NAIOP Chicago | Institutional Investor Update

February 24, 2026


OLC Education & Conference Center
9400 W. Higgins Road
Rosemont, IL

Moderator

Speakers

Pre-Registration for this event is now closed. If you are interested in attending, please email NAIOP Chicago or call 773-472-3072.

Join NAIOP Chicago on Tuesday, February 24th for our 7th annual “Institutional Investor Update”.  We’ll be joined by leading industry investors for a discussion on what is impacting investor decision-making and what trends these experts are expecting in 2026.

Moderator:
Steve Disse | Principal & Vice Chair | Colliers

Guest Speakers:
Rob Cook | Head of North American Portfolio Management – Real Estate | Harrison Street Asset Management
Peter Heigl | Senior Real Estate Transactions Officer | DWS
Laura Hyde | Managing Director, Investments | Link Logistics Real Estate

Location:
OLC Education & Conference Center
9400 W. Higgins Road, Ste 100
Rosemont, IL

Schedule of Events:
8:00 AM | Registration
8:30 AM | Program
9:30 AM | Adjourn

Registration Fees:
NAIOP Members – $75
DL Members – $65
Nonmembers – $95

​Registration Deadline: Sunday, February 22, 2026

Rob Cook

Harrison Street Asset Management
Head of North American Portfolio Management - Real Estate

Rob Cook brings 25 years of industry experience to Harrison Street Asset Management. As Partner and Head of North American Portfolio Management – Real Estate, he is responsible for overseeing the North American Portfolio Management team. He works in collaboration with all internal functions to establish and execute the investment strategy for each of the firm’s North American Funds and Vehicles to achieve established objectives, drive investment performance and maximize returns to fund LP’s.  He is also responsible for tracking, projecting, and communicating investment performance of each Fund to investors.

Prior to joining Harrison Street Asset Management, Rob was an Assistant Vice President at KBS Realty Advisors, where he helped open the central region office in Chicago responsible for all acquisition and disposition activity in the middle third of the country. Prior to joining KBS, Rob was a Senior Portfolio Analyst at Lincoln Advisory Group, where he was directly involved in all asset and portfolio management aspects for a national industrial portfolio owned on behalf of a state pension fund.

Rob graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BBA in both Real Estate and Finance.

Laura Hyde

Link Logistics Real Estate
Managing Director, Investments

Laura Hyde is Link’s managing director, Investments, overseeing acquisitions for the Central region. She has been with Link since 2019, joining the firm through its integration with Talos Capital, where she began working in 2017. At Link, Hyde has completed acquisitions of more than 300 buildings totaling over 39 million square feet valued at more than $3 billion. Prior to Talos, she was a senior financial analyst with Pritzker Realty Group, where she worked on over $127 million of industrial acquisitions and ground-up developments representing 2.1 million square feet. Before Pritzker, she was an associate at Oak Street Real Estate Capital and a private equity analyst at Morgan Creek Capital Management. Hyde earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Cornell University. She is a member of Industrial Women in Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute and a NAIOP National Forum, and serves on the national planning committee for the NAIOP CRE.Converge 2024 conference.

Peter Heigl

DWS
Senior Real Estate Transactions Officer

Peter joined DWS in 2017 with 14 years of industry experience. Before joining, Peter co-founded the investment management firm, WH&H Realty Advisors, focusing on developing and executing real estate investment strategies. Prior to that, he was involved in the underwriting, placement and closing of debt and equity investments on office, industrial, retail and multifamily assets at Northmarq Capital. He started his career as a financial analyst at May Center Advisors

BS in Finance from Marquette University; MBA in Real Estate Finance & Investment from DePaul University – Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

Steve Disse

Colliers
Principal & Vice Chair

 

I have been with Colliers for 29 years and serve as a principal of the Chicago office. I focus on investment sales of institutional quality industrial and office properties in Chicago, ranging in value from $5 million to $300 million. I team with Jeff Devine to form Chicago’s most active industrial investment sales team. Our team consistently holds a 50 to 60 percent market share of Chicago area industrial investment sales and has closed over $1.5 billion in sales over the last 24 months. Steve and I received the 2019 NAIOP Industrial Investment Transaction of the Year Award for brokering the sale of the Fountain Square Commerce Center in Bolingbrook, IL.