Andrew is a Partner, Head of Development at SomeraRoad, overseeing all aspects of the firm’s ground-up development platform with a current pipeline of multifamily projects, in excess of $1.5 billion in total cost. Andrew has over 15 years of experience in development. Prior to joining SomeraRoad, Andrew served as Vice President of Development for Mill Creek Residential Trust, where he led the development of 1,400+ residential units exceeding $600 million of development value. Andrew previously helped build RXR Realty's development platform, overseeing the construction of 1,400+ residential units totaling more than $700 million of value during his tenure. He also worked at Toll Brothers, Inc. and Ashley Development earlier in his career.

Andrew received a B.S. in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, son, and daughter.

Since co-founding Peachtree Group in 2007, Greg has successfully

overseen investments exceeding $11.0 billion in commercial real estate

and various other enterprises.

With over 25 years of experience, he brings extensive experience in credit

and equity investing, particularly in hotels and other commercial real

estate assets. Previously, Greg served as senior vice president of business

development for Specialty Finance Group, where he originated more than

$2.0 billion of credit transactions.

Before that, Greg was vice president of business development for GMAC

Commercial Mortgage Asset-Backed Lending Division. During his six-year tenure, he originated, closed

and funded more than 300 hospitality FF&E financing transactions with an aggregate capital structure

exceeding $10.0 billion.

Greg is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and is a board member of the American Hotel &

Lodging Association. He also serves on the real estate fund advisory board for the Texas McCombs

School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mia leads the development of all industrial, multifamily, and mixed-use projects in the Nashville market. Her responsibilities include site selection, contract negotiations, project due diligence, governmental approvals, and predevelopment budgets for land closing. Mia has completed $690 million in transactions in her career and is exclusively focused on growing Pizzuti’s presence in the Nashville market across multiple product types.

Michael Rankin grew up in the construction business. He started at 14, digging ditches and

pouring concrete on job sites across Nashville. After earning a finance degree from the

University of Tennessee, he returned to the family business in 1992 to work alongside his

father at J.E. Crain & Son, now Crain Construction.

Over the last three decades, Michael has served in nearly every role in the company, from field

operations to executive leadership. Today, as President and CEO, he stays closely connected to

projects and teams, focusing on risk management, safety, quality, and long-term client

relationships. His steady message is simple: always do the right thing.

A Nashville native, Michael takes pride in leading a company that has served Middle Tennessee

for more than 90 years. Under his leadership, Crain has delivered landmark projects including

the Hilton Nashville Airport, Prancing Horse of Nashville, and The Crestmoor, and was named

2025 General Contractor of the Year by the Associated Builders and Contractors Greater

Tennessee.

Michael is active in NAIOP, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the Board

for Show Hope, an adoption advocacy organization. Outside of work, he enjoys time on the lake

with his wife, Amy, and their three children.

Elizabeth Holland is a member of Winstead’s Real Estate Development & Investments Practice Group. Elizabeth advises and represents clients in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, financing, office and retail leasing, and ancillary real estate issues. Elizabeth is committed to providing strategic and practical counsel to help clients navigate complex real estate matters efficiently and effectively.

Experience

Development: Representation of developers in the development of multi-family, residential planned communities, residential condominiums, medical office, hotel, industrial, and mixed-use projects.

Acquisitions and Dispositions: Representation of clients in connection with the acquisition and disposition of real property, including downtown and suburban office buildings, medical office buildings, senior living facilities, retail centers, hotels, multi-family and mixed-use developments.

Leasing: Representation of both landlords and tenants in connection with the negotiation of lease agreements, including ground leases, build-to-suit leases and sale-leasebacks for various types of real property, including office, medical office, industrial and retail property.

Representative Experience

Represented a developer in the structuring, planning and development of a luxury hotel branded mixed-used condominium development.

Represented a foreign investor and sponsor in connection with the acquisition of a 24-property medical outpatient facility portfolio in Ohio and Florida from a top United States healthcare system under a sale-leaseback arrangement.

Assisted client in the sale of a single-family rental portfolio with more than 1,000 residential properties worth approximately $300 million

Assisted developer in the acquisition of a 1,500-acre assemblage of raw land for development of a data center.

Assisted client in the acquisition of numerous industrial properties with purchase prices ranging from $20 million to $55 million.

Assisted client in the acquisition of approximately 363 acres of raw land for the development of a private golf course.

