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Mr. Craig is a senior managing director and has been the regional officer and partner responsible for Hines' New York Tri-State office since 1996. His responsibilities as senior project officer include managing the development, redevelopment, acquisition, construction, modification and/or interior fit-out on projects. Since joining Hines in 1982, Mr. Craig has been involved in a variety of development projects and transactions aggregating approximately 16 million square feet. Craig received his BA in History/Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Craig served as an adjunct professor of Real Estate Development at the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School from 2010 to 2015. And, is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board at Phipps Houses, New York City’s oldest and largest non-for-profit developer for affordable housing. He was also a recipient of the Building Trades Employers’ Association (BTEA) Award in 2012 and 2007 and the Police Athletic League Award in 2009.

Leslie Wohlman Himmel is founder and co-managing partner of Himmel + Meringoff Properties, a leading owner/operator of New York-based commercial real estate and one of the only privately owned, first generation portfolios of Manhattan office buildings. Founded in 1985 with partner Stephen Meringoff, Himmel + Meringoff currently manages two million square feet of commercial real estate valued in excess of $2 billion. Ms. Himmel began her career as an acquisitions associate at Integrated Resources in 1979 and is today recognized as one of the foremost women leaders of the commercial real estate industry. Focused on creating value through long-term ownership, she is a creative and insightful hands-on owner responsible for the acquisition of property, strategic repositioning of assets and portfolio financing. In 2017, Ms. Himmel was named as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by Crain’s. She was honored as Harvard Business School Club of New York’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for 2016 and, in 2011, received REBNY’s Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award for exceptional accomplishment and dedication to leadership in New York real estate. Ms. Himmel is a Board member of the M&T Bank Directors Advisory Council, New York City Mortgage Committee and the Harvard Business School Club of New York. In 1992, she founded and continues to co-chair REBNY’s Economic Development Committee which works with New York City officials to support economic development initiatives in the city. A member of REBNY’s Board of Governors since 2001, Ms. Himmel also serves on the Board of the Executive Committee. Ms. Himmel is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the UDMUC Red Council of the Urban Land Institute, Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York and YPO/WPO. Dedicated to women entrepreneurs, Ms. Himmel established “The Women’s Student Association Fellowship Fund” in 2008, which awards scholarships to Harvard Business School students. Ms. Himmel is also an early stage investor and Board advisor to Hello Alfred, a successful online concierge service, developed by two women who are recent HBS graduates. Ms. Himmel earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received her MBA with high honors from Harvard Business School.

Callie Haines is Executive Vice President and Head of the New York Region for Brookfield Properties. In this role, she is responsible for the performance and strategic positioning of over 26 million square feet of office properties within the New York and Boston regions. Chief among the current projects in Callie’s portfolio is Manhattan West, Brookfield Properties eight-acre, six-building mixed-use development on the West side of Manhattan in the Hudson Yards District. When complete, the site will feature nearly six million square feet of Class-A office space, luxury residences, a boutique hotel and a vibrant urban landscape with landscaped gardens and dynamic street-front retail that will bring together high-end, experiential shops and innovative culinary concepts. Callie joined Brookfield Properties in 2005 as Director on the Design and Construction team, followed by a three-year tenure in the office development group. Prior to her position at Brookfield Properties, Callie spent five years at Turner Construction Company in New York as a project engineer. Callie received her Masters in Business Administration from London Business School and her Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton University, majoring in Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Ted Traum leads all aspects of investment strategy, acquisitions, development, and asset management for Rockrose Development’s commercial business unit. In this capacity, Ted has executed over $1 billion dollars of acquisitions relating to over 2 million square feet of office space in New York and Washington D.C. Notable projects include the acquisition and redevelopment of 11 Madison Square North in New York and Alexander Court, the Row on 19th Street and 555 11th Street in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Rockrose, Ted was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York. Ted received his JD and MBA from New York University and his BA from Columbia University. Ted began his career as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Chris Roth joined Hines in 2017. He is a Managing Director with over fourteen years of experience in real estate asset management, corporate finance, and project management. Mr. Roth is currently responsible for the repositioning and management of the Hudson Square Properties portfolio in lower Manhattan. Prior to joining Hines, Mr. Roth spent over seven years with Tishman Speyer Properties in New York where he was most recently responsible for the asset management of Rockefeller Center. In addition to the leasing, capital projects, and management of over 7 million square feet of iconic office and retail space, he played a central role in the redevelopment and reopening of the Rainbow Room, the management of the observation deck at Top of the Rock, as well as the oversight of multiple operating businesses and strategic initiatives across the portfolio. Prior to Tishman Speyer, Mr. Roth started his career in real estate with Morgan Stanley in New York. EDUCATION MBA, Columbia Business School BA, Economics, BA, Architectural History, Minor Architectural Design, University of Virginia

