The Capital Markets Summit

Mr. Lewis is Chairman and founder of Wharton Industrial, a fully integrated investor and developer of last mile, urban infill and larger distribution facilities located along the Eastern Seaboard, Florida and the Southeast United States. Wharton Industrial is a platform company of New York-based real estate investment firm, Wharton Equity Partners, which Mr. Lewis founded in 1987. In forming Wharton Industrial in 2017, Mr. Lewis sought to capitalize on the secular change in industrial real estate brought on by the emergence of e-commerce. Since that time, Wharton Industrial has acquired and developed over 4.5 million SF of warehouses. Notable transactions include the development of a 988,000-SF bulk distribution facility in Atlanta, GA which was leased to Phillips van Heusen before completion; the acquisition of a 283,500-SF former subway repair facility in Philadelphia, which was completely renovated into a last-mile distribution center, leased to Amazon and sold in November 2020; and the development of a 617,000-SF bulk distribution warehouse located in Ocala, FL, which was leased to Amazon and sold to a REIT at the highest per-square-foot price ever achieved in the market in June 2020. Wharton Industrial’s growth has been fueled by joint ventures with such firms as Starwood Capital, Carlyle and Walton Street Capital. Wharton Industrial’s market leadership and forward-thinking approach flows from that of its parent company, Wharton Equity Partners. Over the course of the last three decades, Mr. Lewis has been the visionary force behind shaping Wharton Equity’s prowess as an opportunistic investor that has consistently been ahead of the curve in making large bets on emerging real estate trends in industrial, multi-family, self-storage and other asset classes. Over his career, Mr. Lewis has been involved in well over $2 billion of real estate transactions. In addition, Mr. Lewis and Wharton Equity are active venture capital investors with a focus on later-stage growth companies. The firm’s current holdings include positions in Dataminr and Latch. Mr. Lewis received his BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a sought-after industry speaker and a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School on the topic of “The Future of Real Estate.” Mr. Lewis resides in Old Westbury, Long Island with his wife and three children.

Clint Myers is a Partner at Rise of the Rest, where he focuses on real estate investment initiatives. Clint previously was a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Strategy Officer for Hines where he served as a member of the firm’s internal proprietary research group and oversaw a variety of firm-wide strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Hines, he was in charge of Americas Research and Strategy at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He received his M.S. in Finance from Boston College and his B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina.