Diana M. Peterson

Diana M. Peterson is president and CEO of AW Properties Global (AW) in Chicago and has nearly 25years of experience in law, real estate brokerage and auctions. Prior to founding AW, she co-foundedAuctionWorks, an online real estate auction platform, which she built utilizing her prior auction expertise and her experience founding and operating a real estate brokerage, PMD Realty, LLC, for over a decade. In 2001, seeing an opportunity to provide homeowners an alternative disposition strategy, Ms.Peterson established PMD Realty, which quickly became the leading local provider of flat-fee MLS listing services, dominating the emerging flat-fee market for several years. During that time, she was recognized by the Chicago Association of Realtors as one of the top five producing real estate brokers, having closed +$130M in residential sales and negotiated +500,000 SF of commercial lease and sale transactions. Prior to starting PMD Realty, Ms. Peterson worked for U.S. Equities Realty and JLL providing strategic planning, site-selection and tenant-representation services to office tenants nationwide.She also was a practicing attorney for several years with D’Ancona & Pflaum and Hedlund Hanley &John. She is licensed to practice in Illinois and holds an Illinois real estate managing broker’s license and an Illinois auction license. Ms. Peterson has been featured in DS News, GlobeSt.com, Crain’s, IllinoisReal Estate Journal, Real Estate Executive magazine, NS Magazine and many other publications. She is often engaged as a speaker and moderator at real estate, workout and turnaround management conferences, and she has served as an expert witness in real estate-related litigation. Ms. Peterson is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Illinois CCIM Chapter, ChicagoAssociation of Realtors (CAR) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR). She received her B.A.with honors from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she served as an editor of the Minnesota Law Review.