Todd Vezza's Profile

Todd Vezza is a real estate professional in the industry for over 26 years. Vezza has experience running real estate businesses, deploying capital, asset management and in the formation, implementation and execution of both public and private company real estate strategies. From 2018-2020, Vezza served as the president of TradeLane Properties, a private equity real estate company and participated in the founding of the company, capital deployment, asset management, due diligence and property operations. From 2016-2018, Vezza served as the senior vice president, Chicago Market Leader of DCT Industrial Trust (NYSE: DCT), a leading publicly traded warehouse/industrial property REIT which owned and internally managed over 73 million square feet of industrial properties in high demand, high barrier to entry U.S. distribution markets. The Chicago market was DCT's second largest market. As the leader in charge of the Chicago office, Vezza was responsible for the operating results, capital deployment (development and acquisitions) as well as management of the office's operations, leasing and dispositions. DCT Industrial was acquired in 2018 by Prologis (NYSE: PLD) for $8.4 billion. From 2014-2016, Vezza served as the director of Industrial Investments for the Zilber Property Group, the commercial investment and development arm of Zilber Ltd., a 70-year old, privately-held, national, diversified real estate company. As the leader in charge of the Chicago office, Vezza was responsible for management of the Chicago office's operations, capital deployment (development and acquisitions), as well as management of the office's operations, leasing and dispositions. Vezza designed and implemented the office's platform, structure, staffing, operations, reporting and planning. From 1997-2012, Vezza served in various progressing capacities at CenterPoint Properties Trust, the nation's first publicly traded industrial REIT (NYSE: CNT) as well as the largest private property owner/developer in the Metropolitan Chicago Region. In Vezza's final role as CenterPoint Properties' senior vice president of Investments, Vezza served as a member of the company's Investment Committee and responsible for capital deployment, the company's national multi-market expansion, oversight of dispositions, budget preparation and execution of the company's market timed and strategic recycling strategy. CenterPoint Properties was acquired in 2006 by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) for $3.4 billion. From 1995-1997, Vezza served as senior associate - Audit at the accounting firm of Coopers Lybrand. Vezza received his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and BS in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University.