’ 2017 "50 on Fire”, honored by the MSPBJ with "Women in Business" in 2018, and recipient of the L&A Humanitarian Award, Connect CRE “National Rising Star” in Commercial Real Estate, and 2020 “Top Women In CRE” Nationally.

Michelle Myer

VP, Americas Real Estate & Facilities | Oracle

Michelle is a Real Estate & Facilities Executive with an accomplished career. She has successfully managed various functions including property management, strategic space planning, design, facilities management, leasing, construction, economic incentives, data centers, environmental health & safety, and project management services. Michelle has integrated real estate portfolios and personnel from acquisitions. Her strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in functional areas such as IT, HR, Security, Finance, and Operations help to enable success.

Julia Perlmutter

User Engagement & Customer Success Advocate QuantumListing

Julia is the Customer Success Manager at QuantumListing, an affordable nationwide commercial real estate listing platform designed to give your listings maximum exposure and reach new audiences. She was new to commercial real estate tech when she joined and loves learning from QuantumListing members to improve the commercial real estate industry through new features, webinars, blogs, and networking opportunities.

Sydney Phillips

Affiliate Broker | Benchmark Realty, LLC

Growing up around the real estate business and Franklin, TN, Sydney is no stranger to the greater Nashville area or housing trends & sales. Sydney graduated from Franklin High School with high honors in 2009, then studied Business and Religion at Lee University from 2009-2012. Selling real estate is her full-time job, and serving her clients is her priority. She is humbled by the opportunity to help people purchase not only the largest asset they will likely obtain in their life but also a place to call home.

Barbi Reuter

Chief Executive Officer | Cushman & Wakefield

Barbi is a high-energy executive with 25+ years of senior leadership experience in commercial real estate services. She is a collaborative, solutions-oriented leader in both profit-driven and non-profit organizations known for authenticity, diplomacy, relationship-building, and inspiring team and individual performance. As a thought leader, she is frequently tapped to speak, comment, and participate in industry and community programs, initiatives and publications. Barbi is highly engaged in community efforts and a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.

Tiffany Ryland

Associate Director | ARVO REALTY ADVISORS

Named one of the most influential women in commercial real estate and the #1 Commercial Real Estate influencer on Linkedin in the country, Tiffany brings extensive experience in managing people and business operations to the ARVO team. She is mainly responsible for innovative and creative commercial real estate solutions for clients in the small business and corporate sectors. Her vast background, including vendor management experience with CBRE, being mentored by one of the managing directors at Oppenheimer Holdings and an international trade analyst for Georgia Pacific enhances her attention to detail and critical thinking. Tiffany uses her advanced problem-solving abilities to streamline processes, thereby being more efficient and positively impacting the bottom line.

Bronwyn Scrivens

Associate Broker | Omada Commercial - Edmonton

Bronwyn spends her days working with small, medium, and large businesses, primarily across the province of Alberta. She helps them achieve their goals by locating, negotiating, marketing, and transacting with the best on and off-market commercial real estate opportunities. Bronwyn's specialization is the industrial sector. She has extensive experience with owner-operators who have the goal of building owners throughout their business lifecycle.

Rebecca Rockey

Global Head of Economic Analysis & Forecasting | Cushman & Wakefield

In her role, Rebecca studies how economies, demographics, financial markets and commercial real estate interact—both at the macro and micro level. In her new global role, she will extend this expertise to other regions. In a previous role as junior economist at the Congressional Budget Office in the Financial Analysis Division (FAD), she was particularly focused on fair value estimation of federal direct lending and guarantee credit programs and contributed to FAD’s first comprehensive estimate—across more than 100 credit programs with a portfolio value of $3.1 trillion—for the Congress. Rebecca was part of the forecast team that won the National Association of Business Economists Outlook Award in 2014.

Abigail Sievers

Vice President - Industrial Brokerage | JLL

Abigail joined JLL in 2021 as a part of the Industrial brokerage team. Abigail specializes in landlord and tenant representation. Key strengths of Abigail’s include a keen sense for business development ideas and most importantly – a positive and energetic attitude. She easily connects with diverse individuals and quickly develops an intuitive understanding of their needs and team dynamics. When working through project challenges, her clients appreciate Abigail’s flexible and adaptive decision-making style.

Kristi Svec Simmons

First Vice President | CBRE

Kristi is currently a First Vice President in the CBRE Occupier Services division. Her sole focus is representing users of real estate where she can use her analytical and creative thinking to produce exceptional results for her clients. Some fun awards she has been a part of include being a consistent Costar Power Broker and Austin Business Journal Heavy Hitter. One of her proudest moments was being the youngest recipient of The Staubach Company's (now JLL) coveted Champion of Excellence Award (an award given to 5 people annually).

