Speakers

As senior managing director and head of living sectors for Cushman & Wakefield, Zach supports a team of nearly 125 professionals located throughout the U.S. His primary focus is driving growth initiatives for CWK’s living real estate sector through the advancement of client care, data analytics, product development and talent recruitment. Property types covered include apartments, affordable, co-living, manufactured housing, self-storage, student housing and senior living.
With nearly twenty years of industry experience, Zach has completed over $75 billion in third-party valuation assignments throughout the U.S. Services provided include third-party market valuations, underwriting due-diligence, Net Asset Valuations (NAV) for non-traded REITs, market studies, and feasibility analyses of single assets to large portfolio transactions.
Zach began his professional career in commercial real estate banking with First National Bank. In 2004, he began specializing exclusively in the appraisal of seniors housing real estate with HealthTrust, LLC. Zach joined CBRE in 2012 to launch a seniors housing & healthcare specialty practice and most recently was at JLL where he established their alternative real estate sectors for valuation advisory.