Mr. Craig is a senior managing director and has been the regional officer and partner responsible for Hines' New York Tri-State office since 1996. His responsibilities as senior project officer include managing the development, redevelopment, acquisition, construction, modification and/or interior fit-out on projects. Since joining Hines in 1982, Mr. Craig has been involved in a variety of development projects and transactions aggregating approximately 16 million square feet.

Craig received his BA in History/Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Craig served as an adjunct professor of Real Estate Development at the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School from 2010 to 2015. And, is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board at Phipps Houses, New York City’s oldest and largest non-for-profit developer for affordable housing. He was also a recipient of the Building Trades Employers’ Association (BTEA) Award in 2012 and 2007 and the Police Athletic League Award in 2009.

Leslie Wohlman Himmel is founder and co-managing partner of Himmel + Meringoff Properties, a leading owner/operator of New York-based commercial real estate and one of the only privately owned, first generation portfolios of Manhattan office buildings. Founded in 1985 with partner Stephen Meringoff, Himmel + Meringoff currently manages two million square feet of commercial real estate valued in excess of $2 billion.

Ms. Himmel began her career as an acquisitions associate at Integrated Resources in 1979 and is today recognized as one of the foremost women leaders of the commercial real estate industry. Focused on creating value through long-term ownership, she is a creative and insightful hands-on owner responsible for the acquisition of property, strategic repositioning of assets and portfolio financing.

In 2017, Ms. Himmel was named as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by Crain’s. She was honored as Harvard Business School Club of New York’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for 2016 and, in 2011, received REBNY’s Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award for exceptional accomplishment and dedication to leadership in New York real estate.

Ms. Himmel is a Board member of the M&T Bank Directors Advisory Council, New York City Mortgage Committee and the Harvard Business School Club of New York. In 1992, she founded and continues to co-chair REBNY’s Economic Development Committee which works with New York City officials to support economic development initiatives in the city. A member of REBNY’s Board of Governors since 2001, Ms. Himmel also serves on the Board of the Executive Committee. Ms. Himmel is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the UDMUC Red Council of the Urban Land Institute, Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York and YPO/WPO.

Dedicated to women entrepreneurs, Ms. Himmel established “The Women’s Student Association Fellowship Fund” in 2008, which awards scholarships to Harvard Business School students. Ms. Himmel is also an early stage investor and Board advisor to Hello Alfred, a successful online concierge service, developed by two women who are recent HBS graduates.

Ms. Himmel earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received her MBA with high honors from Harvard Business School.

Callie Haines is Executive Vice President and Head of the New York Region for Brookfield Properties. In this role, she is responsible for the performance and strategic positioning of over 26 million square feet of office properties within the New York and Boston regions. Chief among the current projects in Callie’s portfolio is Manhattan West, Brookfield Properties eight-acre, six-building mixed-use development on the West side of Manhattan in the Hudson Yards District. When complete, the site will feature nearly six million square feet of Class-A office space, luxury residences, a boutique hotel and a vibrant urban landscape with landscaped gardens and dynamic street-front retail that will bring together high-end, experiential shops and innovative culinary concepts.

Callie joined Brookfield Properties in 2005 as Director on the Design and Construction team, followed by a three-year tenure in the office development group. Prior to her position at Brookfield Properties, Callie spent five years at Turner Construction Company in New York as a project engineer.

Callie received her Masters in Business Administration from London Business School and her Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton University, majoring in Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Nadir is a managing director and is responsible for all aspects of New

York office real estate investments.

Nadir’s experience includes various positions from asset management,

acquisitions, and product development. Prior to joining Nuveen Real

Estate in 2012, Nadir was involved in both asset management and

acquisitions roles at Silverstein Properties and RLJ development Urban

Lodging Trust (formally RLJ Development LLC).

Nadir graduated with a B.A in Business Administration from St. John’s

University, an M.B.A. from Villanova School of Business and an M.S. in

Real Estate Finance from New York University.

