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PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Aik Aliferis
Brent Arseneau
Sam Barbieri
Principal
Primecorp Commercial Realty Inc.
[email protected]
Leasing Manager
Colonnade Management
[email protected]
Senior Vice President,
Asset Management
LaSalle Investment Management
[email protected]
Aik Aliferis is one of the founding
partners of Primecorp Commercial
Realty. He has over 25 years of
experience in Canada’s real estate
market, developing a reputation for
commitment and an ability to
execute and consummate even the
most complicated transactions. Aik
has earned the respect of the
industry and has become one of the
most influential multi-family brokers
in Canada. His client list includes
some of the largest institutional and
corporate landlords in the country in
both the multi-residential and the
commercial sectors. Aik has sold
apartment and commercial
investment properties with a total
asset value approaching $4.0 billion.
He has been instrumental in making
the Primecorp brand one of
Canada’s premiere real estate
advisory groups. Aik’s achievements
continue with his personal
commitment to the industry as a
featured speaker at many industry
conferences throughout Canada.
Brent Arseneau, as Leasing
Manager and Broker of Record,
plays a key role in the negotiation,
leasing and marketing of Colonnade
Management's nearly 4 million
square feet of office, retail and
industrial properties across the
entire Ottawa Region. He works
closely with asset managers and
private owners to ensure their
annual leasing programs meet the
objectives of their asset
management and business
strategies.
Sam Barbieri is Senior Vice
President of Asset Management
with LaSalle Investment
Management Canada. Sam joined
the LaSalle Investment
Management Canadian team in July
2006 and since that time has taken
over assets in the GTA, Montreal
and Ottawa regions. He is
responsible for properties held in
several co-mingled funds, in
addition to a number of separate
client accounts.
Aik has had the honour of being the
2009 Co-Chairman of the Canadian
Apartment Investment Conference.
Brent has worked in the Ottawa
market since 2003, having started
his commercial real estate career in
Toronto in 2001. During his 12 years
in the industry, Brent has gained
extensive market knowledge and
transaction experience that provides
first class service to the clients of
the Colonnade Group of
Companies.
Prior to joining LaSalle Investment
Management, Sam served as a
General Manager, Property
Management with Bentall Capital
LLP for a major downtown office
and retail portfolio. Prior to this
position, he was employed at Oxford
Properties Group as General
Manager, Real Estate Management
responsible for a portfolio of office
assets totaling 1.8 million square
feet of rentable area located in
downtown Toronto. Sam has 19
years of commercial real estate and
asset management experience on
behalf of major institutional clients,
focusing on office, industrial, retail
and residential assets.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Paul Bennett
Ugo Bizzarri
Michael Church
Vice President, Broker
Colliers International
[email protected]
Founding Managing Director,
Portfolio Management &
Investments
Timbercreek Asset Management
[email protected]
Principal & Managing Director
Avison Young
[email protected]
Paul Bennett’s specialty is
representing users of office property
in purchasing, sales or lease
transactions.
Ugo Bizzarri is a Founding
Managing Director of Timbercreek
Asset Management, responsible for
Portfolio Management and
Investments. He is also a Director
and Chief Financial Officer for the
Timbercreek Mortgage Investment
Corporation, as well as the
Timbercreek Senior Mortgage
Investment Corporation.
Michael Church entered Ottawa’s
Commercial Real Estate industry in
the summer of 1987 when he joined
the Regional Group of Companies.
He subsequently worked with
Cushman & Wakefield before
opening the Ottawa Office of
Canadian based Avison Young in
October of 2007.
Paul is a founding member of
Colliers International in Ottawa. He
was one of three partners who
combined resources to form
Colliers’ Ottawa office in 1992.
Today, Paul is a Vice President and
a past Broker of record in the
Ottawa office.
Paul’s tenant representation team
was responsible for securing a lease
for Adobe Systems (125,000 square
feet). Upon its completion, he was
subsequently appointed the
Landlord’s representative for the
final phase and was successful in
arranging a new lease with the
Province of Ontario for 105,000
square feet.
Ugo has 20 years of experience in
the valuation, acquisition and
disposition of investment-grade
cash-flowing real estate, and as
such leads the Timbercreek team
that is responsible for the acquisition
and disposition of direct real estate,
and the underwriting and funding of
commercial mortgage investments
that are secured by direct real
estate. In this capacity, Ugo and his
team have been responsible for
underwriting, financing and
acquiring approximately $2.1 billion
worth of multi-residential real estate
on behalf of Timbercreek and its
partners, and have constructed and
managed a diversified debt portfolio
of over $800 million in Timbercreeksponsored commercial mortgage
investments.
Michael’s career has focused
primarily on Tenant Representation
services prior to joining Avison
Young. Throughout his career while
representing major client tenants,
several new office buildings
appeared in Ottawa’s inventory of
class “A” Ottawa space.
In recent years, Michael’s
responsibilities have expanded to
include building the Avison Young
brand in Ottawa and growing its
Ottawa presence. Now with a staff
of nine sales representatives and
brokers, Avison Young’s Ottawa
office deals with all aspects of
commercial leasing (Office,
Industrial, Retail) as well as
investment sales, property
management, mortgage brokerage
services and strategic asset
management.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
George Dark
Glenn Featherstone George Fiddler
Partner
Urban Strategies Inc.
[email protected]
Vice President, Retail Leasing
Morguard
[email protected]
Senior Vice President, Retail –
Central North America
Ivanhoé Cambridge
[email protected]
George Dark is an urban designer,
landscape architect and Fellow with
the Canadian Society of Landscape
Architects and a full member of the
American Society of Landscape
Architects. In George’s over 30
years of professional experience, he
has earned a reputation as one of
Canada’s most accomplished and
creative urban designers, working
on diverse projects across North
America and in the Caribbean.
George’s work has won numerous
prestigious awards – 13 in the last 5
years alone – on projects as diverse
as the Ottawa Escarpment District
Area Plan, Cornell University
Comprehensive Campus Master
Plan, City of St. Paul Central
Corridor Development Strategy and
Youngstown Ohio Vision. His work
has been honoured by the American
Planning Association, the Canadian
Institute of Planners, the Canadian
Society of Landscape Architects, the
Ontario Professional Planners
Association, to name a few. George
is deeply committed to furthering the
quality of the Urban Design
profession, and maintains a high
level of involvement in urban and
conservation-focused agencies and
organizations.
Glenn Featherstone began his real
estate career providing strategic
location analysis, planning and
execution for a major Canadian
Bank. In the subsequent 25 years,
Glenn has worked throughout
Canada, the northeast U.S. and
California in a wide range of roles
with an emphasis on identifying and
executing real estate strategies with
both an operational and asset
optimization objective. He has been
directly responsible for completing
development/leasing deals for the
Cinema industry, the hard goods
industry and numerous fashion
concepts on behalf of both tenants
and landlords.
Currently, Glenn directs the leasing
and lease administration function at
Morguard Investments for 48 retail
properties representing more than
13 million square feet and more
than 400 deals per annum. He leads
a group of more than 25 people,
including some of Canada’s most
senior dealmakers, in the
development and implementation of
property specific strategies
designed to optimize market
positioning and value.
George Fiddler, as Senior Vice
President, Retail – Central North
America, is responsible for
overseeing the Ivanhoé Cambridge
properties in the Central Region of
North America. He ensures that
each property is positioned
strategically within its respective
market, oversees leasing,
operations and marketing, and
works closely with the company’s
Development, Finance, Operations
and Legal Affairs teams.
George began his career in 1983 at
Cambridge Shopping Centres.
Between 1983 and 1987 he worked
at a number of properties. In late
1987, he began working in Leasing
in Toronto. In 1996 he was
appointed Vice President, Leasing,
Shopping Centre Group. Following
this, George served as Vice
President, Eastern Business Unit,
Asset Management Group, and then
as Senior Vice President, Central
Region, before assuming his current
position.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Richard Getz
Hugh Gorman
Dan Gray
Vice President, Retail
Colonnade Development
[email protected]
Principal
Bridgeport Realty Capital Partners
[email protected]
Vice President, Leasing
Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP
[email protected]
Richard Getz is entering his 34th
year in the shopping centre industry
in Ottawa in 2014. Richard began
his career with Campeau
Corporation followed by 4 years as
part of the Rideau Centre
Management team. Following 16
successful years in retail leasing and
sales, first with Ottawa’s Regional
Group, then at Royal LePage
Commercial, he joined Colonnade in
January 2004. Since that time
Colonnade has developed centres in
Eastern Ontario which include
national retailers such as Wal-Mart,
Canadian Tire, Loblaw, Rona,
Staples, LCBO, Dollarama,
Scotiabank, TD Canada Trust, Tim
Hortons and A&W.
Hugh Gorman has over 20 years of
diverse real estate experience.
Throughout his career, Hugh has
worked with many of Canada’s
largest pension funds, landlords and
private companies. Hugh cofounded BridgePort Realty Capital
Partners in 2009. BridgePort is a
boutique real estate investment and
operating company with offices in
Ottawa and Toronto. BridgePort
creates a pipeline of unique real
estate investment opportunities for
itself and its private and institutional
partners.
Dan Gray is Bentall Kennedy’s Vice
President in the Ottawa regional
office responsible for leasing and
development activities, reporting
directly to the Executive Vice
President, Eastern Canada. He has
21 years of real estate experience,
of which the last 13 years have
been in expanding roles with Bentall
Kennedy.
Richard also oversees retail leasing
for Colonnade’s managed properties
in Ottawa and for its development
clients. He also assists Colonnade’s
affiliate, Site Cast Construction,
which was the wall supplier to the
new Toronto Premium Outlets in
Halton. Currently he is a member of
the Campaign Cabinet and is past
Chairman of the Leaders for Mental
Health Breakfast for the Royal
Ottawa Foundation for Mental
Health.
Prior to this, Hugh spent almost 10
years with Oxford Properties Group
where most recently he was Vice
President, Industrial, Canada and
Vice President, Global Principle
Investment.
Hugh has been actively involved in
The Building Owners and Managers
Association and has served as
President BOMA Ottawa, BOMA
Canada and as a member of the
BOMA International Executive
Committee. He has received
awards for his outstanding
contribution to the association and
real estate community.
Bentall Kennedy acts for prominent
public and corporate pension funds,
life insurance companies,
endowments and other funds. In
Canada, Bentall Kennedy offers a
comprehensive, integrated menu of
asset and portfolio management,
property management, leasing and
development services. In the U.S., a
full range of investment advisory
services are provided to clients
coast-to-coast. Bentall Kennedy’s
continent-wide platform is executed
by more than 1,300 employees at
14 offices located across Canada
and in key U.S. markets. In Ottawa
they are responsible for
management of approximately 3
million square feet of CBD and
suburban A Class office space.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Alfred Hendry
Lawrence Hildebrand Peter Hume
Chief Executive Officer
Homestead Land Holdings Limited
[email protected]
Principal
Northwest Atlantic (Canada) Inc.
[email protected]
Councillor
City of Ottawa
[email protected]
Alfred Hendry is the Chief Executive
Officer of Homestead Land Holdings
Limited. He joined the company as
Vice President Acquisitions and
Corporate Development in 1999 and
has since participated as a key
member of the executive committee.
Prior to joining Homestead, Alfred
was employed at a major Chartered
Bank and held various positions in
Business Banking and Risk
Management.
Lawrence Hildebrand joined
Northwest Atlantic in 1992 and
became a Principal of the firm in
2008. Lawrence has over 25 years
of experience in the real estate
industry with the majority of them
specializing in retail tenant
representation with Northwest
Atlantic.
Peter Hume is a Municipal
Councillor for the City of Ottawa. For
the last 21 years, he has
represented the community of Alta
Vista at the regional and municipal
levels of government. Peter was
appointed Chair of the City of
Ottawa’s Planning and Environment
Committee in 2003 and in 2011,
following a restructuring of the city’s
standing committees, was named
Chair of the City of Ottawa Planning
Committee. Peter has been focused
on the City’s planning and
development issues for more than
10 years. He participates in major
planning conferences both close to
home here in Canada as well as in
the United States. Peter is also a
member of the City of Ottawa’s
Finance and Economic
Development and Environment
Committees. He has held a seat on
the Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc.
Board of Directors since 2004 and
served on the Hydro Ottawa
Governance and Compensation
Committee from 2006 to 2009.
He continues to work with AMO as a
Director and in 2012 was appointed
Chair of the AMO Waste
Management Task Force.
Homestead Land Holdings Limited
is a tenant-oriented, progressive
private real estate company
engaged in the construction,
acquisition and management of
multi-family residential projects in
major Ontario cities. The company
was founded approximately 60
years ago and owns a portfolio of
over 24,000 residential units. The
portfolio is geographically diversified
throughout Ontario with properties in
Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston,
Hamilton, London, Kitchener,
Guelph, Brantford, Burlington,
Oakville, Mississauga and Sarnia.
