Colliers announced that the veteran tenant rep team of Joe Zona, Kevin Schultz, and John Gaines has joined its brokerage team as Executive Vice President and Vice Presidents respectively. The trio, who join from Newmark, will provide portfolio management services to U.S. and global clients. They will be based in the firm’s downtown Chicago office.
The multi-disciplined team is well known in the market and brings decades of combined experience advising clients across a variety of industries on their occupier needs.
Zona has spent the past two decades focusing on providing best-in-class transaction advisory services to national and global office clients. Most notably, he has completed, or is currently engaged in, transactions totaling more than 2.5 million square feet nationally and more than 500,000 square feet internationally. Zona graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. and B.S.
Schultz has spent the last ten years in the industry leveraging his expertise in high barrier to entry industries, financial acumen, and creative thought process to assist his clients with multi-market growth. He takes special interest in representing human and animal healthcare facilities, insurance institutions, and traditional users of office space with acquisitions, dispositions, relocations and renewals of their owned or leased space. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.
Gaines specializes in tenant representation and business development in the Chicago market and also handles multi-market work with an emphasis on high profile users, tech companies and education clients. While at Newmark, he completed over 100 transactions on behalf of tech clients and was a founding member of the firm’s Education Practice Group. He earned a B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
