Chris Norvell is a founding principal with Edgewater Ventures and leads the company’s efforts in the acquisition and development of industrial assets throughout the Carolinas and the Southeast. Over his 30-year career, Chris has consistently been a dominant presence within the Carolinas industrial real estate landscape. From his early career spearheading the development and leasing efforts for institutional owners such as Duke Realty Corporation to more recently leading some of the largest industrial investment sales in the Southeast, Chris brings an incredible wealth of experience and market knowledge to Edgewater Ventures and its investors.

Justin Parker drives our growth across the Carolinas. As VP, Triangle Market Leader, he’s responsible for creating strategic business solutions and partnerships in the region. He leans on 15+ years of experience in commercial real estate finance and business development to grow our pipeline while leading our Raleigh office.

Justin is a rockstar, building strong relationships wherever he goes. His vision, creativity, and market knowledge are what make him stand out. Since he joined our team in 2019, he has consistently identified attractive opportunities for clients and investors, understanding their needs and effectively utilizing our integrated team.

Prior to joining Port Commercial, Ben Johnson was an Associate at Lightstone, where he

played a key role in leading the Southeast office in Charlotte, NC. His primary

responsibilities encompassed sourcing, underwriting, structuring, and closing industrial

equity opportunities across the nation, with a particular emphasis on Southeast markets.

Additionally, Mr. Johnson assisted in arranging financing for Lightstone development

projects. Ben has focused on acquisitions in the industrial, residential, and hospitality

sectors.

Mr. Little is a Director of Investments at Prologis focusing on Development and

Acquisitions. In this role, Jack is primarily responsible for uncovering strategic industrial

assets and land sites in the primary and secondary markets across the Carolinas. In

addition to sourcing acquisition and development opportunities, Jack is also responsible

for the general evaluation and financial underwriting, due diligence, and transaction

management of new investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Prologis in April of 2026, Jack was a Director for Leon Industrial covering

the southeast and a Senior Associate for Dogwood Industrial Properties. Jack joined

Dogwood shortly after the platform was created in 2019. Dogwood would go on to

aggregate over 12M SF of industrial properties across the United States. Prior to

Dogwood, Jack was a Senior Analyst on the Industrial Capital Markets team for JLL in

Charlotte, NC. While working for JLL in various roles from 2016-2019, Jack evaluated

~$5B of commercial real estate assets. Jack holds a Bachelor of Economics from the

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

Zach joined Strategic Capital Partners in 2016. He focuses on expanding the company’s industrial portfolio across the Carolinas and Virginia markets. His responsibilities include site selection and acquisitions and oversight of SCP’s projects through the entire development process. He also serves the company’s tenants, investment partners and design-build construction clients.

Prior to joining SCP, Zach worked on the Indianapolis CBRE Multi-Family Team. He specialized in multi-family valuation, disposition, financial strategy and modeling for institutional and private clients in the Indiana, Louisville and southern Michigan markets.

Zach graduated Magna Cum Laude from Birmingham-Southern College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

John serves as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer for APG in Raleigh, North Carolina. John’s responsibilities include: portfolio, investor and revenue development, organizational development and acting as a lead company ambassador.

Following his graduation from the US Military Academy at West Point, John’s professional career began with service to our country as an Army Infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division. His leadership experience ranges from US Army combat operations to teams of professionals assembled to work on real estate projects across the United States.

John has hands-on experience in all of the disciplines of commercial real estate. His leadership responsibilities have included the entire real estate asset/portfolio development and management processes from site selection, budgeting, and design through acquisitions, engineering, entitlements, leasing and marketing, construction, finance, management, and disposition.

He has had leadership roles in real estate projects ranging to over one million square feet in venues including office buildings, malls and shopping centers in mixed-use, suburban and urban projects across 22 states. He has led over $830 million of financing and asset development; raised tens of millions in private and institutional investment equity and crafted over $150M in creative debt re-structure transactions.

In addition, John has led the workouts and turnarounds of companies across North America and trained corporate leaders in the implementation of sound leadership and best practices for business as an international management consultant.

John’s passion is working with people to discover they can achieve things they don’t think are within their capabilities.