Lawrence has represented many of
North America’s finest retailers
including Target, Bed Bath &
Beyond, PetSmart, Old Navy,
Adidas, Chapters Bookstores, Best
Buy, and Cineplex Theatres. His
skill and experience allows him to
implement a complete expansion
program; from initial market
strategies, through site analyses
and deal negotiations. Lawrence
has vast market knowledge and
experience covering areas from
Ontario to Atlantic Canada.
Prior to joining Northwest Atlantic,
Lawrence spent 4 years with a
major North American developer,
adding to his real estate skills.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Stan Humphreys
Lisa Lafave
Bruce Lazenby
Director, Leasing
Cominar REIT
[email protected]
Senior Portfolio Manager,
Real Estate
HOOPP
[email protected]
President & CEO
Invest Ottawa
[email protected]
Stan Humphreys has overall
responsibility of marketing and
leasing Cominar's 2 million square
feet of office buildings in the Ottawa
Region. He has been with his
current portfolio since 1998 which
was purchased by Cominar in
September 2012.
Lisa Lafave is Senior Portfolio
Manager, Real Estate at the
Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan
(HOOPP) and Vice President of
HOOPP Realty Inc. In this capacity,
Lisa is responsible for acquisitions,
dispositions and portfolio
management of direct real estate
investments with a market value in
excess of $5.6 billion. The portfolio
comprises office, industrial and retail
properties in all major Canadian
markets.
Bruce Lazenby, throughout his
career, has excelled at driving
change and creating collaborative
partnerships to meet clear and
compelling business goals - with
gusto. After serving 20 years in the
military, Bruce went on to serve in
senior technology executive
positions including 6 years as CEO
with Ottawa’s FreeBalance Inc.
Stan has been active in Ottawa’s
real estate industry for the past 33
years with experience in residential
sales, commercial property
management and office leasing.
Lisa oversees 15 different
external real estate management
firms to meet the pension plan
target returns and has successfully
delivered superior investment
returns over all IPD benchmarks.
She has also spearheaded and
implemented HOOPP's
Environmental Management Policy
and established the portfolio carbon
baseline in 2008.
As a speaker at many "green"
investment conferences, Lisa
illustrates how fiduciary
responsibility can be compatible
with sustainability objectives.
Prior to joining Invest Ottawa, Bruce
was Chairman of the Ottawa
Software Cluster for 6 years and
Vice President in Canada for Corum
Group Ltd. – the world’s largest
software M&A advisory firm. As
CEO of FreeBalance, an enterprise
software company, Bruce raised
millions of dollars in venture capital
and debt financing, and helped grow
the company by 300 percent. Bruce
was also a Chair and executive
coach with The Executive
Committee – a global network of
15,000 chief executives in 16
countries.
In the military, Bruce managed the
financial management and
accounting systems for the
Department of National Defense
worldwide.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Mario Lefebvre
Michel Léonard
Steven Marino
Director, Centre for
Municipal Studies
The Conference Board of Canada
[email protected]
President, CEO and Trustee
BTB REIT
[email protected]
Vice President, Investments
GWL Realty Advisors Inc.
[email protected]
Mario Lefebvre is Director of the
Centre for Municipal Studies at the
Conference Board of Canada. In
this position, Mario has developed a
tremendous knowledge and in-depth
understanding of the economic and
financial situations of Canada’s
cities. He gives several speeches
across the country each year and
conducts numerous media
interviews.
Michel Léonard is one of the
founders of BTB REIT and currently
holds the position of President and
CEO of the REIT. He is also a
Trustee of the REIT. Since its public
issue on October 2006 the REIT has
concluded real estate acquisitions,
the value of which is in excess of
$500 million.
Steven Marino is Vice President,
Investments for GWL Realty
Advisors Inc. GWLRA is a full
service real estate advisory firm with
$15 billion of assets under
management on behalf of
institutional and pension fund real
estate investors.
Previous to his current position,
Mario was a Senior Research
Associate in the Economic Services
Group at the Conference Board. He
had a major role in several
international projects in countries
such as Tunisia, Morocco and
Ukraine, working closely with each
country’s Ministry of Finance. From
1991 to 1997, Mario was an
economist at the Bank of Canada,
where he worked at the Research
Department and at the International
Department.
