goal: to accelerate the success of everyone associated with our company, including our clients, sales professionals,
support staff, communities and business partners.
Executive Leadership
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. and LATAM regions, Gil Borok is responsible for managing the overall strategic direction and performance of Colliers’ rapidly growing business.
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Gil is focused on advancing Colliers’ growth objectives in the U.S. and LATAM, while ensuring the success of its people and providing best-in-class solutions to its clients.
Prior to joining Colliers in November 2017 as Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. business, Gil served in a variety of finance-related roles at CBRE Group, Inc. Between 2010 and 2014, Gil was Chief Financial Officer of CBRE Group.
Earlier professional experience includes Big 4 public accounting experience and a role as Chief Accounting Officer of Dole Food Company.
Regional Leadership
David Amsterdam is President, U.S. Capital Markets and Northeast Region. He is responsible for managing and executing investment sales, debt & equity and structured finance transactions across the U.S. and in critical global markets. In addition, he leads the firm in top-tier cities, including New York, Boston, and Washington D.C.
His responsibilities include advising investors, corporate users, and landlords across the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions and he is focused on continuing to drive revenue for the fastest-growing publicly traded real estate services and investment management firm in the world.
As President of Colliers International's Southeast and Mid-Central Regions | US Brokerage, Ryan is responsible for a geography consisting of 30 offices in the Southeast and Mid-Central US. He is responsible for a team of more than 875 personnel including 475+ brokers, 15 Market Leader managers, and 350 employees including a large support team of Marketing, GIS/Research and Market Analytics, Digital Marketing, and Core Marketing personnel. The brokerage teams Ryan is responsible for comprise leasing (landlord and tenant representation) and sale specialists in the areas of office, medical, retail, industrial, land, investment sales, debt/equity mortgage banking, and specialty disciplines, such as multifamily, student housing, hotels, marinas/golf, manufactured housing, tax credit housing, education, and seniors housing. He is the executive sponsor and liaison for Colliers’ Tenant Advisory Council (TAC), an 80-broker team of elite office tenant rep brokers throughout the country.
Ryan is a member of the Colliers US Executive Leadership Team. He works closely with the leadership counterparts in property management and valuation on new business development and client retention initiatives
As President of Brokerage in the Southwest United States for Colliers International, I am responsible for some of the firm’s most productive offices in the nation, from Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Arizona to Southern California and the islands of Hawaii. Based in Los Angeles, my focus is on advancing Colliers’ growth objectives in the larger region, while ensuring the firm continues to provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.
As President of the Northwest/North Central Region for Colliers International Kevin P. Morgan leads Colliers' operations and business strategy in the region with a focus on developing, recruiting and retaining top brokerage professionals and providing clients with the highest level of service.
With more than 20 years of international commercial real estate experience, Kevin is a strategic operator driving real estate deals, team development, transaction management and negotiations for global real estate portfolios. Prior to joining Colliers, Kevin was Executive Vice President and CEO for multinational corporation Crystal Lagoons, where he led offices spanning 15 countries and managed 55+ real estate partnerships valued at $364M+ in revenue with leading development and investment companies.
Kevin's role with Crystal Lagoons represents his unique skillset in building market leading corporations out of start-up cultures. This role saw Kevin lead a significant portfolio of transactions spanning multi-family, hospitality, retail, mixed-use, office and land in 17 countries across Central America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia.
Prior to his role with Crystal Lagoons, for over a decade Kevin held national and international senior leadership positions with The John Buck Company (JBC), an international real estate development, investment and asset management firm, based in Chicago. JBC has delivered 44M SF of mixed-use real estate, raised $700M+ in private and institutional capital, representing $11B+ in project financing.
During his tenure Kevin launched and co-directed a joint venture real estate development company between JBC and Mubadala Investment Company (an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund). While based in Abu Dhabi, he was a key member of the executive team that led a culturally diverse team of 250 professionals across three business units responsible for $7.5B+ of development projects.
Additional roles at JBC spanned ownership leasing for new office development projects and expanding relationships with new capital partners on a domestic and international scale.
Kevin brings to Colliers a commitment to service excellence and strategic partnership to drive success for its people and its clients.
