We recently completed our inaugural IREI CEO Summit 2015. Held on 1–2 December 2015 at the Harvard Club on West 44th Street in New York City, this was the first of what will become an annual event specifically designed to enable those CEOs from real estate firms around the globe that sponsor our publications to come together, connect with each other, exchange ideas and debate key issues that are important to them. (The event is open only to CEOs, and only to sponsoring firms; no investors or consultants were present.)

The CEOs who attended this first event represented some of the world’s largest global, diversified, multiproduct-oriented real estate investment management concerns, and several smaller, more regionally-focused or single-product-oriented firms. Participating CEOs included Robert Bellinger of ASB Real Estate Investments, Todd Briddell of CenterSquare Investment Management, Richard Coles of Vanbarton Group (formerly Emmes), Jeff Friedman of Mesa West Capital,