IREOC - Key Persons
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- Argosy Real Estate Partner
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- Real Estate Industries Portfolio Management
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- Editor for Institutional Real Estate Americas for Institutional Real Estate, Inc
- Editor, Institutional Real Estate Americas
Andrea Zander serves as the editor for Institutional Real Estate Americas for Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and she produces the daily newslines for Real Assets Adviser and Institutional Real Estate. Andrea possesses 16 years of publishing experience and has been working in the commercial real estate industry for 13 years. She joined the IREI staff in 2010 and has been the Newsline Editor since 2010. Andrea graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications, with an emphasis in journalism, and a minor in English. In addition, she received a certificate in 2016 for professional, technical, business and scientific writing from California State University-East Bay. Andrea began her publishing career at her college newspaper, The Poly Post, as a staff writer in 2007. She became the lifestyle editor for the college newspaper in 2009.
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- Arcus Infrastructure Partner
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- Member of the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
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- CBRE Investment Management
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- National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care
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- CrossHarbor Capital Partners
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- CrossHarbor Capital Partners LLC
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- State Board of Administration of Florida
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- Department of State Treasurer
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- Coastal Equities, Inc. & Coastal Investment Advisors, Inc
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- Asian Association for Investors in Non - Listed Real Estate Vehicles ( ANREV )
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- Public Sector Pension Investment Board
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- Crow Holdings Capital Partners, L.L.C
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- Managing Director of Institutional Real Estate Americas for Institutional Real Estate, Inc
- Managing Director, Americas
Chase McWhorter serves as Managing Director of Institutional Real Estate Americas for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), an industry-leading publication focused on meeting the information needs of the institutional real estate community. In this capacity, he is responsible for global business development and client service focused on publication sponsorships, while also leading the recruitment of top institutional investors who serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Institutional Real Estate Americas with the publication's sponsors. McWhorter has more than 10 years' experience in the real assets investment industry.
Prior to joining IREI, McWhorter was head of business development for CedarMac, a 3D laser scanning firm focused on existing conditions measurement and documentation for large and complex infrastructure and real estate projects.
Prior to that, he spent four years working as an investment consultant with Euro Pacific Capital, advising clients on global real assets investment opportunities. McWhorter began his career in commercial real estate finance.
McWhorter is a graduate of the University of Southern California, receiving a B.S. in Public Policy, Planning and Development, while also winning three Pac-10 Championships and two Rose Bowls as a member of the USC Trojan football team.
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- the World Bank Pension Fund
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- Senior Account Executive, Advertising
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, IREOC & Capital Markets Consulting
David "Mac" McWhorter serves as Managing Director of the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), a division of Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI). In this capacity, McWhorter guides the Institute in advancing its mission in collaboration with IREI senior executives, the iREOC Board of Governors and supporting sponsors of the Institute.
McWhorter has nearly 30 years of experience in the institutional real estate investment industry and has raised over $11 billion for investment management firms serving institutional investors worldwide. In these capacities, he was responsible for managing more than 200 institutional investor relationships representing over $1 trillion in total assets to meet their investment product, information and communication needs.
Prior to joining the iREOC in 2016, McWhorter served as Managing Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Carmel Partners for just over two years. In this capacity, he also served on the firm's Investment Committee. During his short time with the firm, McWhorter led the capital raise of the firm's Fund V that closed at over $1 billion and was recognized by PERE as runner up for North America capital raise of the year in 2014.
Prior to that, McWhorter served as a Director of Investor Relations at AEW Capital Management for more than 10 years. In this capacity, he was responsible for all capital raising and investor relations in the western U.S., and served as the firm's public pension specialist for the entire U.S. Prior to AEW, McWhorter served as Global Director of Property Business Development at Henderson Global Investors and Managing Director at Heitman Investment Management.
Prior to that, McWhorter was a developer/owner/operator in the retail property sector. He began his real estate career in 1979 at 20 years old as a retail brokerage specialist at CBRE Commercial Real Estate.
