
About
Professional Summary
Denise has more than 15 years of experience as Country Manager and Managing Director in prestigious global commercial real estate companies in Panama. Throughout her career, she specialized in multinational corporate representation, consulting, management, marketing, and real estate sales in both Panama and the United States, where she first obtained her real estate license and actively participated in a real estate development team.
Accomplishments
Having lived and worked in Florida and Panama, Denise brings her international real estate savvy to her team and combines it with her local perspective, which is invaluable to her clients in assessing future real estate trends and long-term value potential. In her real estate career, Denise has closed more than $300 million in residential and commercial real estate transactions, including managing the sale of two condominiums in Florida and commercial space and office buildings in Panama.
Partial List of Lease Transactions
As a tenant representative:
- Ernst & Young, Dream Plaza, Costa del Este, 1,000 SM Office
- Roche, MMG Bank, Costa del Este, 1,650 SM Office
As a Landlord Representative:
- ON D GO Plazas, Chorrera & Aguadulce Panama, 40,000 SM Retail
- PH SLI, Santa Maria, Panama, 4,500 SM Office
Partial List of Sale Transactions
Representing seller:
- Land Sale, Costa del Mar, Costa del Este, $7 mm
Representing buyer:
- PH SLI, Santa Maria, Panama: Santa Maria Office Plaza bldg. acquired $11 mm
- Land, 8,000 m2 puirchase for large Supermarket Chain
Education
- B.S. in Business Management from Boston College 2002
- Florida Real Estate License since 2002
- Panama Real Estate License since 2013
Memberships & Involvements
- Denise was Director/Treasurer of leading real estate association in Panama, ACOBIR for 2 consecutive years (2014 and 2015).
- Formed part of BOARD of REALTORS & FIABCI, International Real Estate Associations.
- Currently part of the Board of Directors of Panama’s Contemporary Art Museum (MAC).
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My Team
My Team
Bartolomé has more than 15 years of professional career in Commercial Real Estate, Operations Manager and Real Estate Advisory Services with specialization in Industrial and land markets.
He has worked in several worldwide leading Commertial Real Estate firms and has participated in more than 120 transactions in Costa Rica and Panamá.
Norma has more than 17 years of experience in the structuring of lease, sales, investment, and portfolio management of real estate assets for multinational companies.
In the same way she has worked in the promotion and sale of the portfolios of real estate assets of the companies that require disposal services., structuring business plans for each case.
Thanks to her vas experience & expertise, Norma has the capacity to offer integral advice according to the specific needs of the client and to structure the appropriate strategies for each business.
Expert Negotiator
He has extensive experience in real estate, marketing, negotiation and strategy development.
Has directed marketing, real estate, tourism and aeronautical companies.
- Economist, passionate about architecture, business intelligence and rentability.
- 10+ years in sales, customer experience and operations management.
- Efficiency and innovation DNA.
- Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Gary has more than 20 years of experience in the industrial and commercial area, he has served as general manager and as commercial manager of different companies in the industry.
During his career he has led the commercial area of companies, increasing business generation, opening new markets, consolidating and managing international portfolios.
Due to his extensive corporate experience, Gary can provide comprehensive advice on all of his clients' negotiation processes, analyzing each business opportunity from different perspectives.
Carla Lopez, MAI, MRICS has a twenty-five years of sound experience in the real estate field. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, as an urban planner, architect, consultant, and valuer. Among her relevant career experience, she has worked as an Urban Planner, National Heritage Director of Panama; Multilateral Organizations, Consultant; Director of Valuation and Advisory of CBRE Panama, Latin America Research Director for CBRE, and Director for In Situ Corporation. Mrs. Lopez has performed a large number of appraisals and real estate consulting assignments in Panama and Latin America, including Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic; she is also an expert in real estate market research from Mexico to Argentina.
Sebastian Arze is a Panamá based Valuation Specialist for Colliers.
He adds to the team his 5 years of experience on appraisal and valuations across the territory for national and international based clients.
His work has extended to the 3 main branches, residential, commercial-indsutrial, and equipment valuations, and encompasses both individual property owners and managers as well as large scale portfolio work for both private and public companies, developers, and banks.
The pace of work and quality of product he mantains has allowed clients to rest assured that no matter the scope of the assignment the will get an efficient and accurate valuation of their assets.
Carla, Senior Project Manager, is part of the team of experts in Strategic Project Services at Colliers.
She is an architecture professional with 20 years of experience in the sector managing and overseeing projects. She has extensive experience leading and integrating multi-disciplinary corporate teams to ensure each project is completed in a timely manner, aligned with quality, time and cost objectives.
Carla Castillo is an expert in Workplace Advisory, leading diagnostic processes and aligning offices’ objectives and purpose with cultural insights, trends in occupancy models and management of solutions for workspaces (Workplace Mix).
Carla is a specialist in change management with a certification as Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner.
Carlos is a Project Manager Sr of the Strategic Project Service (SPS) team in Panama, since 2018. He is an Architect specialized in project management and commercial real estate with more than 5 years of experience in managing and coordinating different scale of projects.
Carlos is responsible of different services in the SPS team including project management, design & build, workplace advisory for local and multinational corporations, occupants and owners of office buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and logistics.
Iliam Tello has a twenty six years of experience in the appraisal and advisory services. She has worked in both public and private sector, as architect, consultant and valuer. Among her relevant experience, she has worked as Director of Valuation of CBRE Panama, and valuer in different appraisal companies. Mrs. Tello has performed a large number of appraisals assignments in Panama and Latin America, including Colombia , Peru, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic.
Architect Ramírez currently serves as Valuation Specialist for Colliers Panama.
Experience in Architecture with especialization: Architectural plans/drafts.
Diego is a Research Analyst, with experience in Real Estate and background in banking.
He brings over 2 years of banking, real estate and customer service in different industries.
Diego has worked in different areas in the banking system , commercial and residential real estate in the private sector with a specialty in customer service always providing the best experience to each client that he has worked with.
As of now, he is bringing his expertise in data management to the department and is reponsible for conducting the quantitative and qualitative data collection for the development of the quaterly market reports for both brokers and clients.
Stefany has 5 years of experience in the real estate market, working in the area of property management and customer service.
Queenie is the Director of Human Resources for Colliers International Panama. In this role, she is focus on a commitment to know the needs of her team, considering each one as Colliers' most valuable asset. To achieve corporate goals, she works on planning and implementing initiatives to maintain a good work environment and maintain teamwork.
She also is responsible in executing procedures as a Compliance Representative at Colliers and toward Government authorities. In addition, she closely supports administrative services and communications with all the members of the service lines of Colliers and the clients.
Queenie is always focused in increase our productivity and brings effectiveness to the company.