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.

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.

Matt Bradley

As the GIS Director for RES, Matt oversees providing data analytic support and the delivery of innovative solutions for clients. With eight years of GIS experience, Matt is dedicated to giving clients the necessary tools to help them make well-informed decisions, and his knowledge of automating data workflows is critical to the improvement of RES and their client’s business.

Prior to joining RES, Matt served as a GIS Analyst for a consulting firm, which entailed the mapping and maintaining of water/sewer assets for low socioeconomic areas.  In addition to his utilities experience, he has experience in landcover mapping on global scale, web app designing, and automation of spatial data workflows.

Matt earned his bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Systems from Central Michigan University. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, MI, where he enjoys fishing, golfing, traveling, and photography.