Pacific Northwest Industrial 2018

Mr. O’Keefe is the Chairman and CEO of O’Keefe Development, a company he founded in 1986. Since its inception, O'Keefe Development has developed or acquired approximately four million square feet of commercial real estate projects with an asset value of approximately $500 million. O'Keefe is also the founder and former Chairman & CEO of Tully’s Coffee Corporation (“Tully’s”), founded in 1992. O'Keefe developed and executed the initial business plan and directed the building of the brand, both domestically and internationally. O'Keefe retired from the Tully's board in early 2010 after selling a substantial portion of the company to Green Mountain Coffee/Keurig. The sale provided capital for a payoff of all debt and a partial return of capital to all investors. Prior to founding O'Keefe Development, O'Keefe was a leasing and sales broker with Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services. In his 8+ years as a broker O'Keefe negotiated in excess of 400 transactions. O'Keefe and his wife Cathy have been committed to and actively involved in community organizations for over 30 years. Most efforts focus on the health, education and welfare of the children in our community. The O’Keefe’s were co-founders of the Patrons of Cystic Fibrosis and of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Seattle guilds. O'Keefe is presently serving as a board member for the Juvenile Diabetes Guild of Seattle and The Museum of Flight. O’Keefe formerly served as a board member for Villa Academy, Seattle Preparatory Academy, Virginia Mason Hospital, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Children’s Hospital and the Bellevue Boy’s and Girl’s Club. Mr. O’Keefe attended the University of Washington and majored in Communications/Advertising.

Wilma Warshak has been a widely recognized leader in virtually all aspects of the industrial real estate advisory and brokerage business for more than twenty years. During that time she has represented major corporate clients and many of the nation’s largest institutional and private investors, including RREEF, Prologis, TA Associates, Cutter & Buck, Sears, Amazon.com, Boeing, Macy’s, Blackrock, IIT, Cornerstone Advisers, Safeway, Teutsch Partners, Blue Nile, Port of Tacoma, Versacold, and Panattoni. In recent times, Wilma completed the year’s largest single market industrial investment sale on the West Coast: one million square feet for the James Campbell Company of Hawaii and San Francisco. Following this, Wilma sold BlackRock’s 400,000 square-foot Portside Distribution Center and the 445,000 square-foot Kent 167 Distribution Center to Prologis. Wilma was Colliers International’s top producing industrial broker in the Northwest for 18 years. Eighteen times she received the prestigious Colliers International Award for Excellence, given annually to the top five percent of Colliers professionals worldwide. In addition, she was named Colliers International Top Professional North America. Known in the industry for effectiveness, access to decision-makers and creativity in representing clients’ strategic long-term interests, Wilma has three times earned the Industrial Broker of the Year Award for Washington State SIOR, and has been a finalist multiple times. The national industry research firm Costar has repeatedly named her Power Broker. Through her national and local work she has built a wide network of professional relationships that help her uncover opportunities and negotiate effectively. Wilma has mentored others in the industry as an instructor in the University of Washington’s Real Estate Program for the past several years. She has served as President of Washington State SIOR and founded and headed the local chapter for CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Professionals). She is sought after as a speaker, having addressed numerous industry meetings and conferences throughout her career. Wilma received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington. She is a registered architect and, early in her career, worked on the design and planning of several commercial projects at NBBJ in Seattle.

Bob Andrews joined CenterPoint Properties as Senior Vice President, Regional Manager, in 2015. Mr. Andrews is responsible for managing the Company’s West region portfolio, which includes more than 7.2 Million SF of property across the Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle markets. In this role, he partners with the entire West regional team to vet, underwrite, and perform due diligence for on-strategy investment opportunities. Prior to joining CenterPoint, Mr. Andrews served as Senior Vice President, Asset Management, for KTR Capital Partners, where he oversaw the firm’s portfolio in California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington. He was previously a regional director for RREEF, as well as an industrial broker for Cushman & Wakefield. Mr. Andrews holds a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of San Diego.

Bart Brynestad has more than 30 years of experience in development, construction and leasing of industrial, office and retail projects. As partner in Seattle, Bart is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the development process, including land acquisition, finance, design, permitting, marketing, leasing and the sale of each project. Bart’s leadership and coaching ability has helped Panattoni quickly become one of the busiest developers in the Pacific Northwest. Projects for which Bart has been responsible have totaled more than 7.5 million square feet.

Ben Conwell leads Cushman & Wakefield’s e-Commerce and Electronic Fulfillment Specialty Practice Group, Industrial Services for the Americas. He is focused on intellectual property development and presenting Cushman & Wakefield’s leading capabilities in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer fulfillment industrial facilities to current and potential clients. The former director of North American real estate for Amazon has deep experience in locating and building electronic fulfillment and e-commerce facilities, having led the largest and fastest expansion of network capacity in that company’s history. While at Amazon, Ben managed a fulfillment network of 90 facilities comprising 60 million square feet and helped deliver 25 million square feet of build-to-suit projects alone. He also has held leadership roles at commercial real estate firms, specializing in capital formation, investment management, asset management and land development.