Bisnow Multifamily Annual Conference South

Sue Ansel

CEO
Gables Residential

Sue Ansel is President and Chief Executive Officer. In her 25 plus years with Gables, she has held positions in acquisitions, development, and operations and has led important company initiatives including the advancement of real estate technology efforts and third-party client services. Sue serves on several boards and committees including serving as an officer on the Executive Committee of the National Multi-Housing Council, The Dallas Summer Musical Board of Directors and DePauw University’s Board of Trustees. Sue is also a member of the Urban Land Institute and a graduate of DePauw University.

Valerie Williams

SVP, Community Development Banking
Bank of America

Valerie A. Williams is a Senior Relationship Manager in Community Development Banking Group. Valerie focuses on managing the client relationship efforts in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and all Native American Affordable housing lending throughout the US. Valerie has a breadth of experience in all types of real estate lending and brings over 30 years of commercial real estate, underwriting, and client management experience to the team. Valerie’s experience affords her a unique understanding of the bank’s entire structure and operations. She serves on various boards and committees advocating for affordable housing. Valerie received her Bachelor degree from Central Michigan University and MBA from Texas Woman’s University.

Larry James

CEO
CitySquare

Larry James has provided executive leadership since joining CitySquare in 1994. Known in the Dallas faith, business and media communities as a social entrepreneur and committed servant to the people of East and South Dallas, Larry came to CitySquare after serving 14 years as senior minister with the Richardson East Church of Christ in Richardson, Texas. He is a graduate of Harding University (BA 1972), Harding University Graduate School of Religion (MA 1973), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv 1977) and Tulane University (MA—American History 1986). His first full-length book, The Wealth of the Poor, was published by Leafwood Publishers in 2013. Larry spent eight months in 1998 as executive director for the Greater Dallas Community of Churches but returned to CitySquare with a renewed clarity that his place was with the people of Dallas’ inner-city community. Since 1999, Larry and wife, Brenda, have made their home in the inner city and have been active members of First United Methodist Church-Dallas. He currently serves the church in a dual appointment to CitySquare and Highland Park United Methodist Church.

Linda McMahon

President & CEO
The Real Estate Council

Linda McMahon is the President and CEO of The Real Estate Council, The Real Estate Council Foundation and The Real Estate Council Community Fund. Founded in 1990, The Real Estate Council (TREC) is Texas’ largest and most influential organization of its kind representing more than 1,700 commercial real estate professionals and 500 companies which make up over 95% of the top commercial real estate businesses in North Texas. Over the last 23 years, The Real Estate Council Foundation has been a leader in efforts shaping the future of Dallas including the original $1.5 million investment that spearheaded Klyde Warren Park, as well as $6.3 million in pro bono legal and title services and $250,000 in funding that helped create Dallas’ Urban Land Bank. We are known for our long term investment in the city’s neediest neighborhoods – St. Phillips, Jubilee, Fair Park, to name a few. The Real Estate Council Community Fund is a community development financial institution – and makes loans to nonprofits who are engaged in our core mission related activities – housing, education, job creation and the environment. Linda has been actively engaged in community development initiatives for more than 25 years as part of her three decade‐long banking career. Formerly, Linda was the Southwest Director of Community Development Banking for JPMorgan Chase Bank. As such, managed a team of commercial real estate banking professionals covering Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The team specialized in providing financial products that support the development and revitalization of low and moderate-income communities. She is a Principal with Neighborhood Strategies, an advisory consulting firm in the areas of affordable housing and community development. Linda is Founding Chair of Impact Dallas Capital – a new nonprofit organization – which has created a private investment capital initiative to invest in Southern Dallas commercial real estate projects through the GrowSouth Fund and is part of Mayor Rawlings’ GrowSouth Initiative. She is a member of the Dallas Regional Chamber Board, Downtown Dallas, Inc. Board, Commit! Leadership Board, Dallas Habitat for Humanity Honorary Board; and the Dallas Center for Architecture Columns Advisory Board. Linda serves as a Judge for the Dallas Business Journal Best Real Estate Deals; serves on the Dallas Independent School District Future Facilities Task Force; a member of the Downtown 360 Planning committee; a Judge for the Connected City Design Challenge and the planning committee for the Urban Summit. She is a member of The Dallas Assembly, The Real Estate Councils of Texas, the Urban Land Institute, The Texas Lyceum Alumnae, Leadership Dallas Alumnae (1991) and Lifetime member of the Texas Exes. Linda is the past Vice Chair of The Real Estate Council (2006‐2007), past President of the Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers (2009‐2010). She is a founding member of Housing Texas and the Louisiana Affiliation of Affordable Housing Providers. She has served on the Fannie Mae National Housing Advisory Council (2006‐2008) and was actively engaged with the Louisiana Recovery Authority in redevelopment initiatives following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Linda has been a frequent speaker nationally on issues surrounding economic and community development. Linda has a B. A. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin. Linda is married to Patrick McMahon. They have three daughters, McKay, Colleen and Lindsey, son-in-law Vincent and grandchildren Vince, Cole and Ivy.

