Global Innovation Consulting Practice
Helping The Real Estate Industry Adopt Technology and Embrace Innovation
Global real estate innovation solutions start here.
Since our formation, CREtech’s core mission has been to help the real estate industry embrace innovation. Over the past several years, we have built the largest network of real estate technology professionals globally, representing every facet of ecosystem. Our new Global Innovation Consulting Practice is a natural evolution of this mission and will enable the industry to accelerate its adoption of technology.
CREtech’s Global Innovation Consulting Practice enables clients to more effectively adopt technology by providing owners, managers, brokers, construction companies, occupiers and startups with a suite of product recommendation services, overall innovation strategies, complex tech development solutions and customized training and workshops. We are well-positioned to form this first-of-its-kind solution based on our market leadership in the real estate technology ecosystem and unparalleled access to technology partners, thought-leaders and our massive distribution platform.
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No other organization knows real estate technology like CREtech.
Learn how CREtech's Global Innovation Consulting Practice can help your company adopt and implement new technologies, scale or sell your technology business and educate your team and more.
Startup Growth and Expansion Strategy
Consulting Solutions for Owners/Brokers/Construction Companies/Occupiers
A Wide Array of Expert Services
For real estate technology startups, our Consulting practice offers a broad array of expert solutions to help grow their business. Our team of expert consultants advise startups to help them understand their competitive set and industry nuances so they are well-positioned to launch, scale and sell their company.
With thousands of real estate tech solutions on the market and often with little in the way of resources to vet and onboard them, real estate companies can turn to CREtech to make the best product recommendations for their particular business. Or, if a real estate company needs a holistic strategic analysis of their tech SWOT, our Consulting practice has the deep expertise to ensure they are future-proofed given the challenges of today’s business environment.
Our expert solutions for real estate companies and occupiers include:
Education
For companies looking to culturally embrace innovation and get an extraordinary view of trends in the real estate technology space, we also offer custom workshops and high-level educational services. Whether a half or full day forum, these workshops will feature the most accomplished and respected thought-leaders on a wide variety of subjects, delivered in person or virtually.
Our Consultants
CREtech is proud to have assembled some of the most accomplished, knowledgeable and sought-after innovation professionals and advisors as part of our consulting practice. Each with deep expertise in all aspects of the real estate technology space, our consultants represent a broad array of product and market expertise.
Want to join our consultant network? CREtech is looking to continually add to our team of expert consultants. To apply to be considered, kindly submit your background and qualifications here.
Josh Panknin
Specialty: Education and Workshops
Benjamin Burns
Specialty: SEO/Digital Marketing
Devin Vermeulen
Specialty: Workplace Design, Flex Space
Specialty: Investor and Underwriting Solutions, Data and Analytics Transformation, Enterprise IT,
Products and Partnerships
Lee Odess
Specialty: Building Access
Ryan Salvas
Specialty: Design and Architecture, Workplace Technology
Chris Mayer
Specialty: Construction
Michael Beckerman
Specialty: Real Estate Technology Trends
& Insights
Dan Hughes
Specialty: Digital Transformation, Innovation and Data Strategies
Elie Finegold
Specialty: Corporate Innovation Strategy, Future of Technology and Real Estate, Startup Advisory
Lindsay Baker
Specialty: Sustainability
Don Goldstein
Specialty: Cybersecurity
Min Kyriannis
Specialty: Risk Management
Marcio DaCosta
Specialty: Innovations & Emerging Technologies
Jarrett LiBuono
Specialty: Construction & Development
Tyler Buck
Specialty: Digital Product Development
Kristen Magni
Specialty: Change Management
Greg Lindsay
Specialty: The Future of Work
Mark Kalkwarf
Specialty: Real Estate Marketing
Yan Khamish
Specialty: Real Estate Technology Sales Strategies
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To learn more about our consulting services, please submit the short form below.
For questions, please contact consulting@cretech.com.
Advisory Board
To help guide and provide expert insights to our community as well as to our consultants, we are proud to have assembled some of the most respected real estate and tech professionals for our Advisory Board.
