National DICE Capital Markets Summit

Robert Walters has 14 years of commercial real estate experience, initially on the acquisition and development side of the business. He currently focuses on the sale and leasing of office and flex product throughout Northern Virginia. Since joining Millennium in 2002, Rob's combined sales and leasing activity totals more than $700 million. Recent accomplishments include: 100,000 sf lease with Blackbird Technologies, 220,000 sf lease with CACI, 120,000 sf lease with Qinetiq, and the prelease of 435,000 sf to the EPA to kick off the Potomac Yard office project. Rob joined Avison Young as a result of the June 2011 acquisition of Millennium Realty Advisors. Prior to joining Millennium, Rob worked as an analyst/development project manager for Monument Realty LLC, where he focused on the acquisition and development of office product in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. His responsibilities included valuation of both income-producing property and ground-up development, obtaining third-party financing, construction management, asset management, budgeting and financial and physical due diligence. Projects included the development of Presidents Park and the first three phases of Monument @ Worldgate totaling 1.2 msf. Prior to that, Rob worked as a financial analyst for CB Richard Ellis’ investment properties group, where he was responsible for the valuation and marketing of $2.5 billion of office, industrial, retail and multi-family space nationwide.

Justin Glasgow is a Senior Vice President with CBRE Debt & Structured Finance based in Washington, DC. Justin focuses on arranging senior debt, mezzanine debt, and equity across real estate strategies including development, value-add, core+, and core returns in Data Center transactions. Justin has been working in commercial real estate since 2005 and has expertise in originating, structuring, and negotiating complex real estate transactions including programmatic and asset-level joint ventures and complicated financings. Over the course of his career, Justin has participated in more than $25 billion in volume across the U.S. In 2021, Justin and his team closed nearly $5 Billion of debt and equity transactions. They have closed over 20 Billion in the last 6 years, representing the largest annual volume ever for CBRE’s Mid-Atlantic Region

Peter Hopper is a Managing Director at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Hopper is responsible for the identification, evaluation and implementation of growth opportunities for DigitalBridge’s investment management franchise. Mr. Hopper brings more than two decades of deal making and transaction experience in digital infrastructure to DigitalBridge. Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Hopper was Co-Founder and CEO of DH Capital, a firm specializing in assisting growing businesses in the Internet Infrastructure, Telecom and SaaS industries. Prior to founding DH Capital, Mr. Hopper founded and served as President and CEO of DURO Communications, one of the largest privately held ISP/CLECs in the U.S. Mr. Hopper received a Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Joshua Pang is a Managing Director and the Head of Digital Infrastructure for Carlyle Global Infrastructure. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Pang served as Managing Director at Blackstone. Throughout his career, he has been investing in and partnering with leading businesses and management teams across digital infrastructure asset classes, including data centers, bandwidth/broadband and mobile infrastructure, and adjacencies such as communications IT, services, and software. Before Blackstone, Mr. Pang was a Principal in the U.S. Buyouts group at BC Partners, where he primarily focused on telecom. He began his career as an analyst at Blackstone. He received his B.S. in Finance and Financial Accounting from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Nirav Shah joined EQT Partners in December 2014. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Nirav worked at the New York office of AMP Capital Investors, an infrastructure private equity firm focusing on investments in the energy, transportation and telecommunications sectors. Previously, Nirav worked as a private equity associate at Access Capital and as an analyst in the restructuring investment banking group at Rothschild, Inc both in New York. Nirav holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and graduated with highest distinction.

