Nashville's Commercial Real Estate Services Firm

Janet Miller has been a key player in Nashville’s real estate and development community for over 30 years. She joined Colliers Nashville as CEO and Market Leader in September of 2014, following 21 years of service as the Chief Economic Development Officer for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Miller is responsible for strategy, business and brand development, talent development, and all operations for the Colliers Nashville office. Colliers Nashville houses Nashville’s largest commercial real estate brokerage team, with 41 brokers, and achieved a 2021 transaction volume of over $1 billion. In addition to her leadership of Colliers, Miller is also deeply involved in a wide range of community initiatives, including key leadership roles with the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, Nashville's Agenda Steering Committee, and the Rotary Club of Nashville. In her role at the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Miller led the ten-county region’s top agency for recruiting new companies to the region and working with existing companies on retention and expansion projects. She worked with over 400 corporations on major job-creation projects including Asurion, HCA, Beretta, Mars Petcare, Nissan, Bridgestone, Dell, BNY Mellon, UBS, and numerous others.

Bert Mathews is president of The Mathews Company, a leading commercial real estate development company in Nashville, TN, and is a partner with the brokerage firm Colliers International Nashville. Bert has been a leading force in the Nashville area’s vibrant commercial real estate industry and active in the city’s civic and nonprofit communities, playing key leadership roles in efforts to move Nashville forward for more than four decades.

As the third-generation leader of The Mathews Company, Bert is carrying on the family tradition of community leadership and corporate success started by his grandfather Robert C.H. Mathews and continued by his father, Bob Mathews Jr.  Bert counts among his accomplishments the transformation of the historic Trolley Barns at Rolling Mill Hill, which renovated the property into an entrepreneurial hub, redevelopment of The Stahlman Building, Lofts at 160 and dozens of other successful developments in and around downtown Nashville.  

Bert joined The Mathews Company in 1984 and became president in 1992, overseeing development, acquisitions, and financing of a portfolio today worth more than $350 million.  As a commercial real estate broker, Bert and his team at Colliers International Nashville, have emerged as one of the top brokerage firms in Middle Tennessee.

Bert is a national leader of the Urban Land Institute, recently serving in the highest level of leadership as Global Trustee, advising on land use practices worldwide. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of ThinkTennessee, a nonpartisan nonprofit research and advocacy think tank whose purpose is to create civic and economic opportunity in Tennessee.  He has won numerous awards for commercial real estate development in Nashville, including the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nashville Business Journal. He has served as Board Chair for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Metro Transit Authority and the Nashville District Management Corporation; was Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, and has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the University of North Carolina’s General Alumni Association and its Board of Visitors

He and his wife Brooks are the parents of five.

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Erika Palmer is Director of Operations for the Colliers Nashville Real Estate Management Services group. In collaboration with regional directors, market leaders, and property managers, Erika ensures that clients receive the very best service Colliers has to offer. The team implements Colliers best-in-class procedures at the property level in order to deliver exceptional and consistent service to our clients and their tenants.

Erika has 20 years of progressive work experience in Commercial Property Management. She has first-hand knowledge in guiding assets through their life cycle from building acquisition, stabilization, repositioning, and disposition. Erika has a strong disposition for financial analysis including preparing annual budgets, reporting monthly performance, preparing annual reconciliations, and tracking capital expenses.

Prior to joining Colliers, Erika served as a Managing Director with Cushman & Wakefield in Baltimore. There, Erika worked to drive best practices and corporate compliance across nearly 5-million-square-feet of office and medical office product.

Chris Neese joined Colliers Nashville in August 2018 to launch and direct the firm’s new project management division. Bringing extensive entrepreneurial, project management, and economic development experience, Chris is uniquely suited to advise clients/tenants through the construction, occupancy, and closeout processes. He will act as the owner’s representative, guiding clients from lease through occupancy. Chris will manage all vendors involved in tenant build-out or renovation, including general contractors, architects, commercial movers and more. The addition of an in-house project management division allows Colliers Nashville to provide a more holistic client experience. Across the US, Colliers International has more than $6.5 billion in project management work under development.  

Previously, Chris served as Chief Operations Officer for Strategic Hospitality, the restaurant group behind prominent Nashville eateries including The Catbird Seat, Patterson House, and Pinewood Social. Before joining Strategic Hospitality, Chris was Chief Operations Officer at Community Hospitality, LLC, where he helped grow the company from one location with 45 employees to 7 locations with a combined 280 employees. His entrepreneurial experience includes ownership of BUZZ Entertainment, an artist management company, and AAAG, a group that specialized in acquiring capital for commercial real estate developments. He also helped VantagePointe Investments develop assisted living facilities and multifamily properties across Middle Tennessee. Notably, Chris led the Cheatham County Chamber of Commerce as Executive Director from 2009 to 2013. 

A native of Brentwood, TN, Chris earned his bachelor’s of business administration in management at Nashville’s Belmont University. He is heavily invested in giving back to the Middle Tennessee community and is co-founder and past president of the Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID).  Chris has served on the boards of Leadership Cheatham County, The Regional Chamber Alliance, Middle Tennessee Tourism Council and PENCIL Metro Nashville Public Schools Career Academies. 
 

Valuation Services Director of Colliers International’s Nashville, Tennessee office which provides valuation and advisory services throughout the state of Tennessee and surrounding region. Specializing in commercial investment real estate including office, retail, and industrial, as well experience in hotels, self storage, special purpose, mixed-use, land, multi-family, and residential subdivisions.