Loop Central Houston, TX 77081

Doug structures and executes strategic national initiatives and serves institutional clients nationally and throughout Houston in marketing, management and leasing on numerous office projects.
A 34-year industry veteran, Doug’s resume includes negotiations totaling over 50 million square feet with a total transaction value exceeding $4 billion. These commercial office buildings have been located nationally and throughout the greater Houston area. He has been named one of Houston’s “Heavy Hitters” by the Houston Business Journal for the last 15 years. Prior to joining Transwestern, Doug served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director – Central Division with PM Realty Group, where he was responsible for all aspects of the Central Division’s 50 million square foot portfolio.
Some of the most noteworthy leases completed by Doug include Mustang Engineering (411,806 square feet), Shell Oil (250,000 square feet), Conoco Phillips (207,009 square feet), Alliance Wood Group (150,000 square feet), Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (189,000 square feet), Forum Technologies (108,639 square feet), Direct Energy (105,934 square feet), Arnold White & Durkee (100,000 square feet), TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (97,295 square feet), British Petroleum (95,669 square feet), Cadence Bank (82,215 square feet), Det Norske Veritas (75,000 square feet), Haynes & Boone (70,237 square feet) and Ryan (66,750 square feet).

Kelli provides leasing and marketing services for local and institutional clients in the Greater Houston market.

Kelli serves as Senior Vice President with over 15 years of experience in the Houston office market specializing in Landlord representation.  Kelli has averaged 80+ transactions per year for the last 5 years.  She has abundant market knowledge in several Houston submarkets, including the Central Business District, West Loop / Galleria, Bellaire, Energy Corridor, Northwest Houston and Katy.

Kelli’s extensive experience allows her to control the leasing process from start to finish with core strengths in anchor-tenant strategy, financial analysis and marketing strategy planning and execution.  Her current responsibilities include marketing and touring properties, financial lease analysis and negotiating leases for her clients.

During her time at Transwestern, Kelli has been recognized for various achievements.  In 2019, Kelli was a member of the leasing team that won the HOLBA Deal of the Year award for the Direct Energy deal at Houston Center.  She earned the “Young Guns” award at the 2020 Transwestern National Recognition Conference and has been included in the Houston Business Journal’s Heavy Hitters for Landlord Office Representative in 2020 (No. 17), 2021 (No. 9) and 2022 (No. 10).

Some of her past and present clients include Brookfield Properties, Griffin Partners, Regent Properties, Hicks Ventures, TIER REIT, Behringer Harvard, CBRE Global Advisors, NewQuest Properties, Equastone, Chase Merritt and Keppel Houston Group.

Jack’s role includes identifying prospective tenants and researching competing properties to develop the most effective marketing and leasing strategies for our clients as well as negotiating lease proposals and final lease terms.

Jack has assisted in leasing over 163,000 SF at Central Square in Midtown, bringing it from a vacant building to 59% leased. In the past year he has assisted in the lease up of over 300,000 SF at Houston Center, including an anchor tenant at 2 Houston Center.

Some of the most recent noteworthy leases completed by Jack include Direct Energy, City of Houston (65,769 SF), Lyondell Chemical Company (52,508 SF), Gensler (44,728 SF), iQor (34,674 SF), Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease LLP (22,627 SF), Meritage Homes (22,032 SF).