Host, Founder CRECollaborative (CRECo.ai), Technology Growth Strategist, CRETech Thought Leader, & Brokerage Owner.

A technologist at heart, Andreas built his businesses utilizing cutting-edge technology. He now works with organizations of all sizes fulfilling his mission to help them succeed through the use technology and investment in real estate.

Andreas has served in leading roles across many technology solutions ranging from Client Relationship Management, Marketplace Portals, Marketing Automation platforms, and e-commerce services.

Andreas is also a 3rd generation real estate developer, a licensed real estate broker and the Founder & former Managing Partner of EAC Properties, a full-service middle-market real estate business, in partnership with The Higgins Group made up of 14 offices and over 400 agents. 

Anna Maria Kowalik is responsible for business development and deal originations for Inland Green Capital LLC (IGC), a capital provider for commercial C-PACE projects and part of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc.  Named 2022 Globe St. Elite Woman of Influence in the Finance Executive category

During her time with IGC she has been instrumental in the closing of the first three C-PACE deals in the State of Illinois, and numerous others since Illinois’ C-PACE Program inception in 2019; and, also, cultivating relationships and deals across the nation.

Anna Maria possesses 25 years’ experience in the Commercial Real Estate and Property Management industries, including with a former Inland REIT where she oversaw portfolios of over 30 retail properties consisting of 3.4 million square feet with more than 500 tenants, and budgets close to a quarter billion dollars.  

Chris  Abel is Membership Director, Associated Builders & Contractors of Connecticut, Board Member, SMPS Connecticut

 
He is Strong community and social services professional skilled in Recruiting, Business Development, Sales, Customer Service, Public Speaking, Networking, Admissions Counseling, Student Development, Interviewing, Marketing, Audio Production, and Social Media.

Prior to joining CT ABC, Chris spent the ten years managing territories throughout the northeast in the post-secondary education space with his most recent position being with New England Institute of Technology, where he maintained relationships with over 130 high schools in Connecticut.

Daniel Wagner is senior vice president of government relations for The Inland Real Estate Group, LLC. He has been a licensed real estate broker since 2004, holds Series 7 and 63 securities licenses and serves on numerous real estate industry and governmental boards and committees.

Dan has been a significant advocate for the preservation of the 1031 Like-Kind Exchange. He has authored several op-ed articles on the topic in national, regional and commercial real estate industry publications. 

He was also part of the Real Estate Roundtable’s 1031 Like-Kind Exchange Coalition, which succeeded in protecting the 1031 Like-Kind Exchange during the tax reform of 2018.

Dan is instrumental in connecting with and educating local and national governments, legislative representatives and industry organizations on the broad economic and environmental benefits of 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges.

CEO Code Detectives, Top 10 Forensic Computer Examiners, Review Editor for Frontiers in Big Data - Cybersecurity and Privacy · Part-time

Darren Hayes is responsible for Dr. Hayes is founder and CEO of CODEDETECTIVES LLC. As a forensics examiner, he has worked on numerous cases involving digital evidence in both civil and criminal investigations. He has also been declared as an expert witness in U.S. federal court. For a number of years, Hayes served on the Board of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) Northeast Chapter and was President in 2013.

Hayes frequently appears on television, including Bloomberg, MSNBC, The Street, Fox 5 News and has been quoted by CNN, The Guardian (UK), The Times (UK), Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, MarketWatch, CNBC, ABC News, Forensic Magazine, SC Magazine, PC Magazine, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Post, Daily News and Wired News to name but a few.

Rebekah (Bekah) President & CEO of Carlson Integrated, founded in 2017 after 14 years in-house at a commercial real estate investment firm where she served as the director of marketing and business development. 

Rebekah is an Illinois Licensed Real Estate Managing Broker and Past President and current Board Member of the Northern Illinois Commercial Association of Realtors®, an organization for which she was named Realtor® of the Year in 2017.  Bekah was named one of Connect Media’s 2020 Women in Real Estate in Chicago.  She is a member of ICSC (Innovative Commerce Serving Communities) and the Vice President of Education for the Mundelein Toastmasters.  

Moreover, she is a mom to three middle-and-high-school students, a Sunday School teacher, and an avid connector. 

Talks about #marketing, #cremarketing, and #commercialrealestate

Saul Klein is the father of technology and Internet adoption in the residential real estate industry and is generally recognized within the industry, as a technology pioneer and its first Internet evangelist.

He was the creator of one the first online real estate communities, RealTalk, first developed for the National Association of REALTORS in 1995, and still an active Community. He was an original member of the first REALTOR.com Team, where he was a driving force in the migration of listings from the MLS Book to the Internet...from "Atoms to Bits."

Saul is well-recognized as an industry pioneer, especially in real estate syndication and education, and one of the few luminaries that paved the way for real estate’s transition to the online world.

Talks about #community, #blockchain, #realestate, and #personalfinance