Brandon Birtcher

Brandon Birtcher is the CEO of Birtcher Development LLC, a leading US industrial development company inspired by his great-grandfather in 1939. He joined the family firm in 1976 after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business/Economics from Claremont Men’s College and serving 6 years in the US Coast Guard Reserves.

Since its inception, Birtcher has acquired, managed, and/or developed over 65 million square feet across more than 260 projects totaling $7+ billion. From 2012-2016, Brandon served as CEO of Goodman Birtcher North America, a JV that was capitalized with $2 billion of equity, 55% from the Goodman Group of Australia and 45% from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Under his leadership, Goodman Birtcher developed a pipeline valued at $1.7 billion, containing 14 MSF of logistics space across 13 sites in 4 states. Customers included Amazon, Georgia Pacific, Walmart and Porsche/Audi.

Mr. Birtcher was the recipient of the Southern California Property Owner’s Association’s “Developer of the Year” award in 1987, and the company was the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties’ (NAIOP) “Real Estate Developer of the Year” in 1989.