IRVINE, CA-Real Estate Forum recently listed the next generation of influential women in commercial real estate, and several are based in the West. Following are profiles of several of these young professional women. For Forum's complete women of influence article, click here. Also, check out GlobeSt.com's recent report on western women of influence of all ages.

Elizabeth Braman, 39   
Production Officer
ReadyCap Commercial LLC
Irvine, CA
As one of the first four executives at ReadyCap, Elizabeth Braman counts 2013 as a banner year professionally. This latest endeavor fully capitalizes on her over 15 years experience in commercial lending, business development and sales. She was the 2012 president of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of CCIM and received CREW-LA's Rising Star Award the prior year. Braman teaches courses in real estate at the University of California Los Angeles extension program. At ReadyCap, she is responsible for hiring and managing the entire nationwide sales team, currently numbering 14 direct reports and projected to grow to over 20 by year's end. She is steering ReadyCap to be one of the first small-balance lenders to return to securitization in Q4 2013 or Q1 2014. “The ever-increasing number of women distinguishing themselves as industry leaders provides a continued infusion of healthy competition, collaboration, innovation and diversity into the business sector,” Braman says.

Vanessa Delgado, 37   
Director, Development
Primestor Development
Los Angeles
Vanessa Delgado's career began in city planning and economic development work for city governments. At Primestor, she manages a staff of six people involved in planning, community relations, sourcing of development sites, project management, construction management and entitlement procurement. Among her projects in active construction are a $100-million, 380,000-square-foot shopping center and a $30-million office building. Moderator of the ICSC Hispanic Markets Panel and a member of the Mercy Housing Board, Delgado is sensitive to the needs of local communities and works positively to build support for developments.

Nicole Evans, 38   
Partner
Ballard Spahr LLP
Salt Lake City
Nicole Evans leads a national, broad-based practice in resort and hospitality law that includes everything from resort and timeshare development in North America to fractionals, condominiums and condo-hotels. She has assumed the first chair responsibility for all timeshare work and is the frontline attorney responsible for the largest engagements within the Resort and Hotel Group. She has spent the past 13 years building an impressive real estate practice with a focus on resorts and hotels. Additionally, Evans has lead outside timeshare counsel for Diamond Resorts International and has assisted with the due diligence of all timeshare assets and firms it's acquired since 2007. Over 10 years, she's also dedicated 418 hours to pro bono service, representing people interested in adopting children in the Utah foster system.

Lindsey Sugar, 34   
Senior Vice President
Pension Consulting Alliance
Los Angeles
For the past five years, Lindsey Sugar has been an integral member of the real estate team at Pension Consulting Alliance. She advises large public US pension funds, including California Public Employees' Retirement System, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System and others on a wide range of issues including portfolio strategy, management and composition. Sugar started her career as an investment analyst for Norgo Group, a private equity real estate firm, where she learned the business from the ground up while assessing acquisitions and dispositions for a national portfolio of mixed use properties. Increasing transparency for investors participating in commingled funds is a career goal. Sugar believes that real assets—real estate, infrastructure and timber—will play a critical diversification role going forward, not just for public pension plans but also for sovereign wealth funds and high-net worth capital.

Jennifer Taylor, 40   
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Atalanta Realty Investments
Los Angeles
Jennifer Taylor brings over 20 years of experience to her role of president and CEO at Atalanta Realty Investments, a firm she founded in 2012. She leads a collaborative team of real estate professionals, focusing on acquiring properties in overlooked urban areas in major US MSAs with high Asian populations by applying an innovative SRI approach that's built on close collaboration with minority owner/occupiers to grow their businesses. Prior to forming Atalanta, Taylor served as COO for Arroyo Realty Partners. She also co-founded the Filipino in Institution Real Estate and the Los Angeles chapter of African American Real Estate Professionals. She feels that “Southern California is an evolving property market that constantly reinvents itself like a Hollywood movie star” and “Today's investors are seeking relationships with partners who demonstrate sophisticated and sound investment philosophies.”

Adriana Vesci, 34   
Partner
Cox Castle & Nicholson
Los Angeles
In the past 12 months, Vesci has been involved in over $1 billion of transactions. She represented a portfolio lender in a $220-million loan secured by 17 properties and the buyer of an portfolio of 11 distressed loans secured by operating properties in four states, to name but two. Last year, she won the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. Active in MAMAs (Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of L.A.), Vesci was made a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson earlier this year, achieving a fundamental career goal.