Chris Dischinger

Co-Principal
LDG Development

Chris Dischinger is a proven leader within the real estate development industry and is co-principal and co-founder of LDG Development in Louisville, KY. He is committed to the business of building better lives through developing quality, affordable communities for hard-working families and active seniors to grow and thrive. In 1994, Chris formed LDG Development with his business partner Mark Lechner, successfully focusing on acquiring, developing, building and managing single-family homes. The company eventually grew to have a portfolio of more than 500 homes as well as acquiring and managing commercial real estate properties in 17 states. In 2002, LDG saw an opportunity to enter the Housing Tax Credit Program and by using this model, LDG has developed over 8000 units in multiple states. Today, LDG has three main divisions, all focused on maximizing growth and production. With the mission statement, “Everyone Deserves a Quality Place to Live”, the company has over 30 employees in its offices located in Louisville, KY and Austin, TX and are focused on developing and managing quality properties for the thousands of families of residents and families it serves. Chris has served as president of four different trade organizations including the national president of the Society of Exchange Councilors. He resides in his hometown of Louisville, KY with his family.

Mitchell Voss

Regional Vice President
Key Bank Real Estate Capital

Mitchell Voss is a Regional Vice President at Key Bank Real Estate Capital and places debt through their capital markets platform across Fannie, Freddie, CMBS and Bridge. Prior to joining KeyBank Mr. Voss held positions with Goldman Sachs Real Estate Investment Banking Group, UBS Real Estate Investments, Duetsche Bank Real Estate Structured Finance and Centerline. During his tenure at these firms, Mitchell has placed in excess of $5 billion of debt and equity in commercial and multifamily real estate. Mr. Voss has also developed over 1,000 multifamily units and 1 million square feet of industrial warehouse space. Mr. Voss received his undergraduate degree from Daniel’s College of Business at the University of Denver and holds a Certificate from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson Business School in Commercial Real Estate. He is a member of The Real Estate Council. Mr. Voss and his wife, Rachel, live in University Park along with their two children.

Ryan Wehner

President
Wehner Multifamily

Paul Panza

President & CEO
Nicholas Residential

Paul N. Panza is Founder, President and CEO of Nicholas Residential. In this capacity, he establishes and executes the strategy of the Company and oversees the financial and operational performance. Mr. Panza has over a decade of experience in the commercial real estate markets, focused largely on “value-add” and “opportunistic” investing. Under his leadership and direction, the firm has achieved strong growth and performance, and expanded its acquisition, development and managerial services to meet the goals of its clients, which include institutional money managers, insurance companies, family offices and high-net-worth investors spanning the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to founding Nicholas Residential, Mr. Panza was Managing Director of Westmount Realty Capital, a boutique private real estate investment firm with more than $1 billion in assets under management. As a member of the firms investment committee, Mr. Panza led the acquisition and disposition of more than $300 million in commercial assets across the United States. Prior to his role at Westmount, Mr. Panza worked as an analyst in the corporate real estate group at Jones Lang LaSalle, serving clients such as Affiliated Computer Services Inc., the worlds largest diversified business process outsourcing firm, during their $6.4 billion acquisition by Xerox. Mr. Panza is actively involved in the community and has served on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Jesuit Alumni Association and the Greater Dallas Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He is a guest lecturer at SMU’s Cox School of Business on topics including Real Estate Finance and Crowdfunding. Mr. Panza holds an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Cox School of Business, and earned his BS in Economics and Applied Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Zach Murphy

