About the Founder:

Rick Burke has been involved with lease administration for many years. He has experience with both office and retail lease administration from a landlord and tenant perspective. Prior to founding Lease Administration Solutions, LLC, he worked for big landlord REITS such as Beacon Properties, Inc. (124 office buildings and 2,100 tenants) where he was responsible for its Lease Administration Department. Prior to Beacon, he worked for retailers Marshall's and TJ Maxx in such roles as Manager of Lease Auditing and Lease Collections and Negotiations, and Manager of Lease Accounting. He was responsible for developing the lease audit and collections departments at both retailers. In addition, he has performed numerous real estate operational audits and has been involved with the design and implementation of real estate systems for both office and retail. Rick is well known within the real estate industry and speaks frequently at industry events and organizations such as the National Retail Tenants Association (NRTA, National Association of Real Estate Executives (NACORE), New England Retail Executives (NERE) and the National Retail Federation (NRF).  Rick is a founding member of the National Retail Tenants Association and has served on the curriculum committee for the last 10 years and is currently on the Board. He also teaches at Boston University on Lease Administration related subjects. He has been quoted in several national magazines and has degrees in Accounting and MIS, as well as an MBA.