About me
Joel joined Hilco Real Estate in 2012 and leads the disposition group, assisting clients with monetizing owned and leasehold real estate with a focus on industrial, retail and special use assets. In his thirty+ years of real estate experience, he has developed a broad range of expertise, covering the areas of sale transactions, asset and portfolio management, valuation and investment analysis, development, financing, and strategic planning. Joel specializes in assisting clients who are generally not in the real estate business --- usually in the context of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or corporate restructuring --- with implementing strategies to create liquidity from their surplus real estate assets. Some of his clients include Cenveo, Hostess, Sun Capital Partners, Service King, American Blue Ribbon Holdings, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P), IDI Logistics, 99 Cents Only, and Furniture Brands.
Joel earned a B.S. degree from Indiana University and a Masters in City Planning from Harvard University. He holds a real estate broker license and is a member of several professional organizations, including the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers, and the Chicago Real Estate Council where he previously served as its president. In 1995 he was elected into Lambda Alpha, an honorary land economics society.