Lisa Bevacqua joined Silverstein Properties in 2010 and is an Executive Vice President and the Director of Asset Management, where she oversees the company’s 16 million square foot portfolio of office and multifamily properties. Lisa is responsible for overseeing execution of the investment strategy for all properties in the portfolio and managing investor relationships. She leads four separate teams at the company with the common goal of maximizing investment value and enhancing tenant and resident experience. Lisa created and co-leads the company’s Tenant Experience and Hospitality platform, INSPIRE. Lisa also serves on the company’s management team. She is a member of the company’s diversity and inclusion committee and she works closely with the Vice Chairman Emeritus and Director of Human Resources to identify opportunities and implement initiatives to improve the quality of work experience for all employees. Prior to joining Silverstein Properties, Lisa worked in acquisitions and asset management at Citi Property Investors (CPI), a real estate opportunity fund with over $600 million of assets under management. At CPI, Lisa was responsible for underwriting and conducting due diligence on $1.8 billion of real estate transactions. In addition, Lisa oversaw a portfolio of office, condo and land assets. Prior to CPI, Lisa was a leasing broker at CB Richard Ellis/Whittier Partners, with a focus on the downtown Boston office market. Lisa began her career as a consultant at Accenture, where she worked on assignments aimed at identifying and implementing process and operational improvements at financial services companies. Lisa is an active member of Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders, and is active in a number of real estate organizations including Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) and Urban Land Institute (ULI). Lisa is an alumni mentor for undergraduate and graduate students at The Wharton School and is involved with the Boston College real estate club. Lisa has been recognized by Paradigm for Parity as a “Women on the Rise” (2020), by Crain’s New York Business as a “Notable Women in Real Estate” (2018) and by Commercial Property Executive’s “40 and Under Leaders” (2016). Lisa earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Boston College. Lisa, her husband, and their four children, live in Westport, CT.

Ian Ross founded SomeraRoad Inc. in 2014 to take an entrepreneurial and creative approach to value-add, opportunistic real estate in non-core markets. Previously, Ian was a Managing Director at Triangle Capital Group, a firm he helped develop shortly after its inception. At Triangle, Ian managed the Acquisitions and Asset Management units, focusing on the purchase of hard asset real estate, non-performing loans, and securitized mortgage products, as well as the conception and execution of value-add business plans. Ian sourced, underwrote and structured investments, in both the CMBS and CRE arenas, and focused on the development of strategic relationships, firm oversight, and risk management. Prior to joining Triangle, Ian spent two years working as an analyst for Jefferies & Company in its Investment Banking Division where he focused on raising both debt and equity, as well as providing advisory services for companies in the financial services and real estate sectors. Ian initially began his professional career working on Morgan Stanley’s CMBS origination and securitization platform. Ian received an MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and graduated with honors from Emory University with a Bachelors in Business Administration. Ian serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 5 and sits on the Public Safety & Quality of Life, and Transportation & Environment committees. Additionally, Ian is the Founder and Chairman of The Asperger’s Awareness Council, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that strives to raise awareness and funding for high-functioning forms of Autism.

Liam Clark has a background in Commercial Office Design and Workplace Strategy. He has helped plan, design, and deliver large projects as well as help organizations understand what experiments they can run to evaluate how their people actually use the spaces that they work in. Liam has always maintained a keen interest in how technological developments can augment their processes that designers and strategists employ to generate the spaces that they deliver. For this reason he joined Saltmine in 2018 to help develop a toolset that can allow organizations to better understand their needs and create a closer bond between organizations and their trusted experts.

Morgan is Vice President of Client Relations focusing on Corporate Interiors in New York City for Corgan, a leading global architecture and design firm. A 21-year veteran in the A/E/C industry, her experience initially started working onsite having served in the roles of project engineer, assistant project manager and into business development on both the West Coast and East Coast. Morgan is a Los Angeles native and proud to call New York City her home the past 11 years. In her role at Corgan, Morgan prides herself on building lasting relationships with their clients and industry partners. She has a keen ability to draw out the vision of the client, understand their brand, and future business goals. As a firm resource, Morgan brings her extensive design and construction experience managing projects from design development through construction administration and strategizes with her team to confirm client’s goals and needs are being delivered. In addition to her role at Corgan, she is a hard-working mom of a loving and extremely active 8-year-old little girl and a 3-year-old little boy. While being a mom and wife comes first, her desire to be career focused with many other passions around philanthropy keeps Morgan very busy! She loves to volunteer her time and fundraise for many wonderful organizations such as St. Francis Food Pantries, MS Society, HELP USA and now serves as an executive board member of the Lady Savant Foundation. In addition to her charitable involvement, she is also very dedicated to being a part of industry organizations such as CoreNet Global, where she volunteers her time on the Annual Dinner Committee and is instrumental in helping to put on the organizations largest annual event for the NY Chapter alongside many of her industry peers and colleagues.

Charlie is the Co-Founder and President of The Malin, a work focused members club with three highly desirable New York locations in SoHo, Williamsburg and the West Village. The brand is also about to commence its national expansion before year end in the Wedgewood-Houston and Paseo South Gulch districts of Nashville, with further announcements to follow soon. The Malin offers neighborhood workspaces that inspire you to work beautifully, where members are surrounded by thoughtful design not distraction. From our initial SoHo flagship and beyond, one promise lives at the heart of every location: The Malin offers beautiful spaces that enable your best work.

