Who We Are
Jake Lewis
Jake Lewis is a dynamic real estate professional with a strong academic background and hands-on experience in brokerage, property management, and valuation. Currently serving as an Associate Principal at i3o, LLC, Jake plays a key role in the development and expansion of i3o’s business. As for day-to-day operations, Jake’s contributions include analyzing public property records, researching comparable land and building sales, financial modeling, strategic marketing and corporate real estate optimization strategies, and providing crucial data for development project appraisals.
Jake graduated Temple University’s Fox School of Business cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in Real Estate with a minor in Finance. Throughout his academic career, Jake demonstrated exceptional dedication and performance, achieving Dean’s List honors while being a member of both the University and Fox School of Business Honors Programs. During his time at Temple, Jake earned multiple scholarships, including FSBM Endowed, Dean’s, Appraisal Institute ERF, SIOR, and PREIT ICSC Scholarships. Notable coursework included Management of Corporate Real Estate Assets, Commercial Real Estate Analysis, Real Estate Finance and Investment, and Financial Modeling, allowing him to achieve a deep level of understanding of the real estate sector as a young professional.
For his senior real estate capstone project, Jake wrote a paper on Enterprise Real Estate Optimization (EREO), expanding on the insights discovered by Dr. David Wilk in his dissertation from the previous year. The capstone paper sought to translate the data-rich dissertation into a succinct, practical interpretation of how business leaders can use their companies’ real estate portfolios to contribute new value to their enterprises and earnings.
Jake has also distinguished himself in academic case competitions. In the spring of 2023, Jake and his team of exceptional peers won 1st place in the Boston College Corcoran Center Case Competition where they focused on solving an interdisciplinary real estate development case centered on affordable housing. A few months later, Jake and a different team of exceptional peers won 1st place in the ICSC Fall 2023 Case Competition, which focused on the revitalization of a lagging shopping center complex in suburban Chicago, and resulted in a significant scholarship and “all expenses paid” trip to ICSC’s ReCon in May 2024.
A dedicated leader, Jake served as President of the Temple Real Estate Organization (TREO), where he increased membership, managed financial reporting, and organized impactful events and workshops. Additionally, Jake was the Director of Public Relations for the Business Honors Student Association (BHSA), where he collaborated with peers in creating marketing strategies and managing communication channels.
Jake holds a Pennsylvania Real Estate License and has completed several specialized training programs, including the Eastdil Secured 2022 Virtual Real Estate Finance Training Program, The Academy of CRE Debt & Equity Optimization Certificate, and successfully completed the 15-hour USPAP course for real estate appraisers.
Dr. David Wilk, MAI, CRE is the Founder and CEO of i3o LLC (www.i3o.us) and Associate Professor of Finance at Temple University Fox School of Business and Academic Director of the Real Estate Program and Center. https://www.fox.temple.edu/directory/david-j-wilk-tuk01413
David has over 35 years of academic experience teaching undergraduate and graduate real estate courses at the University of Delaware Lerner College of Business (1989-2012), Johns Hopkins University (2012-2017), Georgetown University (2016 to 2018), and Temple University from 2018 to present.
Dr. Wilk has over 40 years of real estate consulting experience including senior management positions with Valuation Research, Arthur D. Little, Arthur Andersen, EY, Duff & Phelps, Sperry Van Ness, and Colliers International. His specialization is creating value for real estate assets through optimization strategies that deliver new earnings and shareholder value, complex valuations, market feasibility studies, property tax consulting, debt workouts, development advisory, “place-making”, inclusive economic development strategies, and real estate innovation and market stories that reimagine undervalued properties and urban neighborhoods (CityLabs). He is a member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI), a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE), and a RE Broker of Record in Delaware since 1987 through his firm Corporate Property Strategies.
David has completed commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, governmental, hospitality, and institutional real estate projects in 49 states in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the South Pacific. Highlights from his career include; Pebble Beach Company, Aspen Skiing Company, 20th Century Fox Studios, The Irvine Ranch, Madison Square Garden, Santa Anita Racetrack, Dover Downs, Elvis Presley Enterprises (Graceland), Hyatt Regency & Four Seasons Hotels in Hawaii, Art Deco Hotels in South Beach, Reading Terminal Market, Pennsylvania Convention Center and Marriott Hotel, Comcast Cable Systems, Dulles Corridor Data Centers, Bikini Atoll in Micronesia (South Pacific), U.S. military locations in Hawaii and California, and NASA Wallops Island Space Port in Virginia.
David’s entrepreneurial activities include building two appraisal firms that were sold to Arthur Andersen and Duff & Phelps, developing L’Hermitage in Centerville, the Polo Club in Greenville, an affordable housing project on Kirkwood Hwy, co-innovating an “app” with SAP (Corporate Real Estate Earnings Diagnostic” – CREED® - www.thecreedapp.com), and creating i3o LLC, a value-add platform sharing how “innovation, infrastructure, and inclusion can lead to the optimization of real estate and human capital” (www.i3o.us).
Dr. Wilk has been a keynote speaker at real estate and economic development conferences (Appraisal Institute, CRE, ULI, IEDC, CoreNet Global, IFMA, SAP), and since 2012, has presented over 10 Symposia on Real Estate Innovation, Asset Optimization, Place-Making, and Inclusive Economic Development at Universities of Delaware (2012, 2016), Illinois (2015, 2017), Salisbury (Perdue Business School - 2013), FAU (2014), Delaware State (2014), Washington (2016), Johns Hopkins (2016), and Temple Fox School of Business (2019, 2021). These academic and practitioner activities were the inspiration for i3o.
David holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the University of Delaware, a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure (MSREI) from Johns Hopkins University, and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Temple University Fox School of Business.
Dr. Wilk’s community service activities include being Chair and Interim CEO of the Friends of Hockessin Colored School #107C (www.hockessincoloredschool107.org) since 2012, transforming a former segregated school in Delaware into a Brown v. Board National Park and Center for Social Infrastructure Innovation. (https://youtu.be/QhBClyD8MdA?si=mJ6wGHGawlsZJDYf). He also commemorated the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board and the 107C journey in a DE Lawyer Magazine article: “Walking Through the Door Again”: https://digital-editions.todaymediacustom.com/delaware-lawyer/issue-1-2024/#p=2.
Dr. David Wilk, MAI, CRE
Other Team Members
Dr. Lindsay Thompson
Johns Hopkins University Professor
Dean, Delaware State University College of Business
CEO, Research Park at Florida Atlantic University
Layal Zuabi
The CREED App