Buddy Small
President
Buddy co-founded Pointer with his wife, Linda, in 2010 to acquire, manage and lease retail centers in Metro Atlanta and secondary Southeastern cities. A University of Mississippi graduate, he taught in the Houston Independent School District and served two years in the U.S. Army before entering real estate.
Mark Lee & Associates, Houston
Over 14 years he rose from property management to head of operations and then vice president of marketing and sales, managing and leasing about 4 million square feet of suburban office space and leading sales for Northborough, a 440-acre mixed-use development.
- Preleased a 350,000 SF office building to Bechtel
- Fully preleased a 225,000 SF, 15-story building in Midland and a 440,000 SF, 20-story building
- Sold more than 400 acres of land
The Portman Companies, Atlanta
Recruited in 1987 to market and lease Peachtree Center, the 2.2 million SF downtown mixed-use complex, he took it past 90% occupancy for the first time in its history and helped reposition the Mall at Peachtree Center. He worked on preleasing for the 64-story SunTrust Plaza, then took Northpark Town Center to 95% occupancy while raising effective rents 25%.
From 1996 he led Portman’s new development work in Central and Eastern Europe and the U.S., including the $80 million Westin Warsaw, completed in 2001, and a land study along Taiwan’s high-speed rail line.
