Mark Detmer, ESIA P'29

Mark Detmer is the Co-founder and CEO of Premier Logistics Properties.  His primary responsibilities include leading the strategic direction of PLP and managing its relationships with its Board of Directors and institutional investors. Prior to founding PLP, Mark served over twelve years as Senior Managing Director and Head of Industrial Capital Markets for the Western United States at Jones Lang LaSalle, seven years as Executive Director at Cushman and Wakefield, and nearly ten years as Senior Vice President at Trammell Crow Company.

Mark is a nine-time Broker of the Year award winner, multi-year SIOR National Industrial and Investment Sale award recipient and NAIOP Associate Member of the Year. During his 30 year career in industrial real estate, Mark has successfully negotiated over 2,000 transactions encompassing a half a billion square feet of sales and leases totaling more than $40 billion dollars in value. Mark is an executive committee member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) Industrial and Office Product Council (IOPC-Red), Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), Certified Commercial Investment Member, and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), serving as the Chairman of NAIOP's National E-Commerce Forum.

Mark served on many Executive Boards including Premier Logistics Properties, Ipswich Town Football Club, Phoenix Rising Football Club, 21st Century Ventures, Baximus, and Phoenix Country Day School. Mark supports many local, national, and international charities including the Leadership Circle at Phoenix Children's Hospital’s Teammates for Kids Foundation, and Tumaini, a Kenyan orphanage.

Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Pre-Medicine from Arizona State University and splits his time between Pacific Palisades, California and Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife and daughter.  Mark and his wife, Shelly Detmer, are proud parents of Alden Detmer, currently enrolled in GW’s Elliot School of International Affairs.