Dianne Crocker, Research Director at LightBox and co-host of the CRE Weekly Digest podcast, leads the generation, analysis, and reporting of the company’s full suite of market metrics. With more than 25 years’ experience in the commercial real estate industry, she has analyzed the market through four cyclical downturns and regularly presents at leading industry conferences, webinars, and LightBox’s own events. Recent market keynotes include: the January 2025 Environmental Bankers Association conference, 2024 Counselors of Real Estate New England conference, 2023 Credit Union Business Group conference, 2023 Real Estate Summit of the MBA of NY, and the Summer 2022 GlobeSt. Women of Influence conference.

In 2024, Globe St. Real Estate Forum recognized Crocker on its list of nine professionals deserving of the Special Recognition: Mentorship Award, as well as being recognized on CREi’s 2024 List of Influential Women in Commercial Real Estate, which recognizes women based on their social and industry influence. She was also honored to receive the Environmental Bankers Association’s 2023 Community Impact Award, and in 2022, GlobeSt. included her as a leading Advisor in CRE based on career achievements, community outreach and mentorship. She served as co-chair of LightBox’s Women’s Inspiration Network (WIN!), an affinity group dedicated to inspire, motivate and empower the women of LightBox. She is also a co-founder of LightBox’s Developing Leaders mentoring program, now in its sixth year of connecting young environmental professionals in the consulting and lending sectors with veteran mentors. Crocker is a passionate member of CREW Boston and CREW Network, and is currently serving a two-year term as a CREW Network Foundation Director.

Kathleen Lavallee is Vice President of Product Management at LightBox, where she oversees a team developing the next generation of LightBox information products for the Consulting & Engineering marketplace. Kathleen joined EDR in 2013, and has served in sales, project management and customer engagement positions at the company.

Alan Agadoni is a senior executive specializing in environmental risk management, regulatory compliance, and transactional due diligence strategy for commercial real estate nationwide. He advises lenders, investors, brokers, and environmental consulting firms on complex environmental liabilities. He is a frequent industry speaker and published author on emerging environmental risk trends, regulatory developments, and best practices in site assessments and environmental audits. 

Alan serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Chapter of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council (REIAC). He is a Certified Environmental Auditor (CEA) and a Registered Environmental Property Assessor (REPA).

Mr. Bailey is the Co-Founder and President of ECA Risk Management, a national professional risk management consulting firm specializing in comprehensive environmental risk management, sustainable development, and insurance services. The firm, founded by Mr. Bailey in 2008 (incorporated in 2009), serves the financial services industry and commercial real estate/investment companies. He is a recognized pioneer in environmental risk management, with over 40 years of experience in the field, including more than 34 years focused on the financial services sector—and holds a license as a Property & Casualty Insurance Producer in Alabama.

Mr. Bailey served as an Adjunct Professor and Guest Lecturer in the Master of Science in Environmental Management program at Samford University for seven years. He co-designed and co-instructed the Environmental Auditing/Assessment course, which covered key topics such as the fundamentals of the audit process, property transfer audits, waste contractor audits, waste minimization audits, international audits, and managing/critiquing audit programs.

In 2003, Regions Financial Corporation recruited Mr. Bailey to serve as its first Chief Environmental Risk Officer and Senior Vice President. He authored the bank's Corporate Environmental Risk Policy and Procedures, then built and led the Environmental Risk Management (ERM) Department from 2003 to 2009. Under his direction, the department oversaw environmental risk for significant portfolios, including $25 billion in Commercial Real Estate, $17.4 billion in Commercial & Industrial, and $16.4 billion in Business Banking as of 2008.

Derek P. Pollard is a former Enterprise Credit Risk Executive at SunTrust Bank, now Truist, where he led credit risk oversight for a $26 billion commercial real estate portfolio and developed enterprise risk management requirements across CRE underwriting, appraisal, and environmental due diligence. Earlier in his career, he served as a CRE lender and workout officer, giving him a direct perspective from the loan production and asset-resolution side of banking, in addition to his experience as a Commissioned Capital Markets and Credit Risk Examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is now Managing Partner of LakeRock Capital, where he advises financial institutions on CRE risk, governance, underwriting discipline, and decision frameworks designed to perform commercially and withstand scrutiny.

He is also the author of an upcoming series of eBooks designed to help bankers, sponsors, and investors better understand how commercial real estate credit decisions are made inside banks.