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Pender Capital

Mr. Murphy is Managing Director of Originations at Pender Capital. He brings over 13 years of experience in both commercial real estate finance and capital markets. Prior to joining Pender, Mr. Murphy served as Managing Director/ Senior Vice President for Liberty SBF, a commercial finance company based in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for establishing Liberty’s Western Regional HQ in Los Angeles and directed West Coast originations and operations. Mr. Murphy personally originated over $60 million of commercial loans during the first year of operations on the West Coast. In 2008, Mr. Murphy joined Silver Point Capital, LP in New York, a Goldman Sachs partner fund, where he was responsible for commercial real estate loan originations and insurance-linked securities trading. During his tenure at Silver Point, Mr. Murphy traded more than $500 million in distressed commercial real estate debt, insurance-linked securities, and assets in the capital markets. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Murphy served as Senior Vice President/Division Director

Matt Brendel

SVP
JPI

Matt is responsible for acquisition, development, and asset management activities, principally in Texas and Colorado. Mr. Brendel has over 15 years’ industry experience, and prior to joining the company served in various roles with leading multifamily firms where he was responsible for assets with a total market value of over $2 billion. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Master of Science in Finance degrees from Texas A&M University.

Taylor Bowen

EVP & Co-Chief Operating Officer
AMLI Residential

Mr. Bowen is Executive VP and Co-Chief Operating Officer of AMLI Residential and has been with AMLI since 1997. From 2000 to 2017, Mr. Bowen led AMLI's development activities in Texas. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1993 where he served on the SMU Board of Trustees. Mr. Bowen received an M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia in 1997. He previously served on the Dallas Citiplace TIF Board, the Downtown Austin Alliance Executive Board, and the Dallas Zoning and Ordinance Committee. He is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Brittani Sanders

Director of Multifamily
CRG

Brittani has been with CRG since 2015 and has almost a decade of experience in the commercial real estate industry. She is one of two ULI Foundation and ULI Chicago FY18 Jeffrey Kahan Fellows. Notable projects she has worked on include Fort Worth Apartments, Milwaukee and Armitage multifamily rental project in Chicago and the Everly on the Loop, a student housing development in St. Louis. Brittani has a Master’s Degree in Real Estate from Roosevelt University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University.

Kellie Sanders-Gardner

Regional VP
Village Green

Rick Graf

President & CEO
Pinnacle

As President and CEO of Pinnacle, Rick Graf provides strategic oversight for the company’s vision and long-term growth, while managing a spectrum of assets for major institutional clients across multiple states. He joined the company in 1996 and previously oversaw an expansive regional portfolio before assuming the role of President in 2008. Graf is a Certified Property Manager (CPM®) and is active in the National MultiFamily Housing Council (NMHC), the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Apartment Association (NAA), of which he is on the Board of Directors as Secretary. He is also a former President of the Texas Apartment Association (TAA). Graf has more than 40 years of industry experience and served as a former professor of real estate in the Dallas County Community College District.

Stephanie Brock

President
U.S. Residential

Tenacious. Driven. Strategic. Passionate. Accessible. These are just a few words that people use to describe US Residential President Stephanie Brock. In her role, Stephanie is responsible for the company’s operational, client satisfaction, growth and revenue objectives. Creative and collaborative, Stephanie leverages her 30 years of multifamily expertise to build dynamic teams – and genuine relationships – to optimize performance and maximize the value of US Residential-managed assets. She leads by example, consistently challenging the status quo to connect strategy with solutions that advance performance and reputation. Stephanie joined US Residential from Greystar Real Estate Partners – the largest third-party property management company in the country – where she served as Senior Managing Director for the company’s Central Mountain Division, comprising nearly 50,000 units in 18 states. Prior to Greystar’s acquisition of Riverstone Residential Group in 2014, she served as Riverstone’s Division President for the Central Region, which consisted of nearly 55,000 units. At Riverstone, Brock was responsible for opening and establishing seven new markets. Stephanie’s real estate career was launched at Trammell Crow Residential, where she rose to the management ranks and led a successful effort to rebuild the organization’s market presence in Houston, Denver and Phoenix.

