David Wilk

David is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School teaching Real Estate Entrepreneurship, CityLabs, and Infrastructure Develoment for Sustainable Cities. He has developed Real Estate Symposia on Asset Optimization and Place-Making Economic Development Strategies at the University of Delaware, University of Illinois, Perdue Business School at Salisbury University, Florida Atlantic University, Delaware State University, University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Wilk also co-innovated and launched an optimization solution, CREED© (“Corporate Real Estate Earnings Diagnostic”), with SAP at their 2015 National Real Estate Conference.

Mr. Wilk is the Managing Director of Colliers International Valuation & Advisory Services Washington, DC office where he unlocks “hidden value” for corporations, private equity firms, governments, universities, healthcare systems, and non-profits through asset optimization strategies, valuations, market feasibility studies, “place-making” economic development strategies, and strategic marketing plans that reimagine underproductive real estate assets (www.colliers.com).

David was formerly National Co-Chair of Corporate Real Estate Services for SVN (www.svn.com), National Managing Director of Duff & Phelps Corporate Real Estate Advisory Group, Regional Director of Corporate Real Estate Services for Ernst & Young LLP in the Middle Atlantic region, and Managing Director of the Real Estate Valuation Group for Arthur Andersen. Mr. Wilk also held senior management positions with Valuation Research Corporation, Arthur D. Little, and Kenneth Leventhal & Co while living in California.

Mr. Wilk has over 35 years of real estate experience on commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, governmental, and institutional real estate and has worked in 49 states in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the South Pacific. Mr. Wilk is a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and a Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI). He is a Licensed RE Broker in the State of Delaware, and a Certified General Appraiser in the Delaware, Florida, New York, and Maryland.

Real estate counseling highlights from Mr. Wilk’s career include; Pebble Beach Golf Courses and Company, Aspen Ski Resorts, 20th Century Fox Studios, The Irvine Ranch, Madison Square Garden, Santa Anita Racetrack, Dover Downs Raceway & Casino, Elvis Presley Enterprises (Graceland), Hyatt Regency & Four Seasons Hotels in Hawaii, Chevron’s Huntington Beach Company, Marriott’s Great America Theme Parks, Baltimore’s Power Plant, Art Deco Hotels in South Beach, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Comcast Cable Systems, Bikini Atoll in Micronesia (South Pacific) Thomas Jefferson University, Florida Atlantic, UD Star Campus, Wallops Island & University of Kentucky Research Parks, and U.S. military bases in Hawaii, California, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Mr. Wilk was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware Lerner College of Business for 24 years (1989 to 2012) where he taught Real Estate Finance, Development & Investment, and Enterprise Real Estate Optimization. He has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Delaware and a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.