RCA Technology & Intelligence Briefing Issue I
Guest Biographies for Fourth Quarter 2005
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Bios and Contact Information for Fourth-Quarter 2005 Guests
PETER PIKE
Peter Pike is the president of PikeNet, the publisher of the PikeNet Directory of Commercial Real Estate, a web site with almost 3,500 links, and the free PikeNet Dispatch, which is emailed twice a week to over 10,000 subscribers. The PikeNet Dispatch comments on commercial real estate technology, marketing and business trends.
Peter is often featured as a speaker at conferences and seminars, including presentations to companies such as Colliers, CRESA, GE Real Estate, NAI, ONCOR, Staubach, TCN Worldwide and trade associations including AIRE, BOMA, CBA, CCIM, CREW Network, IREM, ICSC, NACORE, NAIOP, NCREIF and NHMC.
Prior to the establishment of PikeNet in January 1996, Peter was the managing principal of Colliers Damner Pike (now Colliers International), a corporate real estate services firm in San Francisco where he was active for over twenty years as a broker and consultant. Before that, he worked for an international real estate investment firm in Europe.
He is a life long resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and received his B.A. and M.C.P. degrees from U.C. Berkeley. He also served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.
Peter Pike
President
PikeNet
11 Scott Place
Greenbrae, CA 94904
Tel: 415-461-4703
Fax: 415-461-4696
E-mail: ppike@pikenet.com
Web: www.pikenet.com
WHITNEY PEYTON
Whitney Peyton is a senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis. He is responsible for managing the company’s Minnesota operations, which are staffed by over 270 real estate professionals. He coordinates all the activities for two offices—Bloomington and Downtown Minneapolis—including overseeing new business development, client relations, and related services. He has 27 years of real estate experience with CB Richard Ellis.
For the previous 15 years, Whit was responsible for office and retail leasing and sales in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. This included an excess of 5 million square feet of space leased or sold.
Whit attended the University of Minnesota from 1970 to 1974.
Whitney Peyton
Senior Managing Director
CB Richard Ellis
7760 France Ave. S. #770
Minneapolis, MN 55435
Tel: 952-924-4633
Fax:952-831-8023
E-mail: whitney.peyton@cbre.com
Web: www.cbre.com/whitney.peyton
DAVID LEREAH
Dr. David A. Lereah is the chief economist of the National Association of REALTORS®. He serves as the association's spokesman on economic forecasts and interest rates as well as other economic and policy issues and trends affecting the real estate industry in the U.S. and abroad.
Prior to joining NAR, he was chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.
David also served as the chief economist of Sovran Bank (predecessor of NationsBank and BankAmerica) in Richmond, Va and spent several years as a bank regulator and a financial economist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
His economic and real estate market commentary is regularly quoted in major news media including the Wall St. Journal, New York Times, Business Week, USA Today, CNN Business News, CNBC, CBS Evening News and C-SPAN. He has written numerous articles on finance, investments and real estate, and his book, Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom, was released by Doubleday, Random House in February 2005. He also wrote The Rules for Growing Rich: Making Money in the New Information Economy (Random House, 2000).
David received his B.A. in Economics & Marketing from American University, Washington, D.C. and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
David Lereah
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist
National Association of REALTORS®
500 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202.383.1184
Fax: 202.383.1031
E-mail: dlereah@realtors.org
Web: www.realtors.org
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