McWhorter's professional memberships have included; Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), State/CA Association of County Retirement Systems (SACRS), Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS) and the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE). He has also served on the Boards of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE) and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, and served for over 20 years on the Editorial Board of the Institutional Real Estate Americas publication prior to joining the iREOC.
Denise Moose serves as editor; special reports, iREOC, video production at Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Denise joined the IREI staff in 2010 and has more than 13 years of publishing and commercial real estate industry experience.
Denise is responsible for editing and publishing all of IREI's special reports, IREI.Q quarterly reports and fund investment guides. She also produces, directs, films and edits all of the videos on the IREI, Real Assets Adviser and iREOC websites.
Denise is the editor of Institutional Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), a bi-annual publication for members of the real estate operating company community. As IREI's real estate operating company specialist, Denise also is responsible for producing the daily iREOC Newsline.
Denise earned a bachelor's of science degree in communication and journalism from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she served as a staff writer on the college newspaper, The Poly Post. Before graduation, she completed an internship at Southland Golf magazine as a reporter and website editor.
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- Meketa Investment Group Inc
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- Concorde Investment Services
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- Managing Director of Real Assets Adviser
Ed O'Farrell serves as Managing Director of Real Assets Adviser (RAA) for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI). RAA is an industry-leading information platform dedicated to meeting the needs of registered intermediaries actively allocating to real assets. In this capacity, he is responsible for global business development and stewardship of the RAA Editorial Advisory Board which connects Thought Leaders from the intermediary and asset management communities.
O'Farrell brings a wealth of experience to IREI having spent over 25 years in financial services information. Over the course of his career, he has been a part of the sales efforts at Family Wealth Report, Investment News, Institutional Investor, Pensions and Investments, Money-Media, The Bond Buyer, Investment Wires and Lipper.
A native of western Pennsylvania, Ed is a graduate of Robert Morris University and resides in Montgomery Township, New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.
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- Teacher Retirement System of Texas
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- Chief Operating Officer
- President
- General Operations & Administration
Erika Cohen is president and chief operating officer for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. She oversees the day-to-day operations of IREI, coordinating the efforts of Administration, Editorial, Conferences, Data Services, and Marketing.
Erika directs, administers, and coordinates the internal operational activities of the organization in accordance with policies, goals, and objectives established by the CEO and the Board of Directors. In addition, she provides leadership to IREI's strategic planning process, financial management and staff development. Erika also oversees the implementation of new programmatic strategic initiatives to deliver measurable, cost-effective results.
Erika has a diversified work history in facilities management, project management, personnel development and strategic leadership. Prior to joining IREI, Erika served as general manager - property management at Jones Lang LaSalle's Denver office, where she managed daily operations, the annual budget, and all construction projects, and also fostered tenant relationships and provided oversight of the operations staff. Prior to joining JLL, Erika held the position of human resource manager at Imprints Wholesale, which she joined in 2008. Prior to JLL and Imprints Wholesale, Erika served as the COO & Co-Founder of Paulina Group LLC dba Bene Gourmet Pizza. In this role, she managed overall operations and business development of the branded restaurant chain.
Erika earned her Bachelor of Science degree in sociology from the University of Oregon.
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- Principal Asset Management
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- Data and Marketing Associate
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- CEO
- Chairman
- Editor - in - Chief
- Strategic Business Development & Sales
Geoffrey Dohrmann, CRE, is the founder, chairman and CEO, and also serves as a director, of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., a San Ramon, Calif.-based publishing and consulting company focused on meeting the information needs of the institutional real estate, infrastructure and private wealth advisory investment communities. In this capacity, he also serves as editor-in-chief of several leading industry publications, including Institutional Real Estate Americas, Institutional Real Estate Europe, Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, FundTracker, Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, Real Assets Adviser and Institutional Real Estate Newsline, as well as numerous special reports and several email news alert services serving each of the firm's constituencies. Dohrmann also serves as conference producer of IREI's industry events, including Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas, VIP Europe, VIP Infrastructure, IREI's Annual CEO Summit and IREI Springboard. In addition, he is a co-founder of the Company's Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies, a networking and educational organization serving the interests of institutional investors, investment managers and real estate operating companies seeking to form more profitable real estate joint ventures.