Ted Traum leads all aspects of investment strategy, acquisitions, development, and asset

management for Rockrose Development’s commercial business unit. In this capacity, Ted has

executed over $1 billion dollars of acquisitions relating to over 2 million square feet of office

space in New York and Washington D.C. Notable projects include the acquisition and

redevelopment of 11 Madison Square North in New York and Alexander Court, the Row on 19th

Street and 555 11th Street in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Rockrose, Ted was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New

York. Ted received his JD and MBA from New York University and his BA from Columbia

University. Ted began his career as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Davis

Polk & Wardwell.

Lisa Bevacqua joined CBRE in 2024 and is Executive Managing Director, Investor Portfolio Management. In her role, Lisa is responsible for the strategic partnership and account, Brookfield Properties Operated by CBRE, leading a team of over 1,100 real estate professionals across Brookfield’s 70 million square foot North America office portfolio.

Prior to joining CBRE, Lisa Bevacqua was the Executive Vice President and Head of Asset Management at Silverstein Properties (SP), where she oversaw a $10 billion portfolio of office, multifamily, and life science properties. At SP, Lisa was responsible for overseeing execution of the investment strategy for all properties in the portfolio and managing investor relationships. She served on the company’s investment committee, management team, and diversity and inclusion committee.

Prior to joining Silverstein Properties, Lisa worked in acquisitions and asset management at Citi Property Investors (CPI), a real estate opportunity fund with over $600 million of assets under management. At CPI, Lisa was responsible for underwriting and conducting due diligence on $1.8 billion of real estate transactions. In addition, Lisa oversaw a portfolio of office, condo and land assets. Prior to CPI, Lisa was a leasing broker at CB Richard Ellis/Whittier Partners, with a focus on the downtown Boston office market.

Lisa began her career as a consultant at Accenture, where she worked on assignments aimed at identifying and implementing process and operational improvements at financial services companies.

Lisa earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Boston College. Lisa, her husband, and their four children, live in Westport, CT.

Ian Ross founded SomeraRoad Inc. in 2014 to take an entrepreneurial and creative approach to value-add, opportunistic real estate in non-core markets. Previously, Ian was a Managing Director at Triangle Capital Group, a firm he helped develop shortly after its inception. At Triangle, Ian managed the Acquisitions and Asset Management units, focusing on the purchase of hard asset real estate, non-performing loans, and securitized mortgage products, as well as the conception and execution of value-add business plans. Ian sourced, underwrote and structured investments, in both the CMBS and CRE arenas, and focused on the development of strategic relationships, firm oversight, and risk management.

Prior to joining Triangle, Ian spent two years working as an analyst for Jefferies & Company in its Investment Banking Division where he focused on raising both debt and equity, as well as providing advisory services for companies in the financial services and real estate sectors. Ian initially began his professional career working on Morgan Stanley’s CMBS origination and securitization platform.

Ian received an MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and graduated with honors from Emory University with a Bachelors in Business Administration. Ian serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 5 and sits on the Public Safety & Quality of Life, and Transportation & Environment committees. Additionally, Ian is the Founder and Chairman of The Asperger’s Awareness Council, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that strives to raise awareness and funding for high-functioning forms of Autism.

Liam Clark has a background in Commercial Office Design and Workplace Strategy. He has helped plan, design, and deliver large projects as well as help organizations understand what experiments they can run to evaluate how their people actually use the spaces that they work in. Liam has always maintained a keen interest in how technological developments can augment their processes that designers and strategists employ to generate the spaces that they deliver. For this reason he joined Saltmine in 2018 to help develop a toolset that can allow organizations to better understand their needs and create a closer bond between organizations and their trusted experts.

Morgan is Vice President of Client Relations focusing on Corporate Interiors in New York City for Corgan, a leading global architecture and design firm. A 21-year veteran in the A/E/C industry, her experience initially started working onsite having served in the roles of project engineer, assistant project manager and into business development on both the West Coast and East Coast. Morgan is a Los Angeles native and proud to call New York City her home the past 11 years.

In her role at Corgan, Morgan prides herself on building lasting relationships with their clients and industry partners. She has a keen ability to draw out the vision of the client, understand their brand, and future business goals. As a firm resource, Morgan brings her extensive design and construction experience managing projects from design development through construction administration and strategizes with her team to confirm client’s goals and needs are being delivered.

