Jeffrey Cole is Executive Vice Chairman for Cushman & Wakefield. With over 37 years of commercial real estate experience, Mr. Cole has represented over 149 million square feet of commercial, office and industrial space, and has executed over 417 sales transactions with a total consideration in excess of $17.4 billion. A multiple recipient of C&W’s prestigious national “Top Producer” Award, Mr. Cole is considered one of the top institutional office and industrial investment sales specialists in Southern California. In 2010, he was C&W’s top producer in the Western United States region and the top capital markets broker in 2016 and 2017. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Cole was a Principal with the Trammell Crow Company (TCC) and its predecessor Tooley & Company where he led the Orange County Office Leasing and Management Group for 22 years starting in 1985. In 1998 Mr. Cole co-founded and co-directed TCC’s Southern California Investment Services Group. While at TCC, Mr. Cole received the prestigious national “Top Producer” designation continuously from 1998 to 2006. Mr. Cole is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he received his B.S. degree in Business, with an emphasis in Finance and Real Estate. Mr. Cole is the former Chairman of the City of Newport Beach Planning Commission. In 2017 he was named one of Orange County’s Most Influential Business Leaders by the Orange County Business Journal. He was also named by CONNECT Media as a California Top Broker Award recipient for 2017. He has taught Real Estate Graduate and Extension courses at the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Irvine (UCI), and is a current member of the ULI and NAIOP.