Gordon most recently was Director of Leasing for PacTrust's 380-acre Columbia Tech Center development in Vancouver, Wash. Prior to that, Gordon was with Beals Martin, where he was a partner and responsible for their East Bay development portfolio. Prior to that, he spent several years with Opus as director of national accounts in the Western Region.
Lindsay now has overall profit and loss responsibility for servicing TCC's existing Portland-area clients and seeking out ways to create new business opportunities. He will direct the 30-person Portland office to develop short and long-range operating objectives and programs that will affect all disciplines of the business including building management, brokerage, project management, development and investment.
"I was looking for someone who could grow our management, brokerage and development businesses and, most of all, I wanted a leader," says John Sterik, who left the Portland office for Dallas in 2001 to become COO of TCC's Global Services Group but was asked to head the search for a new city leader after Chris Nelson left the post last summer to start his own development business. "Gordon clearly meets those criteria."
Gordon tells GlobeSt.com he accepted the job with PacTrust--a somewhat backward move, professionally, based on his previous responsibilities--because of the quality of the PacTrust organization as well as quality of life. "Much of my wife's family moved from the Bay Area to the Portland area a few years ago," says Gordon, who bought a house in Lake Oswego in late 2001. "So over the course of the past three or four years we spent much of our holidays and vacations here and over time we made the decision that this was the right place to be."
Regarding leaving PacTrust, Gordon says "it was a difficult decision to leave such a premier organization" but he is "thrilled with the opportunity" to once again have "a much greater level of involvement in all aspects of a business."
Sterik tells GlobeSt.com he originally focused hard on an internal candidate who could handle the job. "He was going to move up from California and I spent the first few months (after Nelson left) finalizing that," says Sterik. "But at the last moment the candidate saw his kids playing in his yard with their grandparents and declined; that set me back."
Sterik says he dove deep into the task again in December and talked to 12 people before narrowing it down to Gordon. "Getting the right person was more important than the timing," says Sterik. "I absolutely made the right choice."
Since Nelson left last July, three other employees have left the Trammell Crow organization. Vice President of Development Jeff Sackett left to join Nelson and retail brokers Craig Sweitzer and Dan Bozich also left to establish their own firm. Including Nelson, all were people Sterik hired before taking the COO post in Dallas.
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