PART 2: #CREi - People to Follow! The 2020 Top Twitter Influencers in Commercial Real Estate list
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Congratulations to the latest list makers in this post - Part 2! This post highlights people ranked from 100 to 51. You can see Part 1 here. This list highlights lots of wonderful people who will make your Twitter feed even more interesting if you follow them! Let’s connect and make the world a better place! Continuing the shout out to @thewilbertgroup and @stevefennessy for your able assistance in making this list a reality. Please be sure to use #CREi when posting about the list on Twitter!
100: Gabriel Galiothe
@gabrielgaliothe
Gabriel Galiothe is investment advisor at TRI Commercial and specializes in the valuation, investment sale, and exchange of multifamily and mixed-use properties across the Bay Area.
99: Gavin J. Gallagher
@gavinjgallagher
Gavin Gallagher is a property investor, developer, entrepreneur and speaker. He blogs at gavinjgallagher.com and hosts a real estate podcast “Behind the Façade.” He is also park director at East Point Management in Ireland.
98: Kelly Macsymic
@KellyMacsymic
Kelly Macsymic joined ICR Commercial Real Estate in Saskatchewan in 2008 as a sales associate. Kelly is also business manager for Stuart Commercial Inc.
97: Tyler Courtney
@corporatetenant
Tyler Courtney is the Deputy Managing Principal and head of Office Tenant Representation at Cushman & Wakefield’s Atlanta office.
96: Anuj Puri
@TheAnujPuri
Anuj Puri is chairman of Anarock Property Consultants, the largest independent residential agency in India with 1,500 staff across 15 offices.
95: Beth Anne Grib
@BCCommercial
Beth Anne Grib heads marketing and operations for the commercial division of Beiler-Campbell Realtors in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. She is also advisor/concierge for the Commercial Real Estate Professionals and Investors Group.
94: Jim Brown
@OfficeSpaceJB
Jim Brown is real estate broker at Royal LePage in Toronto. Jim’s experience ranges from working as an office leasing agent with downtown Toronto landlords to suburban investment advisory services in York Region.
93: Michael Marciano
@MrMarci
Michael Marciano is product director for EG Commercial Real Estate in London.
92: Dan Palmeri
@danpalmeri
Dan Palmeri is senior director for Cushman & Wakefield, representing tenant leasing and landlords selling office buildings in the Las Vegas market.
91: Julie Augustyn
@JMAugustyn
Julie Augustyn is senior vice president at Foundry Commercial in Raleigh, where she focuses on tenant and landlord representation. Prior to joining Foundry Commercial, Julie was the Senior Director of Real Estate for Office Depot.
90: Justin A. Beck
@JustinABeck
Justin Beck is CEO of Beck Partners, a full-service commercial real estate, insurance and property management firm serving clients throughout the Southeast.
89: Benjamin Osgood
@BenjaminOsgood
Benjamin Osgood is founder and managing director of Recreate Commercial Real Estate, an advisory firm in San Francisco that represents exclusively tenants and buyers in finding and creating the best workspaces.
88: Jonathan Schultz
@JonSchultz_Onyx
Jonathan Schultz is co-founder and managing principal of Onyx Equities, a real estate investment, management, development, and property service organization in the New York metro market. He blogs at jonschultz.com.
87: Nick Gustafson
@gustafsonnick
Nick Gustafson is partner and principal of investment and commercial sales at Bender Commercial Real Estate Services in Sioux Falls. He occasionally wanders around the globe solo.
86: John Orr
@johnorrccim
John Orr is retail service director and manages the retail services platform in the Charleston office of Lee & Associates. He has completed over 5 million square feet of retail transactions including leases, acquisitions, dispositions and build-to-suit development.
85: Bailey Webb
@ebwebb
Bailey Webb is corporate public relations director at Cushman & Wakefield. A journalist by training, Bailey has also worked as a senior account executive and VP of a public relations firm.
84: Mike Cobb
@mikecobbcre
Mike Cobb is senior vice president at Colliers International, specializing in the sale and leasing of office, industrial and R&D properties on the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley. Mike has been the lead author of Colliers’ San Francisco Peninsula quarterly market report since 2002. He is owner of Opinion of Value, a leading commercial real estate blog.
83: H. Colin Hodges
@HColinHodges
Colin Hodges is commercial leasing manager and broker at Sandalwood Management, which owns, manages and leases more than 1 million square feet of customizable office, retail and industrial space throughout Austin and San Antonio.
82: David Smith
@dcs_3
David Smith is vice president, Americas Head of Occupiers Research at Cushman & Wakefield. David produces occupier thought leadership content for the Research Center of Excellence and directs a program of market presentations, written analysis, surveys, forecasts, and data collection.
81: Michael Bull
@BullRealty
Michael Bull is founder and CEO of Bull Realty, a commercial real estate sales, leasing and advisory firm headquartered in Atlanta. Michael is also host of America’s Commercial Real Estate Show.
80: Jerry LoCoco
@YumaCRE
Jerry LoCoco is managing director of SVN | Velocity Commercial Real Estate in Yuma, Arizona, where he specializes in investment property sales and industrial and office leasing and sales.
79: Masha Sharma
@genideva
Masha Sharma is cofounder and CTO of RealAtom, a software platform for securing CRE loans.
78: Sam Chandan
@samchandan
Sam Chandan is the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development and Investment and dean of NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate. He also hosts the Real Estate Hour on SiriusXM.
77: Peter Grant
@petergrantwsj
Peter Grant is an editor at the Wall Street Journal, in charge of the paper’s commercial real estate coverage.
