Professional Profile

Melissa is a Senior Vice President with Colliers

International. Her area of specialization is office

properties and her focus includes landlord and tenant

representation in leasing and sales. Melissa served

as the Executive Managing Director of the Reno

office from 2015 to 2020.

Since joining the firm in 2005, she has been involved

in nearly 850 transactions totaling approximately

5,000,000 square feet of office space. Melissa

handles approximately 600,000 square feet of office

properties in the Reno/Sparks area at any given time.

Melissa is a distinguished broker in the Northern

Nevada market and has received numerous awards

for her production as well as her dedication and

community service. Melissa is consistently a top

producer at Colliers International and has received

Gold Level Achievement in 2011 and 2012 and has

been awarded Platinum Level Achievement in 2013

through 2019. She was inducted into the Everest

Club in 2018 and 2019 where her production levels

were in the top 10% of Colliers International

professionals in the US.

Melissa is a multi-time recipient of the coveted

Summit Awards for production and volume in the

Northern Nevada market. She has been named

Overall Top Broker in Northern Nevada in 2018 for

her production level among her peers in all service

lines, she has received the Office Broker of the Year

Award in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 for production level

among office brokers. She was also awarded the

Largest Office Lease in Northern Nevada in 2015,

SIOR’s Top Office Lease in 2018 and 2019, Top Office

Sale in 2018 and 2019 and most number of

transactions in 2018 and 2019 for a small market. In

addition, she has received the CREW Impact Award in

2014 for her collaboration among CREW Members as

well as a multi-time recipient of the CREW Deal of

the Year for working with the most number of CREW

Members. In 2016 the Women’s Council of Realtors

named in her in the Top Ten Women in Real Estate

and she received the 20 Under 40 award in 2015 by

the Reno Gazette Journal and Young Professionals

Network.

Melissa has held the Certified Commercial Investment

Member Designation (CCIM) since 2009 and her

Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)

designation since 2015. Both designations require

members to be experts in commercial real estate

brokerage, leasing, asset management, valuation, and

investment analysis.

Melissa is a graduate of the University of Nevada

Reno and holds a degree in marketing and a minor in

journalism. While at UNR she held numerous

executive positions in Delta Sigma Pi, the University’s

business fraternity. She was a presenter of the 2006

award-winning American Advertising Federation’s

IMC Advertising Competition Team.

In 2009, Melissa was named the University’s

Outstanding Young Alumnus by the Alumni

Association.