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Ashley Grigsby

Ashley Grigsby

Managing Director - Capital Markets

Transwestern Development

Derek Hammond

Derek Hammond

Chief Financial Officer

Flaherty & Collins Properties

Joe Clauser

Joe Clauser

Chief Financial Officer

Foulger Pratt

John Barkidjija

John Barkidjija

EVP, Head of Commercial Real Estate

Byline Bank

Erik Koentje
Moderator

Erik Koentje

Head of Sales and Accounts

Built

Ashley Grigsby

Managing Director - Capital Markets

Transwestern Development

Ashley serves as Managing Director of Transwestern Development

Company (TDC), which develops commercial real estate for itself, its

partners and clients throughout the United States. She leads the

execution of lending and financial placement for projects across

logistics, multifamily, office and mixed-use properties, and plays a

key role in cultivating and strengthening the firm’s commercial

lending relationships.

Joe Clauser

Chief Financial Officer

Foulger Pratt

Joe Clauser has more than 15 years of real estate investment

experience and joined Foulger Pratt in 2010. In his role as Chief

Financial Officer at Foulger Pratt, Joe leads acquisitions and capital

markets initiatives for the firm and is a member of the Investment

Committee. To date, he has either led, or played a key role, in over

$5 billion of commercial real estate transactions including

acquisitions, developments, dispositions, and financings across a

variety of asset classes. Prior to joining the firm, Joe worked as a

member of the investments group for private equity fund manager, CIM

Group.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master’s

in Real Estate from Georgetown University. He currently lives in

Maryland with his wife and two sons and is actively involved with

several local philanthropic organizations.

John Barkidjija

EVP, Head of Commercial Real Estate

Byline Bank

John M. Barkidjija has served as Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Real Estate and Specialty Finance of Byline since January 2019. Previously, John was Senior Vice President, Group Head, Commercial Real Estate, at Byline. Prior to joining Byline in 2014, John served as a consultant and Chief Credit Officer at Bridgeview Bank, a Principal with Mbark Financial, LLC, Executive Vice President – Asset Management and Special Asset Consultant at ST Residential, LLC, as well as various commercial real estate lending positions culminating in Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Risk Officer at Corus Bank, N.A. Prior to his career in banking, John also practiced corporate law at Christy & Viener and Jones & Blouch. John received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University’s Columbia College, a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Erik Koentje

Moderator

Built

Erik Koentje leads the Sales and Account Management teams at Built, focusing on the needs of Owners, Developers, and General Contractors. He brings a passion for the built environment, and over two decades of experience working with commercial real estate firms to craft strategy and achieve their operational goals.

Prior to joining Built, Erik spent the majority of his career with CoStar Group where he worked directly with commercial and multifamily players to solve research and marketing challenges. Most recently, in addition to managing the West region for CoStar, he spent five years scaling and leading a Major Account team dedicated to providing world-class service to the largest investors and developers of real estate in North America and Europe.

Why you Can't Miss This Webinar on Development Debt and Financing Management

What You’ll Learn:

  • How developers are structuring deals in the current environment and what rising construction costs and tighter lending standards mean for managing financing.

  • Where the developer-lender relationship breaks down during a project and what leading teams are doing to keep things on track from origination through completion.

  • What lenders actually need in a draw package and how developers who submit cleaner, more complete packages get funded faster.

  • How developers are managing budgets, change orders, and cash flow across multiple active projects without adding headcount.

  • How automation is reducing the back-and-forth between developers and lenders on compliance, lien waivers, and documentation before payments go out.

  • How AI is cutting draw assembly time by automatically mapping payables, lien waivers, and compliance docs into a lender-ready package.

  • How both sides are using shared data and real-time visibility to replace the phone calls and status update emails that slow every project down.

  • Where AI is making a real difference right now in invoice processing, document management, and reporting, and where it still requires human judgment.

Why This Matters:

Development loans are among the most complex transactions in commercial real estate, and the relationship between developers and lenders has rarely been more consequential, but it often comes with friction. Rising construction costs, shifting underwriting standards, and a tighter lending environment have changed how deals get done. Meanwhile, the financial side of a construction project involves a lot of moving parts across multiple parties. Draw packages, compliance documents, budget updates, and lien waivers still move through siloed systems, email chains, and several different spreadsheets for most companies, and when something slips it costs everyone.

This panel brings developers and lenders to the same table to talk honestly about how that relationship works in practice, where it breaks down, and what leading teams are doing differently with today's technology. Panelists will share what they're seeing on both sides of the table, what's changed in how they structure and manage deals, where they see opportunities as market conditions evolve, and how AI and technology tools are helping both sides move faster with fewer errors.

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