Aaron began working as an appraiser in 1993 with a private company in Vancouver, Washington. In 1999, he moved on to Deloitte’s Financial Advisory Services Group, part of one of the largest professional services firms in the world. At Deloitte, he managed groups that delivered financial advisory and valuation services encompassing both real and personal property components primarily for mid to large public and private companies including many Fortune 500 Companies for reporting to the SEC and IRS. Additionally, he had significant responsibilities and input into key innovation and technology initiatives responsible for generating, developing and implementing innovative and strategic changes in the US Advisory Services Group as it relates to client service workflow processes and products. At Deloitte, he worked on projects throughout the U.S. and numerous foreign countries (Europe, Asia, South America, and Central and North America). Later Aaron moved on to a more locally focused company and then began working with Colliers International in 2011 as a senior valuation professional overseeing complex valuation projects. Aaron joined Kidder Mathews in January 2016. During his valuation career, he was awarded the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute he is also an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) as certified by the American Society of Appraisers in Machinery and Technical Specialties.
Aaron has broad valuation experience encompassing the industrial, hospitality, senior living, multifamily housing, REIT, high tech, biotechnology, agricultural, paper and forest products, electronic, aerospace and defense, consumer products, petroleum, telecommunications, utility, food service, mining, and food processing industries. He has managed and performed this work for litigation, lending, buy/sell decision making, purchase negotiations, financial reporting, purchase price allocations, tax planning, cost segregation, public acquisition, eminent domain proceedings, gifting and other purposes.
Industrial property valuation experience has consisted of light, medium, and heavy industrial types, including storage and warehouse distribution facilities, manufacturing facilities, mining, and business parks in urban and rural settings.
Commercial property valuation experience has consisted of small-scale neighborhood to large multi-tenant retail properties as well as single and multi-story office buildings, hospitals, medical buildings, restaurants, hotels, churches, strip malls, banks, golf courses, marinas, gas stations, multifamily residences and others.
He has also performed valuation work on a wide variety of land including industrial, commercial, multifamily, mixed-use, subdivision, agricultural, and timberland.
University of Oregon, College of Business Administration