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Ashley Baker is an Asset Manager at Brennan Investment Group. She brings over eight years of experience in commercial leasing, commercial marketing, and property management. Her responsibilities involve understanding and implementing the operating expenses and budgeting for each property, financial reporting, tenant lease requirements, and facility management.

Ashley has been working in commercial real estate since graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic media and film production.

Jacob Borenstein is an Investment Analyst at Brennan Investment Group. In this capacity, Jacob assists with acquisitions and developments in the Midwest, Florida, and Corporate Real Estate Solutions group. His responsibilities include sourcing, underwriting, and market analysis.

Jacob graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Real Estate & Finance, Investment Banking. In addition, Jacob graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a master’s degree in real estate. Jacob is an active member of NAIOP and WREAA (Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association).

Sarah Brennan is a Senior Associate at Brennan Investment Group. Her responsibilities include analyzing and negotiating new leases and renewals, collaborating with listing brokers to manage the leasing of vacant space, and identifying plans to maximize occupancy rates and rental revenues. Sarah is a licensed real estate broker and a member of the National Association of REALTORS^®. She is also a member of IWIRE, NAIOP, and YNG Chicago. Sarah serves as a NAIOP Developing Leader Board Member.

Sarah graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational communication and a minor in finance.

Kevin Brennan is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group. In this capacity, he directs all investment, operations, portfolio management, disposition, and development activity in the Midwest Region.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Kevin worked in the Capital Deployment Group at Prologis. While there, he was directly responsible for the evaluation and underwriting of industrial acquisition and development transactions throughout the Central Region of the United States. During the course of his career, Kevin has been involved in over $4 billion in industrial real estate transactions.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He is an active member of NAIOP and serves as a board member of the University of Wisconsin’s James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.

Eric Clausen is Vice President of Asset Management for Brennan Investment Group. In this capacity, he is primarily responsible for management of the Group’s single tenant net lease portfolios, with locations throughout the United States.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Eric worked in joint venture asset management, acquisitions, and debt finance for Inland American Real Estate Trust, First Industrial Realty Trust, and Northwestern Investment Management. He has over 12 years’ experience as a portfolio investment manager in industrial and other major property types. Over this time, Eric has successfully managed multiple, mainly industrial, portfolios worth over $1 billion in combined value and has also been involved in $2.5 billion in new investments.

Eric earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana University and his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Michigan State University.

Mary Crandall is Vice President of Asset Management at Brennan Investment Group. Her main responsibility is acting as the liaison between ownership and tenant. Her duties include development of strong tenant relations, collections, fulfillment of lease responsibilities, tenant lease negotiations, and renewal of tenant leases. Mary is responsible for day-to-day building operations, vendor contracts, tenant improvements, and budget creation and implementation.

Mary has over 32 years’ experience as property manager/asset manager in multi-housing, high-rise, industrial, and retail property management with industry leaders such as Aspen Square Management, American Invesco, Draper & Kramer, Equity Residential, Charles E. Smith, and MPR Management.

Allen Crosswell is a Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group. He is responsible for industrial property transactions in Texas, with a focus on Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin.

Allen is a leader in the Houston real estate brokerage and investment community. He believes in the value of long-term relationships and that fair business dealings lead to repeat business. By employing this philosophy, he has gained the confidence of landowners, investors, brokers, and retailers within the real estate community and has produced consistent year-in and year-out results for his clients and investors in both the land brokerage and development arenas.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Allen was a co-founder of TGB Crosswell. He has a significant track record of identifying and executing successful raw land investment and development opportunities. His ability to pinpoint the key issues in a deal and to work through those issues in a way that is agreeable and even beneficial to all parties involved is a recurring theme in the transactions he has completed. He was also co-founder of Crosswell Torian Commercial Properties, LLC, which specialized in commercial land brokerage.

Allen received his Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Mississippi.

Tim Donohue is Senior Asset Manager at Brennan Investment Group. Tim comes to Brennan Investment Group from Entre Asset Management, where he was the director of asset management and brought a portfolio of approximately one million square feet of assets to grow their third-party managed portfolio.

Prior to joining Entre, Tim was managing broker at CTK Asset Services, where he handled property management, leasing, and marketing for a portfolio of retail, industrial, and office properties while also representing both industrial and retail businesses in their real estate endeavors.

Tim has been working in the commercial real estate industry since 1986. As a leasing director for the Shidler Group, he was part of the team that launched First Industrial Realty Trust in 1994. His career experience includes property management, leasing, asset and portfolio management, acquisitions, dispositions, and development. As an officer of a large publicly traded REIT, Tim directed the Midwest Region portfolio of assets that totaled over $400 million in value at its peak. In 2003, as one of two partners, he launched Gallagher Realty, a real estate investment and consulting company, where he syndicated and structured various investments in the acquisition and development of multiple industrial, retail, and office properties.

Throughout his career, Tim has managed a variety of property types, including a portfolio of 86 industrial properties with revenues of over $40 million, and participated in the execution of more than 10 million square feet of leases. He has directed the acquisition of over $200 million in real property assets and completed the sale of over $100 million of real property assets. He has worked in the development of over $100 million in new buildings, including the acquisition of over 200 acres of land.

