Our Instructors

One of the many benefits of taking a course or certificate through ULI Learning is our extraordinary instructors. Instructors come from a variety of backgrounds and industries and represent the best in commercial real estate and related fields. We are delighted and honored to work with so many talented individuals.

Ahmed Abdel Aziz

Aziz is a Construction Management Associate Professor with the University of Washington (UW). Read More

Allan D. Kotin

Allan Kotin has over 50 years of experience in real estate economics with an emphasis on financial planning and redevelopment.
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Arthur Griffin

Arthur Griffin represents commercial real estate clients with acquisitions and dispositions, development, lending, and land use matters as Real Estate Director at Fennemore law firm in Colorado. Read More

Baabak Ashuri

Baabak Ashuri is a Professor in Schools of Building Construction, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Fellow of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech.
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Bobby Boone

Prior to founding &Access, Bobby led a citywide effort to attract and maintain small businesses in Detroit and tackled wide-ranging retail challenges.Read More

Bobby Dishell

Bobby Dishell is a real estate attorney in the Denver office of the Colorado law firm, Moye White, LLP.
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Brian Cullen

Mr. Cullen is the founder of Keane Enterprises and has been involved in real estate businesses in the Washington, D.C. area for over 35 years.
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Brent Ambrose

Brent W. Ambrose is the Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate, Director of the Borrelli Institute for Real Estate Studies, and Director of the Ph.D. program at the Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business.

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Charles Tu

Charles Tu is the interim associate dean for graduate programs and Daniel F. Mulvihill Professor of Commercial Real Estate at the University of San Diego School of Business.
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Chuck Benson

Chuck Benson is the Director of IoT Risk Mitigation Strategy at the University of Washington.
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Cody Pennetti

Cody Pennetti is a licensed professional civil engineer with an extensive portfolio in designing a diverse range of projects.

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Collete English-Dixon

Collete English Dixon is Executive Director, Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate and Chair, Real Estate at the Heller College of Business, at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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Ebony Walden

Ebony is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Ebony Walden Consulting (EWC), an urban strategy firm based in Richmond, Virginia.
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Erkan Yonder

Dr. Erkan Yönder mainly works on real estate finance concentrating on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), commercial real estate, commercial mortgages, and sustainable real estate.
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Feras Qumseya

Feras Qumseya is the Chief Development Officer at Standard Communities where he leads the New Construction division.
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Jerrod Delaine

Jerrod Delaine is the Chief Executive Officer of The Delaine Companies.
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Jesse Warren

Jesse is the energy engineer responsible for the University of Virginia's sustainable building programs.
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Jonathan Bartlett

Jonathan Bartlett is a real estate and economic development consultant and currently serves as Global Principal for Urban Strategies at Jacobs
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Karen Saarkoppel

Karen Saarkoppel is a commercial real estate sustainability strategy specialist.
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Kat Grimsley

Dr. Grimsley is the former director of the Masters in Real Estate Development program at the George Mason University Costello College of Business.
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Kevin Bates

Kevin Bates is president and owner of Sharp Development Company, a commercial real estate company in the San Francisco area.
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Luke Koczela

Luke Koczela joined EJF in 2020 as a Senior Associate and has over 7 years of real estate and investment industry experience.
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Margarita Kaprielyan

Margarita Kaprielyan, PhD. is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Elon University. She teaches Financial Modeling with Excel and Real Estate Finance amongst other finance courses at Elon University.
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Mark Eppli

Mark Eppli is Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Matt Cypher

Matt Cypher is Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate and Director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
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Matthew Freeman

Matthew Freeman has worked with members of Congress, the Federal Reserve system, as well as organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 500’s to small non-profits.
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Monique Johnson

Monique Johnson is the Managing Director of Community Outreach at Virginia Housing.
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Nicholas B. Rajkovich

Nicholas B. Rajkovich, PhD, AIA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
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Nicole Hollander

Nicole Hollander is the Senior Vice President of Retail Asset Management at JBG Smith.

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Payton Chung

Payton Chung writes about the inter-related crafts that build cities and transformative places -- namely architecture, development, finance, landscape, planning, and transportation.
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Sarah Sieloff

Sarah Sieloff, Senior Planner, MFA: Sarah joined MFA in 2021 with over 15 years’ experience in economic and community development and planning, both internationally and across the United States.
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Seydina Fall

Seydina M. Fall is a senior lecturer in finance at Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.
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