In addition to her role at Corgan, she is a hard-working mom of a loving and extremely active 8-year-old little girl and a 3-year-old little boy. While being a mom and wife comes first, her desire to be career focused with many other passions around philanthropy keeps Morgan very busy! She loves to volunteer her time and fundraise for many wonderful organizations such as St. Francis Food Pantries, MS Society, HELP USA and now serves as an executive board member of the Lady Savant Foundation.

In addition to her charitable involvement, she is also very dedicated to being a part of industry organizations such as CoreNet Global, where she volunteers her time on the Annual Dinner Committee and is instrumental in helping to put on the organizations largest annual event for the NY Chapter alongside many of her industry peers and colleagues.

Charlie is the Co-Founder and President of The Malin, a work focused members club with three highly desirable New York locations in SoHo, Williamsburg and the West Village. The brand is also about to commence its national expansion before year end in the Wedgewood-Houston and Paseo South Gulch districts of Nashville, with further announcements to follow soon.

The Malin offers neighborhood workspaces that inspire you to work beautifully, where members are surrounded by thoughtful design not distraction. From our initial SoHo flagship and beyond, one promise lives at the heart of every location: The Malin offers beautiful spaces that enable your best work.

Jamie Hodari has executive responsibility for CBRE’s Building Operations & Experience (BOE) business segment, which unifies building operations, workplace experience and property management, positioning CBRE to deliver scalable, future-ready solutions for offices, data centers, warehouses and other facilities.

BOE consists of CBRE’s Enterprise Facilities Management, Local Facilities Management and Property Management business lines and Industrious, CBRE’s wholly owned flexible workplace subsidiary. This segment produced approximately $20 billion of combined revenue, including Industrious, in 2024 and comprises CBRE’s entire 7+ billion sq. ft. global property and corporate facilities management portfolio.

As CBRE’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Hodari also has responsibility for marketing and branding activities across all CBRE businesses.

Jamie Hodari is also Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Industrious, the flexible workplace industry's largest premium provider, with more than 200 locations in over 65 global markets.

Mr. Hodari co-founded Industrious in 2012 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Under his leadership, Industrious has expanded its global footprint and redefined how companies manage their workplace. The company was named one of America’s fastest-growing companies by Inc. Magazine in both 2020 and 2024.

Prior to Industrious, Mr. Hodari served as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kepler, which pioneered a lower-cost, high-performing university model in East Africa. Earlier in his career, he was an investor at Birch Run Capital, a corporate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell, and a reporter for the Times of India.

In 2024, the Commercial Observer named Mr. Hodari to its Power 100 list and Thesis Driven named Mr. Hodari #3 on its list of the 100 most innovative people in real estate. Mr. Hodari holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Charles Esteves is the Director, Preconstruction at Schimenti Construction Company, an industry-leading general contractor headquartered in NYC. Charles collaborates with project partners from concept design to post-construction planning identifying and mitigating risks to ensure the alignment of design, budget, and schedule. Along with a team of skilled estimators and project managers, Charles performs constructability analyses and value engineering options that consider site conditions, material procurement, construction logistics, and labor requirements. The result is innovative solutions that align with our clients’ business objectives and design vision.

Charles holds a BA in Architecture from Yale University and an MBA in Real Estate & Finance from NYU. Charles has over 20 years of experience in the AEC industry, including 7 years as a Superintendent in the field.

Lucas is a Physicist w/ 30 years of experience in construction and construction materials manufacturing. His expertise includes forensic building envelope diagnostics and testing as well as the development of non-intrusive construction analysis equipment and techniques. Lucas is a practitioner of a variety of building performance simulation software and has spent the past 15 years working with builders and design professionals on behalf of Saint-Gobain to achieve more sustainable, durable, and higher performing buildings.

Philippe Visser is President of Related Office Development where he leads the company's expansive

commercial office development efforts nationally. Mr. Visser joined Related in 2013 and led the

successful execution of 30 Hudson Yards, a 2.6 million-square-foot, 1,296-foot-tall office tower and the

future home to KKR, Wells Fargo, Time Warner Inc., DNB Bank and Related's corporate offices.

