CCIM network announces 2024 board leadership

Davenport Realtor to serve as board treasurer

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Quad Cities Realtor Jim Tansey is among five U.S. commercial real estate leaders named to the CCIM Institute Board of Directors for 2024.

Mr. Tansey, the president of Davenport-based Hawkeye Real Estate Investment Co. and Hawkeye Commercial Real Estate, will serve as the 2024 treasurer of CCIM. The institute is one of the largest commercial real estate networks in the world with chapters in more than 30 global markets. 

In a news release issued last week, CCIM announced the new slate of officers, who were selected at the organization’s annual governance meeting in October in Seattle. 

New board officers are: 

  • President D’Etta Casto-DeLeon, a director at CBRE Loan Services in Houston, has more than 23 years of commercial real estate loan servicing and mortgage banking experience, including managing various investment portfolios and asset management responsibilities, primarily for life insurance companies. At the national level of CCIM, she was a member of the board of directors from 2015 to 2020 and a 2018 presidential liaison. Ms. Casto-DeLeon earned her CCIM Designation in 2007.
  • President-Elect Steve Rich, senior director of retail services with Colliers International in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been a member of the board of directors since 2014, and in 2021 he was treasurer. Licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina, Mr. Rich has more than 26 years of commercial real estate experience in retail, land and investment properties. He earned his CCIM Designation in 2006.
  • First Vice President Adam Palmer, principal and managing director for LQ Commercial. Widely recognized as a leader within the industry and around the community, Mr. Palmer has been recognized by CoStar as a 20-time “Power Broker” award winner. His transactional volume has led to his becoming one of only 149 dual specialist Society of Industrial and Office Reators (SIORS) worldwide for his production in the office and industrial sectors. Mr. Palmer also can be found contributing to the courts as an expert witness or speaking at various real estate events, business functions, and universities. He earned his CCIM Designation in 2010.

Tansey longtime leader

  • Treasurer Jim Tansey: Hawkeye is a full-service commercial brokerage and property management firm serving eastern Iowa and western Illinois. Mr. Tansey was first elected to the Iowa CCIM Chapter Board of Directors in 2007. He served as president in 2013, and continues to serve on the Board of Directors. In 2018, he served as The CCIM Institute’s Region 5 vice president. He has been a member of The CCIM Institute’s Board of Directors since 2020. The he served on the Finance and Strategic Planning committees as well as chair of the Government Affairs committee in 2021. Licensed in Iowa and Illinois, he has 20 years of commercial real estate experience across all disciplines. Mr. Tansey earned his CCIM Designation in 2005.
  • Treasurer-Elect Brad Waken, the proprietor broker for Waken and Company Real Estate, has more than 35 years of experience in the shopping center industry. He grew up in the five-generation family grocery business in Enid, Oklahoma. In 1984, Enid Development Company was created to manage the grocery store-anchored shopping centers, along with multiple downtown and stand-alone retail and office buildings. In 2003, Waken joined J. Herzog & Sons Investment. He earned his CCIM Designation in 2009.

Founded in 1967, The CCIM Institute is a professional association advancing all disciplines of commercial real estate. The CCIM Institute provides education, technology, and a global network for its 13,000 members and 59 chapters worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccim.com.

Today, the organization, through its 59 chapters, continues to innovate through its Designation curriculum to earn the CCIM Pin. That’s real estate’s most coveted credential. And its topical education courses are offered through the Robert L. Ward Center for Commercial Real Estate Studies.

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