Jeff heads our Real Estate and Communications practices in New York and has significant experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s general real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. He also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology, and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, such as data center leases. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients. He is frequently invited to speak on real estate, data center, and telecom topics. He also writes for several industry publications, and he is regularly quoted in national media. Jeff was a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and led many of its major real estate and telecom transactions.

Joe Plotkin is director of business development for Stealth Communications, an independently owned ISP in New York City. Stealth has built its own state-of-the-art fiber network throughout the city, and provides multi-gigabit connectivity to businesses. Plotkin has been at the forefront of broadband connectivity for over two decades, filling a variety of ISP roles. Prior to joining Stealth, he founded a start-up WISP in upstate New You, with a mission to bridge the rural broadband gap. Previously, he led marketing efforts for Bway.net, beginning with the U.S. rollout of DSL. He also serves on the board of directors for the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY.) He holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Experienced Technology consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the built environment. Skilled in Operations Management, Sales Management, Strategic Partnerships, and Team Building. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) from New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester.

Jamie Hodari is the CEO and Co-founder of Industrious, the largest premium workplace provider in the U.S. Under his leadership, Industrious has grown to over 95 locations across more than 50 cities, achieving the best unit economics in the industry, and pioneering the evolution to landlord partnerships over traditional leases. Prior to Industrious, Jamie was CEO of Kepler, a hedge fund analyst at Birch Run Capital, a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, and a reporter for the Times of India. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Charles Esteves is the Director, Preconstruction at Schimenti Construction Company, an industry-leading general contractor headquartered in NYC. Charles collaborates with project partners from concept design to post-construction planning identifying and mitigating risks to ensure the alignment of design, budget, and schedule. Along with a team of skilled estimators and project managers, Charles performs constructability analyses and value engineering options that consider site conditions, material procurement, construction logistics, and labor requirements. The result is innovative solutions that align with our clients’ business objectives and design vision. Charles holds a BA in Architecture from Yale University and an MBA in Real Estate & Finance from NYU. Charles has over 20 years of experience in the AEC industry, including 7 years as a Superintendent in the field.

Lucas is a Physicist w/ 30 years of experience in construction and construction materials manufacturing. His expertise includes forensic building envelope diagnostics and testing as well as the development of non-intrusive construction analysis equipment and techniques. Lucas is a practitioner of a variety of building performance simulation software and has spent the past 15 years working with builders and design professionals on behalf of Saint-Gobain to achieve more sustainable, durable, and higher performing buildings.

Jonathan Fanuzzi joined Newmark’s New York City office in 2022 as an Executive Managing Director, providing both agency leasing and tenant representation services for a wide range of asset classes and industries. He rejoins Newmark as one of the senior members of, President of New York Tri-State Region, David Falk’s team. Over the course of his 24-year career, Fanuzzi has completed more than 20 million square feet of transactions across the United States for an array of clients. Owners and investors have entrusted Fanuzzi to lead the leasing campaigns for some of New York City’s most prominent buildings, such as the Empire State Building, The Seagram Building, One Liberty, 230 Park Avenue, 452 Fifth Avenue, 1166 Avenue of the Americas and 101 Avenue of the Americas. Fanuzzi’s expertise in developing and executing innovative leasing strategies, coupled with his strong analytical skills and deeply rooted relationships in the brokerage community, have cemented his reputation as one of the most respected leasing executives in New York City. As a tenant representative, he has served as trusted advisor to clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including law firms, boutique financial services companies, insurance firms, technology and life science companies. Representative clients include companies such as Syneos Health/INC Research, Parexel, First Light Fiber, Xtellus Capital, World Gold Council, Schindler, Cohen and Hochman, and L3 Technologies. Fanuzzi returned to Newmark after a decade at JLL, where he was consistently ranked among the firm’s top national producers and was awarded their “Top Gun” and “Gold Achiever” designations multiple times. While at JLL, his team was involved in some of the most transformative projects in New York City, including HSBC's 580,000-square- foot renewal at 452 Fifth Avenue, NY Genome Center's 175,000-square-foot lease at 101 Avenue of the Americas, Syneos Health's 87,000-square-foot relocation at 200 Vesey Street and over 240,000 square

Ramneek Rikhy is an Executive Vice President in CBRE’s Consulting Group in New York City, where she is responsible for developing, analyzing, and executing real estate strategies for companies across various industries. Since joining CBRE in 2004, Ramneek has completed in excess of 20 million square feet of assignments. Ramneek has been involved in the negotiation and structuring of complex lease and sales transactions for a wide range of tenants across a variety of industries, with a focus on financial services, legal services and media. CREDENTIALS Education • New York University, Stern School of Business, Bachelor of Science in Economics • Stuyvesant High School, New York City Professional Credentials / Affiliations • Member, Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) • Licensed Broker, State of New York • Co-Chair, CBRE New York Diversity Taskforce • Co-Chair, CBRE Asian Pacific Network – NY Chapter • Board Member, Partnership with Children Industry Recognition • New York Real Estate Journal’s “Women in Real Estate” (2016) • GreenDeal Award, “Most Significant Transaction” (2016) • GreenDeal Award, “Most Significant Transaction” (2014) • Consulting Group, Professional of the Year (2011)