How Will Industrial Real Estate Evolve?

Bill Burton serves as Executive Vice President, Marketing & Development for Hillwood, developer of AllianceTexas. As EVP, Bill is responsible for leading the vision and strategy of AllianceTexas by overseeing the development of office, industrial and retail as well as leasing and sales. Bill continues to play an active role with key stakeholders and clients—maintaining relationships that support the forward-thinking and innovative mission that drives the growth of AllianceTexas. Bill joined Hillwood in January 1989 and has been directly involved with developing AllianceTexas from raw ranch land to a 27,000-acre, master-planned development. Bill’s expertise is centered on developing customer relationships that nurture long- term success. He has directed build-to suit and lease transactions totaling more than 53 million square feet with companies such as Amazon, AT&T Nokia, Bridgestone-Firestone, General Mills, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and Volkswagen of America. In addition, he has managed portfolio sales in excess of 1 billion dollars and coordinated more than 1,800 acres of land sale transactions with companies such as Citigroup, Deloitte, Fidelity Investments, Intel, KRAFT Foods, and more. Bill remains involved with and supports numerous professional and community development organizations. Beyond his professional affiliations, Bill supports several non-profit organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, March for Babies, and the Christian Prayer Breakfast of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

Sean Dalfen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Dalfen Industrial and leads the firm’s investment committees and management committees across its platforms. Under Sean’s leadership, Dalfen Industrial’s portfolio has grown to over 50 million square feet of industrial properties from coast to coast, making it one of the nation’s largest owners and developers of industrial real estate and a leader in the last mile sector. Over his career, Sean has transacted on an excess of $10 billion USD. Prior to Dalfen Industrial, Sean worked at NAI Commercial as an Investment Sales Broker where he was one of the company’s Top 10 producers in Canada. Sean is involved in a variety of philanthropic activities, sits on the boards of multiple charitable organizations and is a frequent speaker and panelist at private equity & commercial real estate industry events. Sean studied Psychology and Finance at Tel Aviv University’s Lowy School and McGill University. Sean is involved in a variety of philanthropic activities, sits on the boards of multiple charitable organizations and is a frequent speaker and panelist at private equity & commercial real estate industry events. Sean studied Psychology and Finance at Tel Aviv University’s Lowy School and McGill University.ral Partner’s Fund IV Investment Committee. After joining the firm in 2006, Sean was instrumental in the firm becoming one of the largest buyers of industrial real estate, having executed over $1.4 billion of transactions involving in excess of 30 million square feet of industrial properties in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to Dalfen, Sean worked at NAI Commercial as an Investment Sales Broker where he was one of the company’s Top 10 producers in Canada. Sean is involved in a variety of philanthropic activities and is a frequent speaker and panelist at private equity industry events in both Canada and the U.S. Sean studied Psychology and Finance at Tel Aviv University’s Lowy School and McGill University.

Jeffrey Brown, FAIA, is Principal-in-Charge of Design for Powers Brown Architecture which he co-founded. Practicing architecture for more than 20 years, Brown has an array of experience working on multiple building types for both public and private entities; he is an accomplished designer with unique graphic communication and strategic planning skills. His ability to design utilizing an interactive process of project definition and interpretation has resulted in distinguished design awards and published works. Brown has been instrumental in leading the firm to numerous awards including a Citation in the 2012 Annual Design Review from Architect magazine and recognition from the Tilt-Up Concrete Association as the 2008 and 2014 recipient of the Irving Gill Distinguished Architect Award for the firm’s and his own contribution to the design and advancement of tilt wall construction. Additional accolades have come from the Texas Society of Architects, American Institute of Architects Houston, AIA DC|Washington, Design Excellence Awards and the Urban Land Institute. The firm’s work has been widely covered in magazines and books including his latest, Tiltwallism: A Treatise on the Architectural Potential of Tilt Wall Construction is available through book sellers nationwide. Brown has a passion for shaping architecture and the architects of tomorrow. He has taught as an assistant at his alma mater, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and as an adjunct professor at both The University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Prairie View A&M. He has been a guest critic at the above-mentioned institutions, Rice University, Roger Williams University and the University of Texas at Arlington. Brown is also active in numerous professional organizations including NAIOP; and the Tilt-Up Concrete Association, where he serves as President on the board of directors.

Otto has spent over a decade in the industrial development and investments business in Austin, Texas. He has completed nineteen (19) development and/or acquisition projects, totaling 700,000 square feet with a combined asset value in excess of $150MM. He has been directly involved in the acquisition of 232 acres of land for industrial development in the greater Austin market. Prior to his career in commercial real estate, Otto attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a B.B.A. in Finance.

Kyle Valley joined Majestic Realty Co. in 2011 and currently serves as Senior Vice President. He is responsible for the acquisition and development of Industrial and Mixed Use projects in Texas. Prior to joining Majestic Realty Co., Kyle was an Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he underwrote and managed a Commercial Real Estate Loan Portfolio in excess of $250 million. A graduate of the University of Southern California, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance.

Holden Rushing is a Senior Vice President with the Industrial Corporate Services practice of NAI Partners. At NAI, Holden specializes in national tenant representation as well as project leasing and development. In over a decade of industrial real estate, Holden has cultivated strong working relationships with numerous industry-leading companies, advising them on lease negotiation and restructuring, sale-leaseback transactions, build-to-suit projects, site selection, and location consulting. His extensive experience and market knowledge helps his clients to identify acquisition, disposition and development opportunities to create cost-saving and risk-mitigating real estate solutions aligned with his clients’ immediate and long-term strategies. Prior to joining NAI Partners, Holden served as a Senior Director in the Industrial Services Group at Studley, focused on project development and leasing for several large institutional developers, and multi-market tenant representation for national clients. Holden spent six years as a senior leasing agent for ProLogis prior to Studley, where he successfully negotiated more than 240 lease transactions totaling over 5 million square feet with companies including Iron Mountain, Toshiba, Mitsubishi-Caterpillar, General Cable, Comcast, Kawneer, United Stationers Supply, United Technologies and OfficeMax. He also worked as a debt marketing specialist researching and targeting prospective mutual bond investors for Merrill Lynch in New York City.