Brian has always been drawn to the commercial real estate industry, and he is grateful for the opportunity his clients give him to help them solve their real estate challenges. As a principal within Colliers | Chicago’s Industrial Advisory group, Brian is responsible for representing companies in the acquisition, disposition, leasing and development of industrial real estate throughout North America. In his role, he also specializes in brokering multi-market transactions as well as big-box industrial property. Throughout his career, he has completed transactions valued in excess of $1 billion.

Brian is proud to lead a team of four professionals who serve as advisors to the top industrial clientele in North America, which includes both occupiers and investors. His team maintains strong relationships with their clients regardless of whether there is a deal to be made. They are humbled by clients who consistently tell them that they are easy to work with, dedicated, nimble and trustworthy.

Additionally, he is a member of the Colliers Industrial Advisory Group (IAG), an initiative focused on developing best practices across North America for the firm’s corporate industrial clientele. He is also a board member of the Chicago chapter of NAIOP, the leading organization for developers, owners and investors of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate. He is also a member of Colliers Logistics and Transportation Solutions group, a team whose primary focus is supply chain design and management.

Many of Colliers International’s largest clients, including Best Buy, ULTA, Bridgestone and KeHE Distributors, rely on my corporate real estate expertise. My team consists of professionals focusing on supply chain real estate. Areas of expertise include site selection, labor analytics, real estate capital markets, structuring and negotiation of lease and sale transactions, government incentives procurement, and construction procurement.

I am among the top annual producers across all of Colliers' service lines. In 2015, I was Colliers International’s number one Industrial professional in North America.

I am a principal at Colliers International | Chicago and a leader in the firm’s national Logistics and Transportation group. In addition, I am a member of Colliers' Chicago-based Executive Committee, where I provide strategic direction for the continued growth and development of the Chicago office.

Both private and publicly traded corporations rely on me to help them in the disposition, acquisition and development of commercial real estate. As an associate in the Industrial Advisory Group at Colliers International, I work alongside Brian Kling, a top industrial producer, to provide my clients with in-depth market knowledge on the southwestern suburban marketplace.

I previously interned with Colliers Chicago’s Investment Services team and assisted analysts by creating offering memorandums, which were then sent to potential buyers. I also canvassed the I-55, Waukegan and Fox Valley submarkets of Chicago creating a comprehensive database of more than 600 tenants. In addition, I toured clients through properties and updated more than 500 industrial properties in Colliers’ proprietary software system.

I also interned with Origami Capital Partners, a private equity fund in Chicago who specializes in acquiring distressed assets throughout the country. In this role, I assisted senior analysts in modeling distressed assets and commercial real estate portfolios; created quantitative analysis for investor committee memos; and sourced and contacted venture capital firms throughout the Midwest to identify potential investment opportunities.

I am a client services coordinator in the Industrial Advisory Group at Colliers International  | South Florida supporting seven brokers in Tenant Rep, Industrial and Institutional Investments. In this role l provide exceptional internal sales support to my broker team and our clients through efficient and high quality administrative and general support services. I assist on projects such as presentation support; listing preparation; transaction administration; offering memoradum preparation; RFP responses;  gathering market knowledge through various internal and external resources to prepare client market surveys and property tours and coordinating promotional and post-sales marketing materials.