John Walsh

Biography: John M. Walsh, III, is the CEO and founder of TIG, a real-estate holding company established to advise, manage, operate, lease and develop real estate investments for institutions, individuals, corporations, and companies. Since founding TIG, the company has grown the managed portfolio and/or leased portfolio from 1.8M square feet to 14.1M square feet in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin. In that time, TIG has developed over 2.2M square feet and has been instrumental in the acquisition of over 10,000,000 square feet on behalf of its clients. Prior to starting TIG, John spent 17 years with Trammel Crow Company in various leasing, development and senior management roles. During his tenure as development partner for the northwest Dallas area market at Trammel Crow, John developed almost 5 million square feet of industrial, office and service center space. A Dallas native, John has served as Chairman, Director and Trustee of various business, civic and charitable organizations including: Trammel Crow Employees Profit Sharing Trust, Valwood Improvement Authority, Carrollton Texas Zoning Ordinance Board, Texas Commerce Bank, Farmers Branch Business Chamber of Commerce, Valwood Park Federal Credit Union, the North Texas District Council of ULI and Sky Ranch Youth Camp. He is currently a Commissioner for the University Park Texas Planning and Zoning Commission. John has served as a Product Council Chair, for three different councils, is the former District Council Chair of Dallas-Fort Worth. He has also served as a panelist and speaker for ULI at a national and local level. Currently he is a member of the Women's Leadership Initiative Executive Committee and continues to be an active leader in his District Council. John has participated in twenty one Advisory Panels and has been chair on over 15 panels, including the recent Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA report in late 2017 and the Port St. Lucie Panel in 2019. John is a member of the Texas State B