Elise A. Couston, SIOR, joined Newmark in 2014 and currently serves as a senior managing director in the Chicago O’Hare office. With 35 years of real estate experience, she brings to Newmark significant knowledge of industrial and commercial sales, leasing, business park development, build-to-suits, investment sale/leasebacks and marketing expertise.
Her representative clients have included: Arrow Home Products; Bison Gear and Engineering; Crown Consolidated Industries; Duke Realty; DuPage Precision Products; Ellison Technologies; Embossed Graphics; Emerson Electric, Goodman Manufacturing; Hillwood Development Co.; IDI Logistics; Import Logistics; Pierce Distribution; Shorr Packaging; and RustOleum.
Professional Achievements
- Chicago Power Women in Commercial Real Estate, Crain’s
- President’s Award for Community Services, SIOR National
- Largest Industrial Sale Transaction, SIOR Chicago
- Largest Industrial Investment Transaction, SIOR Chicago
- Largest Land Transaction, SIOR Chicago
Professional Affiliations
- Board member and officer, SIOR Chicago, chapter past president
- Industrial Insider columnist, Chicago Industrial Properties
- Ask the Experts columnist, Benuzzi’s Industrial Guide
- Past President, and Member, Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE)
- Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
- Member, Women in Manufacturing (WIM)
Personal Affiliations
- Chairperson, Fundraising Committee, SIOR Chicago Chapter
- Chairperson, Fundraising, Ada S. McKinley Trunk Scholarship program (AIRE)
- Chairperson, Fundraising Annual Food Drive and Holiday Event for LaRabida Children’s Hospital, Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE)
- Founding Board Member, the Cynthia L. Bischof Memorial Foundation, instrumental in facilitating the passage of Cindy’s Law for domestic violence in 2009