Robert S. Hutchinson, MBA

Robert Hutchinson is Managing Partner in DWH Strategic Advisors, LLC, a strategic partner of Cushman & Wakefield. DWH is a spinoff of C&W's Development Consulting service line operating in the US, Canada, and Central and South America.

Over the course of his career and prior to his work with C&W and as managing partner in DWH, Mr. Hutchinson has ascended through a progression of public and private sector engagements to Vice President of a private real estate development and investment firm. Mr. Hutchinson has successfully completed projects throughout the United States and in Latin America, ranging from infrastructure and real estate development to placement of private equity from United States and European sources. His clients and engagements have included several Federal, State, and local governments and agencies, including The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Federal Highway Administration, and Wachovia Corporation.

Currently, Mr. Hutchinson is engaged in real estate advisory and financial structuring assignments where he leverages his expertise in real estate development, planning, infrastructure, and business development consulting. Recent work includes renewable energy development and siting, Brownfield redevelopment of a former oil terminal, mixed-use transit-oriented-developments (TOD), acquisition advisory, urban redevelopment master planning, and waterfront developments.

Mr. Hutchinson has held successive positions with the NJTPA, the fifth largest Metropolitan Planning Organization in the United States, The Berger Group, and MTA Metro-North Railroad, the nation's second largest commuter railroad. His work in planning and business development includes community development surrounding transportation facilities, repurposing of underperforming assets, public-private partnerships, sustainable transportation and construction practices, and infrastructure investment and siting.

Mr. Hutchinson holds advanced degrees in Infrastructure Planning (MIP) and Environmental Policy (MS) from The New Jersey Institute of Technology where he is an adjunct faculty member teaching real estate development and finance and has been a guest critic in the School of Architecture since 1997. Additionally, Mr. Hutchinson holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College at the City University of New York, is a planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) accreditation, a member of the American Planning Association, and has contributed to published work regarding environmental process streamlining, Brownfields utilization, and corridor planning.

Peter Waldt is Managing Partner in DWH Strategic Advisors, LLC a strategic partner of Cushman & Wakefield. DWH is a spin off of C&W Development Consulting service line operating in the US, Canada, and Central and South America.

Mr. Waldt's focus is providing superior client service including development advisory, property acquisition and disposition, and office, industrial and retail leasing services. As Senior Managing Director of Development Consulting for C&W, his assignments included bringing the largest sustainable development in the U.S. to market and advising a large railroad on the disposition of air rights. He conceived and managed C&W's Brownfields initiative, a nationally marketed joint venture with TRC, an environmental remediation and risk transfer firm for environmentally challenged real estate. Mr. Waldt's clients include Con Edison, Cablevision, Casa Casuarina, BNSF, Noisette, CIBA, Toronto Transit Commission, Darien Conservation Park, Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority, The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber, the City of Rochester, Aquatic Park Science Park (Berkeley, CA), and the Puerto Rico Science, Research & Technology Trust.

Prior to C&W, Peter's primary mission with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was to generate cash flow from under- and non-performing assets. Responsibilities included the creation and implementation of the MTA Sponsorship Program, creation and implementation of the MTA Transit Orient Development Program, management of the West Side Yard & Vanderbilt (Brooklyn Arena) Yard developments, acquisition of the Mineola Intermodal Center, and Evaluation & Brokerage of all 14,000 parcels of MTA real estate.

For 12 years prior to the MTA position, Mr. Waldt was the head of underwriting for Empire State Development (formerly Urban Development Corporation, with the titles VP of Commercial Lending & Real Estate Finance and VP of Project Finance). He had the opportunity to work on over 30 sports facility projects, over 100 large development projects, over 1,500 real estate financings and over 5,000 financial transactions. He previously had planning and budget positions at MetroNorth and the MTA.

Peter has a graduate degree in Public Policy Analysis and an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Rochester. He has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia University real estate program, NJIT Graduate Architecture program and a Visiting Professor at the NYU Sports Management certificate program. He is a Member of the Board of Habitat for Humanity – Newark.

Robert Hutchinson is Managing Partner in DWH Strategic Advisors, LLC, a strategic partner of Cushman & Wakefield. DWH is a spinoff of C&W's Development Consulting service line operating in the US, Canada, and Central and South America.

Over the course of his career and prior to his work with C&W and as managing partner in DWH, Mr. Hutchinson has ascended through a progression of public and private sector engagements to Vice President of a private real estate development and investment firm. Mr. Hutchinson has successfully completed projects throughout the United States and in Latin America, ranging from infrastructure and real estate development to placement of private equity from United States and European sources. His clients and engagements have included several Federal, State, and local governments and agencies, including The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Federal Highway Administration, and Wachovia Corporation.

Currently, Mr. Hutchinson is engaged in real estate advisory and financial structuring assignments where he leverages his expertise in real estate development, planning, infrastructure, and business development consulting. Recent work includes renewable energy development and siting, Brownfield redevelopment of a former oil terminal, mixed-use transit-oriented-developments (TOD), acquisition advisory, urban redevelopment master planning, and waterfront developments.

Mr. Hutchinson has held successive positions with the NJTPA, the fifth largest Metropolitan Planning Organization in the United States, The Berger Group, and MTA Metro-North Railroad, the nation's second largest commuter railroad. His work in planning and business development includes community development surrounding transportation facilities, repurposing of underperforming assets, public-private partnerships, sustainable transportation and construction practices, and infrastructure investment and siting.

Mr. Hutchinson holds advanced degrees in Infrastructure Planning (MIP) and Environmental Policy (MS) from The New Jersey Institute of Technology where he is an adjunct faculty member teaching real estate development and finance and has been a guest critic in the School of Architecture since 1997. Additionally, Mr. Hutchinson holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College at the City University of New York, is a planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) accreditation, a member of the American Planning Association, and has contributed to published work regarding environmental process streamlining, Brownfields utilization, and corridor planning.

Roland Davis (Ronnie) is an affiliated consultant to DWH Strategic Advisors, LLC, a strategic partner to Cushman & Wakefield.

Based in Atlanta, he was a member of C&W's Global Consulting team. He is responsible for procuring, executing, and managing a broad range of advisory assignments for large national and multi-national clients encompassing highest and best use analysis, project feasibility, redevelopment strategies, asset repositioning, market forecasting, and portfolio analysis and benchmarking. Mr. Davis has nearly 20 years of experience in diverse commercial real estate environments, with expertise in advisory services, market and feasibility analyses, investment research and analysis, portfolio management and administration, and capital markets.

Recent project management responsibilities for Mr. Davis include a market feasibility study on a 4,000-acre master planned community in south Florida; a national roll-out strategic plan for a foreign retailer; a strategic plan for a 200-acre surplus industrial site in Atlanta, GA; a mixed-use feasibility study for a downtown Bellevue, WA site; a redevelopment strategy for a 2,400-acre industrial site in Columbia, SC; and a highest and best use analysis for a 5-acre tract of land in suburban Tampa, FL. Recent clients include Rockwood Capital, Invensys, International Paper, and Lego.

Prior to joining C&W, Mr. Davis was a Vice President at Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Inc. where he acted as assistant portfolio manager for a $1.0 billion portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). In this capacity, he was responsible for due diligence, analysis, acquisition, portfolio management, surveillance, and disposition of bonds backed by commercial mortgages on office, industrial, retail, hotel, multi-family, and other income-producing properties located throughout the U.S.

Mr. Davis earned BA degrees in both Business Administration and Communications from Washington State University and a Master of Science in Real Estate from Georgia State University. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the Atlanta District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and currently serves as Co-Chairman for its Technical Assistance Programs (TAP) Committee.

William Braun is a Principal in W J Braun & Associates, which is an alliance partner of DWH. Prior to establishing his own firm, Bill was Principal Consultant with Cushman & Wakefield's Development Consulting practice focusing on market positioning of real estate developments and geographic locations. He has extensive experience helping corporate clients to identify the real estate implications inherent in overall business strategies and the potential opportunities for location and real estate to contribute to and enhance the competitive advantage of the client's core business. For property investors, developers and economic development agencies, Mr. Braun uses this knowledge to profile specific property or location characteristics against the site selection criteria of end users and devises a strategy for attracting companies most likely to benefit by the location choice.

Bill is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Master's Degree as an Earhart Fellow. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in finance, Magna Cum Laude, from St. Joseph's College. He holds a CRE designation from The Counselors of Real Estate, a SLCR (Senior Leader Corporate Real Estate) certification awarded by CoreNet Global and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). Mr. Braun is a licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Illinois.

Bill has over 30 years of diversified real estate experience representing some of the nation's largest corporations, financial institutions and service organizations in the areas of consultation services, property acquisitions and dispositions, financing and valuation with a focus on identifying opportunities for achieving improved space utilization, reduced occupancy costs, flexible space delivery and control and optimum capital resource allocation. He also has extensive experience in highest and best use analyses, project feasibility, strategic planning, workforce assessments and evaluating geo-economic issues.

In 2001, Bill led the development of an innovative financing strategy for Whirlpool Corporation, which was awarded an Alexander Hamilton Award for excellence in treasury management. In 2003-2004, he was a team leader and contributing author of CoreNet's groundbreaking Corporate Real Estate 2010 research project that explored the impact of emerging business trends and drivers on the future of corporate real estate and its role in enabling work in the networked world. In 2008, he was granted a United States Patent for a system and a method for evaluating real estate financial structures for controlling real estate assets by corporations.