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 2019 transaction volume of $820 million. 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, the YWCA, 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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Phil Ehrlich is an Executive Vice President and Partner with Colliers International I Nashville, where he leads the retail property management group for the firm.  He has 33 years of experience in property management in a wide range of roles, with 25 years of that experience exclusively in the retail sector.  Phil came to Colliers in the summer of 2015, when the retail brokerage and property management firm that he co-founded – Vision Real Estate – merged with Colliers Nashville.  His base of clients has ranged over his career through six states in the Southeast.  Phil and his team manage a portfolio that includes ownership by national institutional investors, regional investors and developers, and local owners.   Phil’s management team works in partnership with the retail leasing group at Colliers, which is the largest retail leasing team in the Nashville region. 

After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in Business Administration, Phil joined the US Air Force.  He was stationed at Mississippi’s Columbus Air Force Base from 1983 to 1987.  Phil launched his corporate career as Coordinator of Facilities Management for the State Board of Regents, then moved into a position with Deloitte.  In 1992, Phil was promoted to Director of Asset Management and Development with Weston Companies.  He then served as Executive Vice President of Mission Properties until co-founding Vision Real Estate in 2001.   

Randy oversees a staff of seven accounting professionals whose responsibilities include financial management and reporting for the investment property owners, the construction company, and the brokerage operations. 

He joined The Mathews Company as the controller over development activities and soon moved into operations. During his tenure at The Mathews Company, he has been responsible for selecting and installing three new accounting and management software systems, projecting and managing the cash flow for operations, development and management activities and overseeing the company’s benefits. Prior to The Mathews Company, he acheieved the manager level at Anderson and was part of the audit division of the Nashville office of Arthur & Company working the construction, manufacturing and utility industries.