Services Leadership
Scott Nelson is CEO, Occupier Services | Global at Colliers International and is responsible for strategy and leadership of the global Occupier Services business unit. Occupier Services makes up the platform of talent and tools that supports our clients directly and in partnership with our transaction advisory professionals that lead many of these relationships. Occupier client engagements include tenant representation transaction advisory and project management assignments, multi-market accounts, to comprehensive corporate real estate outsourcing. Occupier Services includes service lines such as Enterprise Clients/Account Management, Client Experience, Strategic Consulting, Technology Services (including our Colliers360 platform), Lease Administration, Transaction Management and Project Management. Occupier Services is a global business with deep capabilities sitting within each of the three regions of Americas, EMEA and APAC.
As President Real Estate Management Services US, I develop complete real estate solutions that address my clients’ business needs. This means connecting our retail, industrial, office, multifamily, brokerage, investment sales, and property management groups in ways that create memorable experiences. In addition, I oversee property management operations in the United States.
I am active in the commercial real estate community through multiple organizations including IREM, CREW, and BOMA. To help prepare college students for careers in commercial real estate, I also work with the Industry Advisory Board for Virginia Tech’s Program in Real Estate, of which I am founding member. Nearest to my heart is the work I do with Lucky Dog Animal Rescue in Washington, DC, which has placed more than 7,000 animals in new homes since 2009. I always have a few dogs staying at my house that are looking for their forever homes.
David Amsterdam is President, U.S. Capital Markets and Northeast Region. He is responsible for managing and executing investment sales, debt & equity and structured finance transactions across the U.S. and in critical global markets. In addition, he leads the firm in top-tier cities, including New York, Boston, and Washington D.C.
His responsibilities include advising investors, corporate users, and landlords across the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions and he is focused on continuing to drive revenue for the fastest-growing publicly traded real estate services and investment management firm in the world.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
In Anjee’s current role, as National Retail Director for the USA, she has developed strong relationships and strategic leadership to over 500 + retail professional nationally across 140 markets within Colliers for Investment Sales, Agency, Retailer Rep, and Retail Asset & Property Management.
Anjee Solanki brings 30 years of focused retail real estate experience to Colliers International. She provides strategic retail advisory services to enhance value for her clients with her expertise in lifestyle, community, power center, neighborhood, mixed-use retail/residential, and resort retail.
She has developed and manages strong working relationships with institutional and private clients such as State of Florida, State of Michigan, Heitman, Invesco, Grosvenor Americas, American Realty Advisors, TH Realty, PNC, and Zurich to name a few.
Her strategy identifies current market and property inefficiencies to capture untapped value through asset repositioning, releasing, redevelopment, rehabilitation, proactive management, and enhanced marketing.
Creative problem-solving is her specialty, and she becomes a key stakeholder with national and international retailers, such as JPMC, Opry City Stage/Ole Red and Tim Hortons, and many others. Her highly focused approach reduces the risk profile and provides clients with a thoughtful approach executing strategic multi-year planning initiatives.
BUSINESS BACKGROUND
Previously, Anjee served as Executive Vice President, Retail Services for Madison Marquette. She successfully assisted with repositioning community centers to lifestyle projects and identified opportunities to create value, resulting in higher returns for her clients. She also provided strategic analysis on complex redevelopment projects to address both the asset’s financial stabilization and/or the client’s exit strategy
BLOG
Anjee continues to be an insatiable collector of all things retail. She’s a student of culture living next door to future shoppers, whose fleeting trends constantly change the retail landscape … driving retailers, landlords and developers crazy! Read her Blog at: https://knowledge-leader.colliers.com/author/anjee-solanki
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Anjee is originally from Southern California and currently resides in San Francisco. She is active in the Rincon Hill neighborhood residential improvement group, which participates in the public review of the highly anticipated Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.
As National Director | Healthcare for the USA, Shawn's focus is to cultivate a strong, value-driven platform in the healthcare space, allowing Colliers to raise the bar in delivering innovative and successful solutions to our healthcare clients.
