Branson Edwards is known in the U.S. Retail Real Estate industry for playing a leading role in the development and ongoing management of thousands of stores and related infrastructure, including several of the largest, most successful store and brand rollouts of the last 25 years.

Branson began his career in the real estate department of an international retailer, consecutively joined two of the largest brand rollouts of the mid/late ‘90’s and rose to Chief Development Officer before leaving direct employment to be an entrepreneur and service provider by forming The Standard Group in 2000. At TSG, Branson and his colleagues outsourced the functions of internal real estate departments, and opened thousands of stores for TSG’s clients. T-Mobile was Branson’s largest client in number of locations, but TSG opened hundreds of stores for other notable retailers, including Starbucks, Bright Smile Dental, Texas Roadhouse, and others.

After selling TSG to Jones Lang LaSalle, Branson reformed the consultancy as “Retail Occupier Services” at Newmark in 2010. Branson’s team continued (and continues today) to outsource and execute store rollouts and portfolio management in the thousands of locations for retailers including Harbor freight Tools, Conn’s Home Plus, Kendra Scott and others. Additionally, Branson built a market leading presence in Lease Administration, Asset Management and Facilities Maintenance for scores of clients including both AT&T and T-Mobile, and focused on IT/Tech integrations to consolidate the management and dashboarding of varied mission critical point solutions.

Branson formed Lean Corporate Partners to bring CRE & Tech Integration to the next level: perfecting the integration of real estate portfolio development and management with the technologies and related IT managed services underlying his clients’ operations. Branson and his wife are bi-coastal (between Houston and Chicago), and their children are in NYC and Austin.