DFW Capital Markets Outlook

With 30 years of real estate experience, Russell Ingrum is a Vice Chairman and a senior partner on the CBRE Texas Capital Markets Institutional Properties team. He specializes in the sale of office investment properties for institutional clients, with past real estate experience as a licensed CPA, pension fund advisor and transaction intermediary in commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Ingrum has consistently been a top national producer in investment sales, representing some of the country’s largest equity/opportunity funds, life insurance companies and REITs, and providing a full scope of services required for complex property transactions. Mr. Ingrum and his team have successfully closed almost 700 equity sales transactions of office buildings consisting of 181 million square feet for a total consideration of $31.5 billion.

Suzanne joined NorthMarq in 2008 and specializes in the origination of Debt, Joint Venture and Structured Finance. She is the recipient of NorthMarq's Associate Producer of the Year Award and serves on the Producers Council, an appointment reserved for Producers in the top 10% companywide. In November 2015, she was named as Real Estate Forum's Women of Influence in the Southwest. Suzanne has over 19 years of domestic and international commercial real estate finance experience. She was involved in the financial underwriting of the World Trade Center in New York for GMACCM in 2001 and subsequently moved to London, UK to assist in the development of GMACCM Europe’s operations in London. Suzanne has underwritten over $1.4 billion in conduit loans for properties in Europe and over $2.5 billion in debt and equity in the United States. Specialties: Commercial real estate debt and equity placement, cash flow analysis and loan underwriting, project coordination, and relationship management. Numerous capital sources including but not limited to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, Life Company, Bridge and CMBS. Suzanne is a founding board member of RENEW (Real Estate Network Empowering Women, Inc.), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization aimed at furthering the professional development of women in all phases of commercial real estate finance. In particular, it focuses on women in the following fields: origination/production, underwriting, investment sales, capital markets and law.

Mike Kennedy is a Principal with Avison Young and a Principal with Altera Development, providing innovation and leadership in land brokerage, strategic analysis and development. Mike blends his unique background in real estate and architecture to create unique, financeable real estate and development and brokerage solutions. Recent activity includes brokerage and advisory services on the 160 acre Indigo Ridge Mixed Use Development in Cedar Park, sale of the 100 acre Collin Creek Mall property in Plano, and development of the Marriott Delta Hotel and Convention Center in Allen. Mike received his Masters Degree in American Urbanism from The University of Virginia.

Kerri arrived at Bisnow after spending three years as a civil litigation attorney for the Law Offices of William Chu in the Dallas-Fort Worth area—and after working for more than a decade as a business journalist for two separate trade publications focused on commercial mortgage-backed securities and residential real estate. Kerri has spent her entire life in Dallas-Fort Worth and has watched the North Texas economy and real estate sector grow exponentially over the course of the past two decades. She remembers her hometown of Plano—once surrounded by empty fields of hay—morph into home to dozens of major corporate headquarters, retail developments, and luxury office complexes. A homegrown resident of Plano, Texas, Kerri is a graduate of Texas Tech University and the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Kerri returned to business journalism (lucky for us, with Bisnow!) with a renewed interest in how commercial real estate development and population growth continue to reshape the Dallas area and surrounding suburbs.

Born and raised in South East London, Adam has always been a ken sportsman; representing his high school in Soccer, Rugby and Cricket. He started his working life as a Police Constable in Central London and then moved on to becoming a “Mens Grooming Expert” (which led to him appearing on The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent & GQ). This career path bought Adam to Dallas, Texas where he met his wife and decided to settle down. In Texas, Adam chose to start over or “re-tool”, and pursued a Management Degree at SMU. Once his studies were complete, Adam moved into sales of HVAC where he touched many commercial construction projects. Adam loves the thrill of new challenges, and meeting new people and can't wait to start his career with Bisnow in Dallas.