Scott’s real estate development career began in full force in 1990, 27 years ago. With his partner Jim Levin, they founded Neighborhood Restorations, an affordable housing development company, and set out on a mission of restoring abandoned and blighted single-family homes in West Philadelphia. They gutted, rehabbed and developed over 1000 houses including nearly 1200 units for low-income families with a total investment of nearly $200 million while employing more than 50% local minority contractors over their entire history.

Additionally, Neighborhood Restorations moved their offices into the heart of West Philadelphia at the former Oliver Wendell Homes Middle School, the first middle school in the United States. There, they completed a historic restoration and preservation of the entire building, including 42 units for senior citizens and a magnificent auditorium used for both seniors and community activities.

In 2009, Scott established University Place Associates with a firm commitment to social responsibility and environmental sustainability. His hope in contributing to and developing a world-class ‘Platinum Corridor®’ on Market Street, centered at the 40th Street transit hub, is that this effort, including bringing new jobs and new energy, will become a place for all to enjoy!

Combining client needs, marketplace trends and innovative ideas is Angel DeElse’s design niche as NELSON Philadelphia’s Managing Director. She calls this the “Home Run” when leading her design team to develop a client’s ideal space, maximizing efficiencies and flexibility. A lesson learned from her most recent project is "you are never too old to learn something new." An epicure in her spare time, Angel says if she were food she would be “anything Italian - spaghetti formaggio parmigiano, an authentic Italian dish flamed with whiskey at your table!"

Zach Wade has over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate investment and project leasing and has led the company in over $500 million of office acquisitions since joining MRP Realty in 2006. During this time, he also played a major role in MRP’s coworking affiliate company, MAKE Offices, where he served as CEO and treasurer until April 2020. Prior to joining MRP, Zach was Director of Acquisitions for the Mid-Atlantic region of NPV/Direct Invest, an operating partner of Lehman Brothers, and was directly responsible for the acquisition of office and warehouse properties valuing over $120 million. While at Trammell Crow Company, Zach leased over two million square feet of office space in Northern Virginia. He is an Executive Committee Member for the Washington Real Estate Group. Zach received a B.A. in Economics and Communications Studies from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University.

Josh Dubin has nearly a decade of experience in event production. While working for the City of Philadelphia, Josh organized professional development events and town hall gatherings focused on serving the city’s creative and cultural sectors, as well as a performing arts series that showcased local talent in City Hall courtyard. Since 2009, Josh has also produced Bloktoberfest, an annual non-profit street fair that welcomes over 25,000 attendees from throughout Greater Philadelphia. Josh previously served as Executive Director of Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund, where he developed programming for Philadelphia’s growing network of public skateparks. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Center City resident.

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.

Adam Glaser is an architect and urban designer at Ayers Saint Gross (ASG), a firm that focuses on creating innovation districts. Glaser and his team approach projects like an entrepreneur launching a startup. ASG’s principals and staff provide design, planning, and technical expertise for a wide variety of project types around the globe, with a particular focus on higher education. Glaser has developed Campus 2.0, a campus planning initiative founded on the idea that anchor institutions have as much interest in growing the areas around their campuses, including innovation space, non-student residential, transit, and businesses as they do in their campus cores. These edge developments are critical to attracting and retaining the city’s talent and in growing its communities.

Glaser advises his higher education clients on placemaking strategies, which include mixed-use and coworking spaces that appeal to younger entrepreneurs. He joined Benjamin’s Desk to gain first-hand experience with the innovation economy that is taking place in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square.

GLOBAL DIRECTOR, WORKPLACE PERFORMANCE STRATEGY

Amy is the Global Director of Jacobs Workplace Performance Strategies team. She has created new ways of working for a wide range of both public and private organizations to align mission, vision and business drivers. Amy’s experience focuses on organizational dynamics and how work, culture and work processes inform business performance. Our data driven approach includes senior leader and employee engagement, predictive analytics to shape responsive solutions and prepare for change management. As a thought leader in strategy, Amy speaks regularly at national conferences including Corenet Global, BOMA, and NeoCon. Her unique perspective on people, place, and work brings a distinct advantage to each client with whom she works.

Mr. Sclarow has 19 years of experience in the Architectural Design and Construction Industry. He is a Project Manager, Architect and Business Development Leader in the design and delivery of sports, entertainment, educational, healthcare, museum and performing arts facilities for clients across the United States. Mr. Sclarow has a significant background in infrastructure, directing all project phases from design through completion of construction, coordinating with contractors as well as partnering with engineering and specialty consultants. He has extensive experience in due diligence assessments and construction risk management for a variety of property types and the needs and requirements of varied number of reporting standards, including ASTM standards, EPA’s All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI), and customized client formats. Specifically, Mr. Sclarow has performed Feasibility Analysis Reports, Property Condition Assessments (PCAs), Document and Cost Reviews and Construction Progress Monitoring. Mr. Sclarow’s diversity across academic, commercial, healthcare, hospitality and residential environments are a major contribution to Partner Engineering and Science’s Project Management team across the United States.

