As Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Griffith Properties, Marci oversees all of the firm’s activities including fundraising, investments and executing the strategies for Griffith Properties Funds. She brings 32 years of experience in principal investing, disposition, valuation and brokerage involving over 525 transactions representing $26 billion of assets. Since 2010, Marci has been operating Griffith Properties as a Women-owned enterprise.

From 1993 to 2009 Marci was an investment sales broker most recently with Cushman & Wakefield and formerly with Fallon Hines & O’Connor/Trammell Crow Company. In the course of her 18-year Brokerage career Marci closed over 500 investment sales transactions totaling in excess of $25.0 billion and was named by Real Estate Forum as one of the country’s “Superstar” investment sales brokers in three consecutive years. While a Principal at TCC, Marci was ranked among the Top 3 Producers nationwide from 1998 through 2000. She was member of the team recognized by the GBREB’s Commercial Leasing and Investment Committee for closing “The Investment Sales Deal of the Year” multiple times: 1994 (for the $64.6 million Latham Farms Power Center sale in Albany, NY); 1995 (for the $163 million sale of Bay Colony Corporate Center in Waltham, MA); 1996 (for the $91 million Druker 1031 Exchange in Boston); 1999 (for the $403 million MGI New England Portfolios) and 2006 (for the $600 million Technology Square transaction).

Community Service and Professional Affiliations include: Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI); Member and Past President, Real Estate Finance Association (REFA); Member and Past President, NAIOP of MA; Committee Member, Champions for Children’s, Children’s Hospital Boston; Member, Real Estate Committee for Archdiocese of Boston; Board of Trustees, Noble and Greenough School.

In 2000, Marci—along with her father and sister—received the Robert Swain Award for her contribution and achievements in the real estate industry.

Marci is a 1989 graduate of Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and a minor in Mathematics. She lives in Weston with her husband, Franz, and her three children.

Nick DeMarinis is an experienced revenue executive focusing on technology in the Real Estate, Human Resources and Media industries. He is currently the Vice President of Sales at WeWork, a certified executive coach, and startup advisor.

At WeWork, Nick drives revenue growth and leads the company’s leasing business in some of its largest and highest priority markets, including New York City.

Prior to his current role, Nick was a sales executive at Yahoo and later joined LinkedIn as one of their first employees in New York City. In 2013, he moved to Hong Kong to open LinkedIn’s office and help scale the business across Asia Pacific.

Nick earned his Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Saint Leo University in Tampa, Florida, and a Master's Degree in International Business from St. John's University in Rome, Italy.

Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his wife and twin boys, trying to figure out how to bring dinosaurs back to life, or training to become Point Guard for the New York Knicks.

John Boyle is Executive Vice Chair of Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), one of the largest publicly traded commercial real estate services firms in the world, with over 58,000 employees. A nationally recognized industry leader in the field of Tenant Representation, John serves on the firm’s Global Advisory Board, one of the twelve

producers in the firm to do so. John leads the Tenant Representation Practice for Greater Boston. In 2023 John was recognized with the Company’s Inaugural “Visionary Award” named in honor of Cushman & Wakefield’s late

Chief Executive Officer, Joe Stettinius. John was honored for his “innovation, collaboration and his lasting results”. In 2022 as well as 2017, John was recognized as one of the Top Ten office producers in the world, for Cushman and Wakefield. In 2024, John was awarded Cushman & Wakefield’s National “Team Player” Award, for being the firms “Top Team Player” nationally for the firm. In 2017 Cushman & Wakefield’s Tenant Advisory Group (TAG), which is comprised of 800 occupier focused brokerage professionals, awarded John with the

Company’s inaugural “Outstanding Achievement Award”, for John’s “extraordinary contributions to his clients’ success and his effort within his community and with his colleagues.”

With over 38 years of commercial real estate experience, John has been involved in thousands of transactions with an aggregate value in the billions. John has had significant focus in the area of strategic global, multi-market, portfolio-wide representation, having completed transactions in most major US cities and with significant experience executing leases in India, China, Europe and other international markets. He is included in many publications including the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Relative to his Boston market, John has received the Commercial Brokers Association of Massachusetts (CBA) Broker of the Year, “McCall Leadership Award,” an honor one can receive only once in a career, for demonstrating “the highest level of ethical standards and a career as an industry leader.” Additionally, John received CoreNet New England’s “Global Service Producer Award”, the highest honor a tenant advisor can receive in New England. John was elected President of the “CBA”, part of the oldest real estate association in the US, founded 1886, in 2012. No other broker advisor has received all three of these distinct Boston honors.

Prior to Cushman & Wakefield (formerly DTZ), John was a Principal with Cassidy Turley, prior to that, John was a Founding Partner of FHO Partners which was later sold to Cassidy Turley before that, and John was a Principal of Trammell Crow Company.

