Wesley Powell

Current responsibilities 

With a San Francisco based real estate transaction practice, Wes Powell co-leads the agency leasing group. He also works closely with our Capital Markets Group on Investment Sales. Over the past 15 years as a market leader for JLL, Wes has leased over 9,000,000 square feet and assisted with strategy and underwriting assumptions on over $9 billion of downtown asset trades since 2001. Wes previously worked for owners on the equity side of the business in roles including asset and portfolio management, property management and acquisitions. Current clients include Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, LaSalle, VanBarton, Invesco, Paramount, Union/Metzler and Jamestown. 

Experience

Prior to joining JLL, Wes’s responsibilities included all property and asset management, construction, and leasing activity at Prentiss Properties for their West Region Portfolio.  In this executive management role, his 15 million s.f. portfolio consisted of both institutional assets for third-party clients, as well as 4 million s.f. Prentiss REIT-owned properties. Wes managed more than 150 professionals in the Western Region, the largest and most economically prosperous region in the organization.  Before Prentiss Properties, Wes spent 10 years at Shuwa Investments Corporation.  Beginning in 1989 as an acquisition and development financial analyst, he later became Shuwa’s youngest Vice President and Regional Manager leading the Northern California portfolio and increased its NOI by more than 270%.

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