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Aliza Karney Guren

Aliza Karney Guren

CEO

Karney Properties

Ken Sheer

Ken Sheer

Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Covington Group, Inc.

Jason Gremillion

Jason Gremillion

SVP, Development

Wonderful Real Estate

Wesley McDonald

Wesley McDonald

SVP

ASU Commercial

Fernando Villa
Moderator

Fernando Villa

Partner, Land Use

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Aliza Karney Guren

CEO

Karney Properties

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.

Jason Gremillion

SVP, Development

Wonderful Real Estate

Jason Gremillion serves as the Senior Vice President of Development for Wonderful

Real Estate where his focus is on sourcing, executing, and overseeing current and new

development opportunities for the Wonderful Industrial Park, North Meadows Business

Park, and Crossroads Business Park.

Mr. Gremillion’s diverse experience encompasses 20 years of commercial construction,

real estate development, and investment. Over this time, Mr. Gremillion has developed

an exceptional track record in all aspects of commercial real estate including

acquisitions, dispositions, market analyses, entitlements, development, and asset

management.

Mr. Gremillion received his Masters in Real Estate Development from the University of

Southern California and his Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering

Management from California State University, Long Beach. Additionally, Mr. Gremillion

is a combat veteran, serving honorably in the United States Marine Corps, and is a

Purple Heart recipient.

When not at work, Jason enjoys spending time with his family and horses at their family

ranch, traveling, and participating in veteran outreach and assistance.

Wesley McDonald

SVP

ASU Commercial

Wes McDonald, a Senior Vice President & Principal of ASU Commercial, is a 16+ year industry

veteran. Wes's core focus is representing clients in all aspects of industrial real estate including

transaction advisory, valuation of industrial facilities, investment sales, land sales, buyer/tenant

site selection and acquisition as well as landlord/seller marketing and disposition.

Wes's supreme knowledge, strong relationships and credibility in the market

create opportunities for his wide array of clients.  Partnered with Barry Hibbard, John Ritchie,

Parker Reynolds and Dylan Lym, Wes and his partners have established themselves as the top

industrial experts in the Kern County and Southern Central Valley Industrial market. Wes and his

partners average more than 125 transactions annually, involving warehouse/ distribution

centers, manufacturing facilities, flex buildings, special purpose properties and land throughout

their market.

Fernando Villa

Moderator

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Fernando Villa has significant land use, regulatory, real estate and litigation experience helping clients secure entitlements while mitigating development risk. He advises clients on entitlements and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review for complex development projects and on reducing exposure to environmental liabilities.

Fernando’s entitlement work spans industrial, mixed-use, residential, commercial and retail developments. He is particularly experienced with Brownfield redevelopment, merging his knowledge of real estate development with a deep understanding of environmental regulation to help clients complete projects while mitigating environmental risks.

Developing & Designing The Next Wave of Innovative Industrial & Self-Storage Assets

Building Spec vs. For the User, Energy Efficient Operations, Sustainability & Solar Energy

Phil Tsui

Phil Tsui

SVP

Trammell Crow Company

Jonathan Payne

Jonathan Payne

VP, Development

Prologis

Bernadette McDermott

Bernadette McDermott

VP, Design, Architecture & Real Estate

Public Storage

Anthony Cataldo

Anthony Cataldo

COO

Lowney Architecture

Rick Whisman

Rick Whisman

VP, West Region

Nexamp

Remi Mignott

Remi Mignott

Director of Site Acquisition

Pivot Energy

Teresa Goodwin
Moderator

Teresa Goodwin

Regional Director

HPA Architecture

Anthony Cataldo

COO

Lowney Architecture

Anthony Cataldo brings over 15 years’ experience in commercial architecture including retail, office, medical, and industrial projects to Lowney Architecture. He is a Licensed Architect in the State of California as well as a LEED AP, and has been actively involved with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and was President of the East Bay Chapter in 2012. Building Design and Construction magazine named Anthony one of the top 40 under 40 in 2014.

Anthony understands, and is perfectly aligned with, Lowney Architecture's culture of design excellence, professional collaboration and community engagement

Remi Mignott

Director of Site Acquisition

Pivot Energy

Remington "Remi" Mignott is a Solar Project Developer with focused efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region. Remi is responsible for SGC's rooftop developments and client relationships. Before joining SGC Power, he spent 4 years in Japan building a solar project financing business while developing small commercial-scale ground-mount solar power projects. Remi received his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from York College in Nebraska.

