PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES Rob Chasmar
Neil Chrystal
Dan Clark
Senior Vice President
President & CEO
Principal
Colliers International
Polygon Homes Ltd.
Sitings Realty Ltd.
Neil Chrystal is President and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon Homes Ltd., one of British Columbia’s leading home builders. The company has built over 23,500 homes in Metro Vancouver since it was founded in 1980, and received numerous awards for its integrity and building excellence. Mr. Chrystal was educated at the University of British Columbia. After graduating from the Urban Land Economics program, he joined Polygon in 1987. Working his way through several key positions with the Company, he was appointed President in 2003. He currently manages all aspects of Polygon’s homebuilding activities and oversees the planning and direction for Polygon’s land acquisition, and sales and marketing groups. Neil is also serving on the Board of the Urban Development Institute and has previously served as UDI President. An advocate of team sports, and a father of three children, Mr. Chrystal is actively involved in the community.
Dan Clark is co-owner of Sitings Realty based in Vancouver, BC. Sitings is a leader in the retail tenant representation and the shopping centre project leasing business in Western Canada. Sitings has worked with many tenants on their site selection process across Western Canada, Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Some of these tenants include Nike, David’s Bridal, Michaels, Darden Restaurant Group, Reitmans Group, Dollar Giant, Dollar Tree, Panera Bread, 7-Eleven, Aarons, Coast Wholesale Appliances, MTY, Noodlebox, and Westland Insurance. Sitings has also acted as the exclusive listing agent on many new shopping centre developments in British Columbia and Alberta with a specialization in power centre, mixed use, grocery anchored and transportation oriented developments. These projects include Metropolitan Towers, Millstream Village, Nordel Crossing, Langley Power Centre I,II,III, Harbour Front Centre, Northgate Village, Century, Touchstone, Wesbrook Village, The Plaza @ New Westminster Station, and Garibaldi Village. Combining tenant representation and project leasing Dan has leased more than 2,500,000 square feet of retail space.
Ron Clarke
Bart Corbett
Rob Eyers
Vice President, Leasing Western Region
Senior Vice President
Leasing Manager
Cushman & Wakefield
Wesgroup Properties Ltd.
Rob joined Colliers’ Office Division in 1989 and is a Senior Vice President. He is an office specialist, primarily focused on large project leasing/sales and tenant mandate assignments in various Metro Vancouver markets. Rob has been responsible for the leasing of several suburban business parks in his career, including the marketing of Willingdon Park for 13 years. His current major leasing assignments include more transit oriented, mixed-use developments such as Marine Gateway in South Vancouver and King George Station in Surrey. Rob is also involved in the marketing of strata office product in Metrotown and the new City Centre 1 strata office project in Central Surrey.
Ivanhoe Cambridge Ron has been in the shopping centre industry for more than 22 years, 21 of those with Ivanhoe Cambridge. He began his career in property management assuming various roles in a number of Lower Mainland shopping centres. He made the jump to leasing in 1997, first with Schroeder Properties and since that time in progressive roles with Ivanhoe Cambridge. He has presided over the retail leasing programs for numerous enclosed shopping centres and retail redevelopment projects in Western Canada, including the redevelopment and consolidation of Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby in 2004, the expansion of Southcentre in Calgary in 2008 and the expansion of Southgate Centre, in Edmonton in 2009. In his current capacity as Vice President of Leasing with Ivanhoe Cambridge, Ron oversees the leasing efforts for nine of the companies managed retail assets in Western Canada representing approximately 6.5 million square feet.
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Bart is Cushman & Wakefield’s top producing Tenant Representative for the Metro Vancouver market and one of only 12 Canadian brokers in the C&W Hall of Fame. As Senior Vice President, his strengths lie in his diversity and wide knowledge of both the suburban and downtown core markets. Bart completed his Bachelor of Commerce in Urban Land Economics from the University of British Columbia and joined Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. in 1990. His 23 years of experience with the company has enabled him to create strong working relationships with landlords and brokers. Mr. Corbett sat on the Board of the Vancouver NAIOP chapter for 12 years and has acted in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Canada and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Vancouver.
As Leasing Manager across the office and industrial sectors at Wesgroup, Rob is responsible for the leasing of new project developments as well as the leasing performance of Wesgroup’s existing income producing portfolio of over 2.3 million square feet. Rob joined Wesgroup in 2007 and has completed over 1.3m square feet of new lease, renewal and build to suit transactions. Rob has built specific expertise in dealing with the complex nature of institutional organisations. Over 75% of Wesgroup’s office portfolio is made up of institutional tenants such as Fraser Health, Translink, ICBC and the Government of Canada and stretches across the markets of Vancouver, North Vancouver, Richmond, New Westminster and Langley. Rob graduated with a Business Management degree from the University of Nottingham before moving to Canada in 2007 to start a career in commercial real estate.
Vancouver Real Estate Forum 2013 Speaker Biographies