Kelly Berfield
Chief Operating Officer
License ID AB067922
NAI Summit
1620 Pond Road Suite 150
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104
United States
610-871-1683
484-553-2779
Specialties
Organizational Growth, Brokerage and Marketing
Scope of Experience
Kelly Berfield is the Chief Operating Officer for NAI Summit. Kelly is accountable for the operations, performance, strategy, growth and alignment of revenue-generating functions within the organization, including sales, marketing, customer service, and overall strategic growth. With extensive legal and teaching experience, she is also responsible for compliance, recruiting and training for the firm. As an Associate Broker at NAI Summit, Kelly will continue to serve her clients in a leasing and sales capacity.
Background & Experience
Kelly Berfield joins NAI Summit with more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience. Kelly obtained her real estate license in 1997 and her broker’s license in 2006. She practiced law in New Jersey as a transactional real estate attorney for over 10 years and became a partner and the broker of record of Dietrick Group, LLC in 2006. Most recently, Kelly was a Senior Vice President at Colliers International. In all of her positions, she has represented investors, developers, landlords and tenants, as well as medical and financial institutions in real estate matters. Furthermore, Kelly was an adjunct professor for 10 years at Lehigh University where she taught an introductory real estate course and a course on the marketability and feasibility studies of real estate.
Education
Kelly achieved her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Monmouth University and both her Juris Doctor and Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.
Professional Associations & Designations
Kelly has been on the Board of Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley since 2012 and was the Board Chair in 2016. As a current board member and past Board President, Kelly serves on the Board of the Animal Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley. Also, as a current member and past board member, Kelly remains very active as a member of the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) organization and serves on the Outreach Committee. Kelly also enjoys being a Girl Scout Leader of a Daisy and Brownie troop at a local school in the Lehigh Valley.
She was the recipient of the Forty Under 40 Lehigh Valley Business Award, the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), the Habitat Humanity of the Lehigh Valley’s Volunteer of the Year, the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Hard Hat Award and the Colliers International Citizen of the Year Award. Under her board leadership at Habitat for Humanity, she was part of the team that was awarded the Commercial Real Estate Outlook Community Partnership Award from the Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce and as a founding member of the “She Nailed It” Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser, she and her colleagues were awarded the National Philanthropy Day – Special Project of the Year Award which was issued by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter.