Opening Remarks and Welcome

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  Kristin Lamb

  Kristin Lamb, RCE, Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS, Inc. Kristin Lamb serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS, which is the largest commercial REALTOR association in the United States with approximately 2,500 members. The ACBR is considered the model for the nation for outstanding programs, events and member services, receiving national awards and recognition. Lamb also serves as the vice president of Asset Management & Association Services, which manages eight real estate associations comprised of more than 13,000 members, including the Georgia Chapter of SIOR. She serves as the Executive Vice President of the Atlanta Board Educational Foundation, which owns the Atlanta REALTORS Center; the 40,000 square foot building headquarters of the Atlanta Commercial Board, the Georgia Institute of Real Estate and 53 office tenants. Lamb has served as the chairman of the Commercial Leadership Forum of the National Association of REALTORS and the chairman of the Association Executive Committee of the Georgia Association of REALTORS. She has received the highly credited REALTOR Certified Executive (RCE) designation for expertise in association management by the National Association of REALTORS and received the coveted ACBR President’s Award on two occasions. Lamb has been honored by Bisnow as one of the Most Powerful Women in Commercial Real Estate and has been recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in the “Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate” for fifteen consecutive years. Lamb was recently honored as one of the Most Admired CEO’s in commercial real estate by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Lamb is married to husband Michael and they have one young daughter, Virginia. Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS, Inc. 5784 Lake Forrest Drive, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30328 404-250-0051 kristin@atlcbr.com

  Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors

  CEO

  Kristin Lamb

  CEO

  Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors

Shaping Atlanta's Skyline

The Challenges Behind Design, Construction and Getting Spaces Leased

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  Nancy Juneau

  Nancy, along with her husband Les, founded Juneau Construction Company in 1997. Since opening its doors 21 years ago, Juneau has become the top woman-owned general contractor in the Southeast, and the 2nd largest woman-owned firm, of any type, in Georgia. Juneau is also ranked #13 among 2018 Top General Contractors in Georgia by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Juneau has grown to over $250 million in annual revenues and over 150 employees with offices in Atlanta and Miami and performs as Construction Managers, Design-Builders and General Contractors on public and private projects across the Southeast. Juneau’s core markets include Higher Education (Housing, Dining, Student Centers, Academic Buildings), Hospitality, Multi-Family/Mixed-Use, and Recreation/Athletic Facilities. Passionate about giving back to the community, Nancy serves on numerous organizations and boards. Newly elected in the summer of 2018, Nancy will serve a four-year term as a University of Georgia Foundation, Board of Trustee, giving back to her Alma Mater. This year Nancy was named one of Atlanta’s Most Admired CEO’s by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and was recognized by March of Dimes with a Women of Distinction Award for her extensive contributions to the local community. Juneau is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia and she also serves on the Georgia Independent College Association Board and Executive Committee. Additionally, Nancy enjoys speaking on panels, at conferences and to local businesses including events for Clemson Construction Industry Symposium, UGA Terry Business School, NAWIC and ENR’s Groundbreaking Women in Construction Conference. On the weekends Nancy enjoys competing in triathlons, spending time with family at the beach, and cheering on the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens.

  Juneau Construction Company

  CEO

  Nancy Juneau

  CEO

  Juneau Construction Company

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  Kimberly Rousseau

  A Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Florida, Kim Rousseau has over 20 years of professional experience in interior design and project management, specializing in commercial office interiors. Kim leads a strong team of designers dedicated to great design achievements which fundamentally begin with establishing strong communication with clients, understanding their needs, and formulating the solution tailored to the project’s objectives. Kim’s dedication to client service and inspired design is grounded in her ability to successfully manage design projects from conception to close- out. Kim has led design projects around the globe for notable Fortune 500 companies, admired Healthcare systems, respected and innovative Universities, and National multi-family developers. She has a wide variety of experience that includes professional service offices, creative offices, base building design and renovation, corporate headquarters, research and development facilities, child care center, innovation centers, college campuses, residential, education, and camps. Kim is NCIDQ certified and a registered Interior Designer in Florida and Georgia. She is a Leader in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional, Interior Design and Construction (LEED AP ID+C). With active memberships in IIDA, CREW and CORENET, Kim believes it is important to advance knowledge and share Best Practices of design within the real estate community.

