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Stephen Modory

Stephen Modory

Managing Partner

Champion Partners

Dennis Noebel
Moderator

Dennis Noebel

Director

Chicago Title

Marijke Lantz Flowers

Marijke Lantz Flowers

SVP

Billingsley Company

Johnny Johnson
Moderator

Johnny Johnson

Principal

Cassidy Turley

William Guthrey

William Guthrey

Partner

KDC

Ryan McManigal

Ryan McManigal

SVP of Development

KDC

Moody Younger

Moody Younger

Partner

Younger Partners

Bill Burton

Bill Burton

EVP

Hillwood Properties

Greg Langston

Greg Langston

Managing Director

Avison Young

Mark O’Briant

Mark O’Briant

Managing Director

Henry S. Miller Realty Services

Thomas W. Brown

Thomas W. Brown

Senior Managing Director

Brookwood Financial Partners

Stephen Modory

Managing Partner

Champion Partners

Stephen M. Modory currently serves as the Co-Managing Partner at Champion Partners. Prior to joining Champion in 1993, Mr. Modory was a portfolio manager for Trammell Crow Ventures, where he participated in the acquisition, investment, management, and capitalization of two closed-end real estate opportunity funds that included numerous commercial real estate product types, including office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotels, land, and debt/mortgages. He started his real estate career at Trammell Crow Ventures as a Financial Analyst and after two years was promoted to being an Acquisitions Associate. Mr. Modory is a Current Member, Founding Member, and Past Chair of the Office Development Council of ULI, and currently serves as the Chair of the North Texas District Council of ULI. He is a past Board Member of The Real Estate Council of Dallas, a past Board Chair of their Foundation, and a past Member of their Government Affairs Committee. He is a Current Member and Past President of the North Texas Chapter of NAIOP. Mr. Modory earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with distinction from Stanford University.

Marijke Lantz Flowers

SVP

Billingsley Company

As Senior Vice President of Investments and Build to Suits for

Billingsley Company, Marijke Lantz Flowers is responsible for the

office build to suit transactions and major leases. Additionally, Ms.

Lantz leads the acquisitions of investment properties for Billingsley

Company.

Mrs. Flowers has 25 years of experience in commercial real estate

including asset management from acquisition to disposition. Before

joining Billingsley, she was Senior Vice President and Acquisitions

Officer at Valencia Capital Management and before that Managing

Director responsible for the Asset Services Group for Cushman &

Wakefield in Dallas. This role included project leasing, property

management and facility management for more than 19 million

square feet with properties located throughout the U.S.

Prior to her time with Cushman & Wakefield, Mrs. Flowers was a

Vice President at the Archon Group (a Goldman Sachs Company)

and was responsible for the dispositions and operations of the

commercial asset management group. This included more than 180

commercial assets located throughout the United States totaling

over 32 million square feet and dispositions totaling more than 2.5

billion.

Mrs. Flowers earned her Bachelor of Arts from Western State

College in 1982. She graduated with honors from the University of

Dallas with a Masters of Business Administration in 1985.

William Guthrey

Partner

KDC

Bill Guthrey isn’t a fortune teller, but he does read tea leaves, figuratively if not literally. “As a company that develops master-planned projects, KDC is reading the tea leaves to determine the future path of growth. We’re reading the market and creating places that will meet present and future demand.”

Bill’s primary responsibilities at KDC include the marketing and management of KDC’s Land Ventures, which include over 500 acres of prime office, industrial and mixed-use land positions located throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and nationally. He focuses on establishing joint ventures with land owners who need a partner with master planning, development and land marketing experience.

“I love my job. I’m always meeting new people, and the product is always evolving. Every client has a unique challenge, and I’m lucky that I can be part of the solution.”

Bill joined KDC in 1995 to market and develop the site of the former Greater Southwest International Airport/Amon Carter Field in Fort Worth, Texas. That project, CentrePort Business Park, is now home to some of the nation’s largest companies.

All in all, Bill’s experience at KDC encompasses the development and leasing of office, industrial and data center projects totaling over 2.5 million square feet and the development or sale of over 1,000 acres of land.

“What’s fun about development is watching engineers, architects, and planners get together in one room to answer a question or fulfill an existing client need. It’s fascinating to see how form follows function.”

A devoted family man, Bill makes his home in Dallas with his wife, Suzan, and teenage daughter, Josie. His son, Reggis, works in oil and gas, and his other daughter, Grace, is studying architecture.

Away from the office, Bill is active in his church and involved with mentoring youth in a faith-based setting. He also enjoys tennis, golf, and volunteering with Builders of Hope, a non-profit housing developer that delivers quality affordable housing to needy families in Dallas. His dream is to work for a non-profit and help people with their housing needs.

Moody Younger

Partner

Younger Partners

Moody Younger serves as co-managing partner for Younger Partners where he is responsible for the overall performance of the company. In 2012, Moody and Kathy Permenter co-founded Younger Partners, which has grown from its original partners into a full-service commercial real estate firm providing investment, leasing and management services to clients in North Texas. Younger Partners currently employs over 100 professionals.

Moody’s experience spans more than three decades in senior management positions with Grubb & Ellis, CBRE, Trammell Crow Company, JLL and Transwestern Commercial Services. He has completed over 1,400 leases representing more than 8.1 million square feet.

Moody holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University, a bachelor’s from Texas Tech University and a Texas Real Estate Broker license. He is also active in many professional organizations including TREC, ULI, NTCAR and ICSC.

Bill Burton

EVP

Hillwood Properties

Bill Burton serves as Executive Vice President, Marketing & Development for Hillwood, developer of AllianceTexas. As EVP, Bill is responsible for leading the vision and strategy of AllianceTexas by overseeing the development of office, industrial and retail as well as leasing and sales. Bill continues to play an active role with key stakeholders and clients—maintaining relationships that support the forward-thinking and innovative mission that drives the growth of AllianceTexas.

Bill joined Hillwood in January 1989 and has been directly involved with developing AllianceTexas from raw ranch land to a 27,000-acre, master-planned development. Bill’s expertise is centered on developing customer relationships that nurture long- term success. He has directed build-to suit and lease transactions totaling more than 53 million square feet with companies such as Amazon, AT&T Nokia, Bridgestone-Firestone, General Mills, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and Volkswagen of America. In addition, he has managed portfolio sales in excess of 1 billion dollars and coordinated more than 1,800 acres of land sale transactions with companies such as Citigroup, Deloitte, Fidelity Investments, Intel, KRAFT Foods, and more.

Bill remains involved with and supports numerous professional and community development organizations. Beyond his professional affiliations, Bill supports several non-profit organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, March for Babies, and the Christian Prayer Breakfast of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

Greg Langston

Managing Director

Avison Young

Greg Langston joined Avison Young as Managing Director and Principal in 2013. Greg’s primary focus is representing corporate clients based in the Southwest and Southeast who have local, national and international commercial real estate needs. Greg’s experience includes advising, managing and negotiating office and industrial leases, strategic site selection, financial analysis, build to suits, building sales/dispositions, land sales/acquisitions buy outs and project management assignments.

Summary

After years of little to no new development, the Dallas office market has dozens of new projects, as well as redevelopments underway to accommodate the growing demand. From ground-up campuses in the suburbs to infill projects in Uptown, Dallas is in the midst of a construction boom. We're bringing you the experts to take a look at both new projects in the pipeline to the way companies are using their space to shape their corporate cultures like never before.  As always, come early and stay late for off-the-charts content and second-to-none networking opportunities -- we'll see you there!