Waldemar Szlezak joined KKR in 2019 and is a Partner on the Infrastructure team. Mr. Szlezak leads KKR’s digital infrastructure investments globally. At KKR, Mr. Szlezak is actively involved in a number of investments, including CyrusOne, Global Technical Realty, MetroNet, On*Net Fibra de Chile, On*Net Fibra de Colombia, On*Net Fibra de Peru, Nexo Latam, Hyperoptic and Pinnacle Towers. Prior to joining KKR, he was a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity group of Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) where he was responsible for originating, structuring and monitoring the firm’s communications infrastructure and real estate investments. While at SFM, Mr. Szlezak served on the board of directors of euNetworks Group Lmtd., Hyperoptic Ltd (acquired by KKR), Helios Towers Africa Ltd. (LSE: HTWS), TowerCo IV LLC (acquired by Peppertree Capital Management), TowerCo 2013 LLC (acquired by Grain Infrastructure II, L.P.), TowerCo II LLC (acquired by SBA Communications), TowerCo LLC (acquired by SBA Communications), ExteNet Systems Inc. (acquired by Digital Bridge Holdings and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners), Atlantica Investment Holdings Ltd, GSRP LLC, Guinness Peat Group plc (LSE: GPG), Coats plc (LSE: COA), Diamond Resorts International (NYSE: DRII / acquired by Apollo Global Management Inc.), Quattro Parent LLC, and Salt Creek Hospitality, LLC, and as an advisory board member to Encore Housing Opportunity Fund, L.P and GP Invitation Fund I. Prior to SFM, Mr. Szlezak served as an associate at Soros Private Equity Investors / TowerBrook Capital Partners and prior to that, in the mergers & acquisition investment banking group at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was involved with a number of mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and general corporate advisory transactions. Mr. Szlezak holds a B.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University in New York and a B.A. in Mathematics from Knox College in Galesburg.

Michael Elias is a Senior Equity Research Analyst at Cowen covering the Communications Infrastructure sector including Data Centers and Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) and has been a member of the Communications Infrastructure team at Cowen since 2017. Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Elias worked as an equity analyst at Xanthus Capital Management. Mr. Elias received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Robert Kline is the managing director of Debt and Structured Finance for the Southwest Region of Colliers, based in the Phoenix office. He specializes in capital and finance efforts for the company across the Southwest and beyond. Robert brings extensive experience in institutional debt, equity, and refinancing and restructuring, which is invaluable to Colliers’ professionals and clients. His deep product and market knowledge, along with a proven collaborative work style, enable him to be an immediate and significant addition to Colliers’ capital markets capabilities and overall platform. As a demonstrated leader in his field, Robert provides Colliers with the strength of extensive relationships with capital markets and lenders, as well as wisdom and insights about the financial markets. With over 36 years in the real estate industry, Robert’s career has been spent working in capital markets, both nationally and internationally. He has raised more than $10 billion in capital for commercial real estate development and refinances. In addition, he has handled more than $9 billion in restructurings for builders and developers. During his career, Robert served at a variety of real estate companies, ranging from Pulte Homes and the Communities of Del Webb to Cushman & Wakefield and Jones Lang LaSalle.

Anubhav is an expert in investment banking, IPOs and financial and operational strategy. As the Chief Financial Officer for Aligned, Anubhav is responsible for the company’s financial and operational strategy. He manages the development and monitoring of control systems that preserve company assets, reduce risk and report accurate financial results. Prior to Aligned, Anubhav was the Senior Vice President at TIER REIT overseeing Capital Markets and Finance for the organization. He was also the Treasurer for CyrusOne overseeing Investor Relations, FP&A, Procurement, M&A and Capital Markets for the organization. While at CyrusOne he helped manage the company’s IPO and numerous other transactions, successfully raising over $3.5B in capital. Prior to CyrusOne he worked as a management consultant within Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice, working with clients across the Consumer and Industrial Products, Manufacturing and Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. His primary focus was on corporate growth strategy, M&A and finance transformation, helping foster profitable expansion for clients through an executable strategy.

