SEATTLE, Jan. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Colliers
International today announced that industry investment and
financing veteran Brian Ward will
take the reins as President of its Capital Markets group in the
Americas. With nearly 30 years of financial, legal and
investment management experience in commercial real estate, Ward
will be responsible for delivering comprehensive strategic services
and innovative debt and equity financing arrangements to meet the
needs of real estate owners, developers, advisors, lenders and
investors in Canada, Latin America, and the United States.
"We are excited and proud to add Brian
Ward as a member of the Colliers leadership team and a key
component of our global capital markets strategy," said
Dylan Taylor, Chief Executive
Officer | Americas at Colliers International. "Brian has
shown a winning ability to satisfy the needs of both borrowers and
capital providers at every stage of the property ownership cycle.
He has successfully grown his clients' businesses with his talent
for designing, negotiating and implementing financial structures of
all types and sizes."
Ward will head Colliers' industry-leading capital markets team
serving the Americas region, focusing initially on New York and other major markets. He will also
be responsible for expanding the Institutional Investment practice
group in the U.S., and for developing additional investment
services lines in the Americas to focus on specialized sectors
across the entire capital structure.
Prior to joining Colliers, Ward was National Director of capital
markets for Institutional Property Advisors, and before that served
as Chief Investment Officer at Hendricks-Berkadia. For the previous
seven years, he was Managing Principal and Chief Executive Officer
for Orion Residential and its successor company, Aspen Residential.
Ward also had been Global Executive Director of Olympic Investors,
an institutional investment management firm specializing in
apartment, condominium and mixed-use assets. Ward is a member
of the Urban Land Institute and the National Multi Housing Council,
and has been an active member of the Washington State Bar Association since
1987.
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