About Carl

Carl Quesinberry is a senior project executive focused on assessing and delivering operational certainty to meet mission goals. With more than 30 years of experience advising organizations executing capital-intensive, mission-critical facility and infrastructure programs. His work is focused on advising executive leadership and boards on complex real estate and facilities decisions requiring execution certainty, regulatory awareness, and long-term operational alignment.

Carl advises on location and site strategy, industrial land acquisition, greenfield and brownfield development, utility and power readiness, facility and campus planning, incentive strategy, and program execution oversight. His engagements support organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions where infrastructure capacity, entitlement risk, regulatory conditions, community adoption and delivery timelines are determinative.

• Defense & Aerospace: Advising on secured and regulated facilities, infrastructure redundancy, jurisdictional risk, and long-term operational resilience for defense- and aerospace-related programs.
• Hyperscale & Enterprise Data Centers: Advising on power-intensive campus planning, utility coordination, site scalability, site constructability/readiness and accelerated delivery for large-scale digital infrastructure deployments.
• Advanced & High-Precision Manufacturing: Advising on manufacturing location strategy, site selection, infrastructure planning, supply-chain alignment, and facility execution for capital-intensive production environments.

Previously, Carl served as Vice President and National Practice Leader for Industrial Services and Special Projects at CRESA. He has held senior leadership roles with Grubb & Ellis, Cushman & Wakefield, L.J. Hooker International, and Merrill Lynch Commercial Realty. Over the course of his career, he has led and executed programs encompassing more than 30 million square feet of projects, $5 billion in CAPEX and added 1,000 new jobs.

Carl provides confidential, disciplined, execution-oriented advisory services that enable boards and executive teams to make informed, defensible investment decisions aligned with long-term operational objectives.
 

Thought Leadership:

Location strategy and site selection for the new U.S. industrial economy
Industrial development anchors and impact

Speaking Engagements:

2026 SEDC Site Selectors Summit, scheduled
2026 COSTEP, Council for South Texas Economic Progress
2025 Flow Batteries North America (FBNA)
2025 SEDC Annual Conference
2025 SelectUSA Investment Summit
2025 IAMC Spring Forum
2024 ULI Fall Meeting
2024 SelectUSA Investment Summit
2024 GIGA Factories USA
2024 IAMC Spring Forum
2023 GIGA Factories USA
2023 ULI Spring Meeting
2022 ULI Fall Meeting

Credentials

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Data Analytics & Strategy – Louisiana State University
Master of Science in Administration (MSA), Contracting/Procurement- University of West Florida
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration (BSBA), Finance – University of Central Florida
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Coursework, Economic Development – University of Southern Mississippi, Pursued
Master of Engineering, (MEng) Construction Engineering Management- University of Southern Alabama, Pursued
Certified Project Manager (CPM)
Certified Economic Development Finance Professional (CEDFP)
Certified Business Analyst (CBA)