Kathy S. Briscoe
Kathy S. Briscoe
Partner, CCO | Dermody Properties
Ms. Briscoe has over 30 years of experience in the institutional real estate investment management business. Currently, she is the chief operating officer and a partner with Dermody Properties, a developer, owner, and operator of industrial real estate assets with a 60 year track record and over 300 institutional clients. She has primary responsibility for all aspects of the company’s business related to its capital strategy and execution.
Prior to joining Dermody Properties in March 2018, Ms. Briscoe held senior consulting and management positions at a number of real estate investment companies, including Cordia Capital Management, LLC, Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and Crosswater Realty Advisors. She has also served as chief operating officer and chief investment officer for real estate at Cordia Capital Management, overseeing approximately $100 million of commercial real estate investments per year throughout the Western U.S. (2013-2016), chief investment officer for IDS Real Estate Group in Los Angeles (2009-2011), and managing director and the head of the Los Angeles office for Buchanan Street Partners (2007-2008). From 1987 to 2007, Ms. Briscoe was a shareholder at Lowe Enterprises, a real estate investment, asset management, and development company, where she managed the firm’s investment clients, was key-man on a value-add private REIT, managed several portfolios, and served on the executive committee and as a voting member of the investment committee.
Ms. Briscoe is an Independent Director for Griffin Capital, Resmark Equity Partners, LLC, and Crescent Capital SPAC. She is a council member of the Urban Land Institute, an Editorial Advisory board member for Institutional Real Estate, Inc., a member of PREA, has been an executive member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers, and is active in a number of other real estate organizations. She is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.