Leadership

Leadership

Lisa M. Ward

Lisa M. Ward

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

As Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Core5, Lisa’s chief responsibilities include business development and capital deployment in the Southeastern United States. Her primary focus is on land acquisition, entitlement and development of modern logistics facilities for inventory and build-to-suit requirements, in addition to sourcing value-add acquisition opportunities.

A 30-year+ veteran of commercial real estate, Lisa’s career achievements include overseeing more than 45 million square feet of industrial investment sales and leases for a total market value in excess of $2.0 billion. Since 1997, she has consistently ranked among the top five industrial producers in Georgia by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (ACBR). In 2017 and 2018, under Lisa’s leadership, the Atlanta Business Chronicle ranked the Core5 Atlanta office as the #1 Commercial Real Estate Developer in the industrial category and have Core5 has consistently ranked in the top three industrial developers each year since, under Lisa’s guidance.  In addition, in 2018, Core5’s Atlanta office won the Industrial Development Deal of the year for a 1.2 MSF development at Southwest 85 Logistics Center by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.  Then in 2020, Core5 was honored with the coveted NAIOP Industrial Development Deal of the year for a 1 MSF development in Union City, Georgia, which was leased to Amazon.

Lisa holds a Georgia Real Estate License and has earned the distinguished Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. In addition to active memberships with the ACBR and NAIOP, she is a member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). From 2019 to 2021, Lisa was recognized by Atlanta Magazine as one the Top 500 business leaders in Atlanta.

Lisa acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

Lisa’s past duties involved asset management, development, investment sales, and marketing and leasing of commercial real estate. Lisa previously served in Senior Vice President and Vice President roles at DCT Industrial Trust and IDI (now IDI Logistics).