Speakers

As executive managing director and head of living sectors for Cushman & Wakefield, Zach supports a team of nearly 150 professionals. His primary focus is driving growth initiatives through the advancement of client care, data analytics, product development and talent recruitment. Property types covered include market rate apartments, affordable housing, co-living, manufactured housing, student housing and senior living.

With nearly twenty years of industry experience in the senior living and care sector, Zach has overseen nearly $150 billion in third-party valuations. Services provided include third-party appraisals, 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 and began specializing exclusively in third-party valuations of seniors housing real estate in 2004. He is a member of, and past co-chair, of the Urban Land Institute’s Seniors Housing Product Council, authored the active adult valuations and feasibility analysis modules for NIC’s Certified Senior Housing Investment Professional (CSHIP) designations and authors the bi-annual senior living investor survey and trends report.