Rich Branning
Managing Director, JLL
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Managing Director at JLL with over 23 years of commercial real estate experience.
Phone (650) 815-2208
Managing Director at JLL with over 23 years of commercial real estate experience.
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker
Property Types
Office, Flex
Markets
San Francisco, South Bay/San Jose
Bio
Current responsibilities
As Managing Director, Rich co-leads JLL’s Corporate Advisory Services group in Silicon Valley and oversees the firm’s Palo Alto office.
Rich’s team specializes in representing the requirements of startup companies in all sectors, leading negotiations and integrating the full scope of JLL’s services to meet the tenant’s requirements.
Rich is recognized as one of Northern California’s top tenant rep brokers, he has advised and represented the region’s top high growth companies with over sixteen and a half (16.5) million square feet of transactions for the past 23 years.
Specialties
Tenant Representation & Real Estate Portfolio strategy
Industry specialties
Software
Medical device
Years of experience
23 years
Experience
Rich has been leading and developing organizations throughout his career and was instrumental in building The Staubach Company & Trammell Crow Company tenant representation platforms in the Bay Area.
Rich is consistently recognized for his creative negotiating strategies, entrepreneurial spirit and outstanding customer service and has represented clients in every major market throughout the United States.
Key clients
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
Cadence
PeopleSoft
EA
Renesas
Silicon Valley Financial Group
Atheros Communications
Boston Scientific
Juniper Networks
Infinera
Xerox (PARC)
Gunderson Dettmer
Battery Ventures
Education
B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame.
M.A. from the University of Southern California.
Affiliations
Board Member New Vista Partners (Eastern Europe R.E. Fund)
Past Board Member of International Children’s Games – San Francisco
Captain of the University of Notre Dame Basketball Team (1980) and played in Final Four (1978)
Member of Silicon Valley Leadership Group
