Ryan McCord joined McCord in 2003 and has served as President since 2008. Founded in 1973, McCord is a leader in commercial real estate and has a great track record of success in urban infill and green field development. Since joining MDI, Ryan has led more than three-quarters of a billion dollars of transactions in office, retail, multi-family, condo, bond, and land throughout Texas and across the country.

Today, Ryan’s focus is on developing Generation Park, the newest and largest master planned economic center in Houston. Located on Beltway 8 in the Lake Houston area, over $500MM / 2MM SF of Office, Retail, Civic, and Industrial have been constructed in Generation Park since breaking ground in 2014. Hospitality and Multi-family are set to start construction in 2017. At 4,000 acres Generation Park is by far the largest contiguous property on Beltway 8, has the most frontage (2.5 miles) and is the closest to Downtown, both airports, all major sporting venues, and the Texas Medical Center.

McCord takes seriously the stewardship owed to such a significant development opportunity in the Greater Houston Area and is focused on creating the greatest possible value for the entire region.

Prior to joining McCord, Ryan served as Risk Manager for GE Capital Real Estate in Tokyo and participated in over $2 billion of equity and debt transactions in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea and the Czech Republic.

Ryan holds a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and currently serves on the board of the Herman Park Conservancy.

Shawn W. Cloonan serves as Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Texas Medical Center. In his role, he is responsible for all operations, planning and development as well as oversight of legal aspects of the corporation including compliance with the TMC covenants. Prior to his current role, Cloonan was Texas Medical Center’s Executive Vice President, Planning & Development, General Counsel.

Before joining the organization in 2013, Cloonan was a public finance lawyer representing health care, governmental and higher education clients for Vinson & Elkins LLP and Bracewell LLP.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts – Magna Cum Laude in government from the University of Texas at Austin and earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence with Honors from The University of Texas School of Law. He is on the board of directors of the Housing Corporation of Greater Houston, a member of the Community Investment Committee of the United Way of Greater Houston, and an associate member of the First Tee of Greater Houston and Houston Junior Golf Association. In 2013, Cloonan was honored to receive the Houston Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award.

Monique serves as the Executive Director for the venture capital firm

Portal Innovations in Houston; where their mission is to provide

crafted capital to enable life sciences innovators to build their

companies where they live. Monique has more than 15 years of

experience in supporting the growth of research scientists and

clinicians committed to developing translational life-saving

therapeutics into the clinic. She served as a technical sales

consultant for Miltenyi Biotec for ten years where she strategically

developed and progressed pipelines pertinent to organizational and

revenue growth targets primarily in the immuno-oncology therapeutic

market in the Texas Medical Center. Prior to joining Portal, Monique

was the regional sales manager for Sartorius Stedim North America in

the Bioprocessing Solutions division where she established and led a

team of dynamic account managers across the Central US.

Dr. Verena Kallhoff serves as Sr. Director, Global Life Sciences at the Greater Houston

Partnership. She works together with local, state, national, and international players to spur

and support the growth and development of the greater Houston region’s life sciences

ecosystem and assists companies looking to relocate or expand in the region.

Verena first moved to Houston in 2003 to attend Baylor College of Medicine, graduating in 2008

and subsequently obtained an MBA from University of Houston – Clear Lake. Verena has held

positions with Harris Health System as Quality Assurance Analyst, and Houston Methodist

Research Institute, where she began as Administrative Fellow and later served as the Innovative

Managing Director of CyBHOR, an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center sponsored

by the National Science Foundation.

In 2017, Verena relocated to Austin joining the innovation initiative at Dell Medical School at

The University of Texas at Austin where she developed and led programs to build an innovation

ecosystem. Organizing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Verena is a founding member of

TEXGHS, the Texas Global Health Security Consortium and was instrumental in developing and

implementing business strategies for the consortium’s activity.

Verena also served as the VP for Omics and Precision Medicine at Equideum Health, a health

tech startup, where she developed partnerships with research organizations and built networks

to accelerate omics-related research to enable authentic, personalized precision medicine.