Charlotte Industrial & Logistics

​Alan Lewis is an Industrial and Office Development Partner at The Keith Corporation (TKC), with over 28 years of experience in commercial real estate. Since joining The Keith Corporation in 1992, Alan has steadily grown TKC’s industrial build-to-suit and business park development platform into one of national preeminence. Alan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and Finance. He is a past-president and board member of the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors, a member of the North Carolina Economic Developers Association, and a licensed broker in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Alan is also an elder at Myers Park Presbyterian Church and has supported and served on the Board of Directors of numerous charitable organizations.

Justin has over 15 years of experience in commercial real estate finance and business development. As Al. Neyer’s market leader in Raleigh, he is responsible for creating strategic business solutions and partnerships while representing our integrated process. His vision and creativity — matched with a knowledge of the market and a focus on creating trusted relationships — strengthens his ability to support our pipeline and expansion across our fourth market in The Triangle and beyond.

Mr. Skibinski has 31 years of experience in industrial commercial real estate transactions. He has successfully negotiated transactions totaling more than $1.5 billion for manufacturing, research and development, and logistics facilities throughout the country. He has worked in all facets of the industrial sector, including multi-property portfolio leasing and sales, complex land acquisitions for developers, corporate asset dispositions, and build-to-suits. Recently, Mr. Skibinski assisted the Silverman Group in the leasing of their 3.4 million square foot Charlotte portfolio, as well as the development and leasing of Scannell Properties’ 2.1 million square foot business park in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He also assisted Evergreen Industrial Properties in their 944,000 square foot portfolio in Charlotte, NC, Hartz Mountain with their 1 million square foot portfolio and Somerset Properties in their 1,361,756 square foot industrial building. In addition to assisting investors with industrial park development and leasing, he has handled over 2.2 million square feet of property sales for Scannell and multiple transactions for the Silverman Group, Indus Realty Trust, Lightstone and iStar Financial. He is a multi-year award recipient of Costar’s Power Broker Award and Avison Young’s Circle of Excellence.

Wake is a co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tectonic and focuses on the day-to-day management of the firm, sources new opportunities, maintains capital relationships, and oversees the execution of each project’s business plan. Prior to Tectonic, Wake worked in US Real Estate at The Carlyle Group, one of the worlds largest alternative asset management and investment firms. Prior to Carlyle, Wake was at Atlanta Property Group, a regional owner-operator of value-office properties. Wake received a BA in Economics and History from the University of Virginia. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and is a member of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Shadwell Society.

Teddy co-founded Collett Industrial in 2019 to focus on industrial development and acquisition opportunities in the southeastern U.S. Teddy is responsible for overseeing all facets of the firm’s industrial business, including sourcing, capitalizing, and managing projects alongside a core team of development professionals at Collett. Prior to forming Collett Industrial, Teddy was with Brightstone Capital Partners, a New York-based real estate investment management firm, where he was responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and capitalizing the firm’s direct and entity-level investment opportunities. Prior to Brightstone, Teddy worked in the Investment Solutions division at The Carlyle Group where he was a member of the team responsible for coordinating all capital raising efforts for Carlyle’s real estate multi-manager platform, Metropolitan Real Estate. Teddy began his career at MatlinPatterson Asset Management, a New York-based investment firm where he focused on strategic partnerships and business development initiatives across the firm’s alternative investment platform.

Danny Chavez joined the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance (CLTA) in November 2021 as the Chief Business Recruitment Officer. He serves as the executive lead for the business development team at CLTA. He formerly represented the Dallas-Fort Worth (McKinney) and San Antonio regions in executive roles. As an economic development executive, Danny has worked domestically & internationally, with corporate executives, site selectors, capital partners and real estate developers to close projects and investments of all sizes. He has served in multiple capacities where he has focused on commercial & mixed-use developments and working with startups. Mostly in the cybersecurity and SaaS sectors. Danny’s innovative approach to economic development and related business interests, have created new means to close corporate investments and identifying growth opportunities. He is the creator and chief architect of a first-of-a-kind, web-based incentive fund, called the Innovation Fund. In 2021, he was named a Finalist for D CEO Magazine’s Innovation Advocate of the Year award, for his work on the Innovation Fund. Danny was also featured in D CEO Magazine’s 2022 edition of The Dallas 500, the publication’s premier feature of the most powerful executives in North Texas. Danny has managed teams and individually worked on and closed many economic development projects. Ranging from Fortune 500 and headquarter operations to startup relocations. The teams he has managed have yielded over $1.2B in capital investment and created over 7,200 jobs. His individual efforts have yielded over $845M in capital investment and created over 5,700 jobs for the regions he’s represented. He has spent much of his career focusing on innovating incentives and fundraising for startups. Teams he has managed have garnered more than $56M in funds for their projects. Danny was the Co-Founder of an exited mobile software company, Epux and is the Founder of a management consulting firm, Iconimi. He continues to serve in consultancy or advisory roles for several startups. Danny holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Angelo State University. In 2017, he was selected to the Forbes Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) and in 2021, he was named by Consultant Connect as one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers. His approach to leadership is authenticity above all else.

Dianne Jones serves with JLL as a Managing Director under the Business and Economic Incentives Practice in the Carolinas. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, she specializes in assisting clients with full-service site selection and incentives negotiations across the Southeast. Dianne is responsible for the oversight of site selection and incentives negotiation services to both privately held and publicly traded companies across the United States. Dianne’s expertise has assisted several expansions, site selection and corporate relocation projects, ranging in size from $120,000 to over $1 billion in multiple states. She has a heavy focus on operational analysis and labor analytics in the location decision making process. Dianne received a B.A. in Business Administration from Methodist University. She is a licensed real estate broker in both North Carolina and South Carolina.