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Kathryn Peacock
Moderator

Kathryn Peacock

Principal

Partner Engineering and Science

Charles Werhane
KEYNOTE INTERVIEW

Charles Werhane

President & CEO

Enterprise Community Investment

Jeffrey Seibert
Moderator

Jeffrey Seibert

Principal

Miles & Stockbridge

Brian Gibbons

Brian Gibbons

CEO

Greenberg Gibbons Commercial

William Yerman
Moderator

William Yerman

CEO

Continental Title Group

JM Schapiro

JM Schapiro

CEO

Continental Realty Corporation

Tony Nero

Tony Nero

President - Development

Armada Hoffler

Zed Smith

Zed Smith

COO

Cordish Companies

Steven Bloom

Steven Bloom

Partner

PMC Property Group

Richard Alter

Richard Alter

CEO

Manekin

Neil Jurgens

Neil Jurgens

VP - Corporate Real Estate & Campus

Under Armour

Kathryn Peacock

Moderator

Partner Engineering and Science

Kathryn Peacock serves as Principal and National Client Manager for Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. With 20 years of experience under her belt, Kathryn has worked on thousands of transactions, subsurface investigations, and site remediation projects for some of the nation’s largest lenders and investors. She holds a bachelor degree in Soil Science from Prescott College and a Masters in Education from the Arizona Teachers Institute. Kathryn speaks and writes frequently on a wide range of environmental due diligence topics, and is dedicated to advancing standards and best practices through her active involvement with industry associations such as ASTM.

Kathryn is a founding member of EFMR (Environmental Facilities Management Roundtable). Environmental Professionals are frequently unique within their companies, having few peers who understand the unique challenges of their day to day. This group was formed to help facilitate dialogue amongst industry professionals.

Brian Gibbons

CEO

Greenberg Gibbons Commercial

Mr. Gibbons became Chairman of the Board in October, 2010. Since joining the company in 1999, Mr. Gibbons has overseen the acquisition, finance, leasing, development and management of over 8,000,000 square feet of award-winning mixed-use and revitalization projects with a value in excess of $1.2 billion. Major Greenberg Gibbons projects led by Mr. Gibbons include:

Ground up development of Village at Waugh Chapel and Waugh Chapel Towne Centre in Anne Arundel County, MD

The redevelopment of Hunt Valley Mall, now known as Hunt Valley Towne Centre in Baltimore County, MD

Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole in Annapolis, MD

Edgewater Village Center in Anne Arundel County, MD

Woodmore Towne Centre in Prince George’s County, MD

Towne Centre Laurel in Laurel, MD

Foundry Row in Owings Mills, MD

Prior to joining Greenberg Gibbons, he was a Partner and member of the management committee of Fedder and Garten, P.A., a Baltimore, Maryland law firm. Mr. Gibbons earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Sciences and a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and serves on the boards of Sinai Hospital, Hospice of the Chesapeake, and the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

In 2013, Mr. Gibbons received the Distinguished Citizens Award from the Boy Scouts of America’s Baltimore Chapter for exemplifying strong community leadership and personal integrity. Most recently, he was named to the State of Maryland’s Private Sector Economic Development Commission, a group formed to recommend strategies to help map the future growth of Maryland’s economy.

William Yerman

Moderator

Continental Title Group

One of the most dynamic professionals in Maryland Real Estate over the last two decades, Billy Yerman has made a lifetime out of the safe transfer of real property. He is a past president of the Maryland Land Title Association and of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors. In his long career Billy was CEO of Fountainhead Title and The Strata Group, an organization that encompassed a residential real estate firm, two title companies, a mortgage group, and a personal finance company. In addition to his business pursuits, Billy has given back to the community as a passionate advocate for the next generation by serving on the Board of Trustees of Garrison Forest School and as a past Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement of Central Maryland. Billy is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, and the University of Maryland School of Law.

JM Schapiro

CEO

Continental Realty Corporation

JM Schapiro is the third-generation leader of Continental Realty Corporation (CRC), a diversified real estate company co-founded by his grandfather and father. JM has served as Chief Executive Officer of CRC since 2002.

Headquartered in Baltimore and founded in 1960, CRC is a full-service commercial real estate investment and management company. The privately-owned firm owns and manages a diversified portfolio of retail shopping centers consisting of more than 3 million square feet of space, as well as apartment home communities featuring more than 8,000 multi-family apartment homes. Positioned throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, the value of the portfolio exceeds $1.5B.

JM’s family connection to Baltimore extends back to his great-great-grandparents arrival from Europe in the early 1900s. JM was born in Baltimore and lived in Baltimore City until he was four years old on West Lanvale Street in Bolton Hill. JM graduated from Bucknell University in 1991 and joined CRC before leaving for several years to develop his own skills running the real estate department at Sylvan Learning Systems.Screen Shot 2015-11-03 at 9.43.05 AM

JM received a Master’s Degree in Real Estate in 1995 from Johns Hopkins University.

He rejoined CRC in 1998 and, after progressing up the ranks, was named President and CEO in 2002.

Under JM’s leadership, CRC has more than doubled in size and acquired in excess of $1 billion in real estate.

In addition to his role at CRC, JM currently serves as a member of the LifeBridge Health Board, the Board of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, and the Board of The Park School, where he is also an alumnus. He is actively involved with The Associated Jewish Charities (‘The Associated’) where he serves on the Board of Governors and chaired its 2014/2015 Capital Campaign.

Through The Associated, JM was named the recipient of the 2008 Julius Rosenberg Award and the 2010 Harry Greenstein Award. He is the Washington/Baltimore Chapter Chair Emeritus for the Young President’s Organization (YPO), the former Network Chair for the YPO Real Estate Industry Network, and was named a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Real Estate and Construction category.

JM lives in Baltimore County with his wife, Mindy, and two sons, Landon and Harrison, where they are active members of the community and committed to philanthropic endeavors in the surrounding region.

Summary

We are pleased to announce our Fifth Annual Baltimore State of the Market, bringing together the best and brightest pillars from the local commercial real estate market and broader economy. Panelists will assess the state of the market and key trends and issues ahead for the next 12 months.

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