Diana M. Peterson, Esq.
President and CEO, AW Properties Global

Diana Peterson is a real estate entrepreneur with 24+ years of experience in law, real estate brokerage and auctions. In her career, she has sold assets worth hundreds of millions through both negotiated sales and auctions. She has advised clients on liquidation deals across many industries and has extensive experience in the sale of all asset classes of commercial and residential real estate.

Current
Founder, President and CEO
AW Properties Global
AW Properties Global provides its clients best in class advisory and transactional services, specializing in the disposition of assets through accelerated sales and auctions. AW Properties Global has an international reach and has successfully executed deals across the country.

History
Prior to founding AW Properties Global, Ms. Peterson co-founded AuctionWorks, an online auction marketplace for the sale of real estate and personal property. In 2019, she bought out her business partners interests in AuctionWorks and expanded the company, rebranding it as AW Properties Global (making AuctionWorks a division of AW Properties Global).

Ms. Peterson built the auction platform for AuctionWorks utilizing her past experience at Auctions by ATG—an online auction company she was hired to build and run as its Executive Vice President. Prior to Auctions by ATG, Peterson was the founder and President of PMD Realty, LLC, the first online, flat fee MLS listing service for the sale of real estate in Illinois which dominated that market for many years.

Professional Memberships and Licenses
Turnaround Management Association
International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
Chicago Association of Realtors (CAR)
National Association of Realtors (NAR)
National Association of Auctioneers (NAA)

Illinois law license
Illinois auctioneer license
Illinois real estate managing broker license
Illinois real estate continuing education license
Illinois real estate pre-licensing instructor license

Charitable Organizations
Active in the community, Ms. Peterson has served on the boards of Northwestern University Settlement House, True Mentors, The Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative, The Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute of Chicago, PAWS Chicago, The Poetry Center of Chicago, and The Young Leaders Fund of the Chicago Community Trust.