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Alan Reeves

Senior Managing Director, Global Strategy, Newmark
Alexandra Segers

General Manager, Tochi Advisors
Amy Gerber

Executive Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield
Bradley Migdal

Executive Managing Director, Americas Strategic Consulting, Cushman & Wakefield
Brian Corde

Managing Partner, Atlas Insight
Brian Gallagher

Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, PPC Partners, Inc.
Chris Chmura, Ph.D.

CEO & Founder, Chmura Economics
Chris Schwinden

Partner, Site Selection Group
Chris Volney

Managing Director, Americas Consulting, CBRE
Courtland Robinson

Director of Business Development, Brasfield & Gorrie
Courtney Dunbar

Site Selection & Economic Development Leader, Burns & McDonnell
David Hickey

Managing Director, Hickey & Associates
Dennis Cuneo

Former Senior Vice President, Toyota Motor North America; Owner , DC Strategic Advisors
Dianne Jones

Managing Director, Business and Economic Incentives, JLL
Eric Stavriotis

Vice Chairman, CBRE
Joe Dunlap

Chief Supply Chain Officer, Legacy Investing
Lauren Berry

Director, Location Analysis and Incentives, Maxis Advisors
Marc Beauchamp

President, SCI Global
Matthew Powers

Site Selection Lead, REDI Site Selection
Scott J. Ziance

Partner and Economic Incentives Practice Leader, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Scott Kupperman

Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
Stephen Gray

President & CEO, Gray Construction

Podcasts

Around the Horn: Advanced Manufacturing’s Next Move

Greg Matter, Vice Chair, Industrials , JLL and Meaghan Elwell, President, Industrials Division, Work Dynamics, JLL (Q3 2025)

JLL recently launched an Advanced Manufacturing group to meet the moment, and Area Development spoke with group leaders Greg Matter, Vice Chair, Industrials, and Meaghan Elwell, Division President of Global Industrials, to get their real estate playbook for the new era. This conversation has been edited for space and style. More

Around the Horn: Data Center Supply Chains — What's Next?

Area Development Research Desk (Q3 2025)

Area Development magazine caught up with its Q2 guest editors, Ford Graham and Steven Pearce from McGuireWoods consulting, to talk about their reporting on data center supply chains. We also invited Ermengarde Jabir Director of Economic Research at Moody’s to join the discussion. More

Around the Horn: North America’s Trade Tensions

Area Development Research Desk (Q1 2025)

Charlie Smith, managing director of geopolitical strategy at Newmark Global Strategy discusses the current trade tensions across North America and their implications with his colleagues, managing director Carlos Sanchez (based in Mexico) and senior managing director Gregg Wassmansdorf (based in Canada). More

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Greg Matter, Vice Chair, Industrials , JLL and Meaghan Elwell, President, Industrials Division, Work Dynamics, JLL (Q3 2025)

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