Austen Berry joined HDLA in 2018 and serves as Principal at the firm. Her

background spans architecture, geography, and graphic design, strengthening her

understanding of how design decisions carry across a project. She leads project

teams through design coordination, keeping clients, architects, engineers, and

contractors aligned as decisions are made. She holds responsibility for budgets,

schedules, and deliverables from early design through construction, and uses

graphic communication to keep design direction clear at each handoff.

Carla Baca is a Healthcare Advisor at Sagemont Real Estate, specializing in healthcare real estate advisory and leasing services for healthcare providers, building owners, and investors throughout Middle Tennessee. Drawing on institutional experience with one of the nation’s largest publicly traded outpatient medical real estate investment trusts, Carla brings a deep understanding of the ownership, investment, and operational dynamics that shape healthcare real estate.

Carla represents healthcare property owners in developing and executing leasing strategies, including property positioning, marketing, tenant outreach, and identifying users that complement and strengthen the existing tenant mix. She also advises healthcare occupiers on site selection, lease negotiations, and real estate strategy. Her approach combines market expertise with a collaborative, relationship-driven focus on delivering long-term value for her clients.

Carlina B. Bell, MBA is a community development strategist, real estate developer, and finance executive focused on advancing equitable development, housing innovation, and long-term community stability. Since 2012, she has served as Executive Director of The William Franklin Buchanan Community Development Corporation (WFBCDC), leading initiatives that expand affordable housing opportunities, strengthen neighborhood ecosystems, and advance community-centered approaches to land stewardship and economic mobility.

With more than 25 years of experience spanning finance, asset management, real estate development, and nonprofit leadership, Carlina brings a multidisciplinary perspective to community development and the built environment. Her career began in Austin, Texas, as a community lender with BigAustin and later PeopleFund, where she supported entrepreneurs and small business owners traditionally excluded from access to capital. Her commitment to community wealth-building was shaped even earlier through exposure to her grandfather’s work as a butcher, grocer, affordable housing developer, and commercial property owner, where she witnessed firsthand the transformative power of ownership, entrepreneurship, and neighborhood investment.

Carlina is a HUD-certified housing counselor, entrepreneur, founding partner in a real estate development firm, and principal of an asset management firm focused on the growth and expansion of multigenerational ownership and stewardship of real estate. Her professional experience also includes serving as CFO of a boutique technology consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Financial Analyst with Ernst & Young, and Expected Value Analyst with Salomon Brothers, along with financial analysis work within the international aerospace defense manufacturing and training industry.

Known for bridging institutional-level strategy with community-centered impact, Carlina’s work increasingly focuses on innovative models for equitable ownership, public land redevelopment, housing preservation, and holistic neighborhood revitalization. Under her leadership, WFBCDC has established Nashville Equitable Housing Cooperative (NEHC), one of Tennessee’s first limited equity housing cooperative development initiatives, with a portfolio of 198 affordable housing units across three communities. Through this work, Carlina is advancing a resident-centered model that preserves long-term affordability while creating pathways for shared ownership, democratic governance, and community wealth-building. Her leadership brings together real estate acquisition, financing, asset management, resident education, and strategic partnerships to demonstrate how commercial real estate can be leveraged for lasting community benefit. She has also contributed to initiatives exploring community-driven development frameworks and collaborative approaches that align economic development with health, housing, and generational wealth outcomes.

An active civic and community leader, Carlina is the immediate past Vice President of the Nashville Foundation for Women of Color, Inc., a longtime member of Jack & Jill of America, Inc., and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She recently completed a professional fellowship through Claremont Lincoln University and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Vibrant Communities Teams Program, where she led the Nashville team as it collaborated with leaders nationwide, advancing innovative, community-driven strategies for public land development and civic transformation.

Having earned an MBA with a concentration in Strategy from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management and a BS in Accounting from Southern University and A&M College, Carlina is comfortable at the intersection of finance, community development, real estate innovation, and civic leadership, moving fluidly between boardrooms, neighborhoods, institutional capital, and grassroots trust-building.

Dani Badgett (she/her) is the Director of Operations and Culture at Holladay Ventures, a Nashville-based real estate development firm investing in workforce, affordable, and mixed-income housing across the country. As the firm's Integrator, she translates Holladay Ventures' goal of 100,000 affordable housing units by 2045 into the systems, processes, and people required to get there, owning the annual and quarterly priorities that move the company toward that vision.

A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Dani brings a decade of experience spanning higher education, DEI consulting, and real estate. She built and led her own consulting practice grounded in empathy, courage, and curiosity, and has designed sustainable operational systems for universities, nonprofits, and corporate clients.