Tim is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University.

Sharon Fields is Vice President, Property Management at Brennan Investment Group. She oversees more than 50 industrial properties totaling 5 million square feet in the Indiana and Ohio regions.

Sharon brings a wealth of property management experience to Brennan, with past positions working at Colliers, Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, Prologis, and JLL. She has been involved in many types of commercial property management, having started in office/retail and then transitioning to industrial real estate upon joining Prologis and JLL.

Sharon earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida.

Rob Gage is a Senior Vice President at Brennan Investment Group and is responsible for the acquisition and development of industrial properties in North and South Carolina. Additionally, he oversees all operational activities within his region, including management and leasing.

Before joining Brennan Investment Group, Rob was vice president of development for AI. Neyer, a private developer of industrial, office, and medical office properties. In this role, Rob was responsible for the ground-up development of over $130 million of development projects in the Nashville, TN, area over the last several years. He has served as a senior vice president of leasing and sales for Proventure Commercial Real Estate, OakPoint Real Estate, and Cassidy Turley (now Cushman & Wakefield), where he advised numerous local and Fortune 500 clients as well as institutional investors in real estate strategy, leasing, acquisition, and disposition. Throughout his career, he has completed over $1 billion in sales, leasing, and development transactions.

Rob is a native of the Carolinas and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.

Scott Gibler is the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Solutions for Brennan Investment Group. He is based out of Denver but is responsible for national implementation of the CRES platform, calling on corporate America to creatively monetize and strategically structure operational efficiencies on an individual or portfolio basis.

Scott has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, particularly in capital deployment, and asset management. Before joining Brennan Investment Group, he was the chief investment officer for a Denver-based private investment group with $1.4 billion in AUM. Prior to that, he was managing director for Broe Real Estate Group, a privately held national real estate investment group, and for 15 years, was managing director with Amstar Group, a private family office. During his tenure over the past 20 years, he has acquired, developed, and/or operated over $2.3 billion of commercial and industrial real estate in the U.S. and international markets.

Scott received his Bachelor of Science degree in finance and real estate from the University of Southern California.

Tim Gudim is a Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group. He is responsible for industrial property investments in the Western United States, with a primary focus on Southern California.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Tim was Managing Director-West Region at First Industrial, where he expanded the company’s investment and development objectives and opened new regional offices in the major West Coast markets. During his tenure at First Industrial, he acquired portfolios and opened regional offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Portland while also acquiring properties in San Francisco. Over the course of a 31-year career, Tim has orchestrated over $1 billion in commercial real estate transactions, in excess of 60 million square feet, spanning multiple Western regional markets, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Portland, and Phoenix.

Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Tod Greenwood is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group. Tod serves as Executive Director of Build-to-Suit development for Brennan, leading Brennan’s build-to-suit efforts on a national basis. In this role, he works with the local field offices to source projects and deliver real estate solutions for Brennan’s corporate clients.

As a career real estate professional, Tod got his start in industrial development with the Trammell Crow Company and has spent the last 24 years developing both retail and industrial projects at Trammell Crow, Crosswell Greenwood Development and since 2010 with Brennan Investment Group.

Tod holds both a Bachelor of Science and Masters degree in business finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves on the Chancellor’s Council for the University of Texas System and the President’s Associates for the University of Texas at Austin.

Fred Hicks is a Senior Associate in the Philadelphia office. In his capacity, he is involved in the identification, underwriting and closing of various property investments (including developments), as well as with ongoing asset management of these investments and developments, and with dispositions at the achievement of investment objectives. Fred will also assist in the direct sourcing of new investment opportunities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Fred was an Associate Director with the CBRE National Partners team in Radnor, PA for over 5 years focusing on underwriting industrial assets, overseeing the gathering of all due diligence materials for investment packages, and providing financial and market analysis for Offering Memorandums and Broker Opinions of Value.

Fred earned his BBA in Real Estate and Finance from Villanova University and is a member of the Greater Philadelphia chapter of NAIOP.

Matt Kay is a Vice President at Brennan Investment Group. In this capacity, his responsibilities include financial and market analysis of industrial, development, and single-tenant net lease acquisitions throughout the United States, with a focus on Midwest markets. Matt is also responsible for the sourcing of acquisitions, developments, and redevelopments in Michigan. While at Brennan Investment Group, he has assisted in the acquisition, development, and recapitalization of over $2.6 billion in transactions, totaling approximately 50 million square feet in over 20 different states.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and is an active member of NAIOP. He is involved with charitable organizations such as the Young Associates Board of Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Chad Tough Foundation of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital of Ann Arbor.

Bobby Krueger is a Senior Associate in the Southeast Region for Brennan Investment Group. He is responsible for the due diligence and market analysis of industrial development and acquisitions in the Florida market.

Prior to joining Brennan Investment Group, Bobby was a vice president, fulfillment divisional leader in the Consumer Banking sector of Bank of America. He was responsible for leading a fulfillment division and the end-to-end process of a $1.2 billion consumer loan portfolio.

He graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate. He is a member of NAIOP and a licensed real estate associate in the State of Florida.