Erik Williams assists clients with commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on site acquisition, disposition, finance, construction, and leasing matters. He has advised a broad range of public and private clients, from small entrepreneurs to large institutions.

Erik also represents numerous hospital and health care institutions, colleges and universities, and developers in connection with complex project development and construction-related matters. He also advises landlords and tenants on matters involving real estate law, including the development approval process, financing, leasing and construction.

Erik regularly lectures to a variety of audiences on real estate-related legal issues. He co-authored several chapters in the Annual Real Estate Institute Manual, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI). He is also a frequent contributor to various real estate periodicals and actively participates in firm management, including as vice chair of the Real Estate, Energy and Environmental Department and vice office managing partner of the Philadelphia office.

Prior to entering law school, Erik taught English and journalism at St. Michael’s High School on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. He received AmeriCorps’ National Service Award for outstanding volunteer contribution to national education.

Bob Underhill joined Shorenstein in 2002. He is responsible for leading all of the company’s fund management activities, including fund-raising, investor relations, investor reporting, and portfolio management. He participates in the strategic direction of the company as a member of its executive committee and in the company’s investment activities as a member of its investment committee.

Mr. Underhill is a member of the board of directors of Opus Holdings, a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary and a member of its Investment Committee, a member of the Investment Committee of Sarah Lawrence College, and a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. Underhill is a member of the Urban Land Institute and The Real Estate Roundtable’s Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee.

Prior to joining Shorenstein, Mr. Underhill was a principal at Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors where he was part of a management team that was brought in to manage and restructure investments in their fund portfolios. Prior to Lazard Frères, Mr. Underhill worked for over 17 years in real estate investment and operations with LaSalle Partners and Security Capital Group.

Mr. Underhill graduated from Colby College with a B.A., and from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with an M.B.A.

Mr. Wirth was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in March 2014. Since December 2009, Mr. Wirth served the Company as Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management and Investments where he directed portfolio management, acquisition and disposition activities and assisted in formulating the Company’s capital allocation tactics, including structuring joint ventures and construction financings. From 2004 until 2009, Mr. Wirth served as President (2007-2009) and Chief Financial Officer of Feldman Mall Properties. From 1997 to 2004, he served first as the Vice President of Finance and later as Chief Financial Officer of SL Green Realty Corporation. Mr. Wirth has also served as Vice President of Financial Reporting and Analysis for Greenwich, Connecticut-based United Waste System, Inc., and spent ten years with Ernst & Young LLP in various positions, including Senior Manager. Mr. Wirth earned his B.A. in business management and accounting from Gettysburg College.

Mr. Wirth is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT"), Urban Land Institute ("ULI") and is a board member of The Philadelphia Police Foundation and the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.

Appointed Executive Vice President of Cigna Corporation in 2003, John Murabito helps drive growth through clear linkage between the enterprise business strategy and effective human resources and people strategies, talent management and succession processes, as well as compensation and benefits, employee relations, leadership development and training. He is also responsible for a variety of corporate-wide administrative areas, including travel, security, real estate, and other support services

Prior to joining Cigna, Murabito served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Services at Monsanto. His background includes more than 30 years of extensive related experience with the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo, Symbion, Inc., and The Trane Company.

Murabito serves on the boards of Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resources Studies, the Human Resources Policy Association, the American Health Policy Institute and the Personnel Roundtable. He is active in various civic and community organizations in the Philadelphia area.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in Illinois where he also serves as a trustee. He received his master’s degree from the University of Iowa.

As chief financial officer, Mr. Hall is responsible for all financial functions, including regulatory and management reporting, financial planning and analysis, capital planning, acquisition integration, tax and treasury and facilities at Radian Group Inc. He has more than two decades of leadership and experience in these areas as well as investor relations, corporate development and wealth management.

Prior to joining Radian, Mr. Hall was executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of First Financial Bancorp. He joined First Financial in 1999 and served in a variety of leadership roles. Mr. Hall began his career with Ernst & Young and later joined Firstar Bank (now US Bank) in their credit card division.

Mr. Hall earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Miami University and an MBA from Xavier University.

George S. Hasenecz is the Senior Vice President – Investments of Brandywine Realty Trust. Since 2009, he has been responsible for the Company's portfolio management and investment activities as Brandywine has shifted its portfolio to focus on CBD and town center office properties as well as mixed-use projects in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Austin, TX. Previously, George had served as Brandywine's Vice President of Investments and Director of Acquisitions from 2000 to 2006.

George also worked at ProLogis as Vice President – Capital Deployment from 2006 to 2008 where he oversaw development and investments for the New Jersey and Pennsylvania regions. Prior to his previous tenure at Brandywine, George served as Vice President – Acquisitions with Keystone Property Trust where he oversaw the sale of Keystone’s office portfolio as the company transitioned to a pure-play industrial REIT.

George is the board chair for Starfinder Foundation which is a nonprofit, youth development organization based in Philadelphia. George is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute. George received his B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Drexel University.