In addition to these responsibilities, Dohrmann serves as a Trustee of the Bailard REIT, a Foster City, Calif.-based non-listed, private real estate investment trust serving the needs of individual and institutional investors. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors for the IDR Core Property Index Fund, an investment company organized under the Investment Company Act of 1940 designed for accredited investors, and is an advisory board member for ExcelSense, a portfolio life cycle management software platform.
In the past, he has served as a trustee (from 2000 through 2010) of Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE: LXP), a New York-based real estate investment trust that invests in net-leased single-tenant properties. And, from 2002 through 2007, he was a director and chairman of the charter board of managers for the J.P. Morgan Real Estate Income & Growth Fund, an open-end diversified real estate investment fund with real estate holdings valued at $2.83 billion.
Dohrmann continues to consult with many of the leading firms in the real estate investment management industry, and also has lectured on institutional real estate market-related matters at the business schools of the University of California - Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina and Yale University.
A graduate of the University of California - Berkeley, Dohrmann is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute and the American Real Estate Society, a member of the Counselors of Real Estate, and a past member of the Board of Directors for the American Real Estate Society as well as the San Francisco Architectural Heritage. He also currently serves on the advisory boards for the following organizations: Builders Realty Capital, Amero Global Investors, and Redhill Realty Investors.
His professional memberships include the American Real Estate Society, the Pension Real Estate Association, the Urban Land Institute, the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association, ANREV, INREV, and the Pacific Pension Institute.
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- Seattle City Employees' Retirement System
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- World Pensions Council ( WPC ) Advisory Board
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- Principal Asset Management
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- Igneo Infrastructure Partners
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- Citi U.S. Pension Investments
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- California State Teachers' Retirement System
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- Pacific Pension & Investment Institute ( PPI )
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- Pacific Life Insurance Co
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- StepStone Group Real Estate
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- Senior Editor of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific for Institutional Real Estate, Inc
- Senior Editor, Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific
Jennifer Molloy serves as senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) and has overseen the production of the publication since its launch in January 2009. Prior to this, she served as editor of Institutional Real Estate Newsline (IREN) when she joined IREI in 2007.
Jennifer earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree in rhetoric and communication from the University of California - Davis. While obtaining her master's degree, Jennifer taught an undergraduate course in small group communication. For her doctoral degree in communication from the University of California - Santa Barbara, Jennifer examined the attitudes of people of color and Caucasian people toward the police. At this time, she also served as a teaching assistant for the discussion sections of various undergraduate courses, including, interpersonal communication, research methods, mass media and communication, and intergroup communication. Jennifer was also lead author of a book chapter, "Law Enforcement and Community Policing: An Intergroup Communication Approach," with her dissertation adviser, Howard Giles.
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- Controller
- Corporate Secretary
- Administration
- Controller and Corporate Secretary of IREI
Jenny Guerrero serves as the controller and corporate secretary of IREI. She oversees the company's accounting and payroll functions, as well maintaining the official records and minutes of the corporation. She joined IREI in 2005 to manage the accounting area and was elected to the corporate secretary position in 2006 to present. She heads all of the company's accounting, payroll operations and corporate governance. Jenny studied accounting at the California State University, Hayward, and prior to joining IREI, she was the business manager for a woodworking production company.
