Center Leadership
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David Bauman
David Bauman is a Senior Director at CBRE and serves as the Executive Director of the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center. He is also an associate instructor in the Master of Real Estate Development program at the David Eccles School of Business. He received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah in 2011.
At CBRE, David guides corporations in their real estate decisions across their national and global portfolios of all property types – office, industrial, retail, and land. He oversees global client relations, develops transaction management strategies, and manages a team of transaction management professionals servicing clients occupying real estate throughout the globe. He has transacted well over $1 billion of real estate on behalf of clients in more than 50 countries.
David began his career in corporate real estate in 2006 and has since managed many global accounts for clients spanning private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. His experience includes market research in global cities, tenant representation, and land development and entitlements.
Previous roles in commercial real estate include similar positions with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and NAI Global. David currently sits on the leadership board of the World Trade Center of Utah.
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Andra Ghent
Andra Ghent is a Professor of Finance at the University of Utah where she holds the Ivory-Boyer Chair in Real Estate in Summer 2021. She is the Academic Director of the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center. Her current research interests are real estate finance, financial intermediation, and urban economics. Her research has been cited in U.S. congressional testimony and by media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Her research has been published in top academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Management Science, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. She is an Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. She teaches courses on housing affordability and real estate finance. More information about Professor Ghent can be found at www.andraghent.com.
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Alicia Brooks
Alicia Brooks has over a decade of experience planning events for a variety of stakeholders including members of the arts, education, philanthropic, and political communities. She comes to the University of Utah from Salt Lake’s own Ballet West where she worked in annual giving and Washington, DC where she planned events for the Ford’s Theatre Society. Her focus is matching the mission to the moment, carefully orchestrating events to fulfill the organization’s mission, and helping expand the focus to move forward. She is a native Utahn who is thrilled to be a part of the team taking the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center to the next level and ensuring its reputation as the premier place in Utah for the next generation of Real Estate leaders.
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Dejan Eskic
In addition to being the research director of IBREC, Dejan Eskic is a senior research fellow at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
Eskic is involved in housing, construction and real estate research, fiscal impact studies, and economic and demographic analysis. His professional career has focused on providing the best information to key decision makers, whether they’d be local or state officials, executives of national retailers or publicly listed REIT’s. Prior to joining the Gardner Policy Institute, Eskic worked in the retail research industry, where he evaluated current and future sales performance for retail sites through statistical gravity modeling reflecting market demographics throughout the Country. Additionally, he has worked on a number of public-private partnerships relating to Tax Increment Financing, along with numerous real estate market studies and economic development plans.
Before earning a Master of Real Estate Development degree, Eskic earned a B.S. in Urban Planning, both from the University of Utah. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Real Estate Market Analysis at the University of Utah.
Research Fellows
Rick Woodbury
W. Richards Woodbury served as President/CEO of Woodbury Corporation for 31 years until 2011. He then served as a Mission President from 2011-2014. He returned to again take an active role in real estate development and management at Woodbury Corporation and is currently board chairman.
He is an active partner/member in more than 150 real estate properties. Some of Woodbury Corporation’s projects include University Mall (Place) in Orem, The Meadows in American Fork, Canyon Creek Shopping Center in Spanish Fork, the Utah Valley Business Park in American Fork, Magic Valley Mall in Twin Falls, Sandy Park office buildings, eight office buildings at the University of Utah Research Park and fourteen hotels. He has also been an active Investment Committee member in three private entity equity real estate funds.
Rick has been active in trade association activities, serving as past chair of both the Public Policy Coordinating Committee and the Federal Tax Committee of the National Association of Realtors, and past state chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also a member of NAIOP, the Urban Land Institute and the Utah and American Bar Association.
Rick graduated from University of Utah Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics (1973), and then earned both MBA and JD degrees from Harvard University (1977). He chaired the Utah Valley University National Business Advisory Board in 2004 and has actively participated on said Board from 2001 to present. Rick currently serves as a Trustee of the Utah School & Institutional Lands Administration. He has taught or lectured at UVU, BYU, Westminster and the University of Utah.
David Bauman
David Bauman is a Senior Director at CBRE and serves as the Executive Director of the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center. He is also an associate instructor in the Master of Real Estate Development program at the David Eccles School of Business. He received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah in 2011.
At CBRE, David guides corporations in their real estate decisions across their national and global portfolios of all property types – office, industrial, retail, and land. He oversees global client relations, develops transaction management strategies, and manages a team of transaction management professionals servicing clients occupying real estate throughout the globe. He has transacted well over $1 billion of real estate on behalf of clients in more than 50 countries.
David began his career in corporate real estate in 2006 and has since managed many global accounts for clients spanning private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. His experience includes market research in global cities, tenant representation, and land development and entitlements.
Previous roles in commercial real estate include similar positions with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and NAI Global. David currently sits on the leadership board of the World Trade Center of Utah.