Her work is anchored in the belief that housing is a starting point, not an endpoint. She builds partnerships with local nonprofits so residents in every Holladay Ventures development can grow financially, educationally, and in their health, and so they walk into affordable housing with their dignity intact.

Dani serves on the board of The Healing Trust and is completing a PhD in Global Leadership.

Emily Buchanan’s work demonstrates the power of design to improve the way people experience care. As an Interior Designer and Design Manager, for Gensler’s Nashville office, she brings a combination of design discipline, operational understanding, and human empathy to healthcare, senior living, and professional services environments. Her work is defined by thoughtful spatial strategy creating places that are not only beautiful but intuitive, dignified, and responsive to the needs of the people who rely on them every day.

What sets Emily apart is the depth of insight behind her design decisions. Before entering the profession, she earned a degree in recreational therapy from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and worked in drug and alcohol treatment centers, children’s rehabilitation centers, and a prototype community for adults with Alzheimer’s and dementia. This firsthand experience in therapeutic environments gives her a nuanced understanding of how planning, materiality, light, scale, wayfinding, and sensory cues can influence comfort, autonomy, trust, and connection.

Through her leadership, Emily translates this understanding into design strategies that elevate both experience and performance. She works across disciplines to align client goals with the lived realities of patients, residents, families, caregivers, and staff, ensuring that every decision from circulation and adjacency to texture, transparency, and detail creates a supportive, efficient, and meaningful environment. Her work reflects the highest aspirations of design: spaces that serve with clarity, perform with purpose, and affirm the dignity of every person who enters them.

Emily advises office and retail tenants on real estate strategy with a customized approach to ensure their space promotes operational success. With a background in commercial real estate technology and a deep knowledge of Nashville, she is experienced in coaching occupier clients through the real estate process. Having been raised in Nashville, Emily has watched the city grow from a small town into a national market — a perspective her clients lean on when weighing submarkets, expansion timing, and where the city is headed next.

Recognized for her leadership in the industry, Emily was named the 2025 NAIOP Middle Tennessee Developing Leader of the Year and serves as the NAIOP Developing Leaders Board Chair. She is also President of the American Heart Association Young Professionals Board and volunteers with Preston Taylor Ministries.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Carter, and their daughter, Merritt, as well as exploring the endless new restaurants and spots around town or playing Mahjong with friends. 

Emily Trapani is a tech business leader with over 15 years of experience, including more than 8 years in leadership at Google, creating and executing sales strategies and innovation for technology products and services. As the Head of Retail at Google Fiber, she oversees strategy, innovation and operations in retail and other non-traditional sales and service experiences for the company's high-speed internet offerings.

She has an invariable track record of delivering results and growth for Google Fiber and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., by developing and managing various sales channels and partnerships, including B2B, B2B2C, multifamily, direct, indirect and nontraditional. She is also an author and a futurist, who has published two books and a podcast on technologies and industry trends. She is passionate about empowering women and underrepresented groups in technology and STEM, and volunteers as an instructor and facilitator for several Google programs and initiatives.

Janelle Gallagher is an accomplished Senior Vice President for CBRE Nashville, leveraging over 20 years of diverse real estate experience, with 11 dedicated to CBRE. As a recognized market expert and locally respected leader, Janelle specializes in both agency and tenant occupier representation, providing a unique, comprehensive perspective that drives exceptional outcomes for all her clients and transactions.

Her clientele spans a broad range of tenant industries, with a particular focus on complex transactions, a testament to her understanding of nuanced market dynamics. Janelle uses a strategic consulting approach, running a seamless process by leveraging CBRE's extensive internal platforms and best-in-class data to deliver superior results.

Beyond her client work, Janelle's influence within CBRE is evident through her roles on the CBRE Investor Leasing Advisory Board, where she advises institutional clients on national best practices and emerging industry trends. She was also appointed to the prestigious CBRE Emerging Leaders program, which gathers the nation's top talent to foster innovation and share insights. 

Her career path has included experience in development, transaction management, and portfolio management at institutions such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University, where she managed a substantial lease portfolio. Additionally, she worked as well as a Project Executive at Erdman focusing on healthcare facility development.

Together with her four-person team over the past decade, Janelle has contributed to the successful completion of over 600 transactions. When she's not shaping the Nashville real estate landscape, Janelle enjoys an active lifestyle with her husband and two young daughters.