Matt Greene

VP Sales & Marketing
IOTAS

Matt Greene is the VP Sales & Marketing at IOTAS. IOTAS is a smart home IoT (Internet of Things) software platform integrating hardware with software for the multifamily real estate space, and specifically apartment communities. His role encompasses overseeing all sales and marketing which includes spearheading international sales initiatives aligning with real estate developers, ownership groups, REIT's, property management companies, channel and strategic partners as well as creating all go-to-market, PR and engagement initiatives for smart communities, the IOTAS brand, as well as industry education as a whole.

Marcie Williams

President
Rivergate KW Residential

Marcie Williams is the President of RIVERGATE KW RESIDENTIAL and is the overall leader of all aspects of multifamily property management operations, new business development and strategy. She has over 20 years of multifamily experience from companies such as Greystar, Camden Property Trustand Summit Properties. Marcie is active in the community and holds several professional designations including Certified Apartment Manager (CAM®), Certified Apartment Portfolio Supervisor (CAPS) and Certified Property Manager (CPM®). Marcie is an active member of the Greater Charlotte Apartment Association (GCAA) and is the recipient of several industry awards from GCAA, including Manager of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, Instructor of the Year and The Lex Marsh Award (Lifetime Achievement). She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marcie is a member of IREM and ULI.

Ricardo Rivas

CEO
Allied Orion Group

Mr. Rivas joined Allied Realty in 2001 and he has successfully directed or assisted the acquisition/development of over 2,300 multifamily units for a total aggregate value of over $240 million. Mr. Rivas’ responsibilities include all aspects of managing Allied Realty’s multifamily investment businesses that include acquisition and development. Mr. Rivas oversees the acquisition and disposition of assets, market feasibility, site selection, project design, permitting, construction management, and project financing. Mr. Rivas formed and oversees Allied’s first private equity fund launched in 2013 to develop multi-family assets in the major metropolitan areas of Texas. Mr. Rivas’ professional affiliations include being a member of the National Multi-Housing Council (NMHC) Emerging Leaders Committee, the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the Houston Apartment Association (HAA). A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Mr. Rivas is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and he is currently C.P.A. eligible while pursuing his Master of Science in Accountancy at the University of Houston. Mr. Rivas received his M.B.A. from the University of North Alabama. He is a also a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of North Alabama and was named All-Gulf South Conference and Academic All-Gulf South Conference for two consecutive years as a 4-year member of the Men’s Varsity Tennis team (both as player and Assistant Coach).

Ned Stiker

Senior Managing Director
Cortland Partners

As Senior Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and Capital Markets, Ned Stiker spearheads the firm’s capital generation, fund, and investor relation strategies. To this role, Ned brings a successful track record of developing and managing successful institutional investor relationships, as well as extensive expertise in financial analysis and modeling. Ned joined Cortland from Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities Group, where he served in several leadership roles in interest rate products over the course of his 16 years with the company. Most recently, he was Managing Director, Global Interest Rates Products and Head of Global Macro Derivatives Product Marketing, Americas, where he was responsible for expanding Morgan Stanley's structured rates client business, both domestically and globally. Previously, he served in other roles including head of US interest rate sales and head of US agency/GSE coverage, in which capacity he was responsible for Morgan Stanley's interest rate relationships with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the FHLB system. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ned worked with UBS Securities as Director of Interest Rate Derivatives Marketing and with Bankers Trust Co. as an associate in their investor coverage group. Ned holds his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

Doug Gunn

Principal
Trinity Private Equity Group

Doug serves as a principal and portfolio manager at Trinity, with a focus on real estate. Doug has 35 years of experience in real estate private equity, including ten years as a portfolio manager in the private equity real estate division of Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw $4 billion in real estate and operating company positions in the firm’s funds. Doug held similar positions at the Caroline Hunt Trust Estate and Lincoln Property Company after beginning his career in 1981 at First National Bank in Dallas. Doug continues to serve as managing partner at Corinthian Apartment Investments, an apartment investment management and property management company he founded in 2004. Corinthian's primary client is Guggenheim Real Estate Fund. Corinthian was the sponsor of a successful Trinity real estate investment offering that was acquired in 2010 and sold in 2015. Doug received his BS in finance from Miami University and his MBA from Indiana University. Doug lives in Dallas, where he and his wife have raised four children.