Kemal Hawa, Co-Chair of the Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing Industry Group, represents many of the world’s largest private equity firms, infrastructure funds, real estate investors, and lenders across a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure sector domestically and internationally, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, financing arrangements, joint ventures, and development projects. Kemal also represents dozens of companies throughout the digital infrastructure and telecommunications, media and technology industry, including many of the world’s largest data center operators, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, Cloud providers, fiber providers, media companies, submarine cable operators, fintech companies, wireless and international carriers, Internet service providers, satellite companies, equipment manufacturers, and electric utilities. In addition to M&A and financing transactions, Kemal represents companies in connection with the full spectrum of digital infrastructure transactions globally, including the negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements, telecommunications master service agreements, licensing deals, and other commercial transactions. Kemal is a frequent author and speaker on digital infrastructure topics, and has consistently been recognized as an industry leading attorney in the sector. In 2023 alone, Kemal was named as one of Capacity Media’s “Power 100” – a list of the 100 most influential people in the digital infrastructure sector globally, and was voted “TMT M&A Lawyer of the Year” by an independent panel of judges organized by TMT Finance. Before private practice, Kemal worked for MCI and WinStar Communications.

Daniel English is the President and Co-Founder of Legacy Investing, an investment firm focused on technology impacted real estate. Legacy has completed >$3B in transactions across 19M SF in data centers, e-commerce industrial assets, and life science buildings. Prior to co-founding Legacy Investing, Daniel was a tech start-up executive with leadership roles across M&A, corporate development, strategy, and product management. Daniel studied engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Economics and Finance at Emory University.

Michael bring 23 years of investment banking, commercial real estate, and digital infrastructure experience, and with it he brings a deep understanding how mission critical infrastructure is the bind which holds today’s digital economy together. Serving as Chief Executive Officer for Layer 9 Data Centers, Michael leads the organization’s growth initiatives into Latin America where Layer 9 will begin delivering in 2023 hyperscale data center solutions to cloud service providers and enterprise 1000 clients. Michael has maintained leadership roles with hyperscale data center operators, Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros Technology and previously served in Portfolio Management at Equity Office Properties through the sale of the company to Blackstone in 2007. Michael’s investment banking experience at JP Morgan and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group focused on capital debt placements and distressed credit workouts. Michael recently earned his Executive Education Certifications in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence from the University Of Oxford.

Robert Fey joined Ryan in 2022 in the Arlington, Virginia office, where he serves as a senior manager of commercial property tax. Robert has over a decade of government appraisal experience in Northern Virginia localities Loudoun, Fairfax, and Prince William. Robert specializes in providing real property tax consulting services to his clients, Robert has extensive experience with various property types, including data centers, and other going-concern properties, in addition to office buildings, shopping centers, multifamily, and industrial buildings. Robert has lectured on various property tax topics and has appeared as a speaker for numerous tax organizations.

Ben has over 15 years of commercial real estate experience and specializes in complex capital markets transactions and detail-oriented analytical solutions. His transactions range in size from $30M to $250M+, including over 50 MW of data center sales, 4 million square feet of commercial office sales, and 900,000 square feet of new ground leases. Known as a data center real estate specialist, Ben is well-versed in the complexities of mission-critical facilities and serves as the capital markets expert for Cushman & Wakefield’s Data Center Advisory Group.

Alexis Stobbe recently joined Jacobs as our Vice President and Data Centers Market Leader. He is responsible for growing the data centers business in key geographies, partnering with our sales and operations team to offer our clients innovative solutions and drive successful project delivery. Alexis brings nearly 25 years of operations and business development experience with a focus in the data center industry. In his previous role as Chief Operating Officer for Anord Mardix, Inc., he successfully led a global rebranding and growth strategy including multiple new product launches. Alexis earned his degree in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. As a veteran of the United States Marines where he served as a fighter pilot and reserve officer, Alexis is passionate about giving back by working with multiple foundations to mentor veterans through their career transitions. He enjoys spending time with his wife Ellen and their five children.

Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS, joined Newmark Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as Vice Chairman and the Global Lead for Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Data Centers & Life Science group. Miles is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Miles has led valuations of large individual and portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across six continents (NA, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and African regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers.