Alexandra Glickman
Area Vice Chair, Managing Director & Practice Leader
Gallagher Real Estate & Hospitality Services, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Los Angeles
With 29 years in the business—12 in her current position—Alex Glickman is recognized as an authority in the development and execution of insurance and risk financing programs for clients throughout the world. Glickman created Marsh Inc.'s real estate & hospitality group in 1998. In addition to her worldwide leadership responsibilities, she leads a team of 18 people who represent clients ranging from the largest institutional owners to family enterprises and engages in the placement, claims management and administration of risk financing programs for 104 clients representing more than $70 billion in values. In the past year, Glickman led a team that executed more than $145 million of premiums and the development of new insurance captives designed specifically to cover the risk of tenant defaults. In 2012, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's real estate section gave her their leadership-in-real estate award—the first time the Bar had ever recognized a woman, as well as a non-attorney or real estate owner.

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Judy Maxwell Hoffman
Chief Operating Officer
Trigild
San Diego
A longtime industry leader, Judy Hoffman was an entrepreneur in CRE when there were virtually no women in the industry. For nearly 30 years, she has paved the way for other women to follow in CRE. Hoffman now oversees 750 employees and 10 regional offices throughout the country, with a focus on managing and maximizing value for assets in an array of industries. She's been involved with 600 receivership appointments for more than 2,000 real estate business assets. Hoffman was named marketing coordinator for Trigild in 1984 and worked her way up the company ranks ever since. With her help and involvement, Trigild has evolved from a tiny company with three employees into a full-service real estate services company specializing in property and operations management, receivership/bankruptcy and consulting. Over the past year, Hoffman has helped engineer a long-term alliance with Allegiance Realty Corp. and has been instrumental in Trigild entering into a joint venture with Blu Hotel Investors. Additionally, under her leadership, the firm has expanded its fiduciary services to include bankruptcy service, and she was recently named CRO trustee for a $1.6-billion real estate investment portfolio.

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Jacqueline Moore
Principal & General Counsel
DivcoWest Real Estate Services LLC
San Francisco
Jacqueline Moore has a long history of assembling and managing a US portfolio of properties for the technology industry that began in San Jose, CA almost two decades ago. She has been in the business 28 years and in her current position approximately 10 years. In recent years, she has become a key member of the San Francisco-based DivcoWest executive management and investment team. She helped grow the firm from its inception in the mid '90s to one of the most active institutional buyers of technology-related real estate. Moore was previously a founding partner and general counsel of Wilson/Equity Office, a San Francisco development and management company. She also served as general counsel of Wilson/Cornerstone, a publicly traded REIT.

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Carolyn Perrigo
Senior Vice President
Transwestern
San Diego
Carolyn Perrigo has worked in nearly every area of commercial real estate over the span of her 27-year career. Well-respected by clients and colleagues alike as an industry expert, she has been instrumental in building Transwestern to one of the largest management-service providers in Orange County, San Diego and beyond. She has committed thousands of hours to mentoring her team, teaching IREM and BOMA students and empowering the next generation of leaders. Perrigo oversees property management and leasing activities in San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties, responsible for business development and service delivery. She also oversees team-member training and support programs, as well as quality control, financial reviews and strategic planning of Transwestern's management-services group throughout the West. In the past few months, Perrigo has brought in more than 5.5 million square feet in new property-management assignments along the West Coast. She joins IREM in lobbying on the Hill each year, advocating for clients.

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Carol Plowman
Senior Vice President
Lee & Associates – Ontario
Ontario, CA
With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, 26 at her current position, Carol Plowman was the first woman to achieve the status of principal at Lee & Associates in 1985. She has focused her efforts on the sale and development of office, retail and hospitality properties on commercially zoned land within the west end of the Inland Empire. Plowman has sold land and assisted in entitling nine of the most recent hotel developments as well as in the development of more than 300 acres of land. She has been a consistent top producer since the start of her career and one of the women other women in the industry look to for guidance. Over the past 12 months, Plowman has closed over $27 million in leases and sales. When Plowman began working in commercial real estate in the 1980s, she says she could count on one hand the number of prominent women in her field in Southern California. Today, she can count hundreds.

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Anita Paryani Rice
Vice President
Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp.
Los Angeles
“There is an increase in women agents…Collectively we have advantages in that we bring more of a compassionate side to our business. Combined with the same amount of aggressiveness and results-driven performance as our counterparts, we bring change to the industry.” So says 20-year veteran Anita Paryani Rice, who handles the placement of debt and equity for CRE transactions throughout the US—with an annual volume in excess of $300 million. Rice worked as an analyst at Prudential Real Estate Investors before joining Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. in 2004 to focus on large loans and structured finance. Between June 2012 and May 2013, she worked on a variety of deals, from a $2-million multifamily loan to a $70-million high-profile office building refinance. During that time, she was also recognized by Marcus & Millichap with a National Achievement Award, the firm's most prestigious honor.

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Susan Taymor Sagy
Managing Principal & Co-CEO
W3 Partners
San Rafael, CA
Susan Taymor Sagy started her career in the public sector. After several years working for a State Finance Agency called Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency, she determined that to get a better perspective and to do her job more effectively on the public sector side, some work experience in the private sector would be a strategic career move. Her first private sector job was working as a project manager with Rockefeller Group Development Corp. The skills she culled working in the public sector were utilized with Rockefeller as the project was an expansion to the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. It was an opportunity to participate on a high-profile project and ultimately, she decided that she preferred private-sector work, where she could be more effective shaping cities and how they were built. A 25-year veteran, Taymor Sagy has acquired, developed and redeveloped over 3.8 million square feet of office, industrial and mixed-use properties and is now co-CEO of W3, a real estate operator and investment management firm that was founded in the depths of the recession in 2009. “Starting a company and raising a significant amount of capital in a short period of time is a huge accomplishment for any start-up,” she says. “The true recognition comes when you can bring in third-party investments, as we did with Alliance Bernstein, to validate the business plan and then to successfully round-trip investments at returns that far exceed investor expectations. These are very important milestones.”

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Nancy Scull
Partner
McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP
San Diego
Nancy Scull is one of California's most-respected real estate attorneys whose clients include some of the largest developers in the country. She has been lead counsel for complex hotel, retail,residential, and mixed-use projects within California. With emphasis on urban transit-oriented communities, Scull has represented developers of new urban town centers in California and other states. She is preparing the governing documents for four major new urban communities and has helped developers envision a new way of planning for cities of the new millennium. She is also developing a national solar program for a major residential developer. Scull joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP in 1982 and remained with the firm until its 2012 merger with McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP. Also in 2012, she was recognized as one of the year's top 30 real estate attorneys in California by the Daily Journal.

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Paige Serden
Senior Vice President
City National Bank
Los Angeles
For the past decade, Paige Serden and her team have exceeded their yearly business goals. She is a strong proponent of internal training and development and has spearheaded pilot programs in multicultural mentoring, new business initiative projects and credit-training development programs. Serden started her career as a paralegal working for a large L.A.-based law firm in the area of real estate, bankruptcy, litigation and commercial finance. She then obtained a place in the management-training program in credit and lending at Union Bank. Currently regional manager for City National Bank's real estate division, responsible for Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, Serden has a team of seven loan originators, two analysts and a deposit team of four account managers. Over the past year, her Los Angeles team originated over $500 million in loan commitments, exceeding their 2012 production goal by 137%. In addition, she has become the co-chair of CNB's Women's Caucus steering committee and has been appointed to the Southern California Leadership Network.

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Gayle Starr
Senior Vice President, Capital Markets
Prologis
San Francisco
In her 21-year tenure at Prologis, Gayle Starr has successfully designed and originated complex financing structures globally and has orchestrated the corporate- and property-level financing for currencies across 14 countries, totaling more than $12 billion. As SVP of capital markets for the REIT, she oversees all unsecured and secured debt internationally and domestically for Prologis' funds and co-investment vehicles. Her career goal is to continue developing unprecedented financing structures on a global scale while influencing lenders to permeate markets that they have not entered. She is also excited to continue encouraging and mentoring women within the organization. “The growing number of women in leadership roles has encouraged partners to share in the domestic duties resulting in an overall more productive and satisfied employee base,” Starr says.

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Amy Wells
Partner
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Los Angeles
As a kid, Amy Wells wanted to be a lawyer because she equated the legal practice with arguing with her five siblings. This past year, the 25-year veteran—who acts as lead legal counsel to the some of largest public pension funds in significant real estate transactions—closed deals worth several billion dollars. Wells, who has been appointed as a special attorney general for the State of Washington in connection with acting as real estate counsel to the Washington State Investment Board, notes that one of her greatest professional accomplishments over the past 12 months includes closing a significant platform joint venture between CalSTRS and Primestor to develop, redevelop and acquire retail properties in low-income areas with a potential $250 million in commitments. She concurrently closed the first acquisition by the venture of a to-be-developed retail center in Los Angeles for a high-quality retail asset to attract national and regional retailers. Wells also participates in a variety of activities to help disadvantaged women in her community. She has also participated in programs for disadvantaged children to provide stable, adult role models, and has been involved in charity fundraisers for disadvantaged families.