Biography
Background & Experience
- Focused on strategic partnership alliances
- Dan's team has negotiated several large HQ Campuses.
- Alcatel -- 250-acre +2 million SF, Plano, TX;
- Alcatel -- 225,000 SF Campus - Petaluma, CA
- Fidelity Investments -- 320 acres +1.4 million SF, Westlake, TX
- JC Penney Life Insurance -- +40 acres, Garland, TX
- Sanmina -- 15 acres, +200,000 SF Campus in New Hampshire
- ICL -- 300,000 SF Campus, Foothills, CA
- Negotiated Leases and Acquisitions valued at over $1 billion
- Led Swearingen's #1 Top Producing Team for 21 Consecutive Years (1990-2011) = Consistency, Experience and Dedication
Experience with Corporate Real Estate Portfolio Management and Complex Transactions Represented:
- Fannie Mae
- ENSCO International
- Celestica
- Triad Hospitals
- Unitrin
- Odyssey Healthcare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Swiss RE Insurance
- John Nuveen Company
- Baker & McKenzie
- Alliance Systems
- JPI
Strategic Focus
- International Exclusive Tenant Representation -- International Portfolio Management
- +30 tenured brokers and experienced in-house support staff
- "In-House" International Research Team
- Office, Industrial, Retail, Mixed Use, Restaurant, Healthcare
- Acquisition, Disposition, Build-to-Suit and Design Build Services
- Space Programming / Space Strategies / Strategic Planning
- Web-based Project Tracking / Lease Database Administration / Accounts Payable
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Logistics Analysis and Planning
- Construction, Project and Relocation Management
- Lease Auditing and Financial Analysis
- City Tax Incentive Negotiations
Business Principles & Philosophy
- Manage international corporate real estate portfolios and complex real estate transactions.
- Understand clients' current and future people/space forecast and then define clients' short- and long-term space requirements (Space Programming).
- Formulate viable space strategies and project objectives to meet business activity drivers.
- Determine project critical path, including tasks and responsibilities and preliminary total project budget.
- Protect clients' future by negotiating flexible options, including expansion, contraction, and cancellation options.
- Provide personal commitment, integrity, professional competence.
- Provide 100% exclusive tenant representation to ensure sound, cost-effective transactions with no conflicts of interest.
- Committed to providing project / portfolio ownership / leadership in every facet of transaction.
- "TEAM" approach with seasonal veterans in every facet of the process ensures a competitive and smooth transaction.
Personal
- Employed at Swearingen Realty Group, L.L.C. (SRG) since 1985
- Born and raised in the Midwest
- Graduated University of North Texas with Degree in Business
- Founded the Bret Bunnett Foundation in 1992
- Created The Bret Bunnett Basketball Shoot-Out to raise money for spinal cord research (raised $500,000+ through 2002)
- Develops young children through basketball coaching
- Resides in North Dallas with wife and four children
- Search Ministries -- Board of Directors
- President's Council, University of North Texas





