As Chief Development Officer, Travis Garland oversees the day-to-day business across all asset classes at Portman, playing a key role in shaping strategy, executing transactions, and driving the development of new and existing product types.

Previously, Travis served as Managing Director of Office at Portman, where he led transactions totaling over $4 billion in gross value, including leasing, operations, and dispositions. He is an active member of NAIOP and ULI. His achievements have earned him recognition as a NAIOP “Top Producer” in 2014 and 2018, as well as the #2 Producer in 2016, 2020, and 2021. He was also named one of Real Estate Forum’s 40 Under 40 in 2014 and has been recognized as a CoStar Power Broker from 2013 to 2021.

Travis holds a B.B.A. in real estate from the University of Georgia and is a licensed Broker in Georgia and North Carolina. He has been active in commercial real estate since 2005.

Chris Kopecky is a Principal and the Chief Financial Officer of Jamestown, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee as well as each of its Investment Committees. Mr. Kopecky joined Jamestown in 2016 and oversees all aspects of the firm’s capital markets, finance, accounting, tax, innovation, sustainability, and information technology business units. Since starting at the company, Jamestown has executed approximately $5.1 billion of asset acquisitions and $8.4 billion of asset dispositions. Mr. Kopecky also oversaw the establishment of Jamestown’s European business in 2019 and the acquisition of the Atlanta subsidiary of North American Properties in 2024. Mr. Kopecky is a CPA and prior to joining Jamestown, was the Chief Accounting Officer of Edens, a leading owner, operator, and developer of retail real estate. He also spent a combined 12 years with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young as a senior manager in their business advisory practices, serving publicly traded and privately held clients in the real estate, financial services, and not-for-profit industries. Mr. Kopecky is currently a member of the Jamestown Foundation Board of Directors, the Emory Winship Cancer Institute Advisory Board, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business and completed executive coursework at Harvard Business School.

Jeff Garrison’s passion is to create dynamic, community-changing retail centers that encompass connection, walkability and activation. He believes development should drive neighborhood engagement and bring people together for experiential shopping and dining. His key strengths lie in shaping the future of a community layout and thoughtfully converting urban infill into thriving neighborhoods that benefit residents in meaningful ways. Jeff is a partner at S.J. Collins Enterprises and has been with the company since its 2007 inception. He handles the intricate mechanics that bring a vibrant development property together – from locating new sites, building tenant relationships and communicating with neighborhood groups to hiring contractors and shepherding the project to its final phases.

Over the past decade, he has developed more than 5 million square feet of retail and mixed-use space across the country. Current projects include The Interlock, an award-winning $450 million mixed-use center rising in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood, and Southern Post, a multi-use property soon to transform a much-needed section of Roswell, Georgia.

Jeff graduated magna cum laude with degrees in real estate and speculative finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Georgia real estate license and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He currently serves on the board Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, where his children attend school. Jeff lives in Atlanta with his wife Jennie. The two have three children.

Kristi Brigman is the Chief Economic Development Officer at the Metro Atlanta Chamber

(MAC). She leads the Chamber’s economic development strategy, ecosystem development,

global commerce, and business recruitment.

Before joining MAC in 2024, Kristi served as Deputy Commissioner for Global Commerce at

the Georgia Department of Economic Development. In this role, she oversaw the state’s

business recruitment and retention efforts. She successfully recruited many new

businesses to locations across the state, in both office and industrial markets, and worked

alongside existing Georgia companies expanding their facilities.

Prior to her role at the state, she spent five years working in the State and Local Tax practice

of KPMG LLP in Atlanta. As part of the Income & Franchise tax group there, she provided

advising, planning, controversy, and technical research services to her multi-state clients,

focusing on economic development and tax incentives work.

Kristi is a four-time University of Georgia graduate with a juris doctor, a master’s in

accounting, and a bachelor’s in accounting and art history. A Rome, Georgia native, she now

lives in Atlanta with her husband, three children, and dog.

Lee Kolber is a commercial real estate attorney and business advisor with almost two decades of experience executing capital investments and leading complex business transactions. In addition to his transactional practice, Lee advises private developers, business owners and senior corporate leaders on investment strategies, asset repositioning, real estate management and corporate operations. Lee started his practice at the law firm Troutman Peppers representing publicly-traded developers and major consumer brands in real estate activities and since then has served in inhouse roles with InterContinental Hotels Group and later led the legal team of a private-equity backed real estate investment fund. Lee is a board member of Chattahoochee NOW and serves on the Advisory Board of Finding the Flint.