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Department of Real Estate
October 2010 Honorary Board meeting

Honorary Board

The Honorary Board is a core support group of the Department of Real Estate at Georgia State University whose members are recruited from senior leadership across functional areas of the real estate industry. The energy, wisdom and financial generosity of the Honorary Board are crucial to maintaining and enhancing the relevance of the real estate program to its constituent communities.

Atlanta Real Estate Market Sentiment Index (AREMSI)

In the quarterly meeting of its Real Estate Honorary Board, Georgia State University’s Department of Real Estate surveys its membership to gauge the general condition of the real estate market in Atlanta. This group comprises executives and senior management from most of the premier commercial and residential real estate firms in Atlanta representing a wide swath of disciplines including banking, brokerage, development, investment and construction. The survey measures the current mood in the real estate industry as well as tracks how this sentiment is changing over time.
Go to the archived Sentiment Index pages » 

Membership

Bill Adams, President
Adams Realtors

Marvin Banks Jr., CFO (Retired)
Gables Residential Trust

Ambrish Baisiwala, CEO
Portman Holdings

John Beam Jr., Managing Director
Certerline Capital Group

Judd Bobilin, President
Chance Partners, LLC

Richard Bowers, President
Richard Bowers & Company

Mitchell Brannen, Chairman and CEO
NAI Brannen Goddard

Michael Brown, Senior VP/Regional Manager
Gilbane Building Company

Jonathan Callaghan, Director of Real Estate
RMK Timerland Group - a Regions Morgan Keegan Company

John Chambliss, Director of Acquisitions & Investment
Anthem Capital Partners, LLC

Kurt Collier
Capital Advisors

Ralph Conti, Principal and Managing Member
RaCo Real Estate Advisors, LLC

John Cowart, President
John Cowart Properties

Philip Curtis, Partner
Olmstead, Lynch & Kreutz, LLC

Michael Dalton, President
Keever, Dalton, Johnson

Keith Douglas, Division VP
The Whiting-Turner Contracting
Company


Jeffrey DuFresne, Executive Director
Urban Land Institute - Atlanta District Council

Bruce Ficke, Executive VP
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.

Jerrold France, President and Publisher
France Publications, Inc.

James George
James F. George

Jeff Gilder
Oxford Capitol Advisors

Robert H. Good, President
The Good Group

Larry Gramlich, Partner
Troutman Sanders LLP, Attorneys At Law

Douglas S. Gray, Director
Jamestown

Timothy Gunter, President & CEO
IDI

David Haddow, President
Haddow and Company

Darlene Hawksley, Director of Real Estate
McPherson Redevelopment Authority

George Heery, Jr., Founding Partners, Heery Brothers
Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's Int'l Realty

Seabie Hickson, Executive VP
The Brookdale Group

Holly Hughes, Chief Administrative Officer and Executive VP
Carter

Scott Jackson, Chief Executive Officer
Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate, LLC

Barbara Jeanneret, Vice President
Jones Lang LaSalle

Gabe Jonas
Concord Properties

Joshua Kamin, Esquire
King and Spalding LLP

D. Kimbrough King Jr., President
Kim King Associates, LLC

Chad Koenig, Vice President
NAI Brannen Goddard

John Leonard, Regional Manager
Marcus & Millichap

Richard Levine, Managing Partner
BridgePointe Advisors

Paul Martin, Vice President
Private Bank of Buckhead

Steve Massell, President
Massell Commercial Real Estate, Inc.

Michael McDonald, Managing Director
Eastdil Secured

Lynn McKee, VP- CMBS Team Leader
TriMont Real Estate Advisors

Barry McWhirter, President
McWhirter Realty Partners

Peter Mitchell, VP Acquisitions
Wells Real Estate Funds

Gerald Monash, Executive VP,
NAI Global; and
President, REIAC
NAI Global REIAC

Michael Pelt, President and COO
MDH Partners, LLC

Mitchell Powell, CFO
The Integral Group, LLC

Greg Ryan, Vice President and Director of Acquisitions
IDI

Preston Snyder, President
Braden Fellman Group

Ewoud Swaak, President
Westplan Investors, Inc.

Philip Thompson, Partner
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Shawn Tidwell, Esquire
Fidelity National Title 

Jeffrey Warwick, Managing Director - U.S. Investments
Portman Holdings

Kurt Wassenar, Vice President
ING Investment Management

Christopher White, Senior Director
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. 

Mason Zimmerman, Senior Vice President
Pope & Land Enterprises, Inc.

 

AREMSI Explained

The sentiment index is based upon the responses to 12 questions on a semi-annual survey to the Honorary Board.

Read an explanation of how the index works »

See the recent and archived results of the Sentiment Index »