Andy Cohen
Co-CEO, Gensler
Karen Hollinger
Senior Vice President,
Strategic Initiatives
AvalonBay Communities
Patrick Klein
SVP & Chief Technology Officer
Essex Property Trust
Patrick McGrath
CIO, Head of Client Technology
Savills
Khushbu Sikaria
Principal
KSA
Ginny Miller
VP of Technology and Innovation
Jamestown
Darren Wesemann
EVP and Chief Innovation Officer
Berkadia
Eyal Reggev
Real Estate Developer, Angel Investor,
Former President
Stonehenge NYC
Jenny Wong
Managing Director
Tishman Speyer
Minta Kay
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
Sara Shank
Managing Director, Global Head of Innovation
PGIM
Steve Weikal
Head of Industry Relations, MiT Center for Real Estate / CRE Tech Lead, MiT REILab
Charlie Kuntz
Managing Director – Innovation Officer,
Hines
William O'Donnell
Managing Partner,
Prologis Ventures
David Levine
CEO, Presidio Mortgage Holdings and Levine Family Ventures
Pierce Neinken
Portfolio Manager, Airbnb
Ashkan Zandieh
CREtech Advisor
Linda J. Isaacson
Managing Director, Global Head of Innovation and Technology, Ferguson Partners, Ltd.
John Huber
National Sales Lead, Wells Fargo Commercial Banking, Technology Banking Group
Rahul Baig
Managing Director, Head of Venture Capital Coverage, Wells Fargo
Craig Robinson
Real Estate Tech Executive, Advisor and Investor
Jeffrey Kok
Chief Innovation Officer &
Chief Information Officer
Mill Creek Residential
Deborah Boyer
EVP, Director of Innovation &
Community Impact
The Swig Company
David Knowles
Co-Founder of the Stanford Real Estate Council; Chair of the Innovation Committee for Stanford Professionals in Real Estate
Jiho Lee
Managing Director,
Tishman Capital Partners
Alexander J. Narcise
Partner - Real Estate Services,
Wiss & Company, LLP
Josh Panknin is the Director of Real Estate Technology Initiatives in the Engineering school (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research) at Columbia University and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Real Estate at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. His focus is on developing new capabilities for the real estate industry through technology. By leveraging the immense technology resources at Columbia Engineering, he focuses on foundational research that combines broad and deep engineering capabilities for more holistic solutions rather than narrow, incremental improvements.
Prior to academics, Josh was Head of Credit Modeling and Analytics at Deutsche Bank’s secondary CMBS trading desk where he helped develop and implement automated models for valuing CMBS loans and bonds. He also spent time at the Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group and in various other roles in research, acquisitions, and redevelopment.
Areas of expertise:
Josh has a master’s degree in finance from San Diego State University and a master’s degree in real estate finance from New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.
Josh currently resides in New York City.
Josh Panknin
Subject Matter Expertise: Education, Corporate Innovation Strategies and Training
Benjamin Burns is one of the most accomplished digital marketing strategists in the real estate industry. He is currently consulting for a wide variety of real estate companies and startups.
Ben previously led Digital Strategy and Marketing Analytics at The Bozzuto Group, served as Chair of the Real Estate Technology Alliance (RETA) and was a previous Board Member of the Apartment Innovation Marketing Conference (AIM). He currently serves as an Advisor to several real estate tech startups. Earlier in his career, Ben was a marketing executive at start-ups in double-sided marketplaces, LivingSocial, Parking Panda and SnagaSlip, two of which had successful exits.
Areas of expertise:
Ben currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.
Benjamin Burns
Specialty: SEO/Digital Marketing
Devin Vermeulen is a design and development strategy leader. Formerly the creative director of WeWork, Devin was the 5th employee hired in 2010 by the founders and spent the next decade being responsible for establishing the company’s brand with particular attention to developing an experience-focused approach to design. He helped lead the spatial innovation team and build an agile product development cycle for design standards.
Devin earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas and subsequently worked as an architect and designer with boutique design firms in New York. He has presented on topics that include wellness in design and the future of workplace for the Urban Land Institute, Worktech London, HDElevate, and Design Junction.
Areas of expertise:
Devin currently lives in Atlanta.
Devin Vermeulen
Specialty: Workplace Design, Flex Space
Frank Spadafora has a distinguished two-decade career on the leading edge of CRE technology bridging opportunity and solution delivery at the juncture of people, process, product, and platform. An evangelist for technology adoption, data-driven process evolution, and digital transformation, Frank is a tireless champion of client-facing transaction teams and a trusted strategic consult to the C-Suite.