Shawn brings more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience, including more than 20 years dedicated to the healthcare real estate sector. He has held senior positions as both principal and advisor. Shawn's clients have included health systems, hospitals, physician groups and third party owners/developers. He prides himself on understanding the drivers of the healthcare industry, and applying that knowledge to help clients develop real estate strategies which support their vision and achieve their goals.
Prior to joining Colliers, Shawn served at Caddis Healthcare Real Estate as Managing Director, where he was responsible for new business development and executive leadership of healthcare real estate projects throughout the Midwestern U.S. Previously, he served in leadership positions at Pacific Medical Buildings, JLL, and Lillibridge. During his tenure as Managing Director, Healthcare Solutions for JLL, Shawn was responsible for the strategy, business plan and organizational structure of the firm's healthcare practice.
Jeremy Walling serves as Executive Vice President for Colliers International Valuation & Advisory Services (CIVAS), and is responsible for leading its 50+ offices with more than 350 professionals across the US.
Mr. Walling is charged with developing strategic goals and objectives for CIVAS in the US, and designing production and operational processes that create value for our stakeholders. Responsibilities also include national recruiting efforts, promoting a team oriented culture aligned with Colliers’ core values (Service, Expertise, Community & Fun), and delivering innovative resources and production tools to the industry’s best valuation professionals.
As National Director, Industrial Services for the U.S., Stephanie focuses on overall growth of Colliers’ industrial business, including the establishment of new client relationships and expansion of existing affiliations. She promotes talent recruitment and retention to support Colliers’ best-in-class Industrial Services team as they accelerate client success.
Drawing on her 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Stephanie leads Colliers’ industrial platform, especially in providing thought leadership, research and marketing. She brings extensive experience in acquisitions, lease transactions and negotiations, asset management, and development projects.
Before joining Colliers, Stephanie spent nearly 15 years at Duke Realty Corporation where she rose to the level of Regional Senior Vice President, overseeing leasing for a multi-market, multi-million-square-foot portfolio in Central and South Florida in addition to leading property management, development and marketing of the firm’s industrial portfolio in the region. Prior to her time at Duke, she held progressively more senior roles at Trammell Crow Company and CBRE.
Platform Leadership
Frank Blanton serves as Senior Vice President of US Operations for Colliers’ United States business, corporately based in Encino CA. In this role, Frank supports the US enterprise with responsibility for brokerage operations, corporate facilities management, operational data management, procurement, profitability enhancement, acquisition integration and operational projects (business process change and optimization and compliance).
Prior to joining Colliers in May 2018, starting in 2003, Frank served in a variety of Finance-operations related roles at CBRE Group, Inc. From 2015 until his departure in April 2018, Frank served as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems & Enablement and between 2008 and 2014 served as Corporate Controller of CBRE Group. During his tenure at CBRE, Frank at different times served in roles leading Global FP&A, Americas Finance, Internal Audit and Financial Compliance and also supported special projects, corporate facilities management, M&A diligence and integrations.
Prior to its acquisition by CBRE Group in 2003, Frank was the head of Corporate Finance and Financial Reporting for Insignia Financial Group, Inc. based in New York, NY and Greenville SC from 1996 to 2003. Frank began his career in Audit Assurance with Ernst & Young LLP (1992 to 1996) with a concentration in real estate services and construction.
Frank is a certified public accountant in the State of South Carolina and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Financial Management with a concentration in Accounting from Clemson University.
Maura Hudson is a global marketing, operations and competitive solutions executive with proven success in professional services industries, including commercial real estate, outsourcing, and financial services. She maintains validated experience in solutions development, communications, marketing, research, strategic analysis, sales operations, program management, and consulting. Maura is known for training, mentoring and developing marketing and business development leaders. A recognized creative thinker and effective communicator, Maura's entrepreneurial skills, strong analytics acumen, and project management approach are award winning. Her areas of expertise include the following:
• Strategic/Tactical Planning
• Crisis Communications
• Website / Video / Digital Media
• PR / Media Management
• Solutions Implementation
• Program Development
• Brand Leadership / Management
• Data & Analytics
• Budget Accountability
• Social Media Marketing
• Internal & Client Communications
• Technology Development