  Cooper Carry

  Principal, Director of Interior Design

  Kimberly Rousseau

  Principal, Director of Interior Design

  Cooper Carry

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  Jennifer Koontz

  Pope & Land Responsibilities: Jennifer oversees the leasing for both Pope & Land’s office portfolio and assets for several third-party owners. Currently Jennifer and her team lease 1.7 million square feet of office space that is on average 92% leased. When working on overall mixed-use developments, Jennifer leases both ground floor and stand-alone retail. Additionally, Jennifer works closely with Asset and Construction Management to evaluate and oversee property improvements, insuring that the improvements chosen will yield the highest return to investors. Professional Experience: Originally starting as a leasing assistant and construction manager, Jennifer has been leasing in most of the major submarkets for more than 13 years. She has leased over 3.6 million square feet during her tenure at Pope & Land. For more than 10 consecutive years she has been a member of both the NAIOP and Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtor’s Million Dollar Club. Education: Jennifer has a BS in Business Management from Wake Forest University and has her CCIM designation. Membership: Finishing up the 3 rd year on the Atlanta Commercial Board’s Board of Directors, Jennifer is active in the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors, NAIOP and CCIM. Personal: She lives in Brookhaven with her husband Charles and two kids.

  Pope & Land

  Managing Director – Leasing

  Jennifer Koontz

  Managing Director – Leasing

  Pope & Land

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  Christine Gorham

  Christine Gorham, CCIM, has been CEO and Partner of Eastwood Real Estate Services, LLC since 2010. Christine has over 26 years of medical operations experience, with over 16 of those years focused in the real estate sector of healthcare, 10 of those years with the Northside Hospital System in Atlanta, making her a uniquely qualified professional. She gained valuable insight into the inner-workings of primary care, ambulatory surgery centers, long term VA care facilities, home health, and hospital systems. In the medical real estate arena she has asset managed, leased from both the Landlord and Tenant positions, construction/project managed, site selected, and property managed. She directed a national portfolio, heavily concentrated in healthcare, for SRS Investments, LLC, a private investment company. She was responsible for all asset management details which included oversight of leasing, property management, budgeting, marketing, taxes, capital improvements, as well as assisting with due diligence for acquisitions, investor relationships, and lender activities. Christine has leased over 3,500,000 square feet of medical, dental, veterinary, office, and retail real estate. Christine currently serves as a Director in her second year on the CREW Network Board (an organization of nearly 10,000 members in the U.S. and Canada) and as Past President of CREW Atlanta (an organization of appx 375 members). She was honored with the 2015 Shining Light Award by CREW Atlanta, an annual selection which is presented to Georgians who have inspired the lives of others through their service. She was named one of Atlanta’s Top 40 Most Powerful Women in Commercial Real Estate by BISNOW and Who’s Who in the Top 100 Influential Leaders in Commercial Real Estate by Atlanta Business Chronicle, both in 2014. She has spoken at several medical real estate conferences and has written articles for real estate publications related to healthcare real estate. She has been active in several national and local organizations including CREW Network (2016 & 2015 Board of Directors, 2014-2015 Education Committee and 2013 Nominating Committee), CREW Atlanta (2014 President, 2013 National Delegate, 2010 Co-Chair and 2008 Graduate of CREW Leadership), Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (2016 Mentor, Community Service and Government Affairs Committees, 2015 & 2014 Diversity Initiative Committee, 2015 Higher Education Outreach Co-Chair, 2014 & 2013 Board of Directors), 2015 Empire Board of Realtists Commercial Council – Broker Apprentice Program Mentor, Dental Resource Partners, Healthcare Solutions Resource Forum, Atlanta and North Fulton chapters of the Medical Management Association, and Women In Healthcare. She has participated in Georgia Dental Association and Georgia Veterinary Medical Association events. Christine has a B.S.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from Slippery Rock University and is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designee.

