Biography

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 35 years of practitioner experience as a valuer and management consultant for Valuation Research Corporation, Arthur D. Little, EY, Duff & Phelps, SVN, and Colliers International. His specialization is creating value for real estate assets held by public and private enterprises, private equity, governments, universities, healthcare systems, and non-profits through optimization strategies that deliver new earnings and cost savings.

Dr. Wilk also performs valuations, market feasibility studies, property tax consulting, development advisory, “place-making” economic development strategies, and innovative marketing plans that reimagine undervalued properties and urban neighborhoods (with existing residents in place).

Throughout his career, Dr. Wilk has completed commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, governmental, and institutional real estate projects in 49 states in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the South Pacific. He is a life member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) and a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE).

Real estate consulting highlights from Dr. Wilk’s 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, Baltimore’s Power Plant, Art Deco Hotels in South Beach, Pennsylvania Convention Center and Marriott Hotel, Comcast Cable Systems, Bikini Atoll in Micronesia (South Pacific), U.S. military locations in Hawaii and California, and NASA Wallops Island Space Port in Virginia.

Dr. Wilk has been a regular keynote speaker at real estate and economic development industry conferences (Appraisal Institute, Counselors of Real Estate, ULI, IEDC, CoreNet Global, IFMA, SAP), and has presented over ten Symposia on Real Estate Innovation, Asset Optimization & Place-Making Economic Development at Universities of Delaware, Illinois, Salisbury (Perdue Business School), Florida Atlantic, Delaware State, Washington, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and Temple Fox School of Business since 2012. https://templeuniversity14.createsend.com/campaigns/reports/viewCampaign.aspx?d=j&c=A1422719EFAD955F&ID=E513FDEDA0B868A52540EF23F30FEDED&temp=False&tx=0

David’s entrepreneurial activities include co-innovating a data analytics platform with SAP known as “Corporate Real Estate Earnings Diagnostic” – CREED® (www.thecreedapp.com) and creating i3o (www.i3o.us), a value creation platform focusing on how innovation, infrastructure, and inclusion can lead to the optimization of real estate and human capital.

Dr. Wilk has 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 non-profit organization, Friends of Hockessin Colored School #107C (www.107C.org ) since 2012, where he transformed a former segregated school in Delaware (and one of the five cases in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision) into a National Park and Center for Social Infrastructure Innovation.

The following YouTube link is to an Emmy nominated documentary entitled “Return to 107C” that captures this 12-year journey: https://youtu.be/QhBClyD8MdA?si=mJ6wGHGawlsZJDYf. The next link is to an article commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision written for Delaware Lawyer Magazine and the Delaware Bar Foundation in May 2024 entitled: “Walking Through the Door Again”: https://digital-editions.todaymediacustom.com/delaware-lawyer/issue-1-2024/#p=2

Doctoral Dissertation & Research Interests

Don’t Overlook Your Largest Asset Class: Value Creation Through Enterprise RE Optimization https://scholarshare.temple.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12613/8469/Wilk_temple_0225E_15222.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Place-Making and Inclusive Economic Development through Real Estate Innovation
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:87287332-e362-4143-9a84-2657bd669823

Social Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:ee25fd4b-5318-43d9-b383-fb8fa63023df

Affordable Housing and Development
https://partners.wsj.com/keybank/doing-more-with-more/how-to-tackle-the-affordable-housing-crisis/

Re-Imagining Undervalued Urban Neighborhood without Gentrification
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:fbaaa579-acba-476d-aaa5-957a3054397f

University Research Parks and Innovation Districts
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:9f5d3abb-2c44-4901-87de-8ffabfff116f

Strategic Marketing Plans for Underproductive Real Estate Assets
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d156013c-b118-4dd5-aecc-f4f1e70fac84