His new job: Toby Rogers has joined Hillwood as a vice president for Hillwood Investment Properties. He will oversee marketing for the company’s projects in North Texas and in northern Mississippi in the Memphis market. In North Texas, Rogers will oversee the leasing of a portfolio of approximately 8.1 million square feet of primarily industrial projects outside of Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development. Projects on which Rogers will oversee marketing in North Texas include Lakeside Trade Center in Flower Mound, where Hillwood is developing two speculative buildings totaling more than 790,000 square feet, and Crossroads Trade Center in DeSoto, where the company is developing a 550,600-square-foot speculative building.
His background: He began his career at Trammell Crow Company in 2002 and has been engaged in the company’s leasing and development group since 2003. CB Richard Ellis acquired Trammell Crow in 2006. He was vice president with CB Richard Ellis. Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Texas Tech, a master’s degree in agricultural economics from Texas A&M and a MBA from the University of Virginia.