Managing Risk for Modern Real Estate Investors

Jeff Phaneuf is the VP of Finance & Planning at BXP, where he oversees Budgeting & Planning, Corporate Lease Administration, and Accounts Receivable & Collections. BXP is one of the largest public real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the U.S., with a significant presence in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. 

BXP, a fully integrated real estate company organized as a REIT, has more than 50 years of experience developing, owning, managing and acquiring exceptional properties in dynamic gateway markets. Including properties owned by joint ventures, BXP’s portfolio totals 54.1 million square feet and 192 properties with 12 under construction or redevelopment. BXP assets include office, retail (including one under redevelopment), residential (including one under construction) and hotel properties. 

Jeff joined BXP in 1996 and since the company’s public offering in 1997, he has focused on staffing, operational practices and procedures, and process improvements, including the integration of technology in the Budgeting & Forecasting, Lease Administration, and Accounts Receivable departments.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Assumption College. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Canton Co-operative Bank in Canton, Mass., as well as the Board for Canton Youth Hockey.

John Cronin is the VP of Budgeting & Planning at BXP. As one of the largest public REITs in the United States, BXP has a significant presence in six markets: Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Including properties owned by joint ventures, the BXP portfolio totals 54.1 million square feet and 192 properties with 12 under construction or redevelopment. BXP assets include 173 office properties, 12 retail properties, six residential and one hotel. 

A dedicated BXP employee since 1999, John’s passion lies in using technology to improve the budgeting and planning process. He has achieved significant success using software development and technology adoption to facilitate real-time information flow throughout the organization. John has extensive experience leading software development projects from initial strategic decision-making through development, testing, deployment, rollout and user adoption. John has a degree in Accounting from City and Islington College.

Andrew Bowen serves RealPage customers and partners as a Vice President and Industry Principal dedicated to the Institutional and Build-to-Rent spaces. For over a decade, his focus has been on the tools that help investors and operators of multifamily real estate drive yield through better leveraging data and analytics.

Considered one of the experts on revenue management in multifamily, he is a regularly featured speaker on both the webcast and conference circuit, bringing a passion backed by over 20 years of operational experience to the conversation.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  When not pontificating on the future of the industry, you can usually find him either in the gym or on the lake with his two grown “boys” and his wife of 25 years.

Damien Georges is globally recognized as an expert in technology and operations for real estate investment management with a career-long focus on solving the industry’s inherent data problem. As SVP of Investment Management, Sales, Damien is responsible for business development focused on RealPage’s Investment Management customers.