Tony has over 34 years experience in providing strategic real estate advisory services for corporate users and non-profit institutions. In particular, Tony has worked closely with clients to develop programs with real world, actionable strategies to align their real estate obligations with their ownership, cost, quality and location objectives.

Tony has extensive experience in providing portfolio reviews and analysis, highest and best use studies, occupancy cost benchmarking, merger and acquistion services, development advisory, master planning, site slection, tenant representation, transaction management, financial analysis and ownership structures. His experience involves working across a wide range of asset classes including office, retail, data centers, and headquarters facilities and transaction types including acquisitions, dispositions, build-to-suits and sale-leaseback transactions.

Some of Tony's distinguished list of clients include SunTrust, McKesson, Ernst and Young, Georgia Tech, Siemens, Microsoft, Sprint, Mellon Bank, Equifax, Wellpoint, Darden Restaurants and Woodruff Arts Center.

Wallace Watanabe oversees the Brasfield & Gorrie Atlanta office’s Education/Research Division. Wallace has been in the industry since 1989 after graduating with a Building Science degree from Auburn University. For the last 21 years he has been working for Brasfield & Gorrie in various roles as a Project Manager, Operations Manager, Preconstruction Manager and, for the last 6 years, as a Division Manager. He has been a part of the Education/Research Division since it’s inception and has worked on several life science and research projects at institutions around the state including Emory, UGA, Georgia Tech, Oglethorpe, Berry and Georgia Southern just to name a few. He has also been involved in several private research projects. Wallace believes there is no substitution for hard work and great communication and he leads a team of professionals committed to exceeding client expectations.

Executive who served as President for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Deputy National Vice President for Research at the American Cancer Society, Founding Medical Director of Mission Cancer Center in Asheville, NC, Professor of Hematology and Oncology at Emory University, and Managing Partner of Salutramed Group. Boarded in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.