Young Guns Rising to the Top 2025: Meet the Speakers
Moderators
Maddy Hunton
Young Guns Rising to the Top Co-Chair
Trammell Crow Company
Peyton Wensinger
Young Guns Rising to the Top Co-Chair
Hillwood Investment Properties
Brokerage Panel
Matt Dornak
Managing Partner & Director
Stream Realty Partners
Bio
Matt Dornak is a seasoned real estate professional with over thirteen years of experience in the
industry. As Managing Director and Partner of Stream Realty Partners’ Dallas-Fort Worth industrial
division, he has been instrumental in growing the firm’s industrial leasing portfolio while representing
top institutional real estate owners in North America.
In his role, Matt leads the strategic direction of the Dallas-Fort Worth industrial team, overseeing
operations, business development, and the execution of industrial transactions. He has successfully
completed over 565 industrial transactions, totaling over 40.6 million square feet and $1.8 billion in
transaction value.
Matt’s expertise in project leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, development services, and tenant
representation has enabled him to drive growth and profitability for Stream while maintaining a focus
on delivering exceptional client service. His strong leadership skills and ability to motivate teams
have been key to his success in leading the Dallas-Fort Worth industrial team.
Karla Smith
EVP & Senior Managing Principal
SRS Real Estate Partners
Bio
Karla Smith joined SRS in 2020 and is an executive vice president and senior managing principal in the Dallas/Ft. Worth office. She specializes in big box and national tenant representation throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and handles surplus disposition for various national retailers.
Karla currently manages new store site selection for many national and regional accounts such as Target, At Home, Macy’s, Pacific Dental Services, AT&T, Frost Bank, Grain & Berry, L.L.Bean and BJ’s Wholesale Club. She also worked on an extensive 15 year rollout strategy for North Texas with Sprouts Farmers Market through 2019, and expansions for Cabela’s, Lifetime Fitness, Pet Supplies Plus, Planet Fitness, and others.
In 2025 Karla was a NTCAR Stemmons Service Award Finalist and was honored with the SRS Chairman’s Award. In 2024 she won D CEO Best Retail Lease of the Year and her lease for Target in Preston Center in Dallas, a particularly complex location with unique issues, won D CEO’s 2018 Best Retail Deal for Dallas. She was recognized twice by GlobeSt. as a Retail Influencer and a Woman of Influence and was included in D Magazine’s October 2023 issue of Women Leaders in Commercial Real Estate.Â
Karla is an advocate for the next generation in CRE and dedicates time and energy to mentoring and supporting upcoming sales professionals in real estate. She leads SRS’ SOAR program, a companywide community for women in brokerage focused on support, opportunity, advancement, and relationships and is also a co-founding member of Deals in Heels, a local networking group of professional women in retail real estate that educates and encourages the growth of women in the industry. She mentors young brokers daily within her team, and throughout SRS. In her free time, she enjoys serving on the COF Board at New Friends New Life, an organization dedicated to fighting exploitation and human trafficking.Â
Trey Smith
Executive Vice President
CBRE
Bio
Trey Smith is an Executive Vice President within CBRE’s agency leasing team. With over 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Trey plays a critical role developing and leading the leasing and value-creation strategy for his client’s properties. Throughout his career, he has completed more than 1500 transactions totaling over 10 million square feet of space throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.
Prior to joining CBRE in 2020, Trey was an Executive Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield in Dallas.
Craig Wilson
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Stream Realty Partners
Bio
Craig is a Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Stream’s office tenant representation division in the greater Dallas market. He specializes in office tenant representation, advising corporate clients on headquarters relocations, local and multi-market site selection, acquisitions/dispositions, and lease and purchase negotiations.
Before joining Stream, Craig spent 14 years at Cushman & Wakefield. Before his time at Cushman, Craig was an associate at Studley. Since entering the commercial real estate industry in 2002, he has completed more than $2 billion in transactions for some of the largest and most prestigious regional and global organizations. Among his more notable deals, he co-brokered a 2.1-million-square-foot State Farm regional campus in Richardson — the largest office lease transaction in the region’s history.
Developer Panel
Lucy Billingsley
Partner
Billingsley Company
Bio
Lucy Billingsley has spent her career in real estate, developing and managing commercial developments. She, and her husband Henry, started Billingsley Company in 1978 to manage their growing real estate portfolio. The company specializes in developing office buildings, multi-family, retail and industrial properties, and master-planned communities, which include: Cypress Waters, International Business Park, Austin Ranch, and the Arts Plaza campus in Dallas’ Arts District.
Prior to Billingsley Company, Lucy was Chief Executive Officer of the Dallas Market Center, the Crow Design Centers in Dallas, Houston, and Boston; and Wyndham Jade Travel.
Lucy has been inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame, the Junior Achievement of Dallas Business Hall of Fame, the NTCAR Hall of Fame, and she was awarded the 2013 H. Neil Mallon Award.
Born and raised in Dallas, Lucy is a graduate of The University of Texas with a B.B.A. in finance. She lives in Dallas with Henry and has four children and eight grandchildren.
Kevin Brooke
Senior Vice President
Trammell Crow Company
Bio
Kevin Brooke serves as a Senior Vice President in TCC’s Dallas office. In this role, he is responsible for sourcing and executing development opportunities in Dallas and Central Texas. More specifically, he manages the design, capitalization, leasing and disposition of development projects. Since joining the company in 2017, Kevin has been involved in a wide range of projects and product types totaling more than five million square feet. Kevin began his career at Wells Fargo Securities on the Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets and Finance team, where he was involved in the issuance of more than $10 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
Colin Fitzgibbons
President
Hunt Realty Investments
Bio
Colin Fitzgibbons is President of Hunt Realty Investments, LLC, where he oversees the daily operations of the nearly 50-year-old diversified development and investment firm.
Prior to Hunt, he was a sports reporter for The Washington Post for a short time and then entered the commercial real estate industry as a tenant rep broker for The Staubach Company in New York City. In 2010, he joined KDC and has been involved in numerous developments in North Texas, most notably, CityLine in Richardson and Legacy West in Plano.
He serves on the board of the Oak Cliff YMCA, The Real Estate Council, NAIOP North Texas and SMU’s Folsom Institute.
Colin received his MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a BA in Economics from Washington and Lee University.
Matt Hyman
Senior Vice President
Hillwood