John Comunale is the President, Founder, and Managing Partner of Comunale Properties and its affiliates, Rectangle Investment Management and Sprink Construction, which together make up a vertically integrated real estate investment, development, and construction platform with more than forty assets across six states. John oversees all strategic planning, capital raising and deployment, and asset management functions. Prior to founding the firm, he began his career in investment banking, focusing on the hospitality industry. John holds a BSBA degree in Real Estate from the University of Denver. He is the founder and president of the Comunale Cancer Foundation, a director of NAIOP Colorado, and a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Denver School of Real Estate and Construction Management. Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, and is an avid skier and mountain biker.

Jason leads the originations platform in the Americas for Nuveen Real Estate and is focused on further expanding the firm’s third-party real estate debt business.

Prior to joining the business in 2018, Jason was a managing director at ACORE Capital where he led a team responsible for the sourcing and execution of structured finance investments, including mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity. As one of the initial employees of ACORE, he helped grow the firm from a start-up, to one of the largest private lenders in the United States, with $9 billion AUM in just under three years. Jason has also held a number of roles at GE Capital Real Estate. Most recently he was a senior director in the strategic capital group focused on whole loan origination with institutional clients.

Jason graduated with a B.S. from Illinois State University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. He is a graduate of the GE Capital Financial Management Programme with roles including finance, underwriting and M&A and is a member of Commercial Real Estate Finance Council.

Austin has been actively involved in the commercial real estate industry for over 30 years. He brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of: investment strategy; development management; portfolio/asset management; finance; due diligence; leasing; marketing; acquisition; product strategy and repositioning; debt/equity restructuring; partnership relations and financial reporting. Over the course of his career, Austin has managed over $5 billion of assets in diversified global real estate portfolios, multiple Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified development projects and a development pipeline in excess of $1 billion measured by construction volume.

Prior to SunCap, Austin served as the chief operating officer for Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund (DPF), a $3.1 billion Denver-based public real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in a diverse portfolio of real properties and debt investments. DPF's portfolio consisted of 116 properties totaling approximately 20.1 million square feet of office, industrial and retail properties in over 30 geographic markets.

In 2004, Austin joined Lauth Property Group, ultimately serving as the company's executive vice president and chief investment officer, where he established a national operating platform, co-directed the investment committee and provided strategic leadership across four product types for this privately held commercial real estate development company with 450 employees and eight regional offices.

Additionally, Austin served as a visiting professor at the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business and is actively affiliated with the Office Development Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP).

Austin holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Brandon Kramer serves as a Senior Associate and Associate Director of the National Office and Industrial Properties Group (NOIPG) of Marcus & Millichap. Brandon focuses on the disposition,

acquisition and analysis of Office and Industrial Properties in the Mountain West Region. Brandon brings to Marcus & Millichap, a wealth of knowledge of the Mountain West Region’s Office and Industrial Real Estate market, a principle’s approach to investment from years of development experience and a tenacious, must-win attitude. Brandon’s experience in development and investments amplify his “client first” approach to brokerage. He works diligently to make sure the client’s needs are met in a timely and professional manner.

Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Brandon was a member of KL Energy, an ethanol production design/build firm. In addition to Project Development and Construction Management, Brandon handled the brokerage and logistics of both feedstock and finished products from the firm’s collection of nationwide plants. In 2013, Brandon joined Marcus & Millichap to focus on building the firm’s Office and Industrial presence in the Denver market. In the last 5 years, Brandon has underwritten over $1.5B in total deal volume and successfully closed on over $150M worth of real estate. In addition to brokering commercial real estate transactions, Brandon also owns and manages several hundred thousand square feet of commercial property, including The Grant Building, one of the first steel frame “skyscrapers” built in the South, a 10-story office building located in Atlanta, GA, constructed in 1898 and a 30K SF multitenant Tech/Flex building in Arvada, CO.

Charlie is the Director of Business Development for the local Denver office of ARCO/Murray, a national design/build construction company with a focus on industrial work across the country. Charlie has a passion for finding collaborative, holistic solutions for clients and projects through ARCO/Murray’s unique process that transfers owner risk, accelerates schedule, and reduces total project cost. Prior to working at ARCO/Murray, Charlie led the Commercial Market Team for the structural department at Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers. Charlie was born and raised in Colorado and earned his master’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois.

Paul co-founded Hyde Development in 2012 with his father, Mac, to redevelop brownfield sites into new, sustainable, and quality buildings. Prior to launching Hyde Development, Paul co-founded Real Estate Recycling in 1995 to develop contaminated property in MN and WI.

Paul is responsible for leading the company’s current development projects and acquisitions.

