Mark Owens

Bio:

Mark Owens is Vice Chair and Leader of the Hospitality Practice Group at Colliers International, joining in 2023. His transactional experience is achieved through diligent work and an international team-oriented approach, consistently closing iconic transactions with international clients and capital sources.  Most recently Mark was Head of Hospitality Capital Markets for CBRE Hotels, working with his colleagues to move the platform into one of the leading advisors, completing more than $4.5 billion in annual debt and structured finance volume and participating in the team achieving #1 market share. He and his colleagues are responsible for hospitality related transactions across the spectrum, including investment sales, debt, equity, joint venture equity.

Mark Owens oversees the institutional and middle-market teams at Colliers. The international practice has over 170 dedicated hospitality capital markets professionals and is quickly becoming one of the leading advisors globally. 
In addition to his tenure at CBRE, Mark ran the hospitality practice at The Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, building the team’s production upwards of $1 billion in annual transaction volume. Mark was a Vice President at Sonnenblick Goldman and also worked at HVS International and Tishman Hotel Corporation in their New York offices

Mark is on the board of the Center for Real Estate Finance at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business and The Kent Land Trust Foundation. He is a frequent speaker at NYU, ALIS, the Lodging Conference, among others.