Author - ryan-andersen

Ryan Andersen has more than 25 years of experience across the engineering, construction and development sectors. He has gained a significant level of experience with Westfield in the construction and leasing divisions working on multiple large redevelopment projects across the country. During his experience, he has gained extensive exposure to all scales of retail development and its complexities. Ryan founded DMA Partners over 13 years ago, an end-to-end advisor, leader and manager of development projects and property assets. Ryan continues to lead DMA Partners today as the Managing Director in which time he has led projects of all sizes across the retail, commercial, residential, and mixed-use sectors around Australia. For more than a decade DMA Partners has delivered well beyond $1 billion in retail assets, across more than 100 retail development and repositioning projects.

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