Allison Shipper is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Atlas Builders, a commercial general contractor based in New York. Atlas supports high-growth and legacy brands—such as Sweetgreen, Padel Haus, and Fuku—as they scale their physical footprint across the country. Allison oversees firmwide operations and strategic growth, helping retail and hospitality clients navigate new markets and deliver consistent, on-brand experiences at every touchpoint.

Her background spans real estate development, hospitality, and design strategy. Prior to Atlas, Allison led global F&B development for Marriott International, where she built bespoke restaurant programs, licensed chef-driven concepts, and negotiated strategic partnerships across five continents. She began her career in Detroit real estate, growing an investment portfolio from zero to half a million square feet in under two years.

With a foundation in systems thinking and cross-disciplinary training in planning, operations, and brand development, Allison is passionate about building spaces that are not just functional—but deeply aligned with a company’s identity and ambition.

Craig is the Co-Founder and CEO of Empowered Buildings, a technology company specializing in building automation systems, energy management, and smart building solutions. Craig has over 20 years of experience in energy, software, and data analytics. He is considered a leading expert in the field of building automation and energy efficiency.

Craig founded Empowered Buildings in 2020 with the goal of leveraging data and technology to help owners and operators optimize their building’s performance and reduce energy consumption. Under his leadership, the company has grown rapidly and has worked with a wide range of clients across the real estate market, including affordable and multi-family housing, commercial, industrial, hospitality, healthcare, and educational.

Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and currently resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

James is a licensed architect with more than 20 years of experience in a variety of projects, including retail, convenience stores, healthcare, animal care, and historic restoration. As one of the firm's Vice Presidents, James is a mentor to colleagues and coordinates with all disciplines to ensure successful and timely project completion. He’s also responsible for keeping the project team focused on their specific goals and objectives. With his expertise in retail design, James leads dedicated and highly specialized design professionals who are leading the industry in creating innovative design initiatives to improve a customer's in-store experience and increase in-store purchases.

Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Structural Engineering, Roger Williams University, 2002

Jose is a senior managing director and co-office head in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital

Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is a member of the firm’s

leadership committee. Jose specializes in investment advisory throughout New Jersey,

New York and Connecticut and also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s New

Jersey office. During the course of his more than 25-year commercial real estate career,

he’s been involved in more than $62 billion of office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land

sales.

Jose started at HFF in March 2010. Before that, he was the executive director of Cushman &

Wakefield’s New York area investment sales group where he spent more than 17 years. He

began his real estate career as a real estate analyst at PaineWebber, UBS, Inc.

Andrew Dansker is the CEO and founder of Dansker Capital Group, a national mortgage brokerage firm with six U.S. offices and one international office. He oversees a team of 30 professionals originating commercial mortgage debt across all major asset types, with a particular focus on retail and multifamily properties. The firm primarily arranges bank and credit union financing while also executing agency, CMBS, life company, and bridge loan transactions as appropriate. Since its establishment as an independent company in 2020, Dansker Capital Group has placed well over $3 billion in commercial real estate loans nationwide.

Andrew believes the middle-market debt marketplace is under-served by professional, high-quality national firms and sees a significant opportunity for an enterprising company to fill that gap. His leadership vision is to build an organization that delivers institutional-quality service, execution, and results to the national middle-market debt space.

Andrew is a published industry commentator whose writing on the real estate lending market has appeared in The Commercial Observer, Real Estate Weekly, and New York Real Estate Journal. He is also a frequent industry speaker and contributor at conferences and events organized by Bisnow, GlobeSt, Interface, Commercial Observer, ConnectCRE, and other leading commercial real estate platforms. He has more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.

Andrew Berry is a Senior Director in the Capital Markets Group of Cushman & Wakefield, where he specializes in Investment Sales in New York City. Previously, he

was an Associate at Massey Knakal Realty Services, which was acquired by Cushman

& Wakefield on December 31, 2014.

Since joining Cushman, Andrew has handled the sale of over $850 million worth

of commercial real estate in New York City. Notable transactions include the $282

million sale of the fee position of 760 Madison Avenue, the $111.5 million portfolio sale

of four residential conversion buildings on the Upper West Side at 30 Morningside

Heights, and a long-term master lease for the retail at the base of the Carlyle Hotel.

Andrew and his team also sold the first ever opportunity zone deal to a QOF in

Manhattan when they completed the sale of 48 Clinton Street in December of 2018.

Andrew has sold a mixture of multifamily, mixed-use, office, retail and development

deals and has worked on behalf of a variety of different clients, including large

investment funds, non-for-profits and families. Andrew earned his Bachelor of Arts

degree in History from Bates College.

Jack is responsible for the strategic direction of the Northeast portfolio (Northern New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut), which totals 100 assets and approximately 10 million square feet. Jack oversees the region's leasing, operations, and asset management activities.

Jack began his career at Regency in 2011 as a leasing agent, managing assets in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Later, Jack moved to Connecticut to open Regency's office in Westport, managing ground-up developments in New Jersey and New York and overseeing the Northeast Portfolio.

Before Regency, Jack handled national tenant representation, institutional shopping center leasing, land acquisitions, and development at KLNB Retail in Washington, DC.

Jack earned a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia and received a postgraduate degree at the McIntire Business Institute at the University of Virginia. He won the NCAA National Lacrosse Championship in 2003 for the University of Virginia, receiving All-America Honors.

