Mr. Schwimmer serves as Rexford Industrial's Co-Chief Executive Officer and on our Board of Directors since July 2013. Mr. Schwimmer has served as Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner of our predecessor business and President of Rexford Industrial Realty & Management Inc. since December 2001. From May 1983 until November 2001, Mr. Schwimmer, a licensed California real estate broker, served at various times as manager, executive vice president and broker of record for DAUM Commercial Real Estate, one of California’s oldest industrial brokerage companies. Mr. Schwimmer’s thirty-year professional career has been dedicated entirely and exclusively to Southern California infill industrial real estate, including its acquisition, value-add improvement, management, sales, leasing and disposition. Mr. Schwimmer has experience forming real estate investment companies, managing real estate brokerage offices, serving as a real estate brokerage company board member and acquiring, repositioning, developing, leasing, selling and adding value to over thirty million square feet of industrial properties in Southern California. Mr. Schwimmer received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1983 where he majored in business with an emphasis in real estate finance and development. Mr. Schwimmer serves on the USC Lusk Center Real Estate Leadership Council, is Board Chair of USC Hillel, and is the Allocation Committee Chair of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, Real Estate Principals Organization.

Ms. Shultz comes to Duke Realty from Dermody Properties where she was Senior Vice President of Capital Deployment for the Southwest Region. Her responsibilities included acquisitions and management of industrial assets and development sites in Southern California. Prior to joining Dermody Properties, she served as Vice President of Capital Deployment at Prologis and AMB Property Corporation.

Ms. Shultz holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Mississippi State University and is a former CPA. She is active in the Southern California NAIOP chapter and is an organizing committee member for the annual UCLA versus USC Real Estate Challenge.

Rick has spent over 30 years in the west coast industrial and office investment markets, both as an institutional-level investment broker and as a principal. His experience in investment sales marketing, combined with his principal-side acquisitions and client relations roles, provides his clients with unique relationship and transactional insights on both single-asset and portfolio executions.

Prior to joining Kidder Mathews, Rick led Colliers’ investment sales business, handled transactions for RREEF in Southern California and Denver, and prior to that was both an investment broker and principal at Trammell Crow Company for almost 20 years. While at TCC he managed office and industrial investment sale transactions, originated acquisitions, and managed development projects in addition to responsibilities as an asset manager. Prior to receiving his MBA, Putnam worked for J.P. Morgan in New York City.

Blair Duncan co-leads west coast acquisitions at Realterm as a Vice President. Previously, Mr. Duncan worked at CBRE Capital Advisors raising equity capital for third party owner operators. Mr. Duncan holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

As a senior counsel in the firm’s real estate practice, Morgan Medlin uses her understanding of clients' business needs to provide counsel on real estate and business transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, and leasing of industrial, retail, mixed-use, office, and residential properties across the United States. Morgan enjoys enabling deals to come together and solving complex issues on behalf of the owners, developers, institutional investors she represents. In addition, Morgan represents clients on challenging, environmentally impacted projects.

Morgan is a proud University of Southern California Trojan and is actively involved in the law school's mentoring program. She is also a current member of NAIOP's 2019/2020 Young Professionals Group (YPG) focused on leadership and professional development.

Aliza Karney Guren is the Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Karney Properties. She assumed her position in 2003 and sets the overall strategy for the company. She is also directly involved in all key areas of the company’s activities, including development, finance, acquisitions and dispositions and asset management.She has spent more than 20 years in the real estate industry, including related experience in law and mediation. Prior to joining the company in 1991, she was a practicing attorney and mediator, and founded and directed an independent nonprofit arts organization. Aliza Guren, a California-licensed general contractor, is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks. She is also a board member of the Center Theatre Group, one of the nation’s largest and most active theater companies. In 2014, she was named one of Bisnow’s top 60 women in Los Angeles commercial real estate. She is a member of ULI, RPO, POWRE, and Land Ladies. Aliza Guren earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she also earned a law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

Matt Evans, Chief Investment Officer (CIO).

As CIO, Matt is responsible for developing investment strategy, supporting the firm’s continued rapid growth, and driving operational efficiency.