76: Jeremy Neuer
@JNeuer19
Jeremy Neuer is the co-lead for CBRE’s Capital Markets Group in New Jersey, with a specific focus on office buildings. He also blogs at neuerspace.com.
75: Brian Schwagerl
@BriansSchwagerl
Brian Schwagerl is principal at BGS Advisory Services in New York City, where he works with owners, project managers, utilities and government agencies on sustainable design and construction strategies and implementation.
74: Chad Griffiths
@chadgriffiths
Chad Griffiths is partner at the Edmonton offices of NAI Commercial Real Estate, where he has been a top 15 producer with NAI Canada-wide since 2013.
73: Randy Fink
@rfinkone
As executive director of property & asset management for JLL, Randy Fink is market leader for JLL’s Property Management business in Nashville, Memphis, and Atlanta, where he oversees client service for a portfolio in excess of 35 million square feet.
72: Dan Hughes
@PropertyDanH
Dan Hughes is founder of Alpha Property Insight, a consultancy that helps property companies understand how technology is changing the market, both the buildings we use and the way we do our jobs.
71: Brandon Carrillo
@bcarrillo777
Brandon Carrillo is a principal at Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate, where he represents landlord/seller and tenant/buyer clients in the Los Angeles and greater Long Beach market places.
70: Adam Balsam
@theadambalsam
Adam Balsam is sales director for Intelligent Transportation Society of America Events, part of a partnership with Reed Exhibitions.
69: Keith Pelatowski
@kpelatowski
Keith Pelatowski is head of strategy for Points North, a Minneapolis-based firm whose compliance, reporting, and data aggregation solutions are designed to help payroll and human resource leaders solve data issues.
67: Matthew Smith
@CREMattSD
Based in San Diego, Matthew Smith is vice president of national business development at RealNex, a software and data solution company designed to connect the global real estate market by aggregating and integrating a portfolio of services all through one common SaaS business model.
66: Jay Olshonsky
@olshonsky
Jay Olshonsky is president and CEO of NAI Global, one of the largest commercial real estate firms, with over $20 billion in annual transaction volume. Prior to joining NAI Global, Jay spent 15 years at CBRE in the Baltimore Washington area.
65: Rod Santomassimo
@MASSIMOGROUP
Rod N. Santomassimo, CCIM, is the founder and president of The Massimo Group, a national commercial real estate coaching and consulting organization. Rod possesses 25 years of commercial real estate industry experience as a broker, owner, and manager of local, regional, and international firms and is a best selling author of several books.
64: Kristin Geenty
@KTG_CRE
Kristin Geenty is president and chief operating officer of The Geenty Group Realtors, a commercial, business and industrial and real estate brokerage in Connecticut. She was recently designated a member of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors.
63: Stuart Appley
@sappley
Stuart Appley is managing director of Global Workplace Solutions Digital & Technology for CBRE in San Francisco. He maintains a blog called BusinessTech at biznesstec.com.
62: Beth Azor
@bethazor1
Beth Azor is founder and principal of Azor Advisory Services, a retail real estate management, development and commercial real estate education firm in south Florida. An executive coach, Beth also hosts “The Retail Leasing Podcast.”
61: Ray Sturm
@ray_sturm
Ray Sturm is founder and CEO of AlphaFlow, a tech-driven investment manager that provides professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors.
60: Chad Koenig
@ChadKoenig
Chad Koenig is managing partner for Cushman & Wakefield’s Atlanta Office Tenant Representation Services group. He provides strategic occupancy consulting and representation for tenants regarding office relocations, renewals, consolidation, sub-lease dispositions and other requirements.
59: Jim Garrett
@jimgarrettmcr
Jim Garrett is market president for the Charleston, SC market. Jim’s responsibilities include the management of Colliers’ Charleston area brokerage staff, recruiting and business development as well as community and civic affairs and economic development.
58: Nick Garzia
@ncgleasing
Nick Garzia is director of retail leasing for the Hines Southeast portfolio, including Atlantic Station in Atlanta.
57: Aaron Block
@aaronnblock
Aaron Block is co-founder and managing partner of MetaProp, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology industry. Founded in 2015, MetaProp’s investment team has invested in 100+ technology companies across the real estate value chain. Aaron is co-author of “PropTech 101.”
56: Michael Magliano
@mmagliano16
Michael Magliano is a managing director for industrial and corporate real estate at Cushman & Wakefield, based in Chicago. Mike specializes in business development and client services, such as structuring and negotiating commercial leases.
55: Diane Danielson
@DianeDanielson
After eight years as COO of SVN International, where she oversaw operations and brand development, Diane Danielson founded Future Proof Research, which works with enterprises—companies, non-profits, communities—on sustainability and adaptation.
54: Gabriel Gonzalez
@Gabriel_CREnerd
Gabriel Gonzalez is senior leasing agent for Regency Centers in Miami-Dade & South Broward County. Gabriel currently handles 3.4M square feet of class A shopping centers in south Florida.
53: Keith Auten
@KeithAuten
Keith Auten is owner and principal broker at Auten Realty, a brokerage that specializes in the acquisition and disposition of multifamily properties throughout the state of Texas, particularly in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
52: Bjorik Mutize
@bjorik_CRE
Bjorik Mutize is an Associate with CBRE's Minneapolis/St. Paul office where he specializes in landlord and tenant representation for industrial clients.
51: Chris Kirk
@ChrisKirk_CRE
Chris Kirk is managing principal of Colliers International’s downtown Salt Lake City offices. Previously he held a similar position at CBC Advisors.