  Eastwood Real Estate Services

  CEO

  Moderator

  Christine Gorham

  CEO

  Eastwood Real Estate Services

Leasing Outlook

Live, Work, Play and Health

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  Kay Younglove

  Kay Younglove is a thirty year veteran of the Atlanta commercial real estate industry, having successfully leased some of the city’s most high profile office buildings, including One Atlantic Center, Regions Plaza and Three Ravinia Drive. She joined JLL in 2010, where she’s been responsible for repositioning, marketing and leasing a 3.5 million-square-foot portfolio of urban and suburban assets, creating significant value for clients such as GE Capital, Wells Real Estate Funds, Oaktree Capital, Behringer Harvard, Hudson Advisors, TIER REIT, Banyan Street Capital, Investcorp, Crocker Partners, and Voya. Prior to JLL, Younglove was VP of Colonial Properties Trust, and its predecessor, CRT Properties, where she was responsible for leasing a 1.7 million-square-foot, Class A office portfolio which included Regions Plaza, The Peachtree in Midtown, Three Ravinia Drive and 1455 Lincoln Parkway in Central Perimeter and The Park at Windward Concourse in North Fulton. She also oversaw marketing for a 3 million-square-foot portfolio, while increasing occupancy of the 805,000-square-foot, Three Ravinia from 49 percent to 95 percent. In 2007, Younglove closed 536,880 square feet of transactions, valued at $123 million and was named by NAIOP as The Top Producer for office leasing in the city. Younglove previously served as SVP of Prentiss Properties, in charge of leasing and management in Atlanta. She was responsible for leasing One Atlantic Center, the 50-story Midtown landmark for owner Sumitomo Life Realty (NY), Inc, along with numerous other urban and suburban assets including 1117 Perimeter Center West. In 2000, she closed over $90 million in transactions and was named for the fourth time in ten years as a top five producer for office leasing in Atlanta. Prior to Prentiss, Younglove leased Peachtree Center, the six-tower, 2.3 million-square-foot, multi-use complex in downtown Atlanta for five years. During the first eight years of her career, she leased suburban assets for Metro Atlanta Properties, oversaw leasing and management and personally closed an average of 52 leases per year. Younglove is 2018 President of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors, Vice Chair of the Board of Dekalb Perimeter Community Improvement District, and a past president, charter member and Hall of Fame inductee of CREW Atlanta, where she serves on the Past President’s Advisory Council. Younglove is a licensed broker in Georgia and a graduate of Georgia State University. She has served on the Board of Midtown Alliance, Buckhead Christian Ministry and as Trustee of the Realtors Political Action Committee. She is an active member of NAIOP and a frequent speaker at industry events.