Shelli Cusack

VP, Multifamily Investments & Analytics
Passco

Shelli Cusack is a veteran in the asset management sector, with more than two decades of experience managing multifamily properties across the United States. As Vice President, Multifamily Investments & Analytics for Passco Companies, Ms. Cusack oversees the company’s Austin office, and is responsible for a portion of Passco’s multifamily portfolio encompassing more than 3,000 units in the Southeast. During her career, Ms. Cusack has been responsible for the management of more than $1 billion in real estate assets. Her prior positions include increasingly senior management roles overseeing multifamily portfolios throughout the nation on behalf of Greystar Real Estate Partners, Alliance Residential, Pinnacle, and Aspen Heights. Ms. Cusack is very active in the commercial real estate community and is currently a CPM candidate for the Institute of Real Estate Management. She was also recognized by Apartment Professional Magazine as “A Woman to Watch” in 2004, and was a recipient of the Archon Achievement Award in 2001 for excellence in property management.

Nester Clark

Managing Partner
Jade Hill Investments

Nester Clark is the Founding Partner of Jade Hill Investments and is responsible for all strategic investment activities. Mr. Clark started his investment career in 1998 as an analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Real Estate Funds and Asian Special Situations Group where he facilitated the deployment and management of real estate and distressed debt investments for Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Japan, China, Thailand, and South Korea involving transactions totaling over $4.0 billion. He later became the youngest partner ever at Soros Real Estate Partners, jointly managing a $1.0 billion private equity fund and where he led the build out of Ishin Hotels Group, a Japanese hotel and resort platform then owning over $500 million in Japanese hotel and resort assets. Mr. Clark and his partners at Soros Real Estate Partners spun out of the Soros umbrella in 2004 and created Grove International Partners, where he was directly responsible for new asset acquisitions and platform formations in Japan, and which currently manages over $3.0 billion in global equity capital. Mr. Clark also served as Senior Director at the Westmont Hospitality Group in North America before establishing Jade Hill Investments in 2011. Most recently, Mr. Clark served as the Director of Institutional Property Advisors/Marcus & Millichap where he was responsible for institutional multifamily investments for the Houston market. Mr. Clark received his AB from Harvard University in 1998 where he also served as Co-Captain of the Harvard Boxing Team and Captain of the Harvard Kendo (Japanese Fencing) Team.

Stuart Wernick

Managing Director
Walker & Dunlop

With more than 25 years of mortgage banking experience, Stuart Wernick, managing director, is responsible for nationwide loan originations out of Walker & Dunlop’s Dallas, Texas office. Throughout his career, Mr. Wernick has originated over $10 billion in commercial real estate financings for a wide array of asset classes across the United States. Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Wernick served as a senior managing director at Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC., where he was responsible for leading the team’s loan production efforts and building a fee-based business through the origination of conventional debt/equity, securitization, REIT, Agency, Life Company, and mezzanine transactions. Before joining Berkadia, Mr. Wernick served as president of Quantum First Capital, a real estate finance and advisory firm, which was later acquired by Grandbridge Real Estate Capital in 2009 where he ran the Dallas office until 2012. Mr. Wernick’s loan production experience began in the late 1980’s where he served as vice president for Wallentstein/Grubb & Ellis and later joined L.J. Melody and Company and Chase Bank of Texas. Mr. Wernick received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin where he was president of the Texas Relays and an officer of various fraternal and student organizations. Beyond the Company, Mr. Wernick is a member of The Real Estate Council, Mortgage Bankers Association, International Council of Shopping Centers, National Multifamily Housing Council, and Manufactured Housing Institute.

Katie Bloom

Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Katie Bloom was named Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in 2015, managing the US Multifamily team within the Realty Management Division. She is responsible for the acquisition, development and asset management of apartments across the United States. Previously, Ms. Bloom was responsible for acquisition at Archon Group from 2006 to 2012. She joined Archon, formerly a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, in 2000 as an analyst. Ms. Bloom earned a Bachelor of Arts in Finance with real estate and marketing emphasis from Texas Christian University in 2000 and currently serves on the board of the National Multifamily Housing Council.