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- Member of the CBRE Investment Management Team
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- Event Coordinator
- Registrar
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- Real Estate Fiduciary Services, LLC
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- Arcus Infrastructure Partner
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- Conference Program Manager
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- Member of the Board of Directors
John McClelland recently concluded a 37-year career in institutional real estate investing. He spent 21 of those years directing real estate investment activity of the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. With LACERA John managed the approximately $5.5 billion real estate allocation in separate accounts and commingled funds investing in all major property types in the United States and globally. He also introduced real estate debt investing and single-family home development programs at the plan. In addition to his tenure with LACERA, John earlier worked as an acquisition officer with the real estate investment management company, FIA Associates; real estate investment officer at the California State Teachers' Retirement System; and managing director with the investment banking, consulting and management firm Chadwick, Saylor and Company.
John holds a Masters degree in business administration from California State University, Sacramento and a Bachelor of Science degree from UCLA. He remains an honorary member of PREA, where he served as chairman of the plan sponsor counsel and a member of the board. McClelland serves on the advisory board of Alliance Global Advisors.
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- UBS Asset Management, Global Real Estate
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- Managing Director, Infrastructure
Jorge Fernandez serves as Managing Director, Infrastructure for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. He is responsible for client relations, business development and sales for Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3) magazine.
Fernandez possesses more than 10 years' experience from Wells Fargo. He was a VP Senior Branch Manager at Wells Fargo, where he handled private client management, bank audit and risk compliance, loan structuring, strategic planning, and business development. Prior to this, he was an AVP of the Business Banking Group at Wells Fargo, where he was responsible for achieving sales volume and revenues, executing a comprehensive sales plan, and networking. He most recently was a real estate agent for residential and commercial real estate sales and leasing at Ambiance Realty.
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- Argosy Real Estate Partner
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- Editor of Institutional Investing
- Editor, Institutional Investing in Infrastructure
- IREI 's Infrastructure Specialist
- IREI in 2019 As a Reporter
Kali Persall is the editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3), a monthly publication for members of the global institutional investment community who are invested - or are interested in investing - in infrastructure.
As IREI's infrastructure specialist, Kali also is responsible for producing the daily infrastructure Newsline, as well as infrastructure-related videos with thought leaders on high-level topics.
Kali joined IREI in 2019 as a reporter, covering the company's infrastructure, fundraising and pension fund news beats, and she stepped into the role of associate editor in 2022. She has been awarded several APEX Awards for her feature stories. Kali previously produced IREI's biannual iREOC Connect publication and earned her copyediting credential from UC Berkeley.
Kali received her bachelor's degree in communications with a media production option from California State University, East Bay in 2017. She also is a certified technical writer.
Karen Palma manages the data services department. She is responsible for coordinating all data services operations and projects, including data collection for investment guides and special reports, data monitoring and maintenance for reliability of information in IREI's IREI.Q database, data gathering for client requests, and management of IREI's Annual Investor Survey. Karen joined IREI in 2007 and received her Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Sciences from De La Salle University in Manila.
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- Sales and Executive Administrator
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- Financial Services Institute ( FSI )
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- Argosy Real Estate Partner
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- Managing Director, Europe
- Managing Director of Institutional Real Estate Europe for Institutional Real Estate, Inc
Kelly Armanios serves as Managing Director of Institutional Real Estate Europe for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), an industry-leading publication focused exclusively to serve the strategic information needs of institutional real estate investment community. In this capacity, she is responsible for European business development and client service focused on publication sponsorships, while leading recruitment of top institutional investors who serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Institutional Real Estate Europe.
Kelly has more than 15 years of B2B account management and business development experience gained within the proptech and publishing industries.
Prior to joining IREI, Kelly was an Account Director at Zoopla, one of the UK's leading property websites and spent 8 years working with both commercial and residential real estate agencies as well as developers and investors.
Prior to that Kelly spent two years in the UAE and worked as a Senior Sales Executive for one of the Middle East's most well-known news portals; ArabianBusiness.com.