  JLL

  SVP

  Kay Younglove

  SVP

  JLL

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  Jodi Selvey

  AREA OF EXPERTISE Jodi Selvey specializes in Office Tenant Representation. She works with her clients to provide strategic planning and solutions to their real estate needs. Ms. Selvey offers over 28 years of comprehensive real estate experience which includes leasing a number of corporate headquarters locations, office building sales, site selection, restructuring of leases and providing detailed nancial analysis. Jodi executes in a creative way to solve complicated transactions, whether she’s asked to sell a difficult building, meet a nonpro t organization’s nancial benchmarks, or seek out non-traditional solutions for a client. Additionally, Ms. Selvey works with national clients on multi-city assignments, thereby creating a single point of contact for all their real estate needs across the country. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Ms. Selvey has been involved in fundraising for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Atlanta Ronald McDonald House, where she co-chaired the annual Brookhaven Tour of Homes for four years. She is also involved with Habitat for Humanity—serving on the fundraising committee and as a builder for the Marist Women Build since 2005. Ms. Selvey is very involved in her alma mater, where she chaired the UGA Parents Council in 2016 and 2017 and is currently a member of the 2018 UGA Board of Visitors. She is an executive board member at the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (ACBR) and is a member of the Million Dollar Club and Sponsorship Committees. BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ms. Selvey has been actively engaged in the commercial real estate eld since 1987 and joined Colliers International in 2003. She came to Colliers from Richard Bowers & Company, where she was the number one producer in both 2001 and 2002. She became a partner as well as the rst female partner in the Colliers Atlanta office in 2005. Ms. Selvey is the head of the Office Services Group in Atlanta. PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Colliers Atlanta #1 Producer, Office Services Group (2016, 2011) • Executive Board Member, Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (2018, 2017, 2016) • Everest Club - Colliers International (top 10% within Colliers internationally) (2017, 2016, 2015) • Bisnow Top 40 Women Power Brokers Award (2014) • Colliers Atlanta Top 10 Overall Producer (2016, 2015) • CoStar Power Broker Award - Top Office Leasing Broker, Atlanta (2016, 2014, 2013) • Member of Colliers National Occupier Services Group (OSG) Platform • Colliers Atlanta #2 Overall Producer (2010) • MCA Award for originating the most multi-city assignments (2017, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2006) • Lifetime Achievement Million Dollar Club • Board Member, Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013) • Member of the Month, Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (April 2012) • Phoenix Award Recipient - Ten years as Million Dollar Club Producer (2007) • Colliers Atlanta Enthusiasm Award (2006)

  Colliers International

  SVP

  Jodi Selvey

  SVP

  Colliers International

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  Monetha Cobb

  Monetha Cobb, Senior Vice President for Franklin Street Real Estate Services, specializes in retail tenant services throughout the Southeast. As the frontrunner for Franklin Street’s Retail Tenant Services Group, she has led the team to more than $261 million in closed lease deals since 2010. She has more than 15 years of experience in tenant representation for nationally-recognized retailers, focusing on leasing and land brokerage. Mrs. Cobb is a trusted advisor for top-of-class retailers who have depended on her expertise and relationships to guide strategy and execution of their retail rollout including; PNC Bank, Dollar Tree Stores, Bealls Outlet, Cabela’s, and Planet Fitness. By focusing on retailers’ entire real estate life cycle – from strategy development to store opening – she has ensured success for both building relationships and multiple objectives for her clients. Consistently one of Atlanta’s top retail producers, Mrs. Cobb has received Franklin Street’s Sales Achievement Award the last six years in a row. She was recognized with the 2013 and 2015 Leadership Award for her outstanding leadership skills. She earned the 2017, 2014 and 2011 Top Earner award, the 2011 Largest Leasing Fee award and was one of Franklin Street’s first qualifiers for its company-wide rewards trip. She has been recognized with several other honors including being named Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate in 2016 and 2017, and a 2014 Up & Comer by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Bisnow’s 2014 Atlanta Power Woman in Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Forum’s Woman of Influence in 2013 and 2015, and CoStar’s Power Broker Award in 2011, 2013 and 2016. She is a prominent member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and served on the board as the 2017 President for Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Atlanta. She is a graduate of the CREW Leadership Class of 2008. In addition to her role as Managing Director, Mrs. Cobb is a member of Franklin Street’s Board of Directors. She also serves her community supporting several local groups including Camp Twin Lakes and the Atlanta Women’s Foundation. In 1999, Mrs. Cobb graduated with her Bachelor of Business Administration in Banking and Finance from the University of Georgia. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Atlanta ACCOLADES Franklin Street Sales Achievement Award, 2010 - 2017 Franklin Street Leadership Award, 2013, 2015 Franklin Street Top Earner 2017, 2014, 2011 Atlanta Business Chronicle - Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate, 2016, 2017 Up & Comer, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2014 Bisnow Atlanta Power Woman in Commercial Real Estate, 2014 Real Estate Forum’s Woman of Influence, 2013, 2015, CoStar Power Broker, 2011, 2013, 2016; EDUCATION: University of Georgia, B.S. Finance