Teresa Goodwin

Moderator

HPA Architecture

Teresa Goodwin is a Regional Director for HPA, Inc., a multi-disciplined design corporation that offers services in architecture, planning, and interiors to institutions, corporations, and developers throughout the Western United States with an emphasis in the design of warehouse and industrial buildings. Teresa has master planned more than 40 million square feet of buildings and overseen the design of industrial buildings regionally. She often presents the HPA Rules of Thumb for Distribution/Warehouse Design to developers and brokers.

Analyzing Investment Opportunities & Acquisition Activity

Creating Asset Value, Assessing Deal Flow, Getting Deals Done While Mitigating Risks & Maximizing Returns

Patrick Schlehuber

Patrick Schlehuber

CIO

Rexford Industrial

Gregg Boehm

Gregg Boehm

Managing Director, CoHead of US Logistics Investments

Ares Industrial Management

Tyler Banton

Tyler Banton

Market Leader, Partner, Western U.S. Region

Lovett Industrial

Jay Tanjuan

Jay Tanjuan

Director, Development

Scannell Properties

Blair Duncan

Blair Duncan

VP, Investments

Realterm

Kenneth Fields
Moderator

Kenneth Fields

Real Estate Partner

Greenberg Glusker

Patrick Schlehuber

CIO

Rexford Industrial

Mr. Schlehuber has led Rexford Industrial’s property acquisition efforts since joining in 2009. He is also a member of Rexford’s Investment Committee. To date, Mr. Schlehuber has led the acquisitions team through 131 property acquisitions totaling nearly $2 billion and adding 17.2 million square feet to Rexford’s portfolio. Mr. Schlehuber has over 20 years of property investment and finance experience including acquisitions, dispositions, asset and construction management and leasing throughout California. Prior to his time at Rexford, Mr. Schlehuber was an Investment Officer at First Industrial Realty Trust, another publicly traded Industrial REIT. Additionally Mr. Schlehuber spent time working in investment banking and financial consulting at Relational Advisors (formerly Batchelder & Partners) and Arthur Anderson. Mr. Schlehuber is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois-Inactive). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Tyler Banton

Market Leader, Partner, Western U.S. Region

Lovett Industrial

Mr. Banton serves as the Southern California Director and Partner at Lovett Industrial. Tyler is responsible for overseeing and executing all aspects of Lovett’s projects in the region including sourcing & evaluating new development and acquisition opportunities, entitlements, design, capitalization, construction management, leasing, asset management and eventually project disposition efforts. Since joining Lovett Industrial and establishing the Southern California region in 2022, Tyler has grown the regional office to over $600 million in managed costs.

Prior to joining Lovett Industrial, Mr. Banton worked at Panattoni Development Company and Hines Interests. Mr. Banton graduated from San Diego State University where he completed his B.S in Finance and was a recipient of the Pension Real Estate Association Scholar award. In 2023, Tyler was a recipient of the Connect CRE 2023 Next Generation Award which recognizes young leaders across the country who have a strong influence on the U.S commercial real estate industry. Tyler resides in Newport Beach, California and is a member of NAIOP SoCal and NAIOP Inland Empire.

Jay Tanjuan

Director, Development

Scannell Properties

Jay is director of Development for the Scannell Properties Southern California office, responsible for site acquisition, due diligence, entitlements, construction management, marketing, leasing and dispositions for ground-up development projects throughout Southern California.

Prior to joining Scannell Properties, Jay was a senior development manager for Panattoni Development Company and was an office tenant rep broker with JLL in Orange County. Prior to his career in commercial real estate, Jay served six years in the U.S. Navy in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom as a supply officer in logistics/supply chain management.

Jay is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he earned a Bachelor of Science with Merit in Economics and was a member of the Division I Varsity Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Teams. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine, Master of Science in Construction Management from Louisiana State University and a Master of Science in International Real Estate from Florida International University.

Jay is an active member of NAIOP, serving on the board of directors of the NAIOP Inland Empire chapter and a chapter sponsor for SIOR Inland Empire and Orange County.

Blair Duncan

VP, Investments

Realterm

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.

Kenneth Fields

Moderator

Greenberg Glusker

Ken Fields, a partner in Greenberg Glusker’s Real Estate Practice Group, practices all aspects of real estate legal transactions, including buying and selling individual properties and multi-property portfolios, construction and development and leasing of industrial, retail, and office properties, and permanent, construction, mezzanine, and other real estate secured loans. Ken's clients include industrial, retail, and office building owners and tenants, commercial brokerage firms and real estate investors and syndicators.

He has assisted clients in buying or selling billions of dollars’ worth of real estate assets, has negotiated leases affecting billions of square feet of space, and has helped clients raise hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate syndications. Ken frequently represents owners and tenants in single-tenant "big-box" leases. Ken understands his clients' business objectives and strives to help achieve those objectives in an efficient and cost-effective manner. He maintains a business-like and deal-oriented approach, focusing on what is important to his clients. Among the many other transactions Fields handled in 2020, he partnered with his clients to close four of the ten largest industrial transactions in Southern California, with those four deals alone totaling approximately $750,000,000.