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- Marketing Database Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- IREI Board Member
Kevin McTavish has been an IREI board member for a decade. He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate covering a wide range of activities and assets, ranging from acquisitions, development, portfolio & asset management and dispositions. He began his career developing residential and industrial properties in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he focused on distressed and bankruptcy assets as a founder of Lone Star and then at Colony Capital. At Colony, he was a Principal and Chief Operating Officer, member of both the Investment Committee and Major Asset Review Committee as well serving on the boards of several publicly traded and private companies. He led Colony's efforts to establish offices in Japan and Korea. Prior to Colony he worked for the Robert Bass Group in Ft. Worth, Texas where he was a founder of Lone Star Opportunity Fund. He held dual roles in Europe while with Westport Capital, responsible for both sourcing new investments and marketing/raising capital. Prior to a career in real estate, he served a tour in Naval Aviation as a Mission Commander on the P3 Orion aircraft. He earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was a member of the varsity football team.
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- Alliance Global Advisor
- CIM
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- Alliance Global Advisor
- APG AM
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- Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii
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- Oak Street Real Estate Capital, a Division of Blue Owl
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Lester Lockwood has over 50 years' experience in the pension investment management business.
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- Sales Administrator and Executive Assistant to Geoffrey Dohrmann
- Sponsor Benefits Manager
Linda Ward joined IREI in January 2015 as the sales administrator and executive assistant to Geoffrey Dohrmann. She was promoted to Sponsor Benefits Manager 10 short months later as well as continuing in her role as Geoff's assistant. Linda takes care of all publication sponsors, making sure they are receiving and utilizing the benefits they receive with their sponsorship as well as making sure new sponsors and renewing sponsors are taken care of. Prior to joining IREI Linda worked for a start-up company in Hayward, CA as the Executive Assistant to the CEO and ended her last years there as the Office Manager/Human Resources Specialist. Linda is a native Californian, graduated from Skyline High School and attended both Merritt and Laney Colleges in Oakland. She received her HR education and certification from San Francisco State University.
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- Korea Investment Corporation
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- Editorial Director
- Editorial
Loretta Clodfelter serves as editorial director for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) and is responsible for overseeing the editorial staff and production of the firm's various publications. Previously, she was senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, the award-winning flagship publication. She has more than 20 years of experience covering the commercial and institutional real estate industry, first with REITStreet and Institutional Real Estate Newsline (IREN), and then as production editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe and copyeditor for all of IREI's products. Loretta has a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Mills College.
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- Argosy Real Estate Partner
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- Editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe
Marek Handzel has been editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe since December 2017. Marek began working as a B2B journalist in 2005 and has edited various publications within the financial services, insurance and legal sectors in the UK. He has been the managing editor of Pension Funds Online, where he launched Pension Funds Insider as well as the editor of Pensions Age and Claims Media. He has also written extensively on pensions management and institutional investment for other titles such as European Pensions, Project M and Financial News.
Marek has lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland, as well as in London. He is now based in Harrogate in England and has an honours degree in History from the University of Exeter.
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- Chief Financial Officer, Member, Board of Directors
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- Member of the CBRE Investment Management Team
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- Crow Holdings Capital Partners
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Senior Advertising & Media Specialist
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- Senior Data Services Associate
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- Manager, Marketing Automation
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- Senior Editor, Real Assets Adviser
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- Member of the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
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- Principal Asset Management
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- Nippon Life Global Investors Americas, Inc
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- Formerly With Alvarium Investments
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- State of Wisconsin Investment Board
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- Member of the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
- Estate Consulting
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- Managing Director, Asia Pacific
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- Mercer Investment Consulting LLC
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- Teacher Retirement System of Texas
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- VP, Marketing & Audience Development
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- State Board of Administration of Florida
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- MetLife Investment Management
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- CenterSquare Investment Management
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- Meketa Investment Group Inc
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- Asia Pacific Real Estate Association ( APREA )
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- Director, Client Services
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- New York Life Investments
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- Formerly of Ascension Health
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- Clarion Partner
- Cambridge Investment Research
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- Executive Vice President
- Publisher
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- Member of the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
- Department of State Treasurer
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- Trust Advisory Group, Ltd
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- ArcLight Capital Partners
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- Mercatus Strategic Investment Management
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- National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers