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Podcast: How Yardi Is Becoming a System of Intelligence, with CEO Rob Teel
Rob Teel is the CEO of Yardi, the property management and real estate investment software company founded in 1984 whose platform serves owners and operators of commercial and residential space worldwide. He joined Yardi in 2003 and spent more than two decades leading its Global Solutions business, overseeing product direction, services, and client relationships across investment management, international, and commercial property owners before being appointed CEO in January 2026.
Podcast: Reducing CRE Energy Costs with Physical AI, with R-Zero CEO Jennifer Nuckles
Jennifer Nuckles is CEO of R-Zero, a physical AI platform that connects building data to continuously uncover energy savings and improve performance, delivering 20-40% HVAC energy savings with no major retrofit required. She previously served as EVP at SoFi and CMO at Zynga, and spent nearly a decade as a Global Business Lead at Clorox. She is a board member and chairperson of the American Lung Association and a trustee at UC Riverside. Based in San Francisco.
Podcast: Fire Prevention Tech to Protect Homes After LA Fires, CitroTech’s Wes Bolsen
Wes Bolsen is the CEO and board member of CitroTech (NYSE AM: CITR), the company behind the only EPA Safer Choice recognized fire inhibitor in the United States. Before CitroTech, Wes co-founded LaderaTech, a wildfire prevention company built on patents from Stanford University and MIT, which he subsequently sold to Perimeter Solutions (NYSE: PRM) and joined their leadership team overseeing global wildfire prevention ahead of the company’s $2 billion public listing.
Podcast: Why Industrial Leasing Is Broken & How to Fix It, Warehub CEO James Holbrook
James Holbrook is an industrial real estate entrepreneur and technology innovator, and the founder of Payson Smith Holbrook and Warehub, where he serves as Executive Chairman. Over the past 5+ years, he and his team have led more than $500 million in industrial leasing transactions, representing landlords and tenants across millions of square feet of short-term warehouse space nationwide.
Podcast: Automating CRE Accounts Payable Coding, with PredictAP CEO David Stifter
David Stifter has spent more than two decades at the intersection of real estate, technology, and finance. As Managing Director and functional CTO at Digital Bridge (formerly Colony Capital), he led data architecture, process improvement, and finance transformation initiatives across major acquisitions. In 2020, he co-founded PredictAP with a team of B2B SaaS and AI veterans from Blizzard, Apple, and HubSpot.
Podcast: The Risks CRE Investors Aren’t Pricing In, with Moody’s Jeffrey Havsy
Jeffrey Havsy is the commercial real estate industry practice lead at Moody’s Analytics, where he focuses on combining property fundamentals with economic, credit, climate, and alternative data to help lenders, investors, and operators make better decisions. He has spent his career at the intersection of economics and real estate, including roles at NCREIF and CBRE.
Podcast: How AI Is Making Rental Application Fraud Harder to Catch, with Docuverus
Jamie Borodin is the founder and CEO of Docuverus, a document verification and fraud detection platform purpose-built for multifamily housing providers. With over 30 years in resident screening, Jamie founded Docuverus in 2017 to address a gap no existing tool was solving: authenticating income documents at the metadata level while simultaneously reading and calculating their contents.
Podcast: How Physical Property Data Drives Key CRE Decisions, ID Plans’ Jordan Hearin
Jordan Hearin is the chief strategy officer at ID Plans, a platform that digitizes the physical reality of commercial real estate assets to support leasing, property management, construction, and asset management across the full property lifecycle. Founded in 1999, ID Plans now covers over 3 billion square feet across the US, with clients including Regency Centers, JLL, Brixmor Property Group, Kite Realty and DLC Management. Jordan is based in Tampa, Florida.
Podcast: ROAD to Housing Act, Rental Tech & Screening, with Boom CEO Rob Whiting
Rob Whiting is the co-founder and CEO of Boom , a proptech company building the future of rental financial services for residential property managers across single-family rental, manufactured housing and multifamily. Boom ’s three products — Boom Report for rent reporting, Boom Screen for applicant underwriting, and Boom CRM for agentic leasing and self-showing — serve hundreds of thousands of doors and count American Homes 4 Rent and Manage America among their key partners.
Podcast: Using AI to Make Better CRE Acquisition & Underwriting Decisions
Steven Song is the founder and CEO of Diald, an AI-powered decision intelligence platform for commercial real estate. Before founding Diald, Steven worked on both the investing and development sides of real estate, and built his career across architecture and urban planning, training at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pennsylvania.
Podcast: How Landlords Can Solve the Tenant Visibility Problem – Sytes’ Rafael Weiss
Rafael Weiss is the co-founder of Sytes, a marketplace platform that connects commercial real estate landlords, developers, and brokers with tenants actively looking for space in real time. Rafael came to the problem as a developer who lost a deal because tenant demand was invisible until it was too late, and built Sytes to fix the information asymmetry at the core of retail leasing.
Podcast: How Renter Loyalty Programs Drive Multifamily NOI – Stake CEO Rowland Hobbs
Rowland Hobbs is CEO and co-founder of Stake, a fintech platform that rewards renters with cash back, working to make renting financially rewarding. Before Stake, he led design and innovation at Teneo and served as head of product design for Accenture North America, and he founded Post+Beam, an innovation design firm, and Linea, a computer vision driven photo sharing app. Rowland is based in Dallas, TX.
Podcast: The Check Engine Light for CRE, with FTL President Clayton Callander
Clayton Callander is the founder of FTL (Field Technologies), a diagnostic platform built to give commercial buildings something like a check-engine light, closing the service gap for the roughly 95% of properties that enterprise vendors like Honeywell and Siemens can’t economically reach. Before founding FTL, Clayton spent seven years maintaining nuclear systems aboard a US Navy submarine, worked at SpaceX, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Podcast: Building an AI-Powered CRE Operation – Boxer Property President Justin Segal
Justin Segal is President of Boxer Property, where he oversees operations, leasing, technology, and marketing across a national portfolio of office, retail, and hotel assets. He co-founded Brava Systems, an AI-enabled platform originally built for Boxer’s own operations and now deployed across the commercial real estate industry, and Relay Human Cloud, a global staffing and team augmentation company. Justin is based in Houston.
Podcast | How AI Helps Brokers Prospect Smarter, with DealGround CEO Dan Mosher
Dan Mosher is the CEO of DealGround, an AI-native platform helping commercial real estate brokers and investors find deals faster by organizing property data, identifying opportunities, and connecting directly with property owners. A veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, operator, and investor, Dan previously built and led the Merchant team at Postmates through its acquisition by Uber, served as President of Presto, and helped scale BrightRoll tenfold before its acquisition by Yahoo.
Podcast | AI for CRE Due Diligence, with Tower Co-founder Noah Walters
Noah Walters is the co-founder of Tower, a custom-built AI platform for every stage of the due diligence process. He previously practiced at Dentons Canada, where he focused on tech regulatory compliance, private M&A, and venture financings as a founding member of the firm’s FinTech and AI industry teams. Noah is based in Canada. Recorded live at ICSC+Proptech in Las Vegas.
Podcast | Building the AI OS for Enterprise CRE, with Fyxt CEO Ryan Botwinick
Ryan Botwinick is the founder and CEO of Fyxt, an AI operating system for commercial real estate that unifies workflows, data, and automation across enterprise portfolios. Ryan came to the problem from both sides, as a real estate broker and through building his own property management company, before founding Fyxt in 2017 to bridge the operational disconnect between owners, managers, tenants, and service providers.
Podcast | How CRE is Implementing Agentic Workflows, with Lev CEO Yaakov Zar
Yaakov Zar is the founder and CEO of Lev , a software platform built to modernize the workflow of commercial real estate professionals. Yaakov started Lev after experiencing firsthand how broken the CRE financing process was, watching a $4 million loan take six months to close. What began as a tech-enabled brokerage has evolved into a purpose-built agentic workflow platform helping lenders, brokers, and investors manage deals, ingest unstructured data, and move faster.
Podcast | Can AI Help Developers Break Ground Faster ft. Pulley COO Andreas Rotenberg
Andreas Rotenberg is Co-founder and COO of Pulley, an AI-powered permitting platform helping developers, operators and commercial teams move projects through approvals faster. Before Pulley, he was part of the team at Honest Buildings through its acquisition, then served as Chief of Staff at Procore through its IPO. Pulley has supported over $15 billion in projects approved across the U.S. Live from ICSC+Proptech in Las Vegas.
Podcast | Are AI Agents RE Agents’ Best Partners? with Breezy CEO James Harris
James Harris built his real estate career from scratch after relocating from the UK to Los Angeles. His latest venture is Breezy , an AI tool for real estate agents designed to reduce the administrative load that eats into most agents’ days. Breezy recently raised a $10 million pre-seed round led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Fifth Wall , DST Global , and others.
Retail | Scaling Store Expansion Like Apple & Tesla, with SiteRise CEO Dillon Okner
Dillon Okner is the Founder & Partner of SiteRise , a retail development and construction platform helping brands streamline site selection, store development, and portfolio expansion. With more than 15 years of experience in retail construction and operations, Dillon previously helped support the expansion of major brands including Apple and Tesla .
Rentals | How to Run Maintenance Operations at Scale, with Lula CCO Will Parrish
Will Parrish is the Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Lula , a Kansas City-based proptech platform built to streamline property maintenance for property managers and their residents. Will co-founded Lula alongside CEO Bo Lais with a mission to make property maintenance smarter — pivoting the business during the pandemic to focus on property managers in the single-family rental space, a move that fueled rapid growth.
[Webinar] Checklist for Counsel Preparing to Mediate an Environmental Dispute - March 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CT | JD Supra
March 4, 2026 March 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CT To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: March 24th, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT This webinar is designed to assist attorneys who are getting ready to participate in a mediation involving an environmental dispute. It is designed, in essence, as a checklist of topics to consider and analyze in advance of the mediation.
Key Questions When Mediating Environmental Disputes | JD Supra
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed dramatic changes to environmental regulations in recent months, including its announcement, in March, of what it called the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.” Such sweeping changes inevitably create uncertainty — and uncertainty affects the ability to assess risk. An unstable regulatory climate may give rise to additional disputes. Environmental disputes, by their nature, are generally complex and unique.
The Strategic Use of Settlement Counsel: When is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? | JD Supra
Settlement counsel, as the name implies, “is an attorney engaged for the express purpose of assisting a client to resolve a current dispute.”¹ A settlement counsel’s task is to seek the best negotiated settlement for the client. While he or she must coordinate with the client’s trial counsel, the settlement counsel must also be separate and independent of the trial team. However, who would need or want a “settlement counsel” when a company already has a trial counsel handling a pending lawsuit?
The Strategic Use Of Settlement Counsel: When Is The Juice Worth The Squeeze?
Thompson Coburn LLP are most popular: within Energy and Natural Resources and International Law topic(s) Settlement counsel, as the name implies, "is an attorney engaged for the express purpose of assisting a client to resolve a current dispute."1 A settlement counsel's task is to seek the best negotiated settlement for the client. While he or she must coordinate with the client's trial counsel, the settlement counsel must also be separate and independent of the trial team.
How The Atlantic Richfield Decision May Impact The EPA Model Consent Decree Template
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA” or “Superfund”) has a laudable purpose. But jurists and commentators have often noted the Act's lack of clarity. In its recent decision, Atlantic Richfield Co. v.
Implications For Section 220 ‘Books And Records' Demands Following High River Limited Partnership
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In High River Ltd. P’ship v. Occidental Petroleum Corp., No. CV 2019-0403-JRS, 2019 WL 6040285 (Del. Ch. Nov. 14, 2019), the Court of Chancery of the state of Delaware recently refused to hold that Section 220 books and records demands could be used solely for furthering a proxy contest without otherwise stating and demonstrating a proper purpose, such as exploring a credible basis of corporate mismanagement.
Implications for Section 220 ‘Books and Records’ Demands Following High River Limited Partnership | JD Supra
In High River Ltd. P’ship v. Occidental Petroleum Corp., No. CV 2019-0403-JRS, 2019 WL 6040285 (Del. Ch. Nov. 14, 2019), the Court of Chancery of the state of Delaware recently refused to hold that Section 220 books and records demands could be used solely for furthering a proxy contest without otherwise stating and demonstrating a proper purpose, such as exploring a credible basis of corporate mismanagement.
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