Courtney is responsible for the industrial development and acquisitions for Hines in Colorado and Arizona. In these two markets she is charged with the sourcing, development, financing, leasing and disposition of developments and acquisitions of industrial and logistics projects.

Since joining Hines in 2019, Courtney has grown the industrial presence in Colorado from zero to 1.5M square feet of industrial space across 8 buildings with future phases of land totaling more than 170 acres either owned or under exclusivity. Courtney is also responsible for signing the firms largest single-building industrial development in Arizona totaling more than 1.25M square feet. Prior to joining Hines, Courtney was a Development Manager at United Properties in their Denver office. Courtney facilitated projects of all product types in her time at United Properties – industrial, office, retail, and senior housing – concluding with ground up development of more than 2.5M sq. ft. of office and industrial product, acquisitions and dispositions exceeding $150M, and assisting the financing team in closing on loans totaling nearly $220M.

Courtney is an active member of NAIOP Colorado, currently serving on its Board of Directors. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a BS in Business Administration; Marketing Emphasis and Real Estate Certificate.

Joel serves as the Murray & Stafford’s contact person as Chief Executive

Officer. His leadership qualities cover the initial point of contact to a

completed, quality project. His attributes include innovative conceptual ideas,

contract as well as subcontract negotiations, stream-lining the permitting

process, quality estimating, scheduling, purchasing and overall job supervision.

Throughout the construction process Joel and his team work to provide continued value analysis of

options for optimizing the Owners/Developers bottom-line results.

Joel’s expertise and experience has increased Murray & Stafford’s volume 300 percent and its reputation

as Colorado’s key tilt-up constructor. He has built nearly 10 million square feet of tilt concrete structure

for a variety of commercial applications; qualifying him as an unquestioned expert in this building

methodology.

Joel’s history as a native Coloradan established his interest in native soils and their characteristics. Impact

of harsh temperature extremes and snow load familiarity imposes an instinctive understanding of

subsurface and roof stress conditions. A Civil Engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines adds

academics to his intuition and expertise.

Joel excels in value-engineering, design-build strategies, and team building tactics. The results of said

expertise have been rewarding as approximately 90 percent of recent Murray & Stafford projects result

from repeat customers. Some of those customers are Colorado’s esteemed profiles including Trammell

Crow Company, ProLogis, United Properties, Etkin Johnson Group, and Jordon Perlmutter & Co.

As a director of development at United Properties, Megan is responsible for identifying and pursuing

new industrial development opportunities. She leads a variety of development team efforts, including

site selection and market analysis, financial feasibility and underwriting, entitlement and due diligence,

and manages leasing and construction management teams for all new industrial development projects.

Megan is actively involved in acquisition, development and dispositions of all industrial assets.

Past Experience

Megan worked with the Denver team as a commercial development manager, development associate

and before that a development intern while completing her undergraduate degree. She also has

commercial retail development experience through a previous internship.

Professional and Community Involvement

Megan is an active member of the University of Colorado Real Estate Center Young Alumni group serving

as the Membership Chair for the Board, NAIOP Developing Leaders Colorado Chapter member, and is a

member of NAIOP Developing Leaders Forum XIII.

Education

Megan received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business

with an emphasis in operations management. She also holds a real estate certificate from the University

of Colorado Real Estate Center. While at the University of Colorado, Megan was involved in the Real

Estate Center where she was selected to compete in the ICSC Sherman Miller Competition representing

CU in the fall of 2015 and went on to earn a spot on the 2016 USC Case Competition team.

Kyle provides experienced leadership and represents HPM’s client interests. He is focused on understanding client needs and project expectations and aligning them with the HPM project team. Kyle is most concerned with overall client satisfaction and the successful completion of each and every project. He monitors project progress/performance and is the main point of contact for communication with HPM’s clients.

16 Years of experience in Industrial Market specializing in engineering, technology and construction at a Top 3 ENR Contractor.

Notable Projects: $43B Alaska LNG Projects, $40B Petro-Canada Bitumen Refinery, $2B Iowa Fertilizer Plant.

Jake Finley is the founder and managing partner of Karis Capital, LLC. Since its formation in January 2014, Karis has completed over $300 million worth of real estate transactions with a primary focus on Class-A industrial facilities. Karis is currently developing and owns property in Denver, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta and Charlotte. Prior to founding Karis, Mr. Finley worked as a real estate broker focusing on tenant representation for several large 3PL’s, completing over $500 million worth of transactions in 12 different states. Prior to Karis he was a licensed real estate broker and before that a broker at the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Finley played both intercollegiate Golf and Baseball at Taylor University in Indiana, where he earned his degrees in Finance and Accounting.