As Executive Vice President and a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team, Brian manages and oversees Synergy’s asset management and leasing teams. and Brian leads the teams focused on collaborating with the firm’s current joint venture partners to create and implement strategic business plans for owned and acquired assets including leasing, capital improvements, and redevelopment initiatives. Brian is also responsible for assisting in the execution of acquisitions, dispositions, and refinance transactions. Brian is actively involved with the firm’s existing institutional equity partners and third-party lenders.
Brian has over 23 years of institutional real estate investment management experience. Before joining Synergy, he was a Senior Vice President with Clarion Partners for 9 years where he oversaw a national portfolio of assets in both the office and life science sectors. Before Clarion Partners, Brian was Vice President at The Davis Companies, managing a diversified portfolio across the Eastern United States. Brian spent more than a decade with Long Wharf Capital (formerly of Fidelity Investments) where he rose to the position of Director for Asset Management.
Brian Collins holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from Bentley University and a Certified Public Accountant qualification. Brian is a U.S. Veteran having served in the Army Reserves for 6 years.