Tristan Simon founded and leads Rebees and co-leads Open-Rebees. Tristan grew up in Virginia, graduated from Duke University, and moved to Dallas in 1996. Prior to starting Rebees in 2014, Tristan founded and led Consilient, a restaurant and hotel management company best known for creating numerous acclaimed dining and entertainment brands in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Atlanta. In addition, Tristan is widely credited with transforming Henderson Avenue in Dallas from a benighted neighborhood into a vibrant dining and retail district.

Ian M. Rosenberg founded INFILL Planning & Development in 2003. He has been managing the planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance of complex projects for over 23 years. Mr. Rosenberg has worked closely with many public agencies and has been instrumental in the planning and execution of projects for The Federal Reserve Bank, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Memorial Park Conservancy and Main Street Coalition. Prior to founding INFILL, Mr. Rosenberg spent 18 years in various positions at the Federal Reserve Bank, Houston Branch, most recently as Project Manager. During his tenure, Mr. Rosenberg has either been responsible for or participated in a multitude of large and small real estate projects culminating in the design and construction of the Branch’s new $95 million, 314,000 sf facility on Allen Parkway. Mr. Rosenberg received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston in 1996. He also attended the Centre d’Etude d’Architcture et d’Urbanism, Saintes France in 1995 and the Rice University Graduate School of Management for Advanced Project Management Program in 2001.

Katie W. Grissom is a Director – Merchandising & Leasing at Asana Partners. Grissom has five years of commercial real estate experience in operations and leasing. Prior to Asana Partners, Grissom was the Director of Franchise Consulting at Pure Barre, an L Catterton portfolio company and one of the nation’s leading fitness brands with over 450 locations. Additional portfolio companies of L Catterton include, or have included, Restoration Hardware, Fly Wheel, Caribou Coffee, Chopt, Corepower Yoga, and Pirch. At Pure Barre, Grissom’s team was responsible for driving studio level financial performance and increasing same store sales. Grissom was responsible for consulting and operations across the entire store base, many of which share overlapping demographic attributes with the Asana Partners target market strategy. Prior to her role in franchise consulting, Grissom led corporate studios from California to Florida. She started as an analyst on the Real Estate team at Pure Barre in 2013. Grissom has volunteered with the Junior League Upstate since 2013, and actively supports local micro-lending organizations in the Charlotte area. She is involved in the Real Estate professional community as a member of ICSC. Grissom is a graduate of Wofford College with a Bachelor of Arts in Finance and Spanish and a Minor in Economics.

Aubrey Preston is a Nashville-area real estate entrepreneur, avid preservationist and lifelong student of music history. He founded the nonprofit Americana Music Triangle preservation project to educate visitors from around the world on the geographic and creative roots of America’s most influential cultural export: the nine genres of music born in the culturally rich region between New Orleans, Nashville and Memphis. At the core of the project is AmericanaMusicTriangle.com, an online history resource and travel guide featuring some of the world’s most significant music heritage sites. The guide blends music history and cultural tourism, offering a self-guided road trip through the heart of the American South, considered by many historians to be the birthplace of Jazz, Blues, Country, Rock&Roll, R&B/Soul, Gospel, Southern Gospel, Cajun/Zydeco and Bluegrass. Since its 2015 launch, the project has successfully established a five-state coalition of music communities united for the purpose of education, heritage tourism, preservation and community development. Some of Preston’s other community projects include preservation and redevelopment of the historic village of Leipers Fork, an effort that helped launch the nonprofit Land Trust for Tennessee; developing the Tennessee Trails and Byways initiative, executed by the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development; preserving and restoring the historic Franklin Theatre in downtown Franklin, Tennessee; establishing the Kids on Stage Foundation; the purchase and preservation of the endangered historic RCA Studio A on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, and most recently; the purchase and preservation of the Thomas Hart Benton historic homesite.

Ms. Alvarado has served the community leading the daily operations of the Midtown Management District for the past 15- years. She manages a 17- member volunteer board of directors and the associated committees. Serving a growing inner city population of approximately 9,000 residents and 500 business owners, during her tenure every aspect of the Midtown community has seen exponential growth. Under her leadership Midtown is the first management district in the state to have applied and received a coveted State of Texas Cultural Arts District designation.