Lori Brown - Founder and President of Brown Real Estate Advisors
Lori Brown is the founding Partner and President of Brown Real Estate Advisors.  In addition to her fierce dedication to quality control, Ms. Brown leads portfolio strategy development and executes transactions.  Clients rely on Brown for her sound judgment, negotiating prowess and solutions that mirror her client’s objectives.  Having been an advisor to clients for more than 20 years, there is little Ms. Brown has not seen in real estate.  She has completed work in virtually every industry and market and takes pride in the firm’s ability to solve the most challenging and complex real estate problems.  She has concluded over $6 billion in transactions around the world.  Her clients include Citigroup, Federal Express, Chicago Bridge and Iron, ADP, Time, Inc., Accretive Health and University of Chicago’s Business School, ChicagoBooth.

Brown has received several national honors including, Commercial Real Estate News’ “Power Broker of the Year,” Commercial Real Estate Investor Magazine’s “Brokers to Watch” and “Broker of the Year” and, in 2010, was chosen as one of “Commercial Real Estate’s Most Influential Women” by Real Estate Investor magazine.  Ms. Brown was the first commercial real estate broker in the prestigious and elite Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40.”   

Prior to forming the firm, Brown was an Executive Director at Cushman and Wakefield.  While in a leadership role there, she founded the Energy and Resources practice group and executed transactions with clients across the country in various industries.  Prior to that time, Brown was the co-founder and principal of the Chicago office of New York based Newmark Knight Frank.  
As an active member of CoreNet, the leading commercial real estate services’ professional organization, she founded its leadership development program and held positions on the Finance Committee and the local Board of Directors.  She is a member of the prestigious SIOR organization, an organization that requires its members to be senior level and top producers with the highest of ethics.  SIOR has broker partners in 580 cities in 28 countries.  She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and Executive Club.  She serves on the Executive Board of the Chicago Loop Alliance and has held Board positions with the Boys and Girls Clubs and March of Dimes.

Ms. Brown received her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and a Master’s in Corporate Real Estate designation from CoreNet Global.   Brown is a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois’ Chicago campus.  She is a graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership, an organization that provides training to C-Suite executives.