Membership invitations were extended to 36 real estate advisory professionals after The Counselors of Real Estate Midyear Meetings in Chicago. While we are excited by the number of new members the organization has invited, we particularly celebrate the breadth of experience and new skill sets they bring to the Counselor organization.

New Members
Michael J. Ash, Esq. Partner/Attorney Decotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP Teaneck, NJ Chapter: New Jersey Recommended by: Matt Krauser, CRE and Mo Stack, CRE Practice Focus: Real estate litigation specializing in eminent domain, tax appeals, and right-of-way acquisition/planning.	Robert Axelson President AXE Interests Houston, TX Chapter: Houston-Gulf Coast Recommended by: Greg Lewis, CRE Practice Focus: Mixed-use, hotel/hospitality,land development, multifamily/senior housing, retail, urban redevelopment.
Anthony C. Barna Partner/Consulting Appraiser Kelly | Rielly | Nell | Barna Associates Pittsburgh, PA Recommended by: Kieran Jennings, CRE Practice Focus: Specialized valuation and consulting assignments for litigation support, eminent domain, tax assessment, and financing.	Jason C. Bergman Vice President & Underwriting Counsel Kensington Vanguard National Land Services New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Tony DellaPelle, CRE Practice Focus: Title insurance (commercial and residential); emphasis on complex transactions, foreclosures, REO and distressed properties; experienced foreclosure referee and receiver.
David Boisture Partner Novogradac & Company LLP Bethesda, MD Recommended by: Blair Kincer, CRE Practice Focus: Real estate counseling, market analysis, and valuation in the multifamily housing, community development, and renewable energy sectors.	Robert B. Cleary, Jr. Senior Vice President Colliers International Boston, MA Chapter: New England Recommended by: Rob Nahigian, CRE Practice Focus: Tenant advisory, facility portfolio management, consulting.
Robert William Coulson Principal V3, LLC Washington, DC Chapter: Recommended by: Casey Pipes, CRE Practice Focus: Advisor for owners, investors, and managers of real estate for portfolio optimization, risk management, program management, and organizational design.	Jon Cruse Senior Vice President JLL Valuation & Advisory Services, LLC Richardson, TX Chapter: Dallas-Fort Worth Recommended by: Tony Levatino, CRE Practice Focus: Pre-development counseling, market studies, and feasibility analyses, with a focus on seniors housing and multifamily property types.
George Dell CEO Valuemetrics San Diego, CA Chapter: San Diego Recommended by: Kent Steele, CRE Practice Focus: Statistics and data science solutions to asset analytics in litigation, collateral risk, valuation reliability, and investment forecasting with evidence-based methods.	Aki Dellaportas Director PricewaterhouseCoopers Palos Hills, IL Chapter: Midwest Recommended by: Warren Marr, CRE Practice Focus: Corporate real estate strategy and transformation, valuation, due diligence, accounting, forensic accounting, and other real estate consulting services.
Brett Dockwell, Esq. Partner Morrison Cohen LLP New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Theresa Nygard, CRE Practice Focus: Real estate litigation and arbitration, including property-valuation disputes, rent-reset determinations, and financing and partnership disputes.	Nathan C. Florio Partner/Principal Deloitte Transactions & Business Analytics LLP Jersey City, NJ Chapter: New Jersey Recommended by: Matt Kimmel, CRE Practice Focus: Appraisal, market and feasibility analyses, purchase price allocations for accounting/tax, acquisitions/dispositions, lease advisory/accounting.
Eduard Forejt Partner THREESIXTY, S.R.O. Prague, Czech Republic Chapter: European Recommended by: Tomáš Ctibor, CRE Practice Focus: Real estate consultancy, strategic planning, pre-development consultancy, transaction management and negotiations, leases and investments, ERV reports.	Bruce Gamble Managing Director Navigant Consulting, Inc. Washington, DC Recommended by: Darin Buchalter, CRE Practice Focus: Advisory and expert services to lenders, investors and owners concerning all types of real estate across all markets cycles.
Robert D. Grace Senior Appraiser Grace and Sons Appraisal Oklahoma City, OK Chapter: Dallas-Fort Worth Recommended by: Jerry Dent, CRE Practice Focus: Litigation support, valuation/consulting on commercial/residential property, conservation easements, federal acquisitions, real estate damages.	Ann Hambly Founder & CEO 1st Service Solutions, Inc. Grapevine, TX Chapter: Dallas-Fort Worth Recommended by: Tony Levatino, CRE Practice Focus: CMBS.
Michael D. Harrington Principal Harrington & Company Manchester, NH Chapter: New England Recommended by: Bill Norton, CRE Practice Focus: Office and Industrial tenant advisory, valuation support, and planning and development support, with a focus on medical development and adaptive reuse.	Michael E. Honeycutt SVP, Principal Realty Trust Group, LLC Knoxville, TN Recommended by: Greg Gheen, CRE Practice Focus: Healthcare real estate advisory, operations, capital projects; primarily serving health systems and physician practices.
