Tim Relyea is Executive Vice Chairman of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, Inc. (C&W) and has been on the board of C&W, served on the Compensation Committee and currently serves on the Global Management Committee.

Mr. Relyea is one of the nation’s top real estate professionals. His real estate career began in 1978, and since that time Mr. Relyea has complete in excess of 60 million square feet of transactions for a total aggregate rental of more than $47 billion.

Mr. Relyea was one of the first employees hired by twin brothers Louis B. Cushman and John C. Cushman, III, following the formation of Cushman Realty Corporation in 1978. Located in the Houston office, he became Executive Vice President and the #1 producing broker in the 200-person firm. In 2001, Cushman Realty merged with Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., with Mr. Relyea being named Vice Chairman. Mr. Relyea has been Cushman & Wakefield’s top global office broker four times and its top overall broker on a global basis for three different years.

Mr. Relyea won the “Office Leasing Broker of the Year” award from the Houston Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) in both 1991 and 2002. He is also in the Houston (NAIOP) Hall of Fame.

Apache Corporation, BHP Billiton, BG Group, Chevron, Devon Energy, Marathon Oil Company, Nabors, Hess Corporation, Citigroup, Mitsubishi, Bracewell & Giuliani , Fulbright & Jaworski, King & Spalding are just a few of the major corporations/professional firms Tim has represented.

Patrick Jankowski is a regional economist

and senior vice president of research at the

Greater Houston Partnership.

His observations and analysis on the local,

regional and U.S. economic trends have

appeared in over 200 newspapers,

magazines, radio and television broadcasts,

including The Atlantic, Bloomberg Business,

CNNMoney, Financial Times, Forbes and

The New York Times.

He has worked for the Greater Houston

Partnership, and its predecessor, the

Houston Chamber of Commerce, for 37

years. He has been married to Olga Jankowski for 38 years. Both have been

wonderful experiences.

Bruce Rutherford is an International Director within JLL Houston’s Office Tenant Representation group, and also serves as the global leader for JLL’s Energy & Sustainability practice group. Drawing on his experience in business consulting, Mr. Rutherford is an expert in creating real estate solutions to complex business problems. He has applied his expertise in tenant representation, lease restructuring, and offshoring to numerous industries including insurance, banking, law, energy, energy services, and telecom. He has managed city and regional master plans totaling more than 30 million square feet of corporate and regional headquarters transactions. Mr. Rutherford’s expansive market experience includes North America and Asia Pacific, including Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Philippines, Japan and China, where he has managed JLL business units and client relationships.

Deniese Palmer-Huggins began her career financing international and domestic energy transactions at Banque Paribas, Houston (now BNP Paribas). In 1983, she joined the finance department of Transworld Oil, an international and domestic energy trading company and was promoted to Treasurer in 1987. During her tenure at the company, she was part of the acquisition team when the company purchased the refining and other assets of ARCO in the eastern U.S. In 1992, she joined Bayoil (U.S.A.), Inc., an international energy trading firm, as its Treasurer where she was responsible for financing the company’s activities in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. In 1997, she joined the New York Mercantile Exchange to head up the Houston office of this commodity exchange where she was responsible for marketing the exchange and its energy derivatives. In 2002, she joined Prudential Financial Derivatives, LLC to head up its Houston office and help it expand its energy derivative trading and clearing business. In 2005, she joined Sun Coast Resources, one of the largest privately held companies in Houston, as its VP of Finance as part of the company’s growth strategy. In 2013, she joined the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin as a Senior Advisor on Energy focusing on the midstream in addition to other energy consulting projects.

Rob is a leading expert within the data center industry with over a decade of mission critical projects both nationally and internationally. Mr. Morris has directed more than 250 megawatts of development in North America. Previous roles include U.S. Practice Leader for Cassidy Turley’s Datacenter Solutions Group as well as Senior Associate to Cushman & Wakefield’s Datacenter Advisory Group.