About
Professional Summary
Mr. Cizik has been involved in the construction, development, financing and brokerage of real estate for over forty years; specializing since 1997 in office tenant representation and income property sales. With Colliers for more than 28 years, Mr. Cizik is a Principal and has served many years on the Board of Directors, as well as multiple terms on the firm’s Governance Committee.
Prior to Colliers, Mr. Cizik was Vice President of Development for The Koll Company located in Newport Beach, CA (now KBS Realty Advisors), where he was responsible for the development and management of major multi-use commercial, residential and golf course projects. During the 1980s, Mr. Cizik served as Vice President of Commonwealth Mortgage and later became the owner of a residential and commercial construction company.
Accomplishments
- Colliers' Titan Award (2005 - 2007, 2009, 2011 - 2019, 2021 - 2023)
- Colliers' Top Producer (2000 - 2002, 2005 - 2007, 2009, 2011 - 2014, 2016, 2018)
- Colliers' Everest Club (2012, 2013, 2016)
- Colliers’ Million Dollar Producer Award (2007, 2011 - 2013, 2021)
- Closed the Top Five Largest Transactions in Colliers Houston's History
- CRE Heavy Hitter Houston Business Journal (2012)
Education
- Real Estate Sales Agent's License, Texas
- BBA in Finance and Building Construction, Texas A&M University
Memberships & Involvements
- Lasco Enterprises Advisory Board
- Cadence Bank Advisory Board
- The Texas Lyceum, Board Member/Alumnus
- Camp For All, Board Member/Treasurer
- Houston Office Leasing Brokers Association (HOLBA)
- Houston Associations of Realtors (HAR)
- National Association of Realtors (NAR)
- The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce
- Colliers Energy Group Member
Clients
- AIC Ventures
- Bradford Airport Logistics
- Beal Bank
- Citizens for Animal Protection
- Colonial Pipeline
- Cornerstone Home Lending
- CVR Energy, Inc.
- Ecopetrol, USA
- General Consulate of Qatar
- Gregg & Valby, P.C.
- Honeywell
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
- Lockheed Martin
- MassMutual
- ME Global
- Miller Brewing Company
- Milton Street Capital
- Olin
- Parsons Engineering
- Senator John Cornyn
- Shawcor
- SNC Lavalin
- Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure
- SolomonEdwards
- The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce
- Talisman Energy - USA
- Texas Dow Employees Credit Union
- TRC Environmental, Inc.
- Vertex Energy
- Vortex Companies
Services
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My Team
My Team
Edward Edson is an office leasing broker responsible for providing advisory and transaction services to emerging and mid-sized companies, as well as large corporate clients on a local, national and international level. Since joining Colliers 18 years ago, he has focused on consulting with office tenants and developing innovative strategies for his clients in investment sales. Edward’s diverse experience includes relocation, renewal, expansion, and disposition projects; most recently liquidating 12 properties in eight states and two countries for $96 million. He is a committed advisor helping clients make real estate decisions that are aligned with their strategic, financial, and operational objectives.
Edward joined Colliers after his career with Hines Interests. While with Hines, Edward represented the owners of Bank of America Center’s 1.3 million SF and assisted with the nearly 2 million SF within One and Two Shell Plaza. Prior to his leasing assignments, Edward was responsible for property management within Hines’ 1100 Louisiana building’s 1.3 million SF and BMC’s state-of-the-art 1.5 million SF campus located in Houston’s Westchase market.
Kathy has more than 15 years commercial real estate business development experience. Kathy specializes in marketing, research and client services. Her area of expertise includes developing and maintaining a staged marketing program for listing assignments, listing pitches, proposals and agreements, tenant/buyer site tour coordination, market research, online database maintenance and tracking deals and client support. Kathy produces high quality property marketing materials, proposals, financial analysis for investment properties and provides contract/lease administration. She is knowledgeable in the use of real estate software programs and websites and is instrumental in the maintenance and advertising of property listings.
Prior to joining Colliers, Kathy had more than 18 years of professional administrative experience specializing in transactional real estate law and office management.
Bringing 30+ years of experience in commercial real estate, Marilynne joined Colliers in 2018 to provide financial analysis to the company’s leasing and investment sales teams for all types of assets, including the following types of financial analysis:
- lease renewal and relocation comparisons
- mid-term lease renegotiations (“blend and extend”)
- lease buyouts
- sublease disposition/recovery
- build-to-suit vs. design-build
- lease vs. buy
- own vs. sale/leaseback
- landlord net effective rate
- discounted cash flows
Prior to joining Colliers, she specialized in advising companies regarding their financial analysis for commercial real estate requirements or investments for 17 years. Marilynne also has a background in commercial mortgage underwriting/loan originations and commercial real estate appraisal.
Patsy joined Colliers in 2023 as the Research Director and has more than 40 years of communications, research and statistical analysis experience in the commercial real estate industry. She produces annual and quarterly market-area reports and project-specific custom reports for client presentations while effectively utilizing commercial real estate tools and databases.
Patsy has a deep understanding of how to capture real estate data, analyze market trends and provide meaningful data-driven insights to assist clients in finding solutions to meet their real estate needs.
Previous Roles
- Senior Insight Analyst/Research Manager for Avison Young’s Houston office from 2018-2022. Responsible for leading market research by tracking and analyzing key economic and market trends. Maintained office and industrial building data and comps in a proprietary in-house database.
- Senior Market Analyst for Commercial Gateway, the commercial division of the Houston Association of Realtors, and for CDS Market Research.
- Served as Communications/Research Director for The Horne Company and Grubb & Ellis.
- Edited a local monthly magazine, a weekly newspaper and a special section for the Houston Post.
Crissy is passionate about innovation and productivity in the workplace; constantly seeking a better way and helping others succeed are a couple of her daily drivers.
Crissy develops and expands marketing and technology platforms for the Houston office and contributes to the Southwest region.
She started as the marketing specialist at the front desk of a boutique commercial real estate firm in 2007, with her first assignment of building their website. From there learning commercial real estate and bringing the best marketing practices to the CRE realm has been her focus.
In 2010 that boutique firm merged with Colliers' Houston office where Crissy was promoted to marketing director, now chief marketing officer, and has been responsible for the organization's marketing efforts. Crissy designs and conducts in-house training programs to elevate staff knowledge and to enhance new business skills. She organizes and executes company events and recognition programs to support and promote a positive work culture. In January of 2020, she became a principal of the firm.
Some of Crissy's career highlights include being named Colliers U.S. Marketer of the Year, partaking in Fort Bend's Leadership Class program, being recognized as a local Top 40 Under 40, and taking home awards for Best Market Intelligence and Driving Business Efficiencies & Effectiveness.
Crissy earned the Commercial Property Marketing Certification (CPMC) from Colliers University. CPMC is the first and only accreditation for commercial real estate marketing professionals. It offers a professional development path to increase strategic and tactical expertise in marketing/research, knowledge of the industry, and capabilities with commercial real estate tools.