Jonathan M. Houghton, Esq. Attorney/Partner and Shareholder Goldstein, Rikon, Rikon & Houghton, P.C. New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Theresa Nygard, CRE Practice Focus: Eminent domain.	Laymond R. Hubbard, Jr. Managing Director JLL Houston, TX Chapter: Houston-Gulf Coast Recommended by: Bill Brownfield, CRE Practice Focus: Office investment sales in Houston and corporate sale/leasebacks and dispositions.
Keenan Hughes Principal Phillips Preiss Grygiel, LLC Hoboken, NJ Chapter: New Jersey Recommended by: Jon Brody, CRE Practice Focus: Planning consultant for private developers and governmental entities, specializing in redevelopment, downtown revitalization, and economic development.	Abhishek Jain Director PwC New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Warren Marr, CRE
Mario Lefebvre Vice President, Research-Global Real Estate Markets Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc. Montreal, QC, Canada Recommended by: Tom Curtin, CRE, Michel Couillard, CRE, and Martine Gaudreault, CRE Practice Focus: Economist by training, provide senior management with an analysis of the latest economic trends and what they could mean for real estate.	Burney Lightle Partner Lightle Appraisal Company Searcy, AR Recommended by: Sara Stephens, CRE Practice Focus: Advisory and valuation of investment grade farmland, agribusiness, natural resources and industrial real estate.
David Carr Lockwood III EVP and Chief Operating Officer Colliers International South Carolina, Inc. Columbia, SC Chapter: The Carolinas Recommended by: Cindy Chandler, CRE Practice Focus: Positioning income assets in the market and determining strategies for owners for acquisition and disposition of investment properties.	Sharon Madison CEO Madison Madison International Detroit, MI Recommended by: Eileen Marrinan, CRE Practice Focus: Program and construction management, water, wastewater, transportation, utilities, building design, and land use consulting and planning.
Victor McConnell Director, Real Estate Valuation Services VMG Health Denver, CO Chapter: Colorado Practice Focus: Healthcare real estate valuation and advisory.	Gleb Nechayev Senior Vice President, Head of Research Berkshire Group, LLC Boston, MA Chapter: New England Recommended by: Rick Brace, CRE Practice Focus: Portfolio strategy, market analysis, housing research.
John S.B. Oler President/CEO/Founder JSBO Realty & Capital Inc. New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Bob Dietrich, CRE Practice Focus: Commercial leasing and investment sales broker, financial advisor, developer, and investment banker.	Jennifer Pitts Valuation Consultant Real Property Analytics Belton, TX Recommended by: Tom Jackson, CRE Practice Focus: Valuation counseling, litigation support, and damages analysis.
Melissa Reagen Managing Director, Head of Americas Research TH Real Estate New York, NY Chapter: New York Metropolitan Recommended by: Jeff Havsy, CRE Practice Focus: Real estate research with emphasis on tying together top down and bottom up perspectives to create differentiated views of the commercial property market.	Sandy G. Shindleman President Shindico Winnipeg, MB, Canada Recommended by: Walt Clements, CRE Practice Focus: Commercial real estate and investment management in Canada, providing full service to property owners/occupiers and pension funds.
Michael A. Simpson President NAI Ohio Equities Columbus, OH Chapter: Central & Northern Ohio Recommended by: Skip Weiler, CRE Practice Focus: Retail and office brokerage.	Christian F. Torgrimson, Esq. Managing Partner Pursley Friese Torgrimson, LLP Atlanta, GA Chapter: Georgia Recommended by: Tony DellaPelle, CRE and Casey Pipes, CRE Practice Focus: Eminent domain attorney, specializing in representing property owners/businesses in condemnation matters across the state of Georgia.
John W. Viggers Regional Vice President Cushman & Wakefield Iowa Commercial Advisors West Des Moines, IA Chapter: Midwest Recommended by: Roger Langpaul, CRE Practice Focus: Managing complex assets, dispositions, receiverships, counseling, and brokerage services of retail, office, industrial and multi-family.	Amy D.B. White Senior Director, Valuations Invesco Real Estate Dallas, TX Chapter: Dallas-Fort Worth Recommended by: John Kjelstrom, CRE Practice Focus: Leads the valuations group for Invesco Real Estate’s investment advisory business in North America.
Reinstatement
Richard O. Kinnard Managing Partner Korre Consultants, LLC Santa Rosa Beach, FL Practice Focus: Commercial sales, leasing, workouts and acquisitions; capital finance; appraisal, land, building, eminent domain, special use; property management.	Bruce Allen Wood President Foundation Real Estate Development Portland, OR Chapter: Oregon Practice Focus: Commercial real estate development of retail, office and industrial products in Oregon and southwest Washington.