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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