He sits on the Board of the YMCA—Darien and volunteers at the United Way, Person 2 Person, and Darien Athletic Association. Jack enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, playing golf, tennis, and squash, and coaching lacrosse, basketball, and football.

During his 17+ year career as a commercial real estate broker MONA chief executive officer and founder

Brandon L. Singer has negotiated lease transactions with an aggregate value totaling well over $3 billion.

In September of 2020, Singer launched MONA, a forward-thinking retail brokerage firm that guides

tenants and landlords through the increasingly disrupted retail and commercial real estate landscape.

Since its inception, MONA has hired many of the top retail brokers in New York City and become a

launchpad for the retail stars of tomorrow all while negotiating many of the most prominent retail real

estate deals in New York City.

Singer’s myriad deals at MONA have included Gucci’s lease of 45 Ninth Avenue and Breitling’s lease of

875 Washington Street, both of which were signed in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, as well as

LUISAVIAROMA’s lease of 1 Bond Street in Noho for the brand’s first United States store. All three deals

were nominated for REBNY’s prestigious Retail Deal of the Year award. Singer also negotiated flagship

leases for clients Ben Soleimani Furniture, Showfields, Padel Haus, and many others. As a corporate

executive and founder, Singer is most proud of bringing aboard several high-profile brokers and their

teams to be a part of MONA’s winning culture, as well as fostering an environment where new talent

can learn and grow their careers in an accelerated fashion relative to other commercial real estate firms.

Prior to his commercial real estate career, Brandon graduated from The George Washington University

in 2007 with a degree in Business Administration, and as a proud alum, Brandon has been back to

campus to teach classes in the Real Estate school. Brandon is a member of the International Council of

Shopping Centers and the Real Estate Board of New York. He is also a Root Society member and former

Vice Chairman of Jewish National Fund’s JNF Future as well as a benefactor to UJA, AJC, AIPAC and the

Real Estate Division, New Leadership Cabinet of the State of Israel Bonds.

Peter Braus is the Managing Principal and Cofounder of Lee & Associates NYC, where he oversees over sixty brokerage professionals, and is actively involved in every aspect of managing and running the business. Mr. Braus is also Vice-Chair of Lee & Associates’ National Board of Directors.

Mr. Braus has been involved in the ownership and brokerage of real estate for over 25 years, specializing in strategic repositioning of major retail assets on behalf of owners and developers. He joined Lee & Associates NYC in 2011 as an owner/investor.

In 2019, Mr. Braus won the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Retail Deal of the Year Award.

Prior to Lee & Associates NYC, Mr. Braus was a retail leasing broker with Newmark Real Estate. He has been involved in a wide variety of brokerage transactions and currently represents numerous owners and tenants.

Mr. Posniak, who has over thirty years’ experience in the repositioning of office, retail, and industrial properties, is involved in its office and retail operations, acquisitions, leasing, marketing, and public relations. He was instrumental in the creation of the hugely successful W&H Properties brand, a portfolio comprising nine Manhattan Pre-War trophy buildings totaling eight million square feet of office and retail space. The portfolio consists of the Empire State Building; One Grand Central Place (60 East 42nd Street); 112 West 34th Street; 501 Seventh Avenue; 250 West 57th Street; and 1333, 1350, 1359 and 1400 Broadway.

Mr. Posniak currently serves on several committees of the Real Estate Board of New York, as well as the Grand Central Partnership, 34th Street Partnership, Fashion BID Partnership, and is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Building Owners and Managers Association. He also is former member of the Board of Governors of the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association.

Alvin Schein is a Co-Chair of the NYC Real Estate Estate Tax & Zoning Incentives Practice at Adler & Stachenfeld LLP. A recognized expert in cooperative and condominium law and affordable housing law, Mr. Schein has filed or supervised the filing of more than 200 inclusionary housing plans with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”), in both onsite and offsite contexts. He is one of the few attorneys in New York whose practice includes representing sellers and purchasers of inclusionary air rights.

Mr. Schein has prepared hundreds of cooperative and condominium offering plans and condominium declarations, including those for affordable home ownership and the first-ever condominium and cooperative offering plans for inclusionary housing home ownership. He regularly interfaces with HPD, the NYS Attorney General’s office, the NYC Industrial Development Agency, the NYS Housing Finance Agency, the NYC Housing Development Corporation, and the NYC Department of City Planning, as well as New York City Council members and local community boards.

Before joining Adler & Stachenfeld in 2025, Mr. Schein was affiliated with Seiden & Schein, P.C., a law firm he co-founded in 1996. Seiden & Schein was well regarded as a firm with extensive knowledge of the critical areas of real estate tax incentive programs, condominium development, and inclusionary housing with attorneys possessing the ability to counsel clients through highly complex real estate transactions.

Mr. Schein is admitted to practice law in New York.

From your favorite coffee shop to some of the world’s most iconic retail destinations, Keith is a trusted advisor and a recognized leader at Autodesk. With over 25 years of experience in technology consulting for the design and construction industry—and 14 years at Autodesk—Keith has helped major retail brands implement global BIM and Digital Project Delivery strategies. His work has led to improved operational efficiency, streamlined project execution, and strong returns on investment. Keith brings deep expertise in aligning technology with business goals, transforming retail environments through smart design and innovation.