Most recently, Mr. Spadafora served as VP, Head of Investor Services Technology at Cushman & Wakefield where he led all facets of business solutions technology including strategy and operations, global AOP and vendor management, product development and implementation, and continual improvement. He has a proven track record of optimizing and automating antiquated and fragmented CRE processes, elevating insight through data integration and analytics, and future-proofing CRE services through the identification and onboarding of transformative technologies. Frank has consistently delivered value creation and value preservation for the largest global portfolio owners and full-service CRE firms.
In addition to leading multiple service line solution portfolios through M&A and IPO at Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Spadafora was also a founding member of C&W’s partner-first emerging technology program, leveraging strategic affiliations with VC’s, accelerators, and academic institutions to identify early-stage technologies, and drive from proof of concept to implementation to meet real-world client challenges. He has advised numerous startups on minimum viable product, UI/UX, and go-to-market strategies.
Frank has been recognized as an innovator in the industry securing the 2016 CIO 100 Award for workflow technologies for C&W’s commercial appraisal automation platform, contributing articles for industry publications including CIO and CIRE magazines, and appearing on numerous industry panels and workgroups.
Areas of expertise:
In his free time, Frank is an accomplished musician and songwriter, carpenter and renovator of historic homes, aspiring arborist, and proud father of two amazing children.
Frank Spadafora
Specialty: Investor and Underwriting Solutions, Data and Analytics Transformation, Enterprise IT, Products and Partnerships
Lee Odess is one of the most accomplished and knowledgeable Building Access experts in the world. He is the Founder of E+L+C, and former executive of Allegion, a billion-dollar manufacturer in the lock and access control industry. He also served as an Executive of Unikey, a start up that pioneered the IoT/smart lock/smart physical access control industry and began his career as an Executive with the first cloud-based physical access control manufacturer, Brivo.
Currently Lee is the founder of www.InsideAccessControl.com, a media and blogging platform focused on the physical access control industry, and Group337, a Growth Studio focused on business creation in the commercial real estate, proptech and smart home markets for small to large companies in the security, access control, and IoT industry.
Areas of expertise:
Lee lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife Jen Odess and two kids, Ava and Ray.
Lee Odess
Specialty: Building Access
Ryan Salvas is a seasoned product and program manager, Ryan has 15+ years experience in the development, implementation and application of cutting edge technologies. Trained as an architect, Ryan began his career in the world of design, construction, and commercial development, leveraging his diverse experience in developing uniquely informed end-to-end technology strategies for a variety of businesses and users. Beyond product development, Ryan has led tech M&A and investment round due-diligence, as well as holding a number of key patents in the technology and energy sector.
Area of expertise:
Ryan lives in the suburbs of Boston with his wife and two children. When he is not playing in the backyard with his kids or working on a landscape project with his wife, he devotes almost 100% of his free time to mountain and gravel biking. He aspires to run away to the mountains of Vermont and live a life of secluded bliss as soon as his kids are out of school (too long).
Ryan Salvas
Specialty: Design and Architecture, Workplace
Technology
Chris Mayer has more than 30 years of experience managing teams and leading change across a variety of industries.
He previously served as publisher of The Boston Globe and president of the New England Media Group where he led the business turnaround and transformation through a combination of value-focused product offerings, leading edge technology solutions, enhanced efficiency, and a commitment to quality journalism. Prior to becoming publisher, he oversaw nearly all aspects of the business including manufacturing, distribution, sales, strategy, and technology.
Chris was also the first chief innovation officer at a $4B national construction company where he created the innovation practice, opened eight innovation centers and oversaw the company’s innovation initiatives. He has consulted in the digital media and online education industries, served as a leadership consultant, and speaks at conferences about driving innovation and leading change.
He began his career in the computer science field, holding leadership roles as CIO, DBA, and led systems integration efforts both onshore and off before transitioning to general management roles
Areas of expertise:
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Chris received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Yale University. He lives in South Boston with his wife and, at least around the holidays, his children.
Chris Mayer
Specialty: Construction
Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech and FUTURE PropTech, the largest global consulting, media and conference company devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector. CREtech’s mission is to help the industry embrace, adopt and future proof their businesses. CREtech’s intelligence and event platform inspires the next generation of ideas, processes and people to champion the world's largest asset class.