Prior to joining Related, Philippe served as Director, World Trade Center Redevelopment for the Port

Authority of NY & NJ leading the $15 billion, 14 million-square-foot World Trade Center redevelopment.

Mr. Visser was previously responsible for the acquisition and development of New York City projects for

Tishman Speyer, worked in acquisitions at Vornado Realty Trust and ran the day-to-day development of

commercial office and mixed-use projects for Forest City Ratner.

Mr. Visser graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Phi Beta

Kappa member and Truman Scholar. He has an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a Master's

of Science in Regional and Urban Planning from the London School of Economics, which he attended as

a Thouron Fellow. Mr. Visser has previously chaired the YMCA's 2016 and 2017 capital campaigns and is

a member of the Business Advisory Committee of the New York Aquarium and UJA Brooklyn Advisory

Committee and is a Trustee of Kane Street Synagogue.

Crystal Fisher serves as the Co-Founder of Ease Hospitality, a five-star hospitality brand that she founded to re-evaluate the amenities experience in the commercial leasing market. Using technology to immerse tenants, clients, employees and guests in spaces that exude luxury, comfort, quality and care - traits more common in a world-class hotel than a typical workplace, she created an environment that makes both professional and personal lives easier.

Additionally serving as the Managing Director of the Commercial Portfolio for Fisher Brothers, Crystal oversees leasing, operations, management, commercial construction, and marketing for Fisher Brothers. Through the connections she made within the industry and with tenants, she developed a deep understanding of why people need authentic, connected and transformational spaces that people look forward to enjoying each day. Always believing that to solve a problem, you need to know the problem at its source, she spearheaded the launch of Ease Hospitality in 2020. Partnering with visionaries such as world-renowned architect David Rockwell and his Rockwell Group, Ease Hospitality reimagined what an office and amenities experience could be and how it could truly put tenants and guests at ease.

Prior to joining Fisher Brothers, Crystal owned and operated a home renovation company, managing projects start to finish all with her newborn daughter Rose on her hip. Inspired by her love of creating spaces that truly benefit the user, Crystal brought her hands-on construction and management experience to her oversight of Fisher Brothers New York City based portfolio. Crystal built this path into real estate after a celebrated career in broadcast journalism. An Emmy Award winning reporter, with more than a decade onscreen on networks such as PBS, CCTV and Investigation Discovery, she retired from television to pursue her passion for her true love, home.

Also currently serving as the President of the Avenue of America’s Association and a board member on the Fisher House Foundation, Crystal’s work always centers on an ethos of innovating within the communities and neighborhoods that surround her.

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a real estate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocation agreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation of property as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and is active in health care, senior living, and educational real estate.

During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data center leases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country – covering over 500 million square feet.

He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to real estate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storage facilities, and bulk power purchases.

Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He is Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estate conference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He co-authored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999.

Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of the New York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, US District Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York.

Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his local chapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

Joe Plotkin is director of business development for Stealth Communications, an independently owned ISP in New York City. Stealth has built its own state-of-the-art fiber network throughout the city, and provides multi-gigabit connectivity to businesses.

Plotkin has been at the forefront of broadband connectivity for over two decades, filling a variety of ISP roles. Prior to joining Stealth, he founded a start-up WISP in upstate New You, with a mission to bridge the rural broadband gap. Previously, he led marketing efforts for Bway.net, beginning with the U.S. rollout of DSL.

He also serves on the board of directors for the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY.) He holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Experienced Technology consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the built environment. Skilled in Operations Management, Sales Management, Strategic Partnerships, and Team Building. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) from New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester.

William Elder is the Managing Director of RXR’s New York City division and an Executive Vice President of RXR. Mr. Elder is responsible for the oversight and management of the Company’s New York City office.

Previously, Mr. Elder worked with RXR’s senior management in expanding and managing Reckson Associates Realty Corp.’s six-building, 5.5 million-square-foot NYC portfolio before Reckson was sold to SL Green Realty Corp. in 2007.

Mr. Elder most recently was Senior Managing Director in the strategic agency services group at Cushman & Wakefield. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of leasing at Ruben Co. Elder has also held senior positions at SL Green and Shorenstein Co.

