Founding Principal, Cresa

Gerald Porter is a founding principal and past chairman at Cresa, a real estate advisory firm that specializes in tenant representation and corporate services with more than 57 offices in North America. Its clients include Marcus and Millichap, Oracle, and Activision. Porter has been a broker for more than 40 years and has completed more than 75 transactions encompassing 3 million square feet of offices leases in 2020. He is a past chairman and member of the Los Angeles Business Council and the Los Angeles Commercial Realty Association. He is also an associate member at the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA and an executive board member and past chairman of Kidsave International.

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