Contributors

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Amy Polvado

Amy is the Chairwoman of the US Proptech Council and Founder and CEO of Facilimax, a commercial real estate data and AI platform for owners and asset managers.

She has over 21 years of experience in commercial real estate as a general contractor, developer, private equity syndicator and fund manager.  She created her tech company in 2021 to solve the inefficiencies that exist in the real estate industry due to the lack of data.

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Howard Berry

Howard Berry has 20 years of commercial real estate experience, initially on the value-add, investment assets and development side of the business. He currently focuses on the development, sales and leasing of data center product and investment assets. Recent accomplishments include: the sale and relocation of Vishay Technologies, 12 acre repurposed semi-conductor fabrication to data center with a 100,000-sf office lease. Microsoft multi-state data center land acquisition. 

Prior to joining Avison Young, Howard worked as an award winning, top 10% revenue-recognized Everest sales professional and the National Director of Data Center business for Colliers International, where he focused on building their national data center platform. His responsibilities included valuation of data centers, developing and mentoring data center brokers and business, ground-up development, financial and physical due diligence, design, develop and project management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/howard-berry/