Michel has more than 28 years of
experience in commercial real
estate and he has helped hundreds
of organizations of regional and
national scale in: Acquisitions,
leasing and development
transactions; Strategic planning and
analysis; Implementation of complex
relocation and renegotiation
assignments; Taking advantage of
financial markets to leverage equity;
Development and built-to-suit
transactions.
Michel has a solid knowledge of
Canadian jurisprudence. He has
spearheaded numerous real estate
transactions throughout Canada and
the U.S. in leasing, renegotiations,
purchases, built-to-suit projects and
arbitration.
Steven is responsible for the
origination and execution of client
investment and disposition activities
in Eastern Canada. He has 17 years
of industry experience and has also
worked in asset management and
brokerage capacities.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Joe Mazzocco
Blair McCreadie
Steve McEwen
Partner, Investments
KingSett Capital
[email protected]
Head of Canadian Real Estate
Standard Life Investments
(Real Estate) Inc.
[email protected]
Managing Director
CMLS Financial
[email protected]
Joe Mazzocco is the Co-Head of
Investments at KingSett Capital,
Canada’s leading private equity real
estate business co-investing with
institutional and high net worth
clients. Joe joined KingSett Capital
in 2005, after 11 years in investment
banking, appraisal and information
services.
Blair McCreadie is responsible for
the overall operation of Standard
Life Investments (Real Estate) Inc.
in Canada including oversight of the
Standard Life Real Estate Fund
portfolio management team,
together with product development,
marketing and business
development for Canadian real
estate fund products being
marketed to investors. Blair has a
considerable breadth of direct real
estate expertise including property
valuations, leasing, asset
management, financing and
acquisitions, and dispositions. He
began his career as a project
manager for a Toronto municipality,
which was followed by several years
as a property appraiser and
consultant with two Canadian real
estate companies before he joined
the Standard Life Group in 1997.
Steve McEwen’s early years in the
real estate industry were with a U.S.
based life insurance company and
an international public accounting
firm. In 1999, he established the
Ottawa office of a commercial real
estate lending firm. Joining CMLS
Financial in 2012, Steve offers
borrowers expertise in construction
and bridge, and permanent
mortgage finance secured by multifamily, retirement, office, industrial,
retail, hospitality and P3 projects.
KingSett uses active management
to create premium risk weighted
returns for its various investment
strategies. Since 2002, KingSett has
successfully raised $4 billion of
equity for its Growth Strategy and
Income Strategy funds and
completed over $16 billion of
acquisitions, dispositions and
mortgage lending. KingSett currently
has over $5 billion of assets under
management and on behalf of its
KingSett Real Estate Growth LP No.
5 and KingSett Canadian Real
Estate Income Fund have over $1
billion to invest in income producing
properties, development, joint
ventures and mortgage lending for
the remainder of 2013.
Until his recent promotion to Head
of Canadian Real Estate, Blair has
been focusing on acquisitions and
dispositions as well as oversight and
leadership for the SLREF. Blair has
also been actively involved in the
launch of the new Canadian Real
Estate Fund (CREF) where he will
be the Fund’s manager.
CMLS Financial is one of Canada’s
largest, independently owned
mortgage services company.
Founded in 1974, CMLS Financial
provide lending solutions to real
estate owners and developers and
related services to some of
Canada’s most prominent financial
institutions, insurance companies,
investment managers and others.
CMLS Financial originates over $2
billion of annual loan funding and
currently manage a mortgage
portfolio of more than $6 billion.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Mike McGahan
John McKinlay
Sandy McNair
President
CLV Group
[email protected]
Senior Vice President, Acquisitions
Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP
[email protected]
President
Altus InSite
[email protected]
Mike McGahan is the Chief
Executive Officer and a Trustee of
the REIT. In addition, Mike is
President and Chief executive
Cfficer of CLV Group Inc. (“CLV”),
the property manager for the REIT.
CLV is a company that focuses on
providing “Complete Real Estate
Solutions”, including property
management, real estate brokerage,
mortgage brokerage, residential
rentals, commercial leasing and
construction.
John McKinlay is Senior Vice
President, Acquisitions for Bentall
Kennedy in Canada. As the
company’s senior Canadian
acquisition officer, he is responsible
for the sourcing and negotiating of
acquisition opportunities throughout
the country and across all asset
classes.
Sandy McNair is the President of
Altus InSite, a division of Altus
Group. Sandy and the Altus InSite
team work closely with a wide range
of commercial real estate
occupants, owners, investors,
lenders, managers, advisors and
industry associations located across
Canada.
