Alec has received numerous professional accolades during his career. He is a three-time winner of NAIOP's Investment Deal of the Year, winning the award in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He completed the largest individual investment transactions in Cleveland five times since 2000. He was named to Crain's c in 2005. And he was recently appointed as an associate instructor for the CCIM institute. Alec began his real estate career in 1989 at the former DeBartolo Corporation. He came to Cleveland in 1994, joining Grubb and Ellis as Client Services Manager and became Vice President of Investment sales in 2000. In 2007, he joined First Industrial as a Regional Director, spending 15 months helping to direct the company's acquisition, leasing, management and disposition efforts.