Michael is one of the most sought-after speakers and thought-leaders in the emerging real estate tech sector and has delivered countless keynote presentations at premier global conferences and private company presentations. He is a frequent guest on industry podcasts and is also an influential blogger in the commercial real estate tech sector.
He began his entry into commercial real estate tech in 2012 with the launch of The News Funnel, a customized news platform, and subsequently launched a digital marketing agency for the commercial real estate industry, ATYPICAL.
Michael previously spent 25 years in the public relations industry having built Beckerman Public Relations into the largest firm in the industry specializing in the commercial real estate industry.
Areas of expertise:
Michael resides in Gladstone, NJ with his wife and two children.
Michael Beckerman
Specialty: Real Estate Technology Trends
& Insights
Dan Hughes is founder of ‘Alpha Property Insight’ and ‘LIQUID Real Estate Innovation’ which help the property sector to embrace and benefit from new ways of thinking and digital transformation.
Before this, Dan spent his career working across the built environment and has held senior roles in some of the world's leading data organisations. Dan led the Land and Property Sector strategy and commercial activity at Ordnance Survey, the world’s leading location data specialist. He led the global marketing function at IPD, part of MSCI which is the leading global data, index and benchmarking company for property investment. Dan was also Director of Data and information products for RICS which included BCIS, the world’s leading cost analysis data product and leading a Data Services team providing bespoke consultancy services.
Dan also led the PropTech transformation strategy at RICS. When he left, RICS was recognised as the world’s leading PropTech brand and was voted 'Top Association' at the Global PropTech awards.
Dan is on the British Property Federation Technology and Innovation Working Group, the steering committee for MIPIM PropTech, on the RICS data handling professional statement working group and is founder of the not-for-profit ‘Real Estate Data Foundation’, helping the sector benefit from data. Dan also holds the position of Trustee for the Property Sector Charity, LandAid.
Dan was author for the BPF LIQUID report and the LIQUID Future of Valuations paper.
Dan has achieved wide recognition in this space; voted one of the Top 50 Data leaders in the UK in 2017, voted Number 1 PropTech Influencer in the UK and the most influential global person online in PropTech. In 2018 Dan won the inaugural KPMG sponsored EG ‘Bridging the gap award’ recognising his contribution to bringing property and technology together.
Areas of expertise:
Dan lives in Hampshire in the UK with his wife and two daughters. He has a passion for all sports, particularly rugby, although more on the watching than playing side of things these days.
Dan Hughes
Specialty: Digital transformation, Innovation and Data Strategies
Elie Finegold has been an entrepreneur and leader at the intersection of real estate and technology for nearly twenty years. He lead Global Innovation at two publicly traded real estate companies, the former Insignia Financial Group and most recently at Fortune 200 CBRE (NYS:CBRE), was a founding member of Island Capital Group led by Andrew Farkas, and co-founded and grew IGY Marinas into a $1.5 billion AUM vertically integrated global real estate business. He has founded a number of startups in both the real estate and technology sectors, and has been a leader in the evolution of the #PropTech industry, serving on numerous industry leadership boards.
He is now a Venture Advisor to MetaProp, an advisor to numerous startup and growth-stage companies, and a featured speaker and author on the impacts of technology on real estate.
Areas of expertise:
Elie graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University (1995) with a degree in Ethnomusicology, a major he designed himself. His honors thesis received the Hoopes Prize and was published by the Harvard Library Press. A graduate of The Lakeside School in Seattle, he was also a two-time national champion in high school rowing. An active member of his community, Elie served as President of the Board of Seattle Works, Seattle’s largest organization promoting volunteerism among young adults.
Elie Finegold
Specialty:
Lindsay Baker is a real estate industry veteran with a background in building science, sustainability, and technology. She most recently led the creation of the Sustainability and Impact group at WeWork, a role she created and built a team to support. Prior to WeWork, she was the President and on the founding team of Comfy (nee Building Robotics), a smart buildings software company that addresses HVAC optimization and tenant comfort in commercial buildings. She also worked previously at Google, the US Green Building Council, and as a researcher of the built environment at UC Berkeley. She has a Masters Degree from UC Berkeley in Building Science and a BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College. She serves on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards, including Measurabl, the world's fastest growing sustainability software for the built environment, and SPUR, a Bay Area non-profit focused on the sustainable and equitable future of cities, neighborhoods and communities.