Prior to joining Bentall in 2003, John
held the position of Senior Portfolio
Manager and Co-Head of General
Electric Capital’s Real Estate Asset
Management Group. In this role, he
was directly responsible for asset
transactions, while jointly managing
the professionals in the Asset
Management group.
Since 1996 the goal of Altus InSite
has been to increase the investment
appeal, credibility and performance
of commercial real estate by
creating quality processes that
establish market data and
performance perspective that are:
National and Consistent, Accurate
and Timely, Credible,Transparent
and Independent.
Mike has over 25 years of
experience in the real estate
business focusing on the multiresidential apartment and
commercial properties sectors and
has successfully bought, sold,
financed and managed over 200
properties valued in excess of $1
billion. Through CLV and InterRent
REIT, Mike presently manages a
portfolio of over 8,000 residential
units and 300,000 square feet of
commercial properties. He has been
a licensed real estate agent and
mortgage broker for over 25 years.
Bentall Kennedy is one of North
America’s largest real estate
investment advisors and one of its
foremost providers of real estate
services. Bentall Kennedy serves
the interests of more than 500
institutional clients across 145
million square feet of office, retail,
industrial, apartment, and medical
office properties totaling over $30
billion throughout Canada and U.S.
Prior to launching InSite Real Estate
Information Systems, Sandy gained
a wealth of perspective with several
commercial real estate firms
including, a real estate developer,
an architectural firm, a software
developer, a financial institution and
a hotel management company. In
2006 InSite was acquired by Altus
Group.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Pierre-Marc Mongeau Bernie Myers
Stephen Nicoletti
Assistant Deputy Minister, Real
Property Branch, Public Works &
Government Services Canada
Vice President, Eastern Canada,
Office/Industrial
Morguard
[email protected]
Managing Director, Eastern Canada
Manulife Real Estate
[email protected]
Bernie Myers, as Vice President,
Eastern Canada, Office & Industrial,
oversees the Asset, Property
Management and Leasing for
Ottawa and Montreal. Bernie’s real
estate career has been based in
Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa.
Stephen Nicoletti joined Manulife in
2005 and is responsible for the
overall asset management, leasing
and operations of Manulife’s more
than 2.4 million square feet real
estate portfolio in Eastern Canada
which includes properties in Ottawa
and Montreal.
[email protected]
Pierre-Marc Mongeau was named
Assistant Deputy Minister, Real
Property Branch in April 2013. Prior
to this appointment, he served as
Assistant Deputy Minister,
Parliamentary
Precinct Branch from 2010 and
Acting Associate Assistant Deputy
Minister, Real Property Branch
starting in 2009.
As Assistant Deputy Minister,
Pierre-Marc leads a national
organization of 3,600 employees
that houses over 270,000 public
servants in one of the largest real
estate portfolios in Canada.
Holdings encompass more than 7
million square metres of office
space, as well as a number of major
engineering assets.
Pierre-Marc is also accountable for
the branch’s modernization of
business practices to help the
department achieve its spending
reduction commitments. Real
Property Branch operates on an
annual $3 billion gross budget and
provides optional services to the
government through a revolving
fund with an annual business
volume of $1.5 billion.
Bernie brings over 20 years in
senior positions in portfolio
management, asset management,
acquisitions and dispositions,
leasing and property management
with responsibilities across Western
Canada, Ottawa and Montreal.
Active in the industry, Bernie served
7 years on the board of BOMACalgary, including 2 as President.
Bernie served on the Board of
Governors of the University of
Calgary for 6 years. He has
participated in panels at industry
forums in Calgary, Ottawa,
Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and
Edmonton. .
Stephen has an extensive
background in the commercial real
estate industry with more than 25
years of experience. Prior to joining
Manulife, Stephen was Director of
Leasing / National Capital Region
with O&Y Enterprises where he was
responsible for developing and
implementing asset management
strategies for O&Y’s significant
commercial real estate portfolio.
Previous roles include positions as
General Manager, National Capital
Region at Sun Life, Property
Manager at Quadrelle Management,
and Leasing Officer at Perez
Bramalea.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Bob Perkins
Michael Polowin
David Pridham
Past President
BOMA Ottawa
[email protected]
Partner
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
[email protected]
Director, Leasing
Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP
[email protected]
Bob Perkins is a senior real estate
professional with 24 years of
experience in the Ottawa market.
