JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory platform announced today that Casey Burns has joined the firm as an Executive Director based in Austin, Texas.

Burns will focus on industrial property valuations primarily in the Texas and Southwest region. He will report to Jim O’Leary, Executive Managing Director and Head of JLL Value & Risk Advisory’s Industrial Property Sector.

Burns joins JLL with more than 15 years of real estate appraisal and consulting experience, including appraisals, consultations, market studies, rent analyses, feasibility studies and acquisition advisory of institutional-grade real estate domestically and internationally. He spent the last 12 years at CBRE, most recently as a Senior Vice President in their appraisal division. Prior to that, he was with KPMG’s Economic and Valuation Services group. Burns holds a B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.