Brian Gleason, SIOR, is a senior vice president with Colliers, specializing in the sale and leasing of industrial, land and R&D properties, with extensive experience representing corporate and institutional clients, locally and nationally. Comprehensive services include landlord, tenant and investor representation, corporate services, business development and project management.

Brian partners with Bonnie Halley, senior vice president; Melissa Marks, senior associate; and Danny Schuster, senior associate, to serve clients across the West Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix.

As an industry veteran with more than 35 years of commercial real estate experience, there are few situations Brian hasn’t encountered. Most importantly, he acknowledges what he does not know and defers to other experts, when necessary. He is committed to placing the interests of his clients first, helping them understand what is required of both them and himself, while creating a smooth path to successful transactions.

Having previously served in the role of designated broker, Brian has a strong commitment to integrity and honesty in all aspects of his work and relationships. Clients and colleagues alike describe him as knowledgeable, conscientious, helpful and easy to work with.

Before joining Colliers, Brian served as senior vice president of leasing with Phoenix West Commercial in Goodyear, successfully establishing the firm as an industry leader in the West Valley.

Previously, Brian held positions as senior vice president for Cornish & Carey Newmark and also senior vice president and designated broker for Trammell Crow Company in San Francisco, with responsibility for developing transaction opportunities for institutional and corporate clients at both firms. He also served as national real estate portfolio manager for the McKesson Corporation. Prior to that, Brian was a senior vice president with Jones Lang LaSalle.

Bonnie Halley is a senior vice president and licensed associate broker with Colliers, specializing in the sale and leasing of industrial, office and land properties, with demonstrated expertise representing landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers.

She partners with Brian Gleason, senior vice president; and senior associates Melissa Marks and Danny Schuster, to serve clients across the West Valley submarkets of metropolitan Phoenix.

Bonnie brings more than 30 years of experience providing business solutions and real estate expertise to her clients. Comprehensive services include market and financial feasibility studies, site selection, location analysis, demographic reports, targeted marketing, transaction negotiations, and contract support.

She is sharply focused on her clients’ success and ensures they have the essential information to make informed real estate decisions. To assist property owners and investors, she provides financial comparative analyses for various strategies, such as buy, sell, hold and refinance.

As a strategic partner, Bonnie keeps her clients’ interests in the forefront. Her goals are to achieve the best results and maximize their financial returns, while saving time by streamlining the process. Clients describe their experience buying, selling or leasing real estate as a much smoother and less stressful process than expected, due to her being highly responsive and keeping them fully informed.

Prior to joining Colliers, Bonnie was a senior vice president and associate broker with Phoenix West Commercial in Goodyear. Previously, she was an associate broker with Don Bennett & Associates in Goodyear and Re/Max Commercial in Scottsdale.

During a banking career spanning over 20 years, Bonnie managed one of the largest offices for a regional bank. She also served as a commercial lender and portfolio manager. In 1996, Bonnie helped form a de novo bank in Scottsdale. Her experience includes working on behalf of a national bank regulatory agency, investigating failed banks.

Bonnie has served her community as an officer and member of several boards of directors, including the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce and Central Arizona Chapter of CCIM. She is active in her church and loves spending time with family and friends in the Northern Arizona pines.

As a senior client services coordinator for Colliers in Arizona, Cory Gernant provides comprehensive marketing and client services for an industrial and office team, as well as for senior professionals who specialize in mortgage advisory, and debt and structured finance.

With more than 17 years of experience in marketing, including seven years in commercial real estate, Cory provides a broad bandwidth of marketing expertise unrivaled in commercial real estate. His professionals and their clients benefit from his careful attention to detail, organizational skills and pragmatic approach to marketing.

Combining cutting-edge creativity with highly effective marketing strategies, Cory ensures his professionals have a competitive advantage in their service offering to the marketplace. He develops compelling visual stories to help win business and successfully market properties and services.

Cory creates impactful designs for high-level marketing collateral, including offering memorandums, broker opinions of value, lead-generating digital marketing and custom property websites that stand out from the competition. He integrates his understanding of the clients’ needs with the Colliers’ strategies to develop creative concepts that achieve results.

As a collaborative team member, Cory provides strategic and tactical support to meet objectives. Colleagues describe Cory as innovative, highly creative, inquisitive, hard-working, fun and caring.

Cory’s advanced skills include the entire Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office Suites, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, content management systems, Email Studio, Constant Contact, CoStar and LoopNet. He is also Google AdWords certified.

Cory joined Colliers in 2018, as senior client services coordinator for the Meng-Grantham Hospitality Team for three years before transitioning to his current role. Cory has more than 17 years of design, creative and marketing experience in print and digital marketing, websites, social media, photography, and advertising.

Previously, Cory served as creative director of OB Sports Golf Management, where he created an in-house marketing agency from the ground up. He built a team that serviced the marketing needs of over 60 golf courses and private clubs with web, print, social media, photography, and advertising.

Cory’s experience includes more than five years in marketing for Grubb & Ellis | BRE. He helped grow the in-house marketing group from two to 10 staff, helped create national branding guidelines, and managed all marketing services, including web, print and photography, for more than 100 brokers and their teams.