Commercial Real Estate Profile: Chase Pattillo managing partner, CBRE, Tampa

Chase Pattillo traveled an unorthodox path on his way to becoming the managing partner of CBRE's Tampa office.

Prior to joining the nation's largest commercial real estate brokerage and services firm, for instance, Pattillo wasn't a broker. Instead, he ran a property workouts and dispositions division for a Jacksonville-based lender with more than $21 billion in assets. He also worked for development companies that invested in multifamily projects and student housing.

That breadth of experience has come in handy in the past year as Pattillo, 47, has worked to bring CBRE's nationwide presence and vast resources - from brokerage to financing to asset management -- to bear for Gulf Coast and nationwide clients and the firm's agents alike.