  Franklin Street Real Estate Services

  SVP

  Monetha Cobb

  SVP

  Franklin Street Real Estate Services

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  Penelope Cheroff

  Penelope Cheroff, President and Founder of The Cheroff Group, is a commercial real estate broker and consultant with over 25 years of experience, specializing in the retail and restaurant industries. Penelope has an extensive background in operations, having worked for many years as owner/manager of both restaurants and retail clothing stores. This hands-on experience has enhanced her knowledge and expertise. Ms. Cheroff serves both the private and public sectors. Her clients include developers, owners, operators, architects, retail and restaurant chains, government agencies, and attorneys. She has successfully completed assignments in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, and California. Penelope Cheroff's credibility is evidenced by the repeat and referral business of (1) many major institutions and corporations such as Turner Sports and Entertainment, Turner Properties, Hines, TIAA-CREF, Post Properties, Equitable, Prudential, DIHC, etc. and (2) many national and local restaurant chains such as the Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Houlihan's, Applebee's, Fado Irish Pub, Cru Wine Bar, Dancing Goats, Watershed, Hudson Grille, Metrotainment Café's, Bantam & Biddy, Watershed, Taco Bell, and Subway. Institutions and corporations have entrusted Ms. Cheroff with the highly visible retail and restaurant components of their most prestigious projects. Restaurant chains have used Ms. Cheroff as an outsource for their real estate work in her market. These types of clients are the foundation of her business. Penelope Cheroff is a founding member, as well as a board member, of the Restaurant and Real Estate Connection (RARE Connection). RARE is a network of restaurant real estate brokers and consultants comprised of top restaurant and retail real estate professionals in major metropolitan areas. Ms. Cheroff is actively involved in local, national, and international organizations, including: The International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Association of Realtors, the Restaurant and Real Estate Connection (RARE), the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors and Atlanta's Midtown Alliance. Ms. Cheroff supports her community and City by serving on the Piedmont Park Conservancy (as a board member) and on Atlanta's NPU-E and the Development Review Committees for SPI-16 and SPI-17 as an active neighborhood, and business, representative.

  The Cheroff Group

  President & Founder

  Penelope Cheroff

  President & Founder

  The Cheroff Group

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  Lee Eastwood

  Lee Eastwood CCIM, owner of Eastwood Real Estate Services, has over 25 years of experience leasing medical and office buildings in Atlanta. She has leased more than five million square feet to such tenants as IBM, Target, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Resurgens Orthopaedics and Emory Hospital, to name a few. She has represented owners of the city’s leading commercial properties including Mutual of New York (MONY), Laing Properties, Taylor & Mathis, Cousins Properties, The Landmarks Group, Trammell Crow, Faison, Emory Hospital, Northside Hospital and Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Most recently, Lee was responsible for filling Cousins Properties medical portfolio. This included almost 1,000,000 square feet in Atlanta. Lee accomplished the goal by getting the 360,000 square foot Crawford Long Medical Office Tower to 95% leased ahead of schedule and within proforma. Because of her extensive medical background, she understands the often unique politics of hospitals and their special needs along with CON issues and letters of non-reviewability. Coupled with these skills, she is familiar with the nuances of medical leases, tenant improvements and space requirements exclusive to the medical field. Lee is a Georgia licensed real estate broker and a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM). She has served on the board of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors, the Grady Board of Visitors, is a Past President of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) and sat on the Chair’s Council of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation. She has been named several times to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Who’s Who In Commercial Real Estate. She was named by Bisnow at one of 40 Power Women in commercial real estate and in 2016 was named to the Hall of Fame for CREW Atlanta. She currently serves on the Board of The Center for Black Women’s Wellness. Eastwood Real Estate Services was founded to represent building and property owners in leasing or selling of their properties and to assist medical and office tenants who desire the highest level of professional assistance for their commercial real estate needs. Tenant services include location selection, lease or purchase negotiations, build to suit or sales of existing properties. Owner services include professional marketing and leasing of properties to credit worthy tenants.

