President of Commercial Real Estate
Todd Vezza is a real estate professional in the industry for over 26 years. Vezza has experience running
real estate businesses, deploying capital, asset management and in the formation, implementation and
execution of both public and private company real estate strategies.
From 2018-2020, Vezza served as the president of TradeLane Properties, a private equity real estate
company and participated in the founding of the company, capital deployment, asset management, due
diligence and property operations.
From 2016-2018, Vezza served as the senior vice president, Chicago Market Leader of DCT Industrial
Trust (NYSE: DCT), a leading publicly traded warehouse/industrial property REIT which owned and
internally managed over 73 million square feet of industrial properties in high demand, high barrier to
entry U.S. distribution markets. The Chicago market was DCT’s second largest market. As the leader in
charge of the Chicago office, Vezza was responsible for the operating results, capital deployment
(development and acquisitions) as well as management of the office's operations, leasing and
dispositions. DCT Industrial was acquired in 2018 by Prologis (NYSE: PLD) for $8.4 billion.
From 2014-2016, Vezza served as the director of Industrial Investments for the Zilber Property Group,
the commercial investment and development arm of Zilber Ltd., a 70-year old, privately-held, national,
diversified real estate company. As the leader in charge of the Chicago office, Vezza was responsible for
management of the Chicago office’s operations, capital deployment (development and acquisitions), as
well as management of the office’s operations, leasing and dispositions. Vezza designed and
implemented the office’s platform, structure, staffing, operations, reporting and planning.
From 1997-2012, Vezza served in various progressing capacities at CenterPoint Properties Trust, the
nation’s first publicly traded industrial REIT (NYSE: CNT) as well as the largest private property
owner/developer in the Metropolitan Chicago Region. In Vezza’s final role as CenterPoint Properties’
senior vice president of Investments, Vezza served as a member of the company’s Investment
Committee and responsible for capital deployment, the company’s national multi-market expansion,
oversight of dispositions, budget preparation and execution of the company’s market timed and
strategic recycling strategy. CenterPoint Properties was acquired in 2006 by the California Public
Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) for $3.4 billion.
From 1995-1997, Vezza served as senior associate - Audit at the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand.
Vezza received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and BS in
Accounting from Pennsylvania State University.
