James Malone '92

James Malone '92 (Life Member), a well-known commercial real estate executive in Los Angeles, has been named to the post of senior managing director for Colliers International and will oversee the firm’s South Bay and West Los Angeles offices, it was announced by Executive Managing Director Hans Mumper.

A former vice president with developer Brookfield Properties and broker with Jones Lang LaSalle, Malone will partner with Mumper in expanding Colliers’ presence in both of those pivotal Los Angeles markets as the brokerage firm continues driving toward its stated goal of doubling the size of its business by the year 2020. The GLA Region includes Colliers’ flagship office in Downtown Los Angeles, as well as offices in West Los Angeles, South Bay (El Segundo), Los Angeles North (Encino), Inland Empire (Ontario), Orange County (Irvine), Santa Clarita Valley (Valencia), and in the cities of Industry and Commerce.

“As we continue to expand our management team in the Greater Los Angeles Region, it was important we recruit someone with the professional background and gravitas of a James Malone, someone who has a sterling reputation and the ability to lead and expand our brokerage teams in both markets,” said Mumper. “His record of success on both the institutional ownership and brokerage sides of the business gives him special insight into the commercial real estate business, which he can share with our broker teams.“

Malone, who earlier in his career was responsible for the marketing and leasing of mixed-use projects built by Catellus Development in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, also served as an attorney at the law firm of Haight, Brown & Bonesteel in Los Angeles, where he specialized in commercial litigation. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, after earning his B.A. in economics at UCLA while starring as a linebacker on the football team.

“I am very excited to be joining Colliers and to be assuming a leadership role in propelling the company’s growth in the Greater Los Angeles Region,“ Malone said. “I am looking forward to this new challenge and to being a part of leading such a great firm to even greater heights.”