As we continue our Vault Series, we welcome Charles Fisher and Blake Shaffer, CFA from JLL.
Join us as they present: AI in Commercial Real Estate

Speakers:
Charles Fisher

Charles Fisher leads Risk Analytics for America’s Risk Advisory business. In this role, he engages with global lenders and institutional owners to assess risk in their global portfolios using artificial intelligence and proprietary JLL technology. Charles also assists Value & Risk Advisory leadership on global business strategy, operations, and non-Americas engagements.

Risk Advisory provides lenders and institutional owners with automated valuation models (AVMs) and risk analytics to monitor their CRE portfolio in real time to balance risk and opportunity. Clients use deliverables as inputs to perform market and sector research, benchmark performance against competitors, inform decision-making, complement existing risk or management processes, and align with regulatory requirements on collateral monitoring.

A tenured JLL veteran, Charles has always worked at the intersection of technology and real estate. While working in JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality, he built their global valuation model and other leading technology tools before moving to Singapore and London for a global capital markets technology role. In 2020, he moved into Value & Risk Advisory to assist in the creation of the Risk Advisory business line and development of Risk Analytics capabilities.

Blake Shaffer, CFA

_{Blake is a Director in the Corporate Capital Markets and Net Lease practice group advising corporate clients on capital strategies to optimize the capitalization and monetization of their real estate portfolios. Blake’s clientele ranges from Fortune 10 companies to lower-middle-market private equity sponsored portfolio companies. With a strong corporate finance acumen and background, Blake’s expertise includes in-depth knowledge of capital structuring, financial impact analyses, and financial reporting analysis. Blake advises clients on executing sale-leasebacks, net lease sales, lease monetization transactions, acquisition sale leasebacks, build-to-suits, and other esoteric structured financing including synthetic lease and credit tenant lease transactions. Blake’s single-tenant expertise spans all major real estate asset classes including industrial, office, retail and data centers, which transaction experience across the U.S.}

_{Prior to joining JLL, Blake was a commercial credit analyst in the credit rotational program at MB Financial Bank, a Chicago-based regional bank (now Fifth-Third Bank). Blake was responsible for gathering and analyzing due diligence, financial and quantitative analysis, and credit underwriting for $100M+ of commercial real estate loans in multiple markets in his first year.}

_{Blake received his B.B.A. in Finance from the Tippie College of Business as well as a Certificate of Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa. Blake earned his Charter from the CFA Institute in September 2019. Blake is an active member of the CFA Society of Chicago and the CFA Society of Chicago Member Engagement Advisory Group.}

Price:  This is a complimentary event

Location:  33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower-Level Vault Space) 

Passport Program
This is a "Passport Program." Members of any local CFA society may attend at the CFA Society Chicago member rate. If you are only a member of CFA Institute, you do not qualify for the society member rate.