scott wegmann is executive vice president and co-managing director in the Houston, Texas, office of Cushman & Wakefield, the largest privately held commercial real estate services firm in the world. Wegmann specializes in tenant/user representation. For almost 30 years, he has represented numerous companies in Houston and across the country. He has completed transactions totaling more than 20 million square feet in more than 75 cities in the U.S. and in Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and South America. E&Y/Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group honored Wegmann with the 1991 and 1997 Legacy Award, “The Deals That Make a Difference,” for his representation of Apache Corp., in its 223,000-square-foot corporate headquarters relocation to Houston, and Continental Airlines Inc., in its Houston corporate headquarters relocation/consolidation. Among his recognitions, Houston Business Journal honored Wegmann as a “Most Valuable Player” in citywide office brokerage for 2004 and 2005, along with the Landmark Awards as its “Project Sale” category honoree for the 2006 sale/leaseback of the BMC Software headquarters. The NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association honored Wegmann as “Office Broker of the Year” in 1997 and 2005. Cushman & Wakefield selected him as one of two Managers of the Year for 2007. Wegmann has served in leadership roles in numerous associations including the Houston Office Leasing Brokers Association, The Children’s Fund, the advisory board of Amegy Bank of Texas, St. Luke’s Methodist Church and Episcopal High School. Wegmann resides in Houston with his wife, Loraine, and their two daughters, Jennifer, Class of 2011, and Julie, Class of 2015, at Ole Miss.
Alumni Service Award
mike ely is a native of McComb and a 1977 graduate of the School of Business at The
University of Mississippi. During his years at Ole Miss, he was a student manager for the Ole Miss Rebels football team and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Upon graduation from Ole Miss, he joined Allstate Insurance Co. as an operations supervisor in the Jackson regional office. During his 34-year career with Allstate, he has held many positions including field product manager and regional underwriting manager. In 1995, he was transferred to Nashville as regional underwriting manager for the Southern Region and remained there until his retirement from Allstate in June 2011. Ely earned the Chairman’s Award for his organization and design of the Auto Revitalization Program and completed the Executive Leadership Program at Vanderbilt University. He is a past president and board member for the Middle Tennessee Ole Miss Alumni Club, past vice president and member of the executive board of the M-Club Alumni Chapter, life member of the Ole Miss Alumni Association and M-Club Alumni Chapter, a member of the Business Order for the UM School of Business, and a longtime member and vice president of the UM School of Business Insurance Advisory Council. Ely was an integral part of the Middle Tennessee Ole Miss Alumni Club’s scholarship fundraising events at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The inaugural Mississippi at the Ryman and the Mississippi Rocks the Ryman with 3 Doors Down events generated more than $90,000 for the Middle Tennessee/Chris Bonds Ole Miss Alumni Chapter Scholarship Endowment. Ely is married to Peggy Davis Ely. They have two daughters, Julie Ely Cropp and Laura Katherine Ely, both Ole Miss graduates, and they make their home in Oxford.
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