Brian Biggs, CPA, MAI, R/W-AC

Current responsibilities

At Jones Lang LaSalle, Brian Biggs is an Executive Director in the Value and Risk Advisory Services Group, Hospitality Practice. In that role, he is part of a national team of experts that provides hotel advisory services in the Americas, with primary focus on valuation, acquisition due diligence services, portfolio planning, development feasibility advisory and specialty consulting services.

Experience

Brian brings decades of expertise in going concern appraisals, feasibility and market studies, right of way, litigation support, and valuation and acquisition consulting. Brian is a native Texan with a diverse career in the hospitality industry having held senior finance roles—including Director of Finance and CFO—at high-profile Four Seasons properties in several US Cities and an iconic independent resort in Bermuda. After 19 years in hotel operations, Brian transitioned to lodging appraisal and asset management, earned his MAI designation and spent the next two decades appraising nearly 4,000 hotels across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America.In addition to his valuation work, Brian has provided expert witness testimony in U.S. Bankruptcy Courts and Circuits Courts, further cementing his authority and credibility in the field.

Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in the following States:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Florida
• Georgia
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Missouri
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas

• MAI – Member Appraisal Institute
• CPA – Florida Certified

• BS Business Administration – Accounting, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
• MBA Graduate Studies and Adjunct Instructor, Florida Tech University, Melbourne, FL