Leadership Team
A dynamic group of the region’s top commercial real estate professionals joined the firm and today continue to direct IDS. Their dedication to consistent, hands-on management over the lifetime of a project, sets IDS apart from national, publicly traded third-party services firms challenged by rapid employee turnover and frequent management restructurings. IDS’ management leadership and staff stability are two of its greatest strengths.
Kathleen S. Briscoe
Chief Investment Officer
Kathleen Briscoe joined IDS in 2009. Ms. Briscoe is responsible for securing and serving new institutional investors and investment consulting clients, and serving as key portfolio manager involved in both ongoing client service and the acquisition process. Ms. Briscoe has over twenty-three years of experience in commercial real estate. She was an Executive Vice President with Lowe Enterprises Investors, LLC, the institutional advisory arm of Lowe Enterprises. During her nineteen years with Lowe Ms. Briscoe was a founding member of the Investment Management Group, helping to grow LEI to over $2 billion in assets under management. She began her career at Lowe working on highly complex workout assignments for major financial institutions and investing in turnaround opportunities for clients with value-add investment strategies. Her responsibilities included Separate Account and Fund Acquisitions and portfolio management, Investor Relations, working with consultants and oversight of research.
From 2007 to 2008 Ms. Briscoe served as the Executive Managing Director of Buchanan Street Partners as head of the Los Angeles Office. Ms. Briscoe is a member of ICSC, NAREIM, LACRA, the Southern California NAIOP Advisory Council, the Dartmouth College Real Estate Council, and a council member for ULI. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The Harvard Business School, and holds a California Real Estate Sales License.
Jeffrey C.
Newman
Chief Financial
Officer
Executive Vice
President, IDS
Advisors
Jeff Newman joined
IDS in 2006.
Mr. Newman is
responsible for the
Company's finance
and asset management
function and
managing the IDS
Advisors division. He
is a member of the
IDS Investment
Committee.
Previously Mr.
Newman
served as Executive Vice President for
Nippon Life's US real estate subsidiaries,
responsible for their private debt and
equity business activities, nationwide.
During his fourteen years at Nippon Life,
Mr. Newman completed more than $2 billion of
transactions, focused primarily on high-rise
office buildings, but including large hotel
and retail assets. Earlier, he worked
in a project manager capacity for a group of
former Trammell Crow partners developing,
leasing and managing suburban office and
industrial properties in Southern
California. Mr. Newman started his
career as a construction lender at Union
Bank. He earned his undergraduate
degree from Lehigh University, and MBA from
the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton
School of Business. He is a licensed
California real estate broker.
Mickey Siam, CPM, CCIM
Chief Operating Officer
Mickey Siam joined IDS in 1988 and served as
a Portfolio Manager before becoming Chief
Operating Officer in 1998. Mr. Siam is
responsible for the daily operations of the firm’s commercial division. Mr. Siam earned his BS in business administration from California State University, Northridge. He is a licensed California real estate broker, an executive Certified Property Manager (CPM) and a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM).
Cathryn DeFazio
Senior Vice President
Cathryn DeFazio came to IDS in 1995 from the
Trammell Crow Company. Ms. DeFazio directs the day-to-day operations of IDS’ Orange County office. A licensed real estate salesperson and licensed appraiser in California, Ms. DeFazio is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton. She is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and the National Association of Real Estate Appraisers (NAREA).
Robert V. Fuelling
Senior Vice President
Rob Fuelling joined
IDS in 1998. At IDS, Mr. Fuelling designs promotional strategies for marketing IDS’ portfolio of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties. Mr. Fuelling also provides acquisition, disposition, tenant representation, consulting and other advisory services to IDS clients. Holder of a BS in business administration from the University of Southern California (USC), Mr. Fuelling is a licensed California real estate salesperson and an executive member of the Los Angeles Commercial Real Estate Association.
Mr. Fuelling is a
past board member of the Inland Empire
chapter of NAIOP.
David Saeta, CPM
Senior Vice President
David Saeta joined IDS in 1992. Mr. Saeta is responsible
for development, leasing, construction
management and property management for a portfolio of office, industrial and retail properties.
Prior to joining IDS Mr. Saeta was a
marketing director with Trammell Crow
Company. Mr. Saeta graduated from Stanford University and earned his MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Management. Active in civic affairs, Mr. Saeta
is the former Chairman of the Pasadena Gold
Line Construction Authority, and former
Mayor of South Pasadena. Mr. Saeta also serves on the
BOMA Board of Directors.
Gretchen Sauer, CPM
Senior Vice President
Gretchen Sauer joined
IDS in 1997 as an Associate directly from Claremont McKenna College where she earned her BA.
Ms. Sauer handles day-to-day property management, development management and leasing of a mixed-use portfolio of office, residential and industrial projects containing over 2.1 million-square-feet. Ms. Sauer also handles transactional business
and is also involved in the processing of entitlements for a 20-acre residential development in San Jose and the acquisition and entitlements for a 33-acre project in Redlands. She is a Certified Property Manager (CPM), a licensed California real estate salesperson, a member of the Network of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), and is also a member of the Junior League of Los Angeles.
Daniel B. Sibson, CPM
Senior Vice President
Daniel Sibson joined IDS in 1994.
Mr. Sibson is responsible for development,
property management, leasing, construction
management and on-site personnel for a 2.5
million-square-foot portfolio of office,
industrial and retail properties, as well as
providing acquisition, disposition,
representation and financial advisory
services. Prior to joining IDS, Mr.
Sibson was a consultant with D & T Realty Consulting Group, a subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche, where he developed his expertise in financial feasibility, portfolio sale due diligence and market research. Prior to D & T, he was a broker with Grubb & Ellis. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, Mr. Sibson holds an MBA in real estate finance from the University of Southern California.
Patrick Spillane
Senior Vice President
Patrick Spillane
joined IDS in 1992. Mr. Spillane is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of commercial and residential investments for IDS as well as processing the development entitlements for a range of residential, commercial and industrial developments. Current projects include project management of the Metropolis development in downtown Los Angeles, a 6.3 acre 2.3 million square foot urban infill mixed-use development containing high-rise residential, office, retail and hotel uses;
and the general plan amendments and entitlements for a 5,000 unit housing development in San Jose.
Prior to joining IDS in 1992, Mr. Spillane was a
marketing director with Trammell Crow Company where he was responsible for the development of the award-winning Citadel mixed use office/retail and hotel project in Commerce, California. Mr. Spillane is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.
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