Jay Hirsh founded Jumbo Capital Management, LLC in 2009. He is responsible for all aspects of acquisitions, dispositions and asset management.

Prior to founding Jumbo Capital Management, LLC, Jay was a Vice President in the Acquisitions Group at New Boston Fund, Inc., a Boston-based, real estate investment management firm that manages over $1.2B in private equity capital on behalf of high net worth and institutional investors. Jay managed asset acquisitions in New England, property management, leasing issues and dispositions.

In addition to his responsibilities with Jumbo Capital Management, Jay Hirsh is Managing Partner of the Hingham Shipyard Marinas (https://www.hinghamshipyardmarina.com/). Jay is an active member of NAIOP and ULI. He attended Tufts University where he earned a B.A. in Economics.

Tom Larance has brought his thought leadership and vision

to commercial real estate amenity spaces for nearly 30

years. He specializes in driving relevance, audience

engagement, and – ultimately – increasing revenue on

behalf of clients for office, retail and hospitality spaces.

Tom has worked with legendary buildings like Chicago’s

Merchandise Mart, AON and Old Post Office when they

reinvented themselves for modern tenants. He has

enhanced international awareness and influence among the

shopping set for retail clients like Brookfield. His signature

approach is centered around embracing reinvention. “It’s not

enough to do the same thing over and over. To win in this

game – to really engage your audience - you need to be

delivering something unique and extraordinary. And once

you’ve done that, you have to do it again.”

The Experience Group launched in January of 2024. This is

Tom’s return to the experience space following the sale of

his first business, Corporate Concierge Services, to JLL in

2019 where he created the JLL XM platform.

Leah Atkinson is the senior vice president of the east region for Kinema Fitness Inc. and Well AP professional.

She has over 20 years of experience in the corporate wellness space, working with companies engineering innovative wellness program solutions, facility design and development along with operational efficiencies, with the sole focus to enhance the lives of employees and improve company culture.

Kinema Fitness is a forward-thinking, full-service, fitness center management and design company that specializes in Class A, multi and single-tenant office buildings, with a passion for providing incredible holistic wellness experiences, while delivering operational efficiencies, leveraging the newest technologies, and providing unparalleled service and results through performance-based contracts. Kinema inspires through innovation and creativity, from operations to programming. They engage members by educating, creating community, and building relationships that are meaningful and lasting.

Joe Amante is Senior Vice President, Enterprise Real Estate Solutions responsible for the strategy, build out, delivery, and management of the Liberty Mutual real estate portfolio and workplace services. Joe began his career with Liberty Mutual in 2007 where he worked in varying roles across Commercial Markets, Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, Personal Markets, and Agency Markets. In 2015, Joe joined Enterprise Services as VP Real Estate Services and in 2023

became SVP Enterprise Real Estate Solutions, Enterprise Transformation & Solutions. Prior to joining Liberty Mutual, Joe worked for Unilever U.S. as an Associate Brand Manager for Dove® and as a Senior Process Engineer for 5 years at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in their pharmaceuticals division. Joe holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania

State University, a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and an MBA from Cornell University. Joe obtained his CPCU designation in 2010.

Steven is currently Senior Vice President of workplace experience product management at Bank of New York (BNY) where he leads the bank’s efforts to develop, design, and implement technology-enabled spaces and experiences for over 50,000 global colleagues. Previously, Steven served as a senior consulting leader within Accenture’s Digital and Intelligent Workplace practice. During his time with the firm, Steven led workplace strategy and technology implementation engagements, helping leading organizations transform their digital and physical employee experiences. As a subject matter expert in workplace technology and experience design, Steven is passionate about delivering exceptional employee experiences that activate collaboration and innovation, while enabling future ways of working.

Jamie Kinch, Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace has been pioneering Workplace Transformation. With over two decades of industry expertise, Jamie Kinch has been at the forefront of redefining workspaces for a rapidly evolving world predominantly in the technology sector and now in the biotechnology industry.

Lauren Hasson is Senior Vice President of Workplace Strategy for JLL in Boston where she partners closely with brokers and clients to help them successfully navigate this new era of work. She spends most of her time with tenants who are questioning how much space they need or haven’t yet refined their vision for the future of work. Lauren’s background in anthropology, health, and strategy is a powerful blend in today’s real estate climate where clients are hyper-focused on culture and wellbeing.

Lauren’s experience spans geographies and industries (tech, finance, legal, life science, and more). When she’s not in the room with clients, Lauren works closely with JLL’s research team to understand how disruptive technology is transforming the way we use commercial real estate. She remains incredibly optimistic about the future of office design and workplace experience. In many ways, Lauren believes this is the golden era of the office.

She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from The George Washington University and a M.Ed. from Boston University. Lauren is also a passionate yogi (RYT 200 certified) and supporter of the local arts scene as a Board of Advisors member for Artists for Humanity.