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Brett Hatcher has been with Marcus & Millichap since 2006 and is currently a senior managing director investments. In his time with Marcus & Millichap, Brett has successfully brokered over 627 transactions, totaling over $3.9 billion in real estate. An expert from the ground up to lease up, Brett is up to date in all aspects of self storage investments, including management, operations, market conditions, capital market and economic trends impacting the self storage industry. Brett’s knowledge of the self storage market is unparalleled in the industry and has consistently…

Mike Mele, Vice Chairman, leads Cushman & Wakefield’s national Self-Storage Advisory Group, which represents clients ranging from private investors to large-scale REITs in the development, expansion, consolidation, acquisition and disposition of self storage assets. Mr. Mele began his career in self storage investment sales in 1999. He went on to build an industry-leading team, which he brought to Cushman & Wakefield in 2019. Based in Tampa, the 18-member, multi-market team has closed more than 600 self storage transactions totaling more than $6 billion. In 2020 alone, the team closed 41…

Linda Cinelli began in 1989 as a professional real estate broker in commercial real estate and land sales.  Since 1994, she has specialized in investments and the self storage industry.  Her area of expertise includes real estate acquisition, asset disposition, development and institutional representation.  She is a CCIM whose other professional affiliations include CIREI, CBA, IREOBA. She has achieved the designation of CEA, a Certified Exchange Advisor, for those clients performing 1031 exchanges.  Linda is the founder and president of the Northern New Jersey CCIM District, which merged into the…

Edan Cohen is a co-founder at Sector Property Group. In partnership with Linda Cinelli and LC Realty and as an affiliate broker of Argus Self Storage Advisors, Mr. Cohen is responsible for originating and executing the sale of self storage facilities throughout the Northern New Jersey, New York City and Long Island territories. Representing both private and institutional owners and investors in the acquisition and disposition of multifamily, development, office, retail and industrial properties in both on and off-market transactions, Mr. Cohen has successfully closed over $400 million in aggregate…

Steve Mellon is a managing director in the Houston, TX office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas and is the leader of the firm’s national self storage group. He specializes in acquisitions and dispositions in the self storage asset class and has been involved in $2.0 billion in property sales and structured financing/equity placement. His experience also includes performing valuation and value enhancement consulting assignments to help clients identify and boost their property values.  Additional assignments include unit mix analysis, demographic and market analysis and inspection and lock checks. Prior to…

Brandon Robinson is a licensed real estate broker, specializing in self storage and commercial transactions in California and Nevada. With prestigious recognitions such as CoStar’s “Power Broker” under his belt, Brandon’s strength is in aggressively growing territories from scratch.  Over the past four years, he has overseen the growth of Calvary Realty to over $46 million in closed transactions.  Throughout his 15-year career, he has worked with several top storage operators and facilitated contracts, ranging from small transactions to multi-million-dollar deals.  Brandon has experience in all-cash deals, lender owned properties,…

John C. Lindsey graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in business administration with a commercial real estate development concentration. Licensed since 2008, his only focus has been self storage as he has explored brokerage, consultation, development and management over the past seven years while working on various projects throughout the world. John is a member of the North Carolina, South Carolina and National Self Storage Associations, as well as a board member of the national Self Storage Association, the NCSSA, and former president of the SSASC.

With a reputation as a key player in self storage investment sales, James Ashley Compton has sold or listed 15.2 million square feet of self storage sold or listed over the course of his 16 year brokerage career. These transactions are valued in excess of $1.28 billion and place Ashley among top national producers. Upon joining Colliers International’s Nashville office in 2016, Ashley was named a national director of self storage investment sales. While obtaining his undergraduate degree, Ashley launched his career as an acquisitions analyst for a self storage…

Chad is the managing director at Dominus Commercial and was formerly a senior associate at Colliers International. Chad Snyder specializes in self storage and office tenant representation. In this capacity, he focuses on representing midsize office tenants in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area with a targeted concentration in Tarrant County. Additionally, Chad draws upon his research and analytical skills to provide clients with valuable local and national market insight on a daily basis. Prior to joining Dominus, Chad worked in the oil and gas industry where he specialized in the…

Tyler is senior vice president at Dominus Commercial. He began his career as a real estate intern during his senior year at Texas Christian University for a Fort Worth real estate firm. Upon graduation, Tyler became a licensed real estate broker in Texas and has been representing clients for their real estate needs since 1998. He has successfully represented buyers and sellers of self storage properties since 1999 having completed deals ranging from $500,000 to $18,000,000. He is also a real estate investor and part owner in a Texas self…