Biography
Jerry specializes in representing corporations in locating and negotiating the sale, lease and Built to suite of industrial buildings in the major Portland submarkets and in industries such as 3rd party logistics (Expeditors, Fedex, UPS, Ontrac, JCB Packaging and Logistics, USA Warehousing), Food & Beverage, Paper & Packaging, Oil & Gas (Tarr Oil/Leathers Fuel/Wilson Oil), Outdoor Gear & Sports Apparel (Keen/Nike/Dr. Martens) and R&D (Intel, Microsoft, IDEXX, Coherent) to name a few.
A true self-starter, Jerry exceeded the expectations of his peers early in his career by completing three of the eight largest industrial lease transactions in the State of Oregon in 2007 and hasn't slowed since, having become the youngest Industrial broker to earn an SIOR designation in State history.
Jerry and his team have become synonymous with the largest scale development that have helped shape the Portland market, completing 5 Amazon transactions with three separate developers in the past 5 years in addition to delivering the largest speculative warehouse in the history of OR and SW Washington.
Jerry has since earned the honor of "Top Producing Industrial Broker” at Colliers Portland on numerous occasions and has been awarded the Industrial Broke of the year for Oregon & SW 3x and runner up 2x. In addition, Jerry's team consisting of Brian Yoakum (SIOR, and Tom Knecht (SIOR) also won Industrial team of the year in 2022. Jerry has consummated over 1B in transaction in his 16 year career and is also an Everest Award winner for being in the top 10% of U.S. in production.
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