As a 33-year veteran and executive vice president with Colliers International’s Occupier Advisors Group, I help grow the company’s tenant representation platform in Chicago while also performing national corporate services work.

Throughout my time in the industry, I have represented Fortune 500 companies in metropolitan Chicago, Kansas City and nationwide. My more than 1,000 office leasing and consulting assignments total over 25 million square feet and are valued in excess of $5 billion. My assignments in over 90 U.S. cities have ranged from 1,000 to 900,000 square feet. Strategic multi-market accounts I have assisted include:  NAVTEQ, RH Donnelley, HNTB Corporation, Koch Industries, Hallmark Corporation, Wausau Insurance Companies, Compuware Corporation, McDonald’s Corporation, DST Systems, Stinson Leonard Street LLP, Husch Blackwell LLP, Hub Group, Inc., Nationwide Insurance, Wausau Benefits, Konica Minolta and Nokia.

Prior to joining Colliers, I spent eight years with Grubb & Ellis where I specialized in office tenant representation in metropolitan Chicago and nationally for my strategic multi-market clients.

I also served as the executive director of real estate and co-managed the tenant representation group at Insignia/ESG.  I also worked for U.S. Equities Real Estate Services for eight years and Royal LePage Commercial Real Estate Services. 

As an executive vice president with Colliers International’s Occupier Advisors Group, I help grow the company’s tenant representation platform in the Chicago region while servicing and expanding the strategic national accounts practice group. For more than 20 years I have exclusively represented office tenants in lease negotiations and have completing assignments totaling more than 15 million square feet with financial consideration in excess of $4 billion.

Clients rely on my expertise as a skilled strategist to provide them with in-depth analysis, negotiating expertise, and creative real estate solutions. When advising my clients, I draw upon my broad range of real estate consulting experience, significant corporate board responsibilities and active investment partnership expertise.

Prior to joining Colliers, I spent 10 years as an executive vice president with the office tenant representation services group of Grubb & Ellis, where I specialized in tenant representation in the Chicago region and nationally. I joined Grubb & Ellis after spending six years as vice president for U.S. Equities, where I represented some of the most recognized companies in Chicago. I began my career in real estate as an associate with Tanguay-Burke-Stratton as a tenant representation office broker.

In addition to my long-standing career in commercial real estate, I have a broad range of business experience, including:

• Serving as vice chairman of Cevaal Insurance until selling my investment position as part of a corporate restructuring at the end of 2013
• Served on the board of directors for Midwestern Electric until the company was sold at the end of 2013
• Served on the board of directors for Kansas State Bank until the bank was sold at the end of 2011
• Served on the executive management committee as a senior equity investor with The Winbury Group until the partnership sold to Colliers International at the end of 2010
• Founded Baden Capital