The ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½β€™s College of Business Administration hosted a real estate conference for more than 215 community leaders. Called Growing Optimism for the Real Estate Industry- At Last!, this meeting was co-presented with the Dr. P Phillips Institute for Research and Education in Real Estate. This was the inaugural event for and annual program targeted at gathering preeminent commercial real estate owners, practitioners, and key decision makers in Central Florida. can be viewed on the college’s Facebook page.

The Conference program focused on real estate’s emerging landscape in 2013 and beyond. The program featured key influencers and industry leaders including:

  • Randy I. Anderson, Ph.D., CRE, Howard Phillips Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor, Department of Finance and Dr. P. Phillips School of Real Estate, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½ College of Business Administration
  • Marshall S. Cohn, ’11, President, The Dunhill Companies
  • Mayor Buddy Dyer, City of Orlando
  • Paul Ellis, President, CNL Commercial Real Estate
  • Joshua Harris, Ph.D., CAIA, ’04, ’07 & β€˜12, Director, Dr. P. Phillips Institute for Research and Education in Real Estate, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½ College of Business Administration
  • Paul Jarley, Ph.D., Dean, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½ College of Business Administration
  • Mike Lafitte, Global Chief Operating Officer, CBRE
  • William S. β€œBill” Moss, Senior Managing Director, CBRE
  • Jaime Patterson, ’06, Senior Associate Director, Degree Programs, Executive Development Center, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½ College of Business Administration
  • Sean Snaith, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­΄«Γ½ College of Business Administration
  • Rasesh Thakkar, β€˜84, Senior Managing Director, Tavistock Group

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