  Eastwood Real Estate Services

  President

  Lee Eastwood

  President

  Eastwood Real Estate Services

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  Patti Pearlberg

  Ms. Pearlberg has over 30 years’ experience in Commercial Real Estate, having worked in Retail, Office, Industrial, Multi-Family and Land Investments, encompassing Asset Management and law related responsibilities, including, defining Ownership Structures, Legal drafting and documentation, Zoning, Financing, Development, Leasing, Acquisitions and Dispositions. Ms. Pearlberg has worked in positions with many high-profile companies, including Regency Centers, Branch Properties, L.P., Trammell Crow Residential and Post Properties. She received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Georgia, her MBA in Finance from Kennesaw State University and her Law degree from Georgia State University, graduating with honors in each instance. Ms. Pearlberg is a member of and serves on numerous industry and community associations including CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women), ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers), Cobb County Development Regulations, Council for Quality Growth, ULI-Urban Plan, Cobb Landmarks and Historical Society, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Cobb Symphony, and past Chair of The Georgia Ballet. In 2013, Ms. Pearlberg was honored as a Woman of Achievement by the NW Georgia YWCA and one of the 40 Most Powerful Women in Commercial Real Estate in 2014. In addition, Ms. Pearlberg is an adjunct professor at GSU College of Law, teaching Real Estate Transactions since 2005 and guest lectures for other classes at GSU and Georgia Tech. Ms. Pearlberg was published in the Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law in 2005, and often presents papers and speeches at various industry functions, including the Real Property Section for the Georgia Bar Association, the Georgia Environmental Conference, the GSU Growth Management Symposium, the ICSC Law Conference, the Atlanta Apartment Association, Databank Commercial Real Estate, The Commercial Real Estate Radio Show and has organized CLE seminars, including “Untangling the Web of Urban Development” for the Center for Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth at GSU College of Law.

  Coro Realty Advisors

  Partner/VP Asset Management

  Moderator

  Patti Pearlberg

  Partner/VP Asset Management

  Coro Realty Advisors

Atlanta's Forecast

2017 Outlook

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  Melissa Frawley

  SVP & Atlanta Region Division Manager

  Wells Fargo

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  Amanda Rhein

  Amanda Rhein is Senior Director of Transit Oriented Development and Real Estate at MARTA, the nation’s ninth largest transit system which includes heavy rail, bus and paratransit services. She oversees the Office of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Real Estate, whose vision is to create transit oriented communities that connect people to opportunities, drive sustainable community development and promote regional prosperity. Ms. Rhein previously served as Interim Managing Director of Redevelopment at Invest Atlanta, Atlanta’s Development Authority and the economic development agency for the city of Atlanta. She oversaw the team responsible for managing and marketing the City’s primary economic development tools, tax allocation districts (TADs) and New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs). While at Invest Atlanta Ms. Rhein doubled the number of TADs and funded over 30 projects which resulted in the investment of $3.5 billion in Atlanta’s most underserved communities. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ms. Rhein graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 2002. She earned a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004. Ms. Rhein is a regular guest lecturer at the School of City and Regional Planning and has presented at numerous national and local conferences on TOD and economic development and in 2015 gave a TED talk at the TEDxAtlanta Conference. She has also authored articles in Urban Land Magazine, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and contributed to several best practice case studies for the Council of Development Finance Agencies. Ms. Rhein is active in the Urban Land Institute at both the local and national level. Ms. Rhein is a member of the national Transit Orineted Development Council, a group of 50 national industry experts. Locally, she is active on the Livable Communities Council, a facilitator for the UrbanPlan program and a member of the Atlanta District Council Advisory Board. During her tenure as the inaugural co-chair of the ULI Atlanta Center for Leadership she designed and implemented an innovative leadership program for real estate professionals which now serves as a national model. Ms. Rhein served on the Board of Directors Dad’s Garage Theater Company from 2010 to 2015. She is presently a member of the board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Atlanta and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Preservation Center for which she also serves as a Downtown tour guide. She is a member of the Outstanding Atlanta Class of 2011 and the 2006 class of Leadership Atlanta’s LEAD Atlanta program, which she co-chaired from 2008 to 2009 and co-chaired the inaugural Alumni Steering Committee. Ms. Rhein was named one of Atlanta’s 40 Power Women in Real Estate and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Commercial Real Estate Who’s Who. In 2015, Ms. Rhein recieved the Longleaf Award from the Georgia Conservancy’s Generation Green for her work to promote and implement sustainable growth and multi-modal transportation options in Atlanta.

