Our Team

Chief Executive Officer

Charles Black

Charles served as Vice President, Development and Investment at Trammell Crow Company. As CEO of RES, Charles oversees all aspects of RES client services from initial client engagement through final opportunity execution. Charles has a passion for helping clients become more strategic. With vast expertise in the Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Oil & Gas, and Wholesale industries, Charles has partnered with hundreds of organizations to leverage the power of data and analytics to create innovative business and real estate strategies that transform their portfolios and enable core business success. As CEO of RES, Charles oversees all aspects of RES client services from initial client engagement through final opportunity execution. Additionally, Charles is responsible for company strategy, innovation, investments, talent acquisition, and more.

Before RES, Charles held several leadership positions at CBRE including Global Head of Innovation, Managing Director of CBRE’s Retail and Healthcare Analytics consulting practices, and Director of Client Strategy and Consulting. Earlier in his career, Charles served as Vice President, Development and Investment at Trammell Crow Company. He also held various positions at Sterne Agee Asset Management, The Shopping Center Group, Southern Nuclear Company, and Hubbell Power Systems.

Charles received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University and his MBA from Vanderbilt University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program: Real Estate Module at Harvard University. Among other accolades, Charles was a recipient of the CBRE Global Innovation Award three years in a row from 2010 – 2012.

Charles and his wife have two young daughters and two dogs. He is active in his church, enjoys outdoor activities like climbing, mountain biking, and hiking as well as working with his hands on cars and woodworking.

Chief Strategy Officer

Andrew Ubben

As CSO of Real Estate Strategies, Andrew is responsible for all client strategic consulting activity nationwide. Andrew provides expertise in the development and delivery of strategic solutions for client real estate portfolios and has vast expertise across a number of industries including healthcare, retail, telecom, oil and gas, industrial, wholesale and others. Internally, Andrew assists RES with company strategy, innovation, investment, talent acquisition, technology development, external partnerships and more.

Prior to co-founding RES, Andrew helped develop and lead the Retail & Healthcare Analytics Platform at CBRE, a Fortune 250 global corporate real estate services provider. Other positions held with CBRE included account-based Client Strategy & Consulting and Program Management (PMO) services. Prior to this, Andrew worked in the management of government-subsidized (Section 8 & 202) multifamily housing properties.

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Outside of RES, Andrew enjoys rebuilding and hopping up motorcycles and cars, and recreational sports shooting.

Chief Operating Officer

Scott Willenbrock

Scott has more than two decades of experience managing real estate transactions for corporate clients. His expertise is in market analysis, lease negotiations, and financial analysis. This expertise, combined with a process-driven approach, brings tremendous value to clients looking for a consistent, high level of performance in transactions across multiple markets. As Chief Operating Officer of Real Estate Strategies, Scott is focused on delivering outstanding results for clients from strategy creation through execution management, while also seeking to improve their internal approval and transaction service delivery models.

Prior to joining RES, Scott held several positions at CBRE including Alliance Director on the BBVA Compass account; Director of Transaction Management on the Regions Bank account and Senior Transaction Manager on various other accounts. Earlier in his career, Scott also worked for the Daniel Corporation and The Amend Group.

Scott earned his undergraduate degree in Marketing and his MBA from the University of Alabama. Scott is married with three teenage kids. He enjoys wakesurfing, mountain biking and hunting big fish in small waters.

Vice President of Data & Analytics

Tanner Newhouse

Tanner is currently the Vice President of Data & Analytics for RES. In his role, Tanner utilizes his background in business, community planning, and GIS analytics to help deliver compelling market strategies for clients. Tanner’s unique background allows him to assist clients by drawing connections between business strategy, GIS analysis, and the community at large. He is responsible for guiding active clients through all phases of a project including data collection, analytics, opportunity identification, and final presentation and approval.

Prior to joining RES, Tanner was an integral part of the CBRE Healthcare and Portfolio Analytics team. While employed at RES and CBRE, Tanner worked to further enhance his ability to serve clients by concurrently earning a second Master’s Degree from the University of Alabama.

Tanner earned his undergraduate degree in Rural Studies from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and a Master’s degree in Geography and a second Master’s in Global Business Management from the University of Alabama. Tanner is married with one child. He enjoys time with family, outdoor adventures, automotive restoration and building scale models in his free time.

Director of Data & Analytics

Jenny Parlier

As Director of Data & Analytics of RES, Jenny provides data analytics support and delivers innovative solutions to clients from project start to finish. She is also responsible for managing the client on-boarding experience for RES’ online analytics portal. Drawing from her fifteen years of experience in GIS analytics, Jenny is dedicated to empowering clients by giving them the necessary knowledge and tools to make well-informed decisions.

Prior to joining RES, Jenny served as a GIS Manager with The Shopping Center Group, and gained expertise in assisting retailers find the best locations for their stores. In addition to her retail real estate experience, she has worked as a GIS Analyst in a variety of industries such as environmental, telecom, and government.

Jenny earned her Master’s degree in Southwestern Archaeology and Geographic Information Systems from New Mexico State University. She holds Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP) and ESRI Desktop Associate certifications.  Jenny and her husband have two children. In her free time, she enjoys camping, hiking, gardening, and travel.

GIS Analyst

Alex Younger

As a GIS Analyst, Alex leverages his unique multi-industry background and GIS education to provide data analytics and geospatial processing to clients in support of all projects.

Before joining RES, Alex was a Geospatial Analyst Intern, an OSP Design Specialist, and a GIS Analyst. While earning his degree, he held several leadership positions across campus.

Alex earned his bachelor’s degree in Earth Systems Science with a Concentration in GIS & Remote Sensing from The University of Alabama in Huntsville. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking, swimming, and playing disc golf.

VP of Strategic Consulting

John Blad

As the VP of Strategic Consulting for RES, John partners with clients to transform their ambulatory care planning through adoption of STRATUS. He is passionate about helping clients identify expansion/optimization opportunities to create the ideal ambulatory care network. John provides RES clients expertise in creating compelling business cases.

Prior to joining RES, John spent over a decade with HCA – where he served as Director Strategic Planning for health systems in Texas, Nevada, and California. He led access point expansion efforts from site selection to business case approval for Hospitals, FSEDs, Urgent Care, and ASCs. John earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting from UNLV and his MBA from the Lipscomb University.

John is a father to two young children and resides in Las Vegas, NV. He is an avid trail runner and enjoys spending time with his family.

VP of Client Engagement

Charlotte Ann Adams

Charlotte Ann Adams is based in RES’s Birmingham office and focuses on expanding RES’s client relationships and helping them transform their ambulatory networks through use of the STRATUS platform.

She transitioned to RES after 10 years specializing in Healthcare risk management and insurance. In 2019 she planted the Birmingham office for Sterling Seacrest Pritchard the Southeast’s largest privately held Risk management firm.

Charlotte Ann is an active member of the community and currently serves with several non-profits and civic organizations throughout Birmingham. Before she was old enough to legally rent a car she served as a ministry director while working toward her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

She is the Cofounder of Beaker Seekers Scholarship Fund with her 2 daughters, created in conjunction with the McWane Science Center that helps provide children with better access to hands-on science education programs. She also currently participates as a volunteer for Girlspring, Inc and The Smile Foundation Mexico. She has recently served as a Trustee of the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce, Board member of AMBUCS, and Board member of The Crisis Center of
Birmingham.

Charlotte Ann resides in the cozy community of Cahaba Heights, Birmingham and enjoys raising her 2 high school daughters to become good humans.