Ryan Whalen is a Partner at Live Oak and serves as a Vice President with the industrial leasing division, where he is focused on leasing, industrial development, and acquisitions. Ryan has completed over 100 lease transactions totaling over 2 million square feet. He has also been involved in five value-add acquisitions totaling 250,000 square feet and two industrial developments totaling 250,000 square feet.

Ryan's prior experience includes being a member of the National Football League as a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, and Cincinnati Bengals.

Career Summary
Dax Benkendorfer serves as Senior Leasing Associate with the industrial and office leasing divisions
of Live Oak where he is focused on procuring lease transactions for both project leasing and tenant
representation, sales, acquisitions and business development. Since joining Live Oak in 2018, Dax
has completed 220 transactions totaling more than 1,060,000 square feet.
Dax joined Live Oak full time after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin. His prior
experience includes an internship at Live Oak in the summer of 2016 and 2017 while attending the
University of Texas at Austin.

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Education

• Bachelor of Science in Advertising - University of Texas at Austin
• McCombs Real Estate Finance and Investment Certificate Program
• McCombs Business Foundations Certificate Program

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Doug Thomas serves as Director of Leasing for Live Oak, where he manages portfolio leasing as well as planning and strategy. Doug joined the industrial leasing division of Live Oak - Gottesman in 2007 as Vice President of Industrial Leasing and was responsible for securing new business and day-to-day leasing transactions. During his tenure in commercial real estate, Doug has closed over 500 deals totaling over five million square feet.

Prior to Doug's tenure with Live Oak, he was focused on landlord representation for the Trammell Crow Company (TCC) and CBRE industrial teams, and tenant representation transactions with Hill Partners Corporate Services.

Education

• Bachelors of Business Administration, Finance - St. Edward's University

Affiliations

• Member, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
• Member Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA)
• Member, Commercial Brokers Association (CBA)