With more than 40 years of experience in leadership, sales and marketing, Abel Garcia is an accomplished, ethical and inspirational manager. His background includes hiring and building sales and marketing teams, with particular ability to equip and enable teams to meet and exceed objectives. Abel strives to consistently expand his responsibilities based on performance and continues to grow as a leader. His experience has led him to be a highly respected and trusted executive among management and subordinates alike.

Abel’s extensive training in sales growth and passion for marketing has built a platform to excel at Colliers Houston with responsibilities such as creating property briefs, marketing plans and advertising materials. He utilizes his strategic planning expertise by updating the annual business plan and is constantly communicating active property assignments with appropriate staff members.

Bringing 32 years of experience in commercial real estate, Marilynne joined Colliers in 2018 to provide financial analysis to the company’s leasing and investment sales teams for all types of assets, including the following types of financial analysis:

• lease renewal and relocation comparisons
• mid-term lease renegotiations (“blend and extend”)
• lease buyouts
• sublease disposition/recovery
• build-to-suit vs. design-build
• lease vs. buy
• own vs. sale/leaseback
• landlord net effective rate
• discounted cash flows

Prior to joining Colliers, she specialized in advising companies regarding their financial analysis for commercial real estate requirements or investments for 17 years. Marilynne also has a background in commercial mortgage underwriting/loan originations and commercial real estate appraisal.

Jenna Guidotti joined Colliers as an intern in June 2019. She later joined full time as an Administrative Coordinator in June 2021, following her graduation from Purdue University. 

Jenna provides administrative support and maintains the organization of the Houston office daily, connecting prospective buyers/users with Colliers brokers on the firm’s exclusive listing and leasing assignments. Jenna is a high-energy, detailed oriented team player. She has a positive and friendly nature with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Jenna possesses the ability to multi-task and manage a varied and constantly changing workload in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that is entrepreneurial and collaborative with high-level exposure to senior industry professionals.

Jenna earned both the Commercial Property Marketing Certification (CPMC) and Commercial Property Research Certification (CPRC) from Colliers University. CPMC and CPRC are the first and only accreditations for commercial real estate marketing and research professionals. It offers a professional development path to increase strategic and tactical expertise in marketing/ research, knowledge of the industry and capabilities with commercial real estate tools.