Jerome S. Engel
Adjunct Professor Emeritus at Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
The 2024 Innovation Agenda for Canadian Real Estate
Join us to help drive change across the real estate and housing industries.
PARTNERS
Industry Experts & Active Investors
At the heart of R-LABS is an outstanding group of leaders who advocate for innovation in real estate.
R-LABS Industry Issue + Transformation Council
Real estate and housing are critical and complicated, and governments need help. Industry innovation is essential to solving the many interrelated problems. However, it requires a detailed understanding of the problems, their vectors, and how to include various levels of governments, policy makers and regulators to bring transformative change to the industry.
R-LABS seeks the council of trusted industry leaders with deep and diverse expertise who will help us better understand industry problems, surface potential obstacles, and draw connections with other issues. The Industry Issue + Transformation Council (I+T Council) works closely with our teams to provide input at every stage of our venture process. Through R-LABS and the I+T Council, industry innovation is more effectively aligned and transferred across the real estate and housing sub-sectors.
George Carras
Founder & CEO of R-LABS
David Wilkes
President & CEO of the Building Industry & Land Development Association (BILD)
John DiMichele
CEO of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)
Michael Brooks
CEO of the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC)
Salima Rawji
President and CEO, York University Development Corporation
Jeff King
CEO of Greater Vancouver Realtors (GVR)
Jennifer Podmore Russell
EVP Real Estate & Development, Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation
Toni Rossi
Chief ESG Officer, Infrastructure Ontario
Thomas Mueller
President and CEO, Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC)
Mary Ormond
Chief Legal Counsel & Corporate Secretary, CreateTO
Richard Lyall
President, Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON)
Tony Irwin
President & CEO Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario
Sean Keenan
Director General, Economic Analysis and Results at Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
Giles Gherson
President & Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT)
The I+T Council that R-LABS formed is providing an open innovation framework to solve some of the toughest challenges in this industry. I’m excited for the opportunity to collaborate with this team of thought leaders to look into housing solutions that will transform real estate and the community at large.
John DiMichele, CEO TRREB