2024 ACG Maryland - Building Tomorrow: Navigating the State of Commercial Real Estate

Rob Boidock is the Senior Vice President of Operations at MAG Partners and oversees various departments and teams in Baltimore including finance, accounting, horizontal property management, JLL property management, legal, and operations.

Rob joins us from Sagamore Ventures, where he served as their Director of Asset Management and Reporting.  Rob joined Sagamore Ventures in 2018 with a focus on accounting operations and oversight of the firm’s real estate development investments, including the Baltimore Peninsula project and Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel.  While at Sagamore Ventures, Rob represented ownership in closing on the initial 1.1 million square feet of new construction at Baltimore Peninsula, including the issuance of $137 million of TIF bonds.

Prior to his time at Sagamore Ventures, Rob worked for Realterm, an industrial real estate investment manager, as their Director of Corporate Accounting. At Realterm, Rob led accounting and financial reporting for corporate operations, non-core real estate investments and international joint ventures.

Before joining Realterm, Rob worked for Windsor Healthcare Equities and Morgan Stanley.  Rob began his career at Ernst & Young in assurance services focusing on Private Equity, Government and Healthcare clients.

Rob received his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Purdue University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Dan Callihan joined Newmark Knight Frank in 2016 as an executive managing director in the firm’s Baltimore office, where he specializes in office agency and tenant representation leasing for the region. Mr. Callihan’s responsibilities include advising clients on leasing strategies in changing market conditions.

Mr. Callihan plays an active role in providing real estate advisory and brokerage services for institutional owners and client representation services for tenants.

Agency Representation Clients

• Goodier Properties
• COPT Defense Properties
• Newfield Properties
• Peakstone Realty Trust
• Abrams Development
• Platt Development Group

Tenant Representation Clients

• Harkin Builders
• KPMG
• Berkley Research Group
• Edelman Financial
• Capital Bank
• 321 Capital Partners

Professional Achievements and Affiliations

• Regional Rookie of the Year, CBRE, 2009
• NAIOP
• Real estate salesperson’s license, state of Maryland
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Maryland Chapter- Board Member

Education

Mr. Callihan received his degree in Business and Communications from Towson University.

Howard joined CFG in 2004 and has been instrumental in the company’s growth and expansion of business across its diversified portfolio in the long-term care, senior housing, and multifamily sectors. With extensive expertise in public and private debt and equity offerings and merger and acquisition structures and financings, Howard has been involved in the financing of more than $7 billion in healthcare and multifamily assets.

Prior to joining CFG in 2004, Howard worked for New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation, an $8.6 billion state-wide construction initiative mandated by the state of New Jersey, where he oversaw various groups, including the Design/Construction Procurement Group, as well as the Financial Forecasting Group. Howard also worked with Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc., a full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Baltimore.

Howard received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and International Business from James Madison University.

Luke is chief economist and head of Economics, Asset Allocation & Quantitative Services for Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (WTIA), the investment advisory arm of Wilmington Trust and M&T Bank. Luke is also a member of WTIA’s Investment Committee. 

Prior to joining Wilmington Trust in 2015, Luke was an officer and economic advisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Earlier in his career, Luke worked as a senior economist at IHS Global Insight (now IHS Markit) and as an economist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Luke holds a PhD in economics from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from James Madison University. He is the current president of the American Bankers Association’s Economic Advisory Council; a former president of the Philadelphia Council for Business Economics, a chapter of the National Association for Business Economics; and a former adjunct faculty member at Temple University. 

Event Moderator: Thomas E. D. (“Ted”) Millspaugh is chair of Venable’s Real Estate Group. Ted oversees the group’s lawyers in all of the firm’s offices and has a national practice of his own. Handling transactions in most of the major metropolitan areas in the United States, he has a broad knowledge of real estate law and extensive experience with all types of complex real estate transactions. He also participates in several important national real estate associations and has numerous legal and non-legal contacts throughout the industry. 

Ted represents some of the world’s largest investment management firms and their pension fund, foundation, and other investors in real estate transactions. He also represents financial institutions, developers, and individual entrepreneurs and investors who have real estate holdings. The list includes LaSalle Investment Management, Legg Mason, AEW Capital Management, and IHP Capital Partners.  

Ted’s experience includes all aspects of the cycle of a real estate transaction: investments, structuring and joint ventures; acquisition, development, and construction; financing (originations and workouts); leasing and management; and sale and disposition. He spent significant time in his early years as a land use lawyer and as a bond finance lawyer, which informs his current practice and enhances his comprehensive knowledge of real estate projects.

Ted’s experience also includes extensive involvement with four major property types: office projects, industrial projects, retail centers, and multifamily projects. He also has experience with other, more specialized property types, such as senior living (including comprehensive care) projects, hotel and resort properties, and aviation facilities.  In many cases, he has handled mixed-use projects that involve combinations of more than one different property type.  Through all this experience, Ted has developed a thorough knowledge of the interrelationships between different aspects of complicated building structures and designs.

The unusually broad and deep scope of Ted's experience enables him to provide valuable, well-rounded advice to his clients and to solve their most important challenges.