Matt has more than 20 years of commercial real estate and finance experience. Matt has played a pivotal role in the acquisition of $40+ billion in assets including $4.4 billion in commercial real estate through single asset and portfolio transactions in both equity investments and loan purchases.

Prior to joining Dedeaux Properties in 2016, Matt led the Asset Management and Capital Markets activities for Arden, GE Real Estate’s wholly owned office portfolio, nationally (approximately 15 million square feet).

Prior to his role in Asset Management, Matt was responsible for the identification, development and maintenance of commercial real estate joint-venture equity partnerships and investments in industrial, multifamily, office, and retail assets.

Before joining GE Real Estate's equity team in 2005, Matt spent four years as a member of GE Capital's Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions team, where he identified, analyzed, and executed on GE Capital acquisition targets in existing and new industries.

Matt is a graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP), a 100+ year leadership development pipeline and he is also six-sigma quality trained and certified.

While at GE, Matt represented GE’s Hispanic Forum as a member of GE Real Estate’s Diversity Board.

Matt has a BA in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from Columbia University.

James V. Camp is Senior Managing Director for Rockefeller Group and heads the company’s West Region, based in Irvine, Calif. In this role, Mr. Camp oversees the company’s strategy and operations for the region and leads acquisition and development efforts focusing primarily on industrial opportunities and joint ventures. Mr. Camp has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial property development and was most recently Vice President of Starwood CPG Operations, LLC. Prior to his role at Starwood, he held various senior executive positions at Voit Development Company, Lowe Enterprises, Koll Cornerstone and Trammell Crow Company. He is the current Chair of NAIOP of California and former President, Vice President, Treasurer, Legislative Affairs Chair and Membership Chair of NAIOP SoCal. He is also a board member of the California Business Properties Association and development member of the Society of Office and Industrial Realtors. Mr. Camp holds an master’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan, with a concentration on marketing, finance & real estate and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Southern California. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the State of California.

Eric Aubort has nearly 30 years of Commercial/Industrial and Office Architecture expertise, including a diverse range of experience in historic renovations, residential and retail project types. Eric’s expertise focuses on planning through construction documentation and construction administration. His range of architectural experience includes a year in Zurich, Switzerland working on a multitude of highly successful projects in the commercial, industrial and office markets.

Ireland’s loss was Southern California’s gain. The co-founder of our company is the garrulous Irishman John Parker. On the surface, he is an easy-going gentleman. On the job, he is all business.

John Parker co-founded Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994 with Scott Brown. The two set the “get the job done” tone for the company’s construction operations and corporate management.

Leaving Ireland for the U.S. in 1989, John owned and operated John Parker Building Ltd., a residential remodeling firm. After relocating his family to Los Angeles, John was the construction manager at a Los Angeles area commercial construction company until the inception of Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994.

John and Scott are personally involved in every project that Parker Brown, Inc. is awarded. They provide oversight from the job site or from the corporate office, and, in a lot of cases, from both.

John is deeply involved in the communities he serves. He is the past president of the Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce, former president of the Canoga Park Improvement Association, a past member of the Oversight Committee on the Bond Program of Pierce College, and executive vice president of the Women’s Odyssey, a residential drug and alcohol recovery program. Currently, he is a commissioner serving on the Los Angeles County Building Rehabilitation & Appeals Board, and is presently the president of the United Chamber of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley.

Kevin is a partner of Greenberg Glusker’s Real Estate Group and has developed strong expertise within the industrial real estate space. Kevin has represented e-commerce enterprises, including a Fortune 100 company, negotiating millions of square feet of industrial warehouse space throughout the Western United States. In addition, Kevin works with a leading industrial real estate company in Southern California on dozens of acquisitions of mid-size and large industrial real properties involving millions of square feet of improvements, including multi-property portfolio acquisitions and seller leaseback transactions.

Kevin Sher has experience representing private owners, partnerships, REITs, and public companies in all aspects of real estate matters including residential and commercial purchase and sale transactions, retail and office leasing, and real estate financing. He has extensive experience in the office and multifamily sectors. Kevin has represented a global financial investment company on its acquisitions and dispositions of large office campuses and towers. He has also worked with multi-family real estate investment groups to assist in the acquisition and financing of thousands of apartments units.