Cresa Adds Mike Burns as an Occupier Services Group SVP in DC Location

Mike Burns has joined Cresa’s Washington, DC, office as a SVP with the firm’s occupier services group. He will focus on business development and client services, assisting tenants with long-term strategies that meet the needs of office occupiers in the DC metro area.

Most recently, Burns, along with his brother, co-founded The Burns Brothers, a mission driven agency focused on delivering solutions at the intersection of research, integrated marketing, diversity, equity and inclusion.

Burns previously served as global head of enterprise transformation at Conduent, a $5-billion technology-focused services business, and as director, head of institutional clients group diversity, for Citi in New York City.

He joined corporate America after serving 13 years in the U.S. Army, initially as a helicopter pilot and civil-military advisor with the 101st Airborne Division in support of operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He concluded his military career as the head of diversity recruitment and enrollment for the United States Military Academy at West Point.