  MARTA

  Senior Director - TOD & Real Estate

  Amanda Rhein

  Senior Director - TOD & Real Estate

  MARTA

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  Malaika Rivers

  Malaika Rivers is the Founder & President of Pontem Resources. She helps businesses and governments work together to imagine and build great places. She works with a wide variety of changemakers — from CEOs to city mayors — to find cost-sharing strategies for pressing development needs. With a focus on transportation, mobility, connectivity, and placemaking, Malaika’s work builds physical infrastructure as well as sustainable organizations to support it. Having worked for and with real estate developers, consulting firms, governments, and planning organizations, she crafts strategies that bring vision, process, funding, and politics together to achieve healthy ROIs. Malaika’s work includes the billion-dollar, sports-anchored, mixed-use development models of Centennial Yards (Atlanta Hawks) and The Battery Atlanta (Atlanta Braves). She is the foremost expert on Community Improvement Districts (CIDs). Having formed and led CIDs over decades, Malaika advises on how these development tools effectively channel infrastructure funding into commercial centers. Malaika is a 100 Influential Women to Know, a Georgia 500, and a 25 Power Women to Watch. She received her B.S. from Virginia Tech and her C.M.E. from Harvard Business School. She frequently contributes to various media outlets and publishes forward-thinking reports, including how CIDs may be positioned at the forefront of smart cities and digital transformation. Malaika’s drive to conquer challenging terrain for her clients extends to her personal life. Whether hiking mountains or exploring deserts, Malaika is in constant pursuit of the way forward.

  Pontem Resources

  President & Founder

  Malaika Rivers

  President & Founder

  Pontem Resources

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  Stephanie Friese Aron

  Stephanie Friese is a strategic advocate and negotiator who represents commercial real estate clients across the United States in both transactional and litigation matters. She is a founding and managing partner of Pursley Friese Torgrimson. Previously, she founded and managed Friese Legal for 13 years as one of the first woman-owned, woman-managed law firms certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. Stephanie is involved in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, from acquisition of land, to leasing, foreclosure, construction, and disposition. While she makes every effort to minimize a client’s inherent risks, she also litigates her client’s real estate issues related to the development, leasing and management of real estate. Her clients include businesses that own and develop properties, as well as lenders, owners and investors involved in financing, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial office and industrial properties across the country. She brings extensive experience in all matters related to commercial real estate law and litigation for retail, industrial, office and mixed use property.

  Pursley Friese Torgrimson

  Managing Partner

  Stephanie Friese Aron

  Managing Partner

  Pursley Friese Torgrimson

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  Caroline Wilbert

  Caroline Wilbert, president of The Wilbert Group, provides leadership and sets strategy for the firm and also works closely with clients. A former journalist, she is passionate about telling every client’s story, whether in a press release, white paper or tweet. As an entrepreneur and business owner herself, she is committed to developing programs that drive measurable business results for every client every day. She knows there is no point in PR for PR’s sake. Caroline began her career in journalism, including seven years as a business reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and two years at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She won awards both for breaking news and feature writing. Caroline's work appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune Small Business, Atlanta magazine and many other publications nationwide. Her understanding of how newsrooms work - and what reporters and editors need - translates to major media placements for clients of The Wilbert Group. Caroline has a journalism degree from the University of Georgia and enjoys making trips back to Athens both to speak to PR classes and for football games. Caroline serves on the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Community Food Bank and enjoys spending time with her three children.

  The Wilbert Group

  President

  Moderator

  Caroline Wilbert

  President

  The Wilbert Group