Congratulations to CREW Boston member Shelley Balanda for receiving Boston Real Estate Times 2025 Transformational Strategist in Real Estate Award. This award recognizes her ability to drive meaningful change for some of the industry’s most vertically integrated operators and investment firms. Shelley is the Founder and Managing Principal of Footprynt, an Outsourced COO practice. She has been a CREW Boston member since 2023, won CREW Boston’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2024, and chairs CREW Boston’s Entrepreneur Exchange Group. https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/boston-real-estate-times-unveils-2025-excellence-award-winners-honoring-the-visionaries-shaping-new-englands-future/

Congratulations to CREW Boston member Emily Derrig for her new role as Civil Project Engineer at Nitsch Engineering, Inc. Prior to joining Nitsch, Emily was a Project Engineer at BSC Group. Emily has been a CREW Boston member since 2022.

Shelley Balanda, Founder of Footprynt, is excited to celebrate the firm’s 5-year anniversary. Founded in 2020, Footprynt was built to deliver practical, embedded COO leadership and advisory to growth-stage real estate investors and operators navigating inflection points and change. A female-led practice with over two decades of multidisciplinary experience, Footprynt has partnered with more than 30 clients nationally and throughout New England to help teams align operational strategy with investment outcomes. Thank you to CREW Boston for the continued support!

After two years at Healthpeak Properties on the Investments and Portfolio Management team, Meredith Brown joins Breakthrough Properties on the Acquisitions team in New York.

Carolyn Molloy has joined Synergy’s leasing team. She is thrilled to be working alongside Synergy’s accomplished team to support continued portfolio growth.

I'm excited to start my new job with CBRE - Turner & Townsend as Project Manager with th Amazon Robotics Account.

Congratulations to the following CREW Boston Members, recognized as GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum’s Women of Influence 2025: Corporate Real Estate: Sarah K. Abrams, Iron Mountain; CRE Legal Counsel: Anita Agajanian, DLA Piper LLP (US), Jo-Ann Marzullo, Ligris & Associates, P.C.; Investment Professional/Owner: Kerry Hawkins, Hobbs Brook Real Estate; Humanitarian: Taneshia Nash Laird, Project REAP; Rising Stars: Julia Gutierrez, Redgate. https://www.event.globest.com/WomenOfInfluence

Annie has recently been promoted to Senior Director of Corporate Development at JDL Corporate Interiors. With over seven years of experience at JDL, she is eager to continue contributing to JDL while fostering internal growth and expanding business development efforts.

Nicole was recently promoted to SVP, Strategic Partnerships at CATIC, where she has worked since 2017. Nicole will focus on expanding relationships with industry partners in support of attorney and title agents. CATIC is the 9th largest title insurance underwriter nationally, and fastest growing since 2018. She has been a member of CREW for over 6 years.

Congratulations to CREW Boston member Erin Channel on her recent promotion to Principal at BGO. Erin has been a CREW Boston member since 2013 and has served on the Board of Directors and been involved in several committees over the years.