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.

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.

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.

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.