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Andrea Zopp

Andrea Zopp

Managing Partner

Cleveland Avenue

Clayton McCaffery

Clayton McCaffery

Senior Managing Director, Development & Acquisition

McCaffery Interests

Mike Demetriou

Mike Demetriou

President

Baum Realty Group

Andrea Zopp

Managing Partner

Cleveland Avenue

In her current role at Cleveland Avenue Ms. Zopp leads the organization’s work investing in and

supporting minority and women entrepreneurs and their companies. Previously she served as

President and CEO of World Business Chicago, where she led the organization’s mission of

inclusive economic growth, supporting businesses, and promoting Chicago as a leading global

city. Prior to joining WBC, she served as Deputy Mayor, Chief Neighborhood Development

Officer for the City of Chicago.

Ms. Zopp has held executive leadership positions at several Fortune 500 companies. She was

General Counsel and Chief Human Resources Officer at Exelon Corporation and served as

Senior Vice President General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Sears Holdings

Corporation. Ms Zopp also served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Sara Lee

Corporation. As the former President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, she led the

nationally-recognized organization's focus on expanding economic opportunity in underserved

communities. Andrea also served as a federal and state prosecutor, serving as an Assistant

United States Attorney and as the first woman and African American First Assistant in the Cook

County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Ms. Zopp currently serves on the board of Relativity a global e-discovery and document

management software company and has served on the boards of Urban Partnership Bank and

Andrew Corporation. She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Chicago State University and

also serves on the boards of the Henry Ford Health System, the Economic Club of Chicago, the

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Black Ensemble Theater as well as the

Chicago Police Board. She received her BA in History and Science from Harvard University and

her JD from Harvard Law School

Clayton McCaffery

Senior Managing Director, Development & Acquisition

McCaffery Interests

Clayton McCaffery leads and is responsible for the identification and coordination of strategic acquisitions in alignment with the company’s goals. With a real estate career spanning more than 21 years, Mr. McCaffery previously led the firm’s leasing and development teams for more than 15 years; prior experience included tenant and landlord representation work with Mid-America Real Estate Group in Chicago and Liberty Greenfield in Denver. He is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Clayton holds an MBA in Real Estate and Finance from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a B.A. from Colgate University.

Summary

  1. What are the newfound challenges in managing a building while trying to keep less staff onsite?

  2. How can small business owners better weather this storm and come out on the other side?

  3. Are actions such as forgoing a few months of rent and extending the lease agreement needed in order to retain tenants?

  4. How will the fundamentals of real estate change due to the lessons we are learning now from COVID-19?

  5. Which asset classes will fundamentally change for good and which will revert to pre-pandemic ways of doing business?

Agenda

Time Activity
4:00 PM
4:45 PM
State of the Market During Coronavirus

Small business response, newfound challenges due to the pandemic, and the changing real estate fundamentals

4:45 PM
5:00 PM
Post-Discussion Q&A

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