A WINNING APPROACH TO THE INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE RACE

Managing Director of Acquisitions

Robin Stolberg

Robin leads Clear Height’s acquisition team, guiding investment decisions and managing the team’s activities.

Clear Height’s acquisition team sources investment opportunities and is responsible for growing the investment portfolio of real estate assets.

Before joining Clear Height Properties, Robin spent 18 years with JLL’s Chicago office—as an industrial market broker concentrating on Chicago agency, tenant representation and property sale projects, then moving into capital markets and private capital transactions.

Robin holds a BS in economics and finance with a concentration in real estate from the University of Illinois. He is a former board director of the Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE). He also serves as a board director of the Children’s Brittle Bone Foundation (CBBF).

Analyst, Asset Management and Acquisitions

Kevin Joyce

A lifelong athlete, Kevin brings a team-first attitude to Clear Height Properties. He collaborates with the CEO and the asset management and acquisitions team to help evaluate and underwrite new investment opportunities, as well as support strategic oversight of leasing, operations, and disposition efforts for industrial and office properties.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in real estate from Notre Dame, Kevin gained additional experience with Transwestern Real Estate Services in Chicago. He is integrally involved as a volunteer with The Growing Initiative, an organization that supplies fresh produce to food banks.

Director of Acquisitions

Ryan Maher

As a director of acquisitions, Ryan leverages CRE experience and deep relationships within the community to his position identifying and evaluating opportunities. His goal is to further relationships with brokers to facilitate deal making within the Chicago market and across the Midwest.

Before joining Clear Height, Ryan was a broker in the Chicago offices of NAI Hiffman, working with a brokerage team recognized by Crain’s as a Most Influential Brokerage Team in Chicago. The team was the 2017 NAIOP Office Transaction of the Year Award Recipient, 2017 Chicago Food Depository Real Estate Award Brokerage Transaction of the Year Nominee, 2018 and 2019 Chicago Food Depository Real Estate Awards Office Broker of the Year Finalist, and a CoStar Power Broker Recipient. Involved in more than 250 transactions, Ryan represented private companies, financial institutions, investors and developers in the leasing, acquisition, and disposition of commercial assets.

Ryan is a licensed broker with the State of Illinois.

Analyst, Acquisitions and Asset Management

Sean McKibben

Collaborating with our acquisitions and asset management teams, Sean provides analytics and modeling to guide decision making around new additions to the Clear Height Properties portfolio. Known for his valuable data-derived insights, Sean weighs in throughout asset lifecycles, from leasing and operations through disposition.  

Before joining Clear Height Properties, Sean worked as a financial consultant and analyst at CBRE, where he underwrote and conducted valuations on more than $600 million in office and flex properties. He also has experience as an intern at Lee & Associates, Draper & Kramer, Rockwell Partners and others in the sector. Sean holds an MS in real estate from DePaul University and is a licensed broker in the State of Illinois.

Director of Acquisitions

Rick Nevarez

A 10+ year commercial real estate veteran, Rick began his career with global industrial real estate investment trust Prologis, where he oversaw six million square feet of industrial and office real estate and coordinated multi-million-dollar disposition of industrial real estate to the City of Chicago/O’Hare modernization project.

Rick also worked at ML Realty Partners and assisted with the strategic leasing and disposition of Bridgestone Americas’ industrial real estate portfolio.

Rick is involved in the DePaul Real Estate Alumni Alliance; is a graduate of DePaul University, Driehaus College of Business; and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Illinois.

Associate Director of Acquisitions

Jacob Swartz

Jacob assists the asset management and acquisition teams with sourcing, underwriting, and modeling current and prospective investments. His finance background, coupled with practical real estate experience, gives him a leg up in understanding the complexities of underwriting commercial real estate. In his previous roles, he gained valuable experience in investment strategies at High Ridge Financial, investor relations and sales at Morgan Stanley and financial modeling at Copper Beech.

Jacob graduated Cum Laude as a finance major at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business.