Angela Cain is Global CEO of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global nonprofit research, education, and professional development organization. With more than 48,000 members in 84 countries, ULI is the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world. Angela joined ULI in September 2024, bringing more than 25 years of global nonprofit and leadership experience in the real estate industry. Most recently, she served as CEO of CoreNet Global, a professional association for corporate real estate executives. In that role for more than 14 years, Angela led the transformation of CoreNet Global’s strategic direction, mission, vision, culture, and value proposition. She spearheaded organizational and operational changes that yielded significant growth in global membership, strengthened the overall financial health of the organization, and streamlined its governance framework to enhance business decision-making and performance. Before joining CoreNet Global, Angela was CEO of a state branch of the National Association of REALTORS. She previously served as Vice President of Global Events for NACORE International, a predecessor organization to CoreNet Global. Angela is a native Floridian, a graduate of the University of Florida, and the proud mother of college-aged twins.

Diane is Global Co-Chair of Gensler. Since 2005, the collaborative leadership embodied by Diane and Global Co-Chair Andy Cohen has been fundamental to setting the company apart as a leading design firm. As a hands-on leader, Diane oversees Gensler’s global platform and its day-to-day operations, with 6,000+ people networked across 53 offices, serving more than 3,500 clients in over 100 countries. Diane is focused on Gensler’s global talent strategies, performance, and organizational development to ensure that the firm serves clients with the world’s top talent. She is the catalyst for Gensler’s Research program, for which Diane is committed to delivering value to clients through strategies and innovations like Gensler’s Workplace Performance Index® (WPI). A registered architect, she graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Diane received an Outstanding Impact Award from the Council of Real Estate Women and is both a Regent of the American Architectural Foundation and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Her insights have appeared in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, and The Economist; and she was a featured speaker at Bloomberg Businessweek’s CEO Conference as well as the United Nations’ COP27 Climate Change Conference.

Franz provides strategic direction for Cabot Properties and chairs the investment committees for all funds and investment programs. He has been the CEO of Cabot since founding the firm in 2002, raising more than a dozen funds and creating enduring partnerships with leading global investors. Franz is focused on sustaining Cabot’s strong record of realized returns and creating opportunity for the firm’s growing international team. Franz joined his father in the industrial property business in 1996. He was Chief Financial Officer when the business went public as Cabot Industrial Trust in 1998, and during these years the New York Stock Exchange-listed Real Estate Investment Trust was the top performing industrial REIT before it was sold in 2001. Franz previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Co, living and working in New York City, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Budapest. Throughout his career in real estate and investing, Franz has served as a trustee or board member for numerous business and nonprofits. Franz graduated from Harvard College in 1985 with a degree in history and earned an MBA in 1991 from Harvard Business School. He won a Robert Bosch Fellowship after business school and worked at the German Central Bank in Frankfurt. Franz and his college classmate married and have four grown children.