Hayley Schulist is an Associate Director of Project Management at Turner & Townsend with 15
years of experience in construction and 10 years as an owner's representative. She oversees all
facets of project management across commercial office, ground-up development, multifamily,
higher education, life sciences, and tenant improvement — having managed over $120 million
in comprehensive project costs throughout her career and nearly $1 million in client savings
through strategic procurement and negotiation.
Hayley's background spans interior design, sustainability, and real estate development, giving
her a uniquely integrated perspective on complex projects. Before joining Turner & Townsend,
she held roles at CBRE, Core Development, and Balfour Beatty Investments, where she served
as Global Sustainability Manager overseeing US and UK assets. She is a LEED AP BD+C and
Certified Green Professional (CGP) and holds a Master of Science with a concentration in Green
Building Practices from Lipscomb University and a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from
East Tennessee State University.
Active in the Nashville real estate community, Hayley sits on the Planning Commission for the
City of Fairview since 2019 and serves on the Urban Land Institute's Infrastructure Action
Council and NEXT Steering Committee.

Kelsey Oesmann Wilson is a Principal at Nelson Community Partners, an affordable housing and community development firm based in Nashville, TN where she is managing a pipeline of more than 250 affordable housing units across six projects valued at over $100M. She is a licensed architect and previously spent seven years with Urban Housing Solutions, Nashville’s leading nonprofit provider of affordable housing, as an Enterprise Rose Fellow. As a Fellow, Kelsey was jointly hosted by the Civic Design Center, where she designed The Game of Rent board game and Affordable Housing 101 community teaching tool to combat harmful stereotypes and misconceptions about affordable housing. She is currently the co-chair of the Housing Action Council and serves on the Advisory Board for ULI Nashville.

In addition, Kelsey serves on the Board of Directors for local nonprofits Neighbor 2 Neighbor and Open Table Nashville. She is a founding board member of the Tennessee chapter of the Women's Affordable Housing Network (TNWAHN).

Prior to moving to Nashville in 2017, Kelsey designed mixed-use, retail, and multifamily projects in the Washington, DC area. In 2016, she biked from Virginia to Oregon with the nonprofit Bike & Build to raise funds and awareness for affordable housing. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech in 2014. In her free time, Kelsey loves to bike, hike, and enjoy live music with her husband.

Stephanie Ervin is the founder and chief designer of The Ervin Group, a nationally recognized firm that collaborates with developers, real estate groups, and builders to create commercial and residential spaces that drive both emotional connection and economic value. The Ervin Group has designed more than 65 commercial and multifamily projects nationwide representing well over $1 billion in development value. Stephanie brings a sharp understanding of how design supports asset performance. Her approach is rooted in the belief that design should do more than look beautiful - it should create measurable ROI and serve as a strategic advantage for owners, operators, and investors. Her team delivers a full-service, concierge-level experience across design, procurement, and turnkey installations, overseeing every detail from concept to completion. In the residential space, The Ervin Group is known for both high-end private residences and partnerships with builders on luxury new construction, curating elevated construction selections that bring cohesion, distinction, and stronger buyer appeal to every home. Under Stephanie's leadership, The Ervin Group was named Best of the City Interior Design Group by Modern Luxury Nashville Magazine and received Best of Design honors from the Nashville Design Collective and Traditional Home magazine.

Born in California, but today calls Nashville,

Tennessee home, real estate developer Meg Epstein

has over a decade of experience creating efficient,

modern lifestyles for people where it matters most:

their homes and neighborhoods. Developing and

establishing spaces that support whole living and

simplify home and work life for individuals is a

personal passion of hers.

Stephanie Ervin is the founder and chief designer of The Ervin Group, a nationally recognized firm that collaborates with developers, real estate groups, and builders to create commercial and residential spaces that drive both emotional connection and economic value. The Ervin Group has designed more than 65 commercial and multifamily projects nationwide representing well over $1 billion in development value. Stephanie brings a sharp understanding of how design supports asset performance. Her approach is rooted in the belief that design should do more than look beautiful - it should create measurable ROI and serve as a strategic advantage for owners, operators, and investors. Her team delivers a full-service, concierge-level experience across design, procurement, and turnkey installations, overseeing every detail from concept to completion. In the residential space, The Ervin Group is known for both high-end private residences and partnerships with builders on luxury new construction, curating elevated construction selections that bring cohesion, distinction, and stronger buyer appeal to every home. Under Stephanie's leadership, The Ervin Group was named Best of the City Interior Design Group by Modern Luxury Nashville Magazine and received Best of Design honors from the Nashville Design Collective and Traditional Home magazine.