Mr. Elder holds a BS from Wagner College and is a board member and treasurer of the East Side House Settlement, an educationally focused charity located in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. He is also a member of the Real Estate Board of New York.

Dawanna Williams established Dabar Development Partners as a full-service real estate development and investment firm focused on the preservation, renovation and new construction of architecturally significant real estate properties.

With over 20 years of experience in the industry and a background that spans both real estate law and business, Dawanna guides projects with a unique approach that combines her expertise as a legal and business pragmatist, strong community-driven values and a passion for refined materials and design. Her innovation and vision on numerous projects have earned recognition from New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), among others. Under her leadership, revitalizing new construction projects have been completed by the firm in New York City, Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Prior to founding Dabar, Dawanna spent 10 years practicing commercial real estate law, most of that time with prominent firm Sidley Austin LLP. During her legal career, she represented major developers, international funds, investment banks, institutional lenders and private equity investors to facilitate a wide range of complex real estate transactions, totaling millions of spatial square feet and over $10 billion in transactional value.

In addition to her role at Dabar, Dawanna is an avid traveller and enjoys serving on the boards of the New York Real Estate Chamber (NYREC), the Apollo Theater Foundation and The Trust For Cultural Resources of The City Of New York.

Jonathan Fanuzzi joined Newmark’s New York City office in 2022 as an Executive

Managing Director, providing both agency leasing and tenant representation services

for a wide range of asset classes and industries. He rejoins Newmark as one of the

senior members of, President of New York Tri-State Region, David Falk’s team.

Over the course of his 24-year career, Fanuzzi has completed more than 20 million

square feet of transactions across the United States for an array of clients. Owners and

investors have entrusted Fanuzzi to lead the leasing campaigns for some of New York

City’s most prominent buildings, such as the Empire State Building, The Seagram

Building, One Liberty, 230 Park Avenue, 452 Fifth Avenue, 1166 Avenue of the

Americas and 101 Avenue of the Americas. Fanuzzi’s expertise in developing and

executing innovative leasing strategies, coupled with his strong analytical skills and

deeply rooted relationships in the brokerage community, have cemented his reputation

as one of the most respected leasing executives in New York City.

As a tenant representative, he has served as trusted advisor to clients across a broad

spectrum of industries, including law firms, boutique financial services companies,

insurance firms, technology and life science companies. Representative clients include

companies such as Syneos Health/INC Research, Parexel, First Light Fiber, Xtellus

Capital, World Gold Council, Schindler, Cohen and Hochman, and L3 Technologies.

Fanuzzi returned to Newmark after a decade at JLL, where he was consistently ranked

among the firm’s top national producers and was awarded their “Top Gun” and “Gold

Achiever” designations multiple times. While at JLL, his team was involved in some of

the most transformative projects in New York City, including HSBC's 580,000-square-

foot renewal at 452 Fifth Avenue, NY Genome Center's 175,000-square-foot lease at

101 Avenue of the Americas, Syneos Health's 87,000-square-foot relocation at 200

Vesey Street and over 240,000 square

Ramneek Rikhy is an Executive Vice President in CBRE’s Consulting Group

in New York City, where she is responsible for developing, analyzing,

and executing real estate strategies for companies across various

industries. Since joining CBRE in 2004, Ramneek has completed in

excess of 20 million square feet of assignments. Ramneek has been

involved in the negotiation and structuring of complex lease and sales

transactions for a wide range of tenants across a variety of industries,

with a focus on financial services, legal services and media.

CREDENTIALS

Education

• New York University, Stern School of Business, Bachelor of Science

in Economics

• Stuyvesant High School, New York City

Professional Credentials / Affiliations

• Member, Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)

• Licensed Broker, State of New York

• Co-Chair, CBRE New York Diversity Taskforce

• Co-Chair, CBRE Asian Pacific Network – NY Chapter

• Board Member, Partnership with Children

Industry Recognition

• New York Real Estate Journal’s “Women in Real Estate” (2016)

• GreenDeal Award, “Most Significant Transaction” (2016)

• GreenDeal Award, “Most Significant Transaction” (2014)

• Consulting Group, Professional of the Year (2011)