In 2021, Ken was recognized as a top 10 real estate attorney in California by Connect CRE in their annual Lawyers in Real Estate Awards. Ken has also been recognized in real estate law in both Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his J.D. from Loyola Law School. He is a Founding Member and member of the Advisory Committee of the Conejo Valley Boys and Girls' Clubs, and has previously chaired the Legal Committee of Heal the Bay.

Why You Won't Want To Miss This Industrial & Logistics CRE Conference:

What You'll Learn From This Commercial Real Estate Summit:

  • How are developers working to mitigate the supply and demand imbalance for industrial space? 

  • Has the high cost of capital impacted investors' willingness to spend money on Southern California projects? 

  • What types of tenants have the most demand for space and what types of developments are they looking for?

  • Which Southern California submarkets are seeing a slowdown and which are seeing growth and activity? 

  • Will e-commerce continue to grow and drive industrial demand? 

  • How has inflation impacted investors' willingness to spend money on industrial projects in Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Orange County and San Diego? 

  • Are companies taking a more cautious approach and pushing requirements into late 2024 and 2025? 

  • Which industrial users are anticipated to need more space? Which are plateauing? 

How You'll Do More Business From Attending This Event: Join industry leaders as they discuss the current development and investment outlook on industrial and logistic buildings and parks in Los Angeles. Gain insights into growing/cooling industrial submarkets throughout LA, and future forecasting of what demand for these spaces will look like.

Projects & Deals To Be Discussed: 

Covington Group, Inc.- Santa Clarita Commerce Center /// Palmdale Industrial Park (8th Street) /// I-15 Industrial Park (Building 1) /// I-15 Industrial Park (Building 2) /// I-15 Industrial Park (Building 3) /// Bell Mountain Commerce Center: I-15 & Stoddard Wells Rd., Apple Valley, CA 2,500,000 SF, at full build-out​

Lowney Architecture - Nexus San Leandro: NAIOP Development of the Year 2024 & NRMCA Concrete Innovation 2024

Pivot Energy - Life Storage 528 Torrance CA, 612 Sacramento, 617 Sacramento, 635 West Sacramento, 613 Sacramento CA, 632 Sacramento CA, 618, 616 Sacramento CA, 604, 530 Duarte CA /// KOOS Manufacturing Solar /// Dunham & Associates /// Gridscape - CEC - Fremont #11 /// NRG - WFM - PMD Palm Desert, CA /// NRG - WFM - RDC Richmond, CA /// NRG - WFM - BRE - Brea, CA /// NRG - WFM - FOL Folsom, CA /// Life Storage 615 Woodland CA /// Cubesmart 142 /// Cubesmart 144

Articles to Read: 

Industrial Rents Drop In Southern California For First Time Since 2009

Is L.A.’s Industrial Sector a Sign of Danger or Normalcy? 

Industrial Tenant Demand Study

Los Angeles Industrial Market Report (Kidder Mathews)

Rexford REIT Buys Blackstone Warehouse Portfolio for $1B

The Next Wave: 2024 Trends & Transformations in the Industrial Sector 

Who You'll Network With At This Discussion: Owners, developers, investors, architects, construction, designers, brokers, leasing agents, lawyers, financial institutions and government officials.

Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.

For questions, recommendations, comments or press inquiries please email our event producer, Samantha D'Angelo at samantha.dangelo@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact thea.parkert@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

Omni Hotel and Resort Los Angeles
251 S. Olive Street
Los Angeles 90012

Ballroom Name/Floor: 2nd floor - Watercourt/Bunker Hill/Museum Ballroom 


Hotel - $22 valet event day parking. Let valet know you are an attendee at the event for the discounted rate.

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Agenda

Time Activity
Friday January 12, 2024
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
Breakfast, Coffee & Networking
5:00 PM
5:45 PM
Market Trends & Activity

Shifts in Demand, Market Softening, Exploring New Opportunities & Industry Types on the Rise

5:45 PM
6:00 PM
Networking Break
6:00 PM
6:45 PM
Developing & Designing The Next Wave of Innovative Industrial & Self-Storage Assets

Building Spec vs. For the User, Energy Efficient Operations, Sustainability & Solar Energy

6:45 PM
7:30 PM
Analyzing Investment Opportunities & Acquisition Activity

Creating Asset Value, Assessing Deal Flow, Getting Deals Done While Mitigating Risks & Maximizing Returns

Saturday January 13, 2024
7:30 AM
8:30 PM
More Networking!

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