Brian D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Founding Partner of a commercial real estate firm specializing in advisory, strategy, acquisitions, development, investments, and asset management of urban mixed use, multifamily, hospitality, office, and retail places and spaces.

Lauderdale Lakes, Fl, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Business line leader for sourcing public and private commercial real estate developmentactivities in office, retail, hospitality, multi-family, institutional and mixed-use asset classes,including master development. In first year have established an active pipeline exceeding $1Bof new development activity in six US markets plus international opportunities in large scalestrategic master planning initiatives.

Austin, Tx, Us

Provided real estate strategy roadmap and best practices to software private equity firm with over $15B in assets owning 38 individual companies with over 45,000 employees to reduce their $350M annual aggregate facilities spend by over $50M per year through a series of small site closures and consolidations, remote work initiatives, and co-location strategies. Established global real estate location, size, utilization, and spend database so that individual companies within the portfolio have insight into mutual opportunities by geographic market across the globe. Provide lease transaction, public tax and economic incentive planning, and facilities operations subject matter expertise to individual companies and transactions as needed, registering over $10M in aggregate cost avoidance / incentives awards in just under one year.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Provide strategic solutions and leadership, process, and governance to public and private clients for corporate office campus, field office locations, industrial, retail, and land transactions for medium and large sized regional, national, and global real estate portfolios. Provide leadership for integrated program management services, account process improvement, and business development leadership for regional, national, and global accounts up to Fortune 15 sized public companies.Corporate Real Estate Executive for Prime Therapeutics. Served as the corporate real estate executive responsible for transformation of the internal CRE department and establishment of a long range strategic real estate plan which is still being implemented today. Responsible for 1.1M square foot portfolio (85% office / 15% processing and warehousing) and $26M operating budget (excluding leasehold costs) of a 70+ FTE department. In a 12-month period, directed and accomplished the following: Integrated and aligned the long range corporate business plan objectives and metrics as the foundation of their first five-year strategic real estate plan. Reorganized and restructured 22 employee / 50 external contractor department responsible for real estate strategy, occupancy and workplace planning and design, move and construction management, transactions and asset management, facilities operations and engineering, physical security, environmental health and safety, and office administrative services for the office and industrial environment. Directed drafting of external real estate service provider RFP, qualifying of prospective bidders, facilitation of interview and bidding process, and contract negotiation.

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Team manager responsible for formulating the platform of policies, processes, and business development for real estate advisory services. Clients included three administrative branches of the U.S. Government and two state administrative divisions, as well as business development activities for additional local / state / federal prospective clients, foreign governments, and intergovernmental agencies. Managed consultant teams on business strategy and organization, financial management, IT and organizational process implementation around real estate portfolio strategy, operational management, organizational process design, transactions process, and capital spend planning. Analyzed property processes of the client with $750M leasehold portfolio leading to discovery of opportunities exceeding $20M in annual cost recovery. Trained on PwC’s Transform (their proprietary “Six-Sigma style” methodology). Maintained active government Top Secret security clearance.

Washington, Dc, Us

Award-winning supervisory director responsible for strategic planning and transaction activities for a global real estate portfolio consisting of over 16,000 leased properties and 4,000 owned properties. Collaborated regularly with high-level public and private officials globally on lease and ownership transactions as well as major capital development, public / private partnerships, and build-to-suit initiatives. Coordinated decision making for strategic space planning, site selection, valuations, due diligence, project programming and funding approval into a cohesive scoring and ranking process for a $350M annual capital maintenance spend plan, a $220M embassy campus master plan, and a $130 embassy historic restoration plan. Personally traveled to over 30 countries on five continents, and remotely facilitated activities in over 100 countries on six continents. Maintained active government Top Secret security clearance.

Masters, Real Estate Finance

Humphrey School Of Public Affairs, Urban And Regional Planning

Bachelor Of Science, Architecture