Burnam
CEO StorageMart
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer at Storagemart
- Location
- Columbia, MO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Burnam
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Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Feb 2021 — Present
Cris Burnam has been working in the Self-Storage Industry since 1987, and from to 2021 served as President of StorageMart, before becoming CEO of the company in 2021. StorageMart owns and operates 298 stores across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, comprising approximately net rentable square feet and over rental units. As CEO, Cris oversees all aspects of the organization. StorageMart is headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, and is the largest privately owned storage company in the storage industry.With 35 years of experience in the storage industry, Cris has completed over USD $9 billion in acquisitions, mergers and debt financings. Most recently he led the company in StorageMart\'s USD$3.2 billion acquisition of Manhattan Mini Storage, which was the largest storage transaction in the history of the industry. Cris has been recognized as EY Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014 and was also given the 2014 Torch Award by the Better Business Bureau. Cris is listed as one of Ingram’s Magazine of One of 50 Missourians You Should Know.In 2008, Cris led the company in its successful $416 million dollar takeover of InStorage REIT, a publicly traded REIT on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The transaction closed in March of 2009, and has since been fully integrated in StorageMart.In 1994, Cris and his brother, Mike Burnam launched an IPO of their family owned company called Storage Trust (NYSE:SEA). Storage Trust was successfully merged into Public Storage in for approximately $650 million dollars.Cris lives in Columbia, MO, with his wife Jennifer.
Education
University of Missouri
BS, Economics (Agricultural)
1981 — 1985
Skills
- Acquisitions
- Disposition
- Commercial Real Estate
- Valuation
- Foreclosures
- Tenant
- Investment Properties
- Property
- Cris
- Land Acquisition
- Apartments
- 1031 Exchanges
- Financial Structuring
- Real Estate Economics
- Real Estate License
- Appraisals
- Condos
- Due Diligence
- Real Estate Transactions
- Lease Administration
- Lease Negotiations
- Income Properties
- Rentals
- Industrial Real Estate
- Real Estate Financing
- Entitlements
- Asset Managment
- Reo
- Investments
- Self Storage
- Association Management
- Investors
- Financial Analysis
- Leases
- Real Estate
- Sellers
- Residential Homes
- Feasibility Studies
- Property Management
- Real Estate Development
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