His extensive experience in
representing the interest of
institutional owners of real estate in
the Ottawa area has provided indepth knowledge of third party
management practices and private
sector methodologies.
Michael Polowin is a partner in
Gowlings' Ottawa office, practicing
in the area of municipal and
planning law. Michael advises and
represents clients through the full
spectrum of the development
process. He has acted for some of
the largest developers in Canada,
and has been involved in
developments throughout Ontario.
Michael has also acted on behalf of
municipalities on planning and
development and public-private
partnerships. In Michael’s real
estate practice, he advises financial
institutions and property owners on
the acquisition, disposition and
financing of property throughout
Ontario. He has acted with respect
to some of the most complex
property transactions in the Ottawa
area, including sports arenas, power
centres, office complexes,
residential developments and P3’s
for government and private sector.
David Pridham, an active member of
Ottawa's office leasing community
over the past 24 years, has
witnessed Ottawa's market cycles
from different perspectives. During
the late 1980s David's career began
at the grass roots level as
researcher/analyst for Regional
Group of Companies. David
migrated to commercial brokerage
in 1990 where practical leasing skills
were developed at both Royal
LePage Commercial and JJ
Barnicke.
Bob has participated in over 25 local
development projects in his career.
His experience in the real estate
management and development
sector was obtained at Canderel
Management Limited (1989 -2002),
CB Richard Ellis Limited (2002 2009) and more recently at The
Taggart Group of Companies.
Michael has practiced law since
1985 and prior to joining Gowlings in
2005, he was a partner with another
national law firm, and is President of
Evergreen Mortgage Corporation
and Chairman of Camp B’nai Brith
of Ottawa.
Over the past 14 years David has
worked exclusively on behalf of
owners leasing a diverse portfolio of
office projects. Recently he
celebrated his 10th anniversary as
Leasing Director with Bentall
Kennedy at the landmark Sun Life
Financial Centre complex in the
heart of Ottawa's downtown core.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Greg Rogers
Nathan Smith
Mark Sutcliffe
Executive Vice President,
Investments
Minto Properties Inc.
[email protected]
Senior Vice President,
Capital Markets Group
Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa
[email protected]
Ottawa Entrepreneur,
Writer & Broadcaster
[email protected]
Greg Rogers, as Executive Vice
President, Investments, leads the
team responsible for all acquisitions,
dispositions and development of
income producing apartment and
commercial properties. Greg’s
mandate is to assertively grow the
income producing portfolio over the
next 5 years with a focus on value
add as well as stabilized assets.
Nathan Smith, as Senior Vice
President, has been actively
engaged with Cushman & Wakefield
(formerly Royal LePage Commercial
Inc.) in Ottawa for the past 30 years.
Over this period of time Nathan has
transacted commercial real estate
valued in excess of $2.5 billion.
Mark Sutcliffe is an Ottawa
entrepreneur, writer and
broadcaster. He hosts a highly rated
morning talk show on 580 CFRA,
and a national Sunday morning
political show on CPAC. Mark also
writes two columns per week in the
Ottawa Citizen. He's the Chief
Executive Officer of Great River
Media, which operates a number of
media properties including the
Ottawa Business Journal and iRun
magazine. Mark is also a runner and
fundraiser, having completed 18
marathons and raised more than
$100,000 for charities.
Prior to his current role, Greg was
responsible for the commercial
property division and for Minto
Group Services. Previously, he has
held executive level positions in
asset management, development,
portfolio management and
construction for national real estate
operating companies and led the
consulting group for a national
brokerage company.
Nathan’s concentration has been
exclusively focused on high-end
commercial investment product, be
it office, retail plazas, development
land, apartment or industrial
buildings located within the National
Capital Region. Having successfully
completed 5 segments of the
intensive Commercial/Investment
Real Estate Program (CCIM),
Nathan has proven ability in all
aspects of commercial/investment
real estate from site selection to
advanced taxation and financial
analysis. In 2004, Nathan was
inducted into the Cushman &
Wakefield Hall of Fame, in the sales
producer category. Nathan at the
time was only the fifth member of
the sales team (in Canada), to be
inducted. Induction is limited to
those few top performers with
demonstrated excellence over an
extended period of time.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Cindy VanBuskirk
Gordon Wadley
Brian Wallace
General Manager
Rideau Centre
[email protected]
Director, Leasing
Dundee Realty Management Corp.
[email protected]
Director, Office Leasing
Oxford Properties Group Inc.