Areas of expertise:
Lindsay Baker
Specialty: Sustainability
Don Goldstein is CEO of 5Q Cyber. Don is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of 5Q Cyber. Don is an accomplished, award winning C-Level technology executive with a distinguished 35-year career of providing robust technology and cyber security solutions to enable business growth. He possesses 20 years of commercial real estate experience across all lines of business with the largest commercial real estate services company in the world. Don is focused on developing collaborative relationships with 5Q Cyber clients along with developing partnerships with cyber security technology and service providers.
Don was recently honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award at Realcomm’s 20th annual conference in 2018, acknowledging him as a “true visionary who has consistently worked to improve the Commercial and Corporate Real Estate Industry through the strategic use of Technology, Automation, and Innovation.” Don also received Realcomm’s Digie (Digital Impact) Award, “designed to acknowledge individuals who saw things ahead of their associates, had the courage to leave the mainstream and the tenacity to keep standing up after many failed attempts.” Don is a featured speaker and panelist at many real estate and cross-industry events.
Don received formal CISO certification from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. He holds an MBA from Loyola University Maryland, an MSSW from Columbia University, and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.
Areas of expertise:
Don Goldstein
Specialty: Cybersecurity
Min Kyriannis is the Managing Member of JMK Grp. She has 25+ years in converged, global, information technology, cybersecurity, physical and risk management across the globe.
Ms. Kyriannis had served as the head of cybersecurity and the head of cybersecurity and technology business development in her previous role at a well-established engineering firm, where she pioneered and developed an industry-leading cybersecurity program. She later began promoting cybersecurity, physical security, and technology as an integral part of all building systems.
Ms. Kyriannis is a driven technology and security leader, and a trusted advisor who has a passion for developing relationships and getting people to work collaboratively together. She thrives on complex challenges and ideas and works to execute in-depth and sustainable solutions.
She currently serves co-President of Women In International Security – NY Chapter, Chair of SIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board and Vice-Chair of SIA’s New Product Showcase Committee, as well as sits on the Advisory Board for SecuritySpecifiers.
Areas of expertise:
Min Kyriannis
Specialty: Risk Management
Marcio DaCosta has over 10 years experience in CRE technology and over 20 in IT. Most recently, Mr. DaCosta led emerging technologies for Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). He developed the innovation strategy from the ground-up to enhance and support the delivery of CRE services. His team, CREATE Labs, led innovation by developing partnerships with technology companies and incubating concepts into production-ready solutions. The overall focus was on practical and viable business applications of research in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, IoT, autonomous workplace bots, drones, and blockchain. In the course of two years, CREATE Labs (4 people) ran over 50 emerging tech pilots and created several strategic partnerships that resulted in increased revenue for C&W.
Mr. DaCosta also led the Technology Account Management team at JLL and was responsible for strategy, adoption, and deployment of technology for all corporate clients. Previously, he was the Director of IT Service Delivery at a Top 20 Global Law firm responsible for global Project Management, Quality Assurance, Technology Education, Desktop Engineering, and Help Desk services. Mr. DaCosta has led multiple geographically dispersed teams in delivering critical and emerging technologies to achieve significant value and revenue in various organizations.
Areas of expertise:
Marcio DaCosta
Specialty: Innovations & Emerging Technologies
Jarrett LiBuono has over 15 years of experience as a leader in construction and development for top industry firms in the NYC area. In Jarrett’s most recent role, he helped launch a financial management tool to track capital improvement and new development projects across the firm’s global real estate portfolio, while actively managing the operations of work within existing assets.
Prior to Jarrett’s transition to development, he was managing projects for a construction management firm, gaining experience with a ‘boots on the ground’ approach. His success is a result being proactive in the planning, design, and completion of each endeavor.
Over the course of his career, Jarrett has completed real estate projects in excess of $500M across all major asset classes; residential, commercial, office, mixed-use, healthcare, and education. Jarrett’s responsibilities have encompassed pre-development, entitlements, construction financing, budgeting, consultant coordination, design development, marketing, deal analysis, due diligence, and operations.
Areas of expertise:
Jarrett received his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Columbia University and earned an MBA, with honors, in finance & accounting. He lives in Long Island, NY with his wife and two young kids and is an avid runner raising money for charity.
