Christian Kaylor is a Workforce Economist for the Oregon Employment Department, specializing in the Portland area. He provides data and analysis relating to the Portland economy to local businesses, business associations and government agencies to facilitate intelligent decision making. His monthly newsletter on the Portland economy has over 1,000 subscribers. Before coming to the Employment Department more than twenty years ago, Christian worked in various positions in Oregon politics and policy. A native Oregonian, Christian has a degree in Economics from the University of Oregon.

Vanessa Sturgeon is President & CEO of TMT Development and Managing Partner for Sturgeon Development Partners. Vanessa has spent the last twenty years developing and managing mixed-use high-rise assets, retail shopping centers, and industrial parks in Oregon and Washington. Vanessa attended Santa Clara University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Willamette University College of Law. As an active member of her community, her civic involvement includes serving as Board President for New Avenues for Youth, Chair Emeritus for Portland Business Alliance, and serving on the Executive Committee of A Home For Everyone with City of Portland’s Mayor and Multnomah County Chair. Additionally, Vanessa sits of the Board of Directors for R&H Construction as well as The Knight Cancer Council.

Jennifer Diaz joined PCCP in October 2000. Ms. Diaz is the Fund Manager for PCCP's new Single Family for Rent Fund. She is also the Portfolio Manager of PCCP’s multifamily portfolio comprised of approximately 13,000 units nationwide. During her tenure at PCCP, Ms. Diaz has served in various debt and equity originations, platform and asset management roles. Ms. Diaz received her B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Southern California.

Andrew Warren, Andy, currently serves as the PwC’s Director of Real Estate Research. As the Director of Real Estate Research, and is responsible for monitoring all aspects of commercial and residential real estate, including space market fundamentals, capital market trends, regulatory changes and operational developments. For the past eight years, Andy has led PwC’s participation in the development and production of the Emerging Trends in Real Estate publication. Andy is a frequent speaker on issues affecting the real estate market and has also authored numerous articles for internal clients and national real estate publications. Andy also forecasts market performance for PwC’s “Real Estate Investor Survey”. Andy has over 30 years of experience in all aspect of commercial and residential real estate research. Andy has performed and managed real estate fundamental analysis and forecasting, portfolio construction, and buy/sell decisions for both debt and equity clients. Prior to assuming his current role, Andy served as the Managing Director of Real Estate Research for Principal Global Investors, a top 10 institutional real estate manager in the U.S. At Principal, Andy held a progressive level of analyst and management positions over his 25 year career and served as a voting and advisory member on a multiple real estate debt and equity investment funds. Andy has earned the CFA designation and is a Counselor of Real Estate. He is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute Research Forum as well as a participating member of ICSC, NCREIF, NAIOP, the Appraisal Institute and the CCIM institute. PwC’s real estate practice has a broad perspective and keen insight into your audit, tax and advisory needs, we’ll show you how much further your business can go. We support corporate owners/users, developers, hospitality organizations, investors and REITs across all industries. With local and global insights, combined with industry relationships, we provide clients with access to the information that matters most.