Meet the Chase Merritt team.

Derek brings more than two decades of investment and development experience across hospitality, mixed-use, office, retail, and industrial sectors. At Hines, he played a key role in the firm’s Asia Pacific growth, including opening the Shenzhen office and leading the acquisition of the pioneering APAC logistics asset that launched the regional platform.

His track record spans cross-border execution, institutional platform building, and disciplined transaction management across complex asset types and geographies.

Tracy Thomson’s career in commercial real estate syndication of public and private offerings spans over forty years. Positions held have included Controller and Managing Director of an international real estate syndicator overseeing 1.4 million square feet of industrial buildings, Chief Financial Officer of a Real Estate Investment Trust responsible for investor and SEC reporting, audits, and financial forecasting, Chief Financial Officer and Operations Manager for a syndicator encompassing thirteen public and eleven private offerings of 24,000 investors, and Chief Financial and Chief Operations Officer of a tenant-in-common syndicator with eighty offerings of 3,000 investors comprised of various asset classes in excess of $1.5 billion.

Ms. Thomson has extensive experience in financial management and forecasting, all levels of reporting, audits, asset and property management, repositioning properties for peak performance, and investor relations.