[email protected]
Cindy VanBuskirk has been
employed by the Cadillac Fairview
Corporation Limited, the owners and
managers of Rideau Centre, for the
past 21 years. With sales
productivity approaching $1,000 per
square foot, Rideau Centre has
been the dominant shopping centre
in the Ottawa market for the past 30
years and one of Canada's most
successful shopping centres.
Gordon Wadley is the Director of
Leasing for Dundee Realty
Management Corp. Since 2011 he
has been responsible for managing
a mixed use commercial portfolio of
approximately 1.5 million square
feet in the Ottawa/Gatineau Region.
Gordon also plays an integral role in
the regional analysis of acquisition
opportunities always ensuring that
applicable business strategies and
corporate objectives are strictly
implemented to maximize the best
outcomes for all respective
stakeholders.
Brian Wallace is the Director of
Office Leasing responsible for
Oxford Properties Group Inc.'s office
portfolio in Eastern Canada. Brian
has been active in the Ottawa real
estate market since 1989, starting
his career in brokerage with C. A.
Fitzsimmons.
After several years directing the
marketing program at the Centre,
Cindy was promoted to the position
of General Manager in 2006 and
now oversees a retail complex
valued in excess of half a billion
dollars with a staff of 49 full and
part-time employees.
For many years, Cindy also had the
responsibility for the leasing
and merchandising of Rideau
Centre and was responsible, with
her brokers, for bringing several
"best in class" retailers to Ottawa
including Apple, Sephora, Coach,
Michael Kors and Forever 21. She
currently serves as the Vice Chair of
the Downtown Rideau BIA and
Membership Chair of Ottawa
Tourism.
Gordon has been a member of the
Ottawa real estate community since
2006. He started as a research
coordinator and subsequent leasing
representative for a major national
brokerage firm. To date Gordon has
worked on over 200 lease
transactions, dispositions and
acquisitions totaling approximately 3
million square feet.
Gordon is a member of the Ottawa
chapter of BOMA, holds a real
estate license with RECO and most
importantly he very much enjoys
being a part of a number of local
community charities and initiatives.
In 2003, Brian moved to the
landlord's side with Oxford as
Director of Leasing for Ottawa
overseeing leasing for the suburban
and downtown properties
highlighted by 1600 Carling and
Constitution Square respectively.
After the successful completion of
the development and leasing of
Constitution Square Tower III,
Brian's responsibilities were
expanded to include the Montreal
office portfolio.
PRESENTERBIOGRAPHIES
Jim Watson
Patrick Whelan
Rodney Wilts
Mayor
City of Ottawa
[email protected]
Chief Operating Officer
Osgoode Properties
[email protected]
Partner
Windmill Developments /
BuildGreen Solutions
[email protected]
Jim Watson was elected Mayor of
the City of Ottawa on October 25,
2010 having stepped down from his
position in the provincial cabinet as
Minister of Municipal Affairs and
Housing. He had previously held the
posts of Minister of Consumer and
Business Services and Minister of
Health Promotion.
Patrick Whelan joined Osgoode in
1994 as Vice President of
Operations and was promoted to
Chief Operating Officer in June
2006
Rodney Wilts is a partner in
Windmill Developments and
BuildGreen Solutions. Rodney has
worked on a wide-range of deeply
sustainable development projects,
including eight projects that have
achieved, or are currently targeting,
LEED Platinum.
First elected as a City Councillor in
1991, he was re-elected in 1996.
Three years later he was elected as
the youngest Mayor in Ottawa’s
history with 82% of the popular vote.
Following the amalgamation of
Ottawa and surrounding
communities, Mayor Watson was
appointed the President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Canadian
Tourism Commission.
An active member of his community,
Mayor Watson has also served on
the boards or as honourary chair of
several community organizations,
including the Riverside Hospital and
the National Arts Centre
Osgoode Properties is a privately
owned management and
development company
headquartered in Ottawa. The
portfolio, both owned and managed,
is located in Ottawa, Gatineau,
Kingston, Toronto, Mississauga,
Edmonton, Calgary, Atlanta
(Georgia), and five cities in Florida.
Over the past decade, Rodney has
been intimately involved with a
range of projects across the
development spectrum including
sustainability retrofits, new mixeduse developments, community-scale
projects, micro-utilities, and resort
development. Prior to his current
position, Rodney worked as an
environmental lawyer and was the
founder of Canada's first green
building supply centre.
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