About
Professional Summary
Working closely with industry veterans Sven Sykes and Tom Volini, executive vice presidents in Colliers International’s Office Advisory Group, I lead proposal responses, presentations, client property tours, marketing and assist the team with other client matters.
Prior to joining Colliers International, I spent eight years with Grubb & Ellis, where I worked closely with the tenant representation services team. I also worked for Grubb & Ellis' New York office as an operations coordinator, where I focused on national college recruiting.
Before Grubb & Ellis, I worked as a leasing agent for Trizec Properties in New York. I was responsible for marketing and leasing a 7.5 million-square-foot office portfolio.
Education
- Real Estate Broker's License, Illinois
- BS, Business Administration and Marketing, Mercy College
Services
My Team
My Team
Sven Sykes
Executive Vice President
Chicago - Downtown
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.
Thomas Volini
Executive Vice President
Chicago - Downtown
Tom Volini serves as Executive Vice President with Colliers | Chicago’s Occupier Advisors Group. Tom joined Colliers International in 2011 and is responsible for growing the company’s tenant representation platform in the Chicago region, while servicing and expanding the strategic national accounts practice group.
Tom has been exclusively representing office tenants in lease negotiations for over 24 years, having completed assignments totaling over 20 million square feet with financial consideration in excess of $6 billion.He is a skilled strategist providing in-depth analysis, negotiating expertise, and creative real estate solutions to his clients. When advising clients, Tom draws upon a broad range of real estate consulting experience along with his significant corporate board responsibilities and his active investment partnership expertise.
In addition to Tom’s long-standing career in commercial real estate, he has a broad range of business experience. He is the Managing Partner of Maplewood LLC and founder of Baden Capital. He also served as Vice Chairman of Cevaal Insurance. Prior to Cevaal, he was the Senior Equity Investor with The Winbury Group until the partnership sold to Colliers at the end of 2010. Tom has served on several board of directors including Midwestern Electric, Kansas State Bank, Lyon County State Bank and “REIA”, the Real Estate Investment Association.
Tom is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and, The Chicago Club.