Pacific Northwest Industrial & Logistics Summit

Mark Netherland serves as a Managing Director for TCC’s Seattle office, responsible for sourcing and executing industrial and commercial development and investment opportunities with the team. During his 18-year tenure in the commercial real estate industry, Mark has served as lead negotiator for 300,000 square feet of retail leases in the Pacific Northwest and negotiated approximately $130 million of construction contracts. In his previous position, Mark served as a Senior Investment Manager at Schnitzer West, where he most recently oversaw the development of The Shops at the Bravern, the Northwest’s first comprehensive luxury retail center which sold for $79 million. Prior to joining Schnitzer West in 2001, Mark worked in asset management for Canadian real estate company, Bentall, and served multiple roles over five years at Premier Properties USA, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana. His responsibilities at Premier included retail project development, commercial site sales, land acquisitions, and marketing and leasing.

Blake Kelley joined CenterPoint Properties in May 2022. He is responsible for leading CenterPoint’s West Coast development strategy and growing the Company’s presence in Southern and Northern California and Seattle. Since 2007, Blake has worked on development projects for Prologis in Atlanta, GA, Columbus, Ohio, and Southern California. He earned a degree in construction management from Arizona State University. Blake is an active member of the SoCal Chapter of NAIOP.

Shannon Underwood graduated from the University of Washington and the University of California College of the Law. Prior to attending law school, she worked at EF Hutton in syndications. Shannon practiced law for three years before making a career change to commercial real estate development in 1993. Underwood Gartland Development is solely owned by Shannon and her husband David Gartland. The firm develops manufacturing and distribution facilities for its own portfolio in north King and South Snohomish County. Shannon is Immediate Past Chair of the University of Washington Runstad Advisory Board. She is an active member of NAIOP, having served both as the 2006 State President and on the State and National Boards of Directors. Shannon is also a Past Commodore of Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club in Bellevue. She counts amongst her primary interests reading, chicken husbandry, and sports, primarily running, biking, skiing, swimming, and boating.

Teresa Goodwin is a Regional Director for HPA, Inc., a multi-disciplined design corporation that offers services in architecture, planning, and interiors to institutions, corporations, and developers throughout the Western United States with an emphasis in the design of warehouse and industrial buildings. Teresa has master planned more than 40 million square feet of buildings and overseen the design of industrial buildings regionally. She often presents the HPA Rules of Thumb for Distribution/Warehouse Design to developers and brokers.

DCI Engineers Principal and Corporate Management Team member, Danielle Jacobs is the firm’s go-to warehouse/industrial design solution expert. She applies her approximately two decades of engineering experience toward leveraging solutions on conventional concrete, post-tension concrete, tilt-up concrete, steel, and cold-formed steel framing solutions. Her clients and AEC collaborators appreciate her ability to swiftly identify project challenges and execute feasible structural solutions to meet design criteria. Some of her recent warehouse achievements include the award-winning Georgetown Crossroads in Seattle and Project Heat, the first multi-level industrial warehouse in Chicago. She is taking that project experience to expand DCI’s warehouse and industrial market presence, which includes global high-tech clients.

Bryan McKrell is a Managing Director at Link Logistics Real Estate. He is responsible for more than 53 million square feet of industrial properties in the Pacific Northwest and he has worked in Commercial Real Estate for the last 23 years. Bryan has worked locally as a youth sports coach for soccer, basketball golf, and football and spends a good deal of time volunteering at his children’s school and in the community. Bryan grew up in the Carmichael area and attended Starr King Elementary and Middle school where he was inspired to learn and would like to give back to the district which provided him with such an exemplarily academic foundation. Bryan is the father of three children and currently resides in East Sacramento.

Wilma Warshak has been a widely recognized leader in virtually all aspects of the industrial real estate advisory and brokerage business for more than twenty years. During that time she has represented major corporate clients and many of the nation’s largest institutional and private investors, including RREEF, Prologis, TA Associates, Cutter & Buck, Sears, Amazon.com, Boeing, Macy’s, Blackrock, IIT, Cornerstone Advisers, Safeway, Teutsch Partners, Blue Nile, Port of Tacoma, Versacold, and Panattoni. In recent times, Wilma completed the year’s largest single market industrial investment sale on the West Coast: one million square feet for the James Campbell Company of Hawaii and San Francisco. Following this, Wilma sold BlackRock’s 400,000 square-foot Portside Distribution Center and the 445,000 square-foot Kent 167 Distribution Center to Prologis. Wilma was Colliers International’s top producing industrial broker in the Northwest for 18 years. Eighteen times she received the prestigious Colliers International Award for Excellence, given annually to the top five percent of Colliers professionals worldwide. In addition, she was named Colliers International Top Professional North America. Known in the industry for effectiveness, access to decision-makers and creativity in representing clients’ strategic long-term interests, Wilma has three times earned the Industrial Broker of the Year Award for Washington State SIOR, and has been a finalist multiple times. The national industry research firm Costar has repeatedly named her Power Broker. Through her national and local work she has built a wide network of professional relationships that help her uncover opportunities and negotiate effectively. Wilma has mentored others in the industry as an instructor in the University of Washington’s Real Estate Program for the past several years. She has served as President of Washington State SIOR and founded and headed the local chapter for CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Professionals). She is sought after as a speaker, having addressed numerous industry meetings and conferences throughout her career. Wilma received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington. She is a registered architect and, early in her career, worked on the design and planning of several commercial projects at NBBJ in Seattle.

Jami Balint is a partner at Seyfarth in Seattle and advises clients on matters related to transactional real estate and land use for the development of industrial, commercial, and mixed-use projects. She provides legal advise and assistance to clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and development, including leasing, build-to-suit industrial leases, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, land use permitting and administrative proceedings, and construction contracting.

Sam Cho was elected to the Port Commission in 2019 and Commission President in 2023. Cho is the son of immigrants who immigrated from South Korea to the United States through the Port of Seattle in the 80s. He is the youngest and first person of color to become Commission President since the founding of the Port in 1911. Driven to help shape the economy of the future, Commissioner Cho’s career has spanned from government and emerging startups to established companies in the tech and sustainability space. Commissioner Cho currently serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell. He also held positions as an analyst at the U.S. Department of State, as a Legislative Assistant to both a Washington State Senator and a member of the United States Congress, and served as a political appointee under President Barack Obama. Prior to his election to the Port, Commissioner Cho was the founder and CEO of Seven Seas Export, an international trading company that exported over 2.5 million pounds of eggs to various countries throughout the Asia-Pacific. Commissioner Cho earned his Master of Science in International Political Economy from The London School of Economics and his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from American University. His priorities as a commissioner include creating economic opportunity, promoting environmental sustainability, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and ending human trafficking.