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.

Melissa Marks is a senior associate with Colliers, specializing in the sale and leasing of industrial and land properties, working on behalf of landlords, tenants, sellers and buyers. She partners with Bonnie Halley and Brian Gleason, senior vice presidents; and Danny Schuster, senior associate, to serve clients across the West Valley submarkets of metropolitan Phoenix.

Leveraging her in-depth market knowledge, Melissa effectively positions properties in the marketplace to reach targeted tenants and buyers. She aligns marketing strategies with her clients’ business objectives to deliver optimal results. Clients appreciate her proactive approach to quickly move property marketing and negotiations forward to save them both time and money.

With more than 13 years of professional expertise in problem-solving, reasoning and analysis, Melissa is able to readily identify and resolve transactional issues. Clients can rely on her to look out for their best interests.

Serving as a collaborative partner to her clients, Melissa develops long-term relationships built on mutual trust and respect. She believes a key factor to successfully closing transactions is the degree to which all parties trust each other.

Melissa brings a positive and enthusiastic energy to working with clients and peers, starting each day with an optimistic attitude. She embodies the adage of doing what you love and loving what you do.

Prior to joining Colliers, Melissa was an associate with Phoenix West Commercial in Goodyear, specializing in industrial and office properties. In that role, she advised prospective clients on market conditions and drove the negotiation process for successful transactions. Melissa demonstrated exceptional prospecting skills by generating an extensive client base through aggressive marketing and personal referrals from satisfied clients, resulting in recognition as Rookie of the Year.

As administrator for FourteenSix, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, Melissa was responsible for financial procedures and policies, provided fiscal and administrative leadership, and oversaw a $250,000 budget. Previously, she served as project coordinator for Toyota in San Diego, where she oversaw the development and implementation of an international policy development program. She also provided leadership to multiple management teams for the integration of a new customer care policy.

Melissa and her husband founded FourteenSix, Inc., an Arizona non-profit organization, 16 years ago. She enjoys pouring her love into the children there in her free time, and she is active in her church, particularly in women and children’s ministry.

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.