David Lynd

President & CEO ​
LYND​

​David Lynd joined LYND in 1997 where he served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for 16 years. During this time Mr. Lynd oversaw the collection of $250 million in annual rent collections which span across the country in 15 states and 50 different metros. Mr. Lynd has also acquired over $2.8 billion in total real estate value. As a Co-founder of the acquisition company known as Lynd Residential Properties, Mr. Lynd led joint ventures into both commercial management and the hospitality sector. This resulted in acquiring 50% of the Easton Group in 2007 which launched LYND to becoming the 7th largest manager of office and industrial space in Miami (7 million square feet). In 2009, the BC LYND Company was established. As one of its founders, Mr. Lynd created a hospitality group which currently operates 12 luxury hotels. Mr. Lynd received his Bachelors in Administration from Southern Methodist University and holds a CPM designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management, as well as, the CAPS designation from the National Apartment Association. Mr. Lynd also Co-founder LYND Development Partners who earned the prestigious “High-Rise of the Year” award from Multifamily Executive for their development project EnV in Chicago. Other impressive high- rise assets include The Bowie Austin and Joule Denver. Accepting his new role as CEO for LYND Opportunity Partners in 2016, Mr. Lynd leads a very skilled investment team that searches for and invests in opportunistic real estate transactions throughout the United States. LYND Opportunity Partners also serves as the investment advisor to American Veterans Housing CORP. This is a nonprofit organization that focuses on providing Veterans with affordable housing. Mr. Lynd has been the driving force for unit growth at LYND. Increasing the unit count from 1,100 units to over 34,000 units to date. This ranks LYND as the 34th largest property management group in the United States. In addition to his role as CEO, Mr. Lynd has committed 19 years to his real estate career. He has a vast understanding of all operational tasks needed to manage and operate real estate successfully.

Matt Enzler

Managing Director
Trammell Crow Residential

Mr. Enzler joined Trammell Crow Residential in 2007 as a Vice-President of Finance working to structure and close debt and equity transactions. In June 2011, Mr. Enzler transitioned to the development team and works on new development opportunities in the DFW and central Texas. Since 2011, Matt has developed over 20 projects totaling more than 7,000 units and over $1.4 billion in capitalization. Prior to joining TCR, he was a Vice President with Comerica Bank, where he worked as a commercial real estate lender. Mr. Enzler is a 2008 graduate of The Real Estate Council’s Associate Leadership Council and is currently involved with TREC’s Community Initiatives Committee, the TREC PAC Board and is on the ALC Steering Committee. He is also the former Board Chair of the Dallas Regional Chamber Young Professionals and Dallas Texas Exes President. Mr. Enzler received his BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Heather Konopka

VP Commercial Real Estate
Century 21 Commercial

Heather Konopka, CCIM, brings more than more than 18 years of Commercial Real Estate experience to her trade, with her primary expertise in Multifamily in the Mid Cities, Dallas/Fort Worth and Arlington areas. As an active Texas Real Estate Broker, Ms. Konopka holds the prestigious Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Designation. Additionally, Ms. Konopka is a member of the MetroTex Association of Realtors, a member of NTCAR (North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors), where she served on the New Initiatives Advisory Board and is a member of the Texas and National Association of Realtors. She has served on the board of the North Texas CCIM Chapter. Ms. Konopka has recently joined C21 Commercial, Mike Bowman, Inc in Grapevine Texas, where she serves as the VP of Commercial Real Estate. Her prior experience includes Senior Advisor at Marcus & Millichap and a Franchise Owner and Senior Investment Advisor of Sperry Van Ness/Konopka And Company. As an SVN Franchise Owner, she served on the Board of Advisors in 2009 through 2011 and was also a member of the Sperry Van Ness Asset Recovery Team. Ms. Konopka was the recipient of the TAR 2017 Outstanding Commercial Transaction of the Year. She was awarded the coveted Achievers Award her first year at Sperry Van Ness. Additionally, she was the Director of Commercial Real Estate for a large a Residential office of over 300 agents where she received numerous accolades for her consistent placement in the Top 10 Advisors. Ms. Konopka’s real estate success includes her involvement as a principal in a retail development project, as well as commercial land development, which were both completed in 2006. Her passion for the real estate market along with her extensive encyclopedic knowledge in her specialty, have facilitated opportunities in publishing her articles in distinguished journals and magazines. Ms. Konopka is active in her community, involved with her church and has served on the board of two private schools, where she was able to share her gifts of financial analysis on the Advisory Board and Finance Committee for her daughter’s high school. Ms. Konopka is devoted to her family; blessed with two beautiful, gifted and talented daughters. She enjoys exercising, the outdoors, vacationing at the beach, sailing and fishing.