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Mr. John Walsh III

TIG Real Estate Services

John M. Walsh, III, CRE President TIG Real Estate Services, Inc. 4350 Beltway Dr. Addison, TX 75001 214 546 5328 [email protected] John M. Walsh, III is the President and founder of TIG Real Estate Services, Inc. (TIG). TIG has developed and redeveloped almost three million square feet of office and industrial buildings. In total, Mr. Walsh has developed over 6,500,000 square feet of new office, retail and industrial buildings and redeveloped over a million square feet of similar properties. TIG manages and leases a portfolio of over 15,000,000 square feet of office, industrial and retail buildings on behalf of its institutional clients in Texas. Prior to co-founding TIG, John spent 16 years and two months with Trammell Crow Company in various leasing, development and senior management roles, including a four-year period as head of property management and accounting/reporting. During his tenure as development partner for the Northwest Dallas area submarket at Trammell Crow, Mr. Walsh was involved in the development of almost five million square feet of new buildings, and leasing and managing over eight million square feet of office, industrial and service center space. Mr. Walsh is a leader and active participant in the 40,000 plus member Urban Land Institute. Mr. Walsh has served as a volunteer member of numerous ULI Advisory Services Panels dealing with land use and value, codes and ordinances, infrastructure, transportation, financing, repurposing and other real estate related issues, including serving as a member of panels in Hengelo, The Netherlands, St. Joseph, MO, Richmond, VA and Portsmouth, VA., and as panel Chair in Las Vegas, NV, Cedar Rapids, IA, Los Angeles, CA, Tucson, AZ, Raleigh Durham, NC, the Research Triangle Park, NC and Savannah, GA and most recently Port St. Lucie, FL, Edmond, Oklahoma and New Orleans, LA. John has participated as a panelist, speaker, moderator and presenter at both the national, regional and local level of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) an education and research institute. At ULI, Mr. Walsh has acted as a Product Council Chair (Office and Industrial Product Council and Commercial Retail Product Council), Council Counselor, Vice Chair of Programs, numerous committees. He is currently a member of the DEI and Governance Committee of the Dallas-Fort Worth District Council of ULI. He was a Co-Host Chair for the October 2016 International Fall Meeting and a member of the Host Committee of the Fall Meeting in 2022.held in Dallas, Texas. He served for four and one- half years as the chair off the Dallas – Fort Worth District Council. In addition to his many other activities in ULI, he serves the Institute as a Trustee and Key Leader and as a member of the Executive Committee of that organization's Women's Leadership Initiative. On a regional level Mr. Walsh is a member of the Executive Committee, the Governance Committee, and the Advisory Committee of the Dallas-Fort Worth District Council of ULI. Throughout his career, Mr. Walsh has served as chairman, director and trustee of various business and charitable organizations including: Trammell Crow Employees Profit Sharing Trust, Valwood Improvement Authority, Carrollton Zoning Ordinance Committee, Texas Commerce Bank, Valwood Park Federal Credit Union, Farmers Branch Business Chamber of Commerce, North Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Sky Ranch Youth Camp. He has also served on working committees and boards for the City of Carrollton, the City of University Park, Highland Park Independent School District and the City of Farmers Branch. Mr. Walsh currently serves as a member of the Public Works Advisory Committee (since 2008) and the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of University Park, Texas (2015 to present). He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of EarthX (formerly Earth Day Texas) and participates in the programming and staging of the annual Earth Day event in Dallas, TX. Mr. Walsh served as an instructor at Brookhaven College for ten years and at the University of Texas at Arlington for two years teaching Business Law to undergraduate students. He has also been a real estate graduate school visiting instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington within the School of Architecture. Mr. Walsh was a member of the Executive Committee of the Vision North Texas (VNT) initiative in 2004 to 2013. He served as a member of the Management Committee of North Texas 2050 where he also was a regional speaker for that initiative. He has been involved in numerous activities related to Vision North Texas as a speaker, sponsor and participant. He was elected to and is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) and served as that group's representative on the national Policy Committee of the National Association of Realtors. Mr. Walsh currently serves on the Membership Committee and a task force for the Counselors of Real Estate. Mr. Walsh has made presentations to organizations throughout the country at both a national and regional level, including the Urban Land Institute, National Association of Office and Industrial Parks (NAIOP), The Commercial Property News, Vision North Texas, the North Texas Commercial Area Brokers (NTCAR), NACREIF and numerous other real estate related organizations. His presentations have included various topics including underwriting leases, development techniques, financing obstacles and opportunities, marketing strategies, legal challenges, contracts, transactions, negotiations, community development standards and real estate evaluation issues. Mr. Walsh has served as an expert witness in cases and disputes involving the value of developed and to-be-developed commercial real estate, due diligence procedures in the acquisition of commercial real estate properties; industry practices in enforcing and complying with the requirements of commercial leases, contracts for sale, easement agreements, brokerage agreements, transaction practices and standards, rights and obligations of landlords and tenants, landlord tenant relations, commercial real estate partnership agreements, industry standards and practices related to real estate contracts, industry standards related to property management and property management operating procedures, practices and customs related to owning and operating commercial real estate. John is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and has been a member of the Texas State Bar since 1978. Mr. Walsh earned his J.D. Degree from Texas Tech University School of Law. He attended the University of Houston and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from University of Texas, Arlington in 1973.