Jarrett LiBuono
Specialty: Construction & Development
Tyler Buck has over 20 years of experience assembling and leading cross-functional teams in the costing, design, build, and launch of scalable mobile and web products across numerous industries and international markets. Tyler has worked with many household names and led teams to build large scale mobile and web platforms that serve hundreds of millions of users.
He brings applied knowledge of artificial intelligence, data science, cloud, web and mobile technologies, user experience design and has the ability to drive rapid solutions to complex problems through agile, lean and real-time prototyping methodologies.
Areas of expertise:
Tyler lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and three young kids.
Tyler Buck
Specialty: Digital Product Development
Kristen Magni, has over 20 years of experience leading innovation and change management in the human capital and organizational development space, the last 16 of which have been specific to the CRE industry. Kristen is the President of hyrUP Consulting, an integrated talent management solutions consultancy focused on talent strategy and transformational leadership. Connecting talent to the value agenda, hyrUP helps organizations achieve financial and customer expectations by building internal capacity and designing workplaces that scale and empower innovation.
Prior to hyrUP, Kristen was the Vice President of Talent & Culture for The Bozzuto Group, a privately held, real estate services company that specializes in Property Management, Construction, Development and Homebuilding. Kristen held this role for 9 1⁄2 years where she led talent strategy and was head of diversity, equity & inclusion. Her work garnered numerous awards and national recognition during her tenure.
Kristen has a proven track record of building progressive, 'best-in-class', people centric programs that deliver exceptional experiences and measurable business outcomes. With deep expertise in candidate and employee journey mapping, she brings the ability to thoughtfully design how humans connect with each other, and integrate with technology and automation to optimize the future of work.
Areas of expertise:
Kristen currently lives in the DC Metro area and has a bachelor’s in communications from Penn State University.
Kristen Magni
Specialty: Change Management
Greg Lindsay is the director of applied research at NewCities and director of strategy at its mobility offshoot CoMotion. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management.
He’s been cited as an expert on the future of cities, technology, and mobility by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He’s a partner at FutureMap, a geo-strategic advisory firm based in Singapore, and has advised Intel, Samsung, Starbucks, IKEA, Audi, Chrysler, Hyundai, Tishman Speyer, British Land, André Balazs Properties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, among many other organizations. He was the inaugural urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator.
Areas of expertise:
Greg is a two-time Jeopardy! champion (and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s Watson). He lives in Montréal with his wife Sophie Donelson and their two children.
Greg Lindsay
Specialty: The Future of Work
Mark Kalkwarf is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at ATYPICAL, a full-service digital marketing agency that works exclusively in the commercial real estate industry. He has extensive experience working across all asset classes to design and execute marketing solutions to solve specific business objectives.
He has a deep understanding of the commercial real estate industry, a background in technology, and over 20 years of digital marketing experience. If your organization is looking to increase lead generation, boost brand awareness, develop a social or paid media strategy, or take a new product to market, Mark is the person to speak to.
Areas of expertise:
Mark is based in Cape Town, South Africa but works exclusively in the US and UK real estate market. When he is not traveling, he is spending time with his wife and 3 kids. And whatever time is left over he is either reading or taking photographs.
Mark Kalkwarf
Specialty: Real Estate Marketing
In his 25 year real estate career, Yan has acquired, managed and sold over $12 billion in commercial real estate assets encompassing all property types nationwide.
Yan co-founded Biproxi, an online commercial real estate listing and transaction platform with the intent to become the Zillow of commercial real estate. Prior Yan was Managing Director at Ten-X’s CRE division where he oversaw company wide national brokerage firm relationships, national CRE associations relationships, middle market strategy, institutional sales and major account formation and execution. Prior to Ten-X, Yan was with Fortress in New York, where he was responsible for FECI real estate holdings and transportation development projects. Additionally at Fortress, Yan was part of the PE Division and assisted with various other commercial real estate operations, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, debt and development portfolio projects.
Yan also served as an investment professional at Marcus & Millichap, FPA, Ernest & Young and Arthur Andersen. Yan graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Triple Major degree in Economics, Political Science and History. He is currently or has been a member of the CRE Roundtable, NMHC, ICSC, CCIM, SIOR and ULI.
Yan Khamish
Specialty: Real Estate Technology Sales Strategies