Anjee Solanki

National Director Retail Services, US | Colliers

Anjee has developed strong relationships and strategic leadership to over 500 retail professionals nationally across 140 markets within Colliers for investment sales, agency, retailer rep, and retail asset and property management. She brings 28 years of focused retail real estate experience to Colliers International. She has developed and manages strong working relationships with institutional and private clients such as the State of Florida, State of Michigan, Heitman, Invesco, Grosvenor Americas, American Realty Advisors, TH Realty, PNC, and Zurich to name a few. Anjee was honored as a 2020 CREW Network Distinguished Leader.

Melissa Swader

President | Media, (CRE) Marketing, Design, and PR | Ruby Red Media, LLC

Melissa has been in media, marketing, graphic design, publishing, and public relations for over 22 years. She has been helping small business owners, nonprofit organizations, CEOs and Executives, professional athletes, and residential and commercial real estate professionals to build effective marketing and branding strategies to help build their business in their industry.

Lauren Thomas

Retail and Real Estate Reporter | CNBC

Lauren Thomas is a reporter for CNBC in New York covering retail and retail real estate. She joined in January 2017 after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied Business Journalism and Spanish. Thomas previously held internships at CNBC in San Francisco, Bloomberg and TheStreet. She was born in South Carolina and is the oldest of five kids. 

Heather Trimble

Senior Associate | Cushman & Wakefield

Heather Trimble is a Senior Associate who has been with Cushman & Wakefield for over 4 years. In 2021, Ms. Trimble joined the Kazuko Morgan Retail Team to specialize in the Downtown San Francisco Financial District and Union Square retail leasing. She is passionate about commercial real estate and utilizes her network to best serve her clients. Heather’s expertise is amplified by her consistent education of the market and retail trends and assuring that her clients are at the forefront of the market.

Sara Terry, SIOR

Executive Vice President | Colliers

Sara brings 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, with a focus on institutional grade Class AA office. Her extensive and diverse background ranges from property management, to construction management and landlord representation. In her previous position at Crescent Resources in Atlanta, she was responsible for leasing their 2.5 million square foot Atlanta portfolio, and completed several corporate relocations on behalf of the owner. At Stream Realty, she consistently ranked in the top 10% of producers nationwide and represented institutional owners for the leasing of several high profile Class A office buildings, including the repositioning and renovation of one of Dallas’ most iconic office towers, Trammell Crow Center.

Natalie Wainwright

Vice President | LOGIC Commercial Real Estate

Natalie joined Logic Commercial Real Estate in December 2019. Natalie’s focus is exclusively representing office tenants in their leasing and purchasing with an emphasis on tech space. As a leader in the industry, Natalie has represented dozens of highly acclaimed brands such as Adapt Inc., MobileSoft, Citizens Bank, and AFWERX. Before joining Logic, she was a Senior Associate with Cushman & Wakefield for 7 years where she gained extensive knowledge and experience in exclusive tenant representation, transactions, and negotiations. Natalie has served as President of CREW Las Vegas (Commercial Real Estate Women), Director of CALV (Commercial Real Estate Las Vegas), received CoStar’s Power Broker Top Leasing Award in 2017 & 2018, and was a Connect Media’s 2018 Generation Award Recipient.

Elizabeth Ward Wilke

Commercial Sales and Leasing | NAI Latter & Blum Commercial Real Estate

Elizabeth is a commercial sales and leasing agent with the Gulf Partners Team at NAI Latter & Blum, where she specializes in multi-family, retail, and office investments. She has over 25 years of investment experience. Before joining Latter & Blum, she served as a customer service manager for Fortune 500 company, Entergy Corp, located in Baton Rouge, LA. Elizabeth is an active member of CREW and has received the CREW Network Leadership Certificate in 2020.

Allison S. Weiss

Principal/Founder | CRE Recruiting

Allison helps driven commercial real estate professionals to take their careers and businesses to the next level. She has recruited hundreds of CRE professionals nationally, creating millions in revenue and she possesses over 10 years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, business strategy, marketing, branding, & leadership. She is a champion of women and diversity, equity, & inclusion in the industry.

Edie Weintraub

Founder and CEO | terra alma

Honing her craft since 2005, Edie has an uncanny ability to recognize emerging restaurant trends and discover inspiring retailers everywhere she goes. She leads a team that advises new + established retail, hospitality + restaurant brands to provide experiences and create places that make people feel good. terra alma's retail restaurant clients include Bugerfi, City BBQ, Millers Ale House, Silverlake Ramen, and Varuni Napoli.