Rick Gardner, MBA, CBI

Professional Experience:

Rick Gardner joined Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate as a Vice President in 2021. Rick is a Real Estate and Business Broker, holding the Certified Business Intermediary designation through, and teaching for, the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). Rick began his business and real estate career as a Financial Analyst for Joint Ventures with Richard E. Jacobs Group (then the largest privately-held mall developer in the nation) in the late 1990s – early 2000s, and was most recently a commercial real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Commercial and CBRE. He has invested in real estate, and taught finance courses for both an MBA program and a real estate pre- licensing program. He earned his MBA in Finance from the University of Akron in 1995. Rick served from 1987-1993 in both the U.S. Army and Army National Guard as an MOS 19D Recon Scout and was a 1989 Honor Graduate from the Army’s Primary Leadership Development Course.

Rick has worked across commercial real estate disciplines, with a focus on the office and industrial sectors, and has worked with a variety of business types, helping both buyers and sellers of businesses determine the economic value of businesses and guiding them through the process of asset acquisition/disposition.