KEVIN SHANNON
Eco-Head U.S. Capital Markets
Newmark
Kevin A. Shannon is widely considered to be one of the premier investment sales brokers in the United States. As the co-head of US Capital Markets for Newmark, along with Rob Griffifin, Doug Harmon and Adam Spies, Shannon leads a team of 33 professionals focused on arranging the disposition, financing, and joint ventures of investment properties on behalf of domestic and offshore investors throughout the Western United States.
Since 2010, Shannon has been involved in over $86 billion of office, industrial, self-storage, multifamily, land and mixed-use transactions. His experience includes structuring fee simple and partial interest sales, as well as recapitalizations and joint venture transactions.
Shannon has spent his career helping clients structure transactions to best meet their goals. Notably, he brokered many of the largest office sales in the Western United States.
Shannon joined Newmark Knight Frank after nearly nine years at CBRE, where he served as vice chairman and managing director for the West Coast Institutional Investment Group and leader of Western United States Office Vertical.
Prior to CBRE, Mr. Shannon served from 1999 to 2005 as a senior vice president with the Institution Investment Group of Grubb & Ellis, now a part of Newmark Knight Frank. He was that firm’s top-producing broker nationally (all business lines).
ERIC OLOFSON (TIE)
Executive Vice Chairman
Cushman & Wakefield
Eric Olofson is an executive managing director with Cushman & Wakefield in West Los Angeles. In addition to representing his own portfolio of leading corporations and other clients with respect to their real estate holdings, Olofson also manages the firm’s West Los Angeles office. He oversees a team of approxitmately 45 professionals in the execution of key strategic initiatives, including revenue and profitability growth, as well as staff recruitment and retention and client relationships.
Olofson has consistently ranked as one of the top producing professionals nationally at Cushman & Wakefield over the past 20 years.
DERON WHITE (TIE)
Senior Vice President
CBRE
As a senior vice president and member
of CBRE’s Advisory and Transaction Services Group, Deron White has been providing strategic real estate solutions for his clients over the past 30+ years. He has consistently been one of the top producers in the Beverly Hills/West Los Angeles office of CBRE. His expertise and experience have provided local, regional, and national owners, investors, and occupiers with the ability to assess exposure, manage costs, and ultimately enhance value.
White has been involved in over 3,500 lease/sale transactions involving more than 28 million square feet of office space for a total consideration in excess of $5 billion.
MICHAEL KENDALL
Vice Chair
Colliers
After nearly three decades in the industry, Michael Kendall has experience in every aspect of commercial real estate, including brokerage, development, acquisitions, entitlements, asset management and construction. Kendall and his team specialize in representing institutional owners as well as high-net-worth individuals, local entrepreneurs and private equity funds in the sale of industrial investments, including land.
Since 2015, Kendall and his west coast team have closed more than $7.1 billion in individual property sales, totaling more than 62 million square feet. When portfolio sales are included, the totals increase to $12.7 billion and 125 mil- lion square feet.
