Miles Loo Jr., CRE, FRICS joined Newmark Knight Frank Valuation & Advisory in 2017 in the Downtown Los Angeles office, where he serves as executive vice president and is global lead, valuation & advisory, for NKF’s Data Center Consulting Group.
Mr. Loo is well recognized as the industry’s leading appraiser of data center properties. His experience includes advising private equity funds, institutional investors, large pension funds, Fortune 500 companies, cloud companies and Global IT conglomerates on investments in all types of data centers, including mission critical, disaster recovery data centers, colocation facilities, carrier hotels, internet gateways and life science properties. These assignments have involved data centers owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies across numerous industries as well as Uptime Institute Site Certified Tier III and Tier IV facilities; U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver buildings; and state and federal disaster recovery data centers. Mr. Loo has led valuations of large portfolio valuations spanning multiple countries across five continents (NA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM regions) and has consulted on a number of the world’s largest data centers featured in Data Center Knowledge.
Professional Achievements
- Power200, list of influential global leaders in data center, cloud, edge computing and big data, 2019
https://data-economy.com/miles… Top 50, list of influential leaders in data center, cloud, edge computing and big data, 2018
https://data-economy.com/ameri… Circle Award, Southern California, Cushman & Wakefield, 2011-2014 and 2016
Cushman & Wakefield Excellence Award, Southern California, 2010Member, Cushman & Wakefield’s Top Valuation & Advisory Services Team, led by James W. Myers, MAI, 2000, 2002-2004 and 2006
Licenses
| Arizona - 31955 | Minnesota - 40441774 |
| California - AG023313 | Missouri - 2014040927 |
| Colorado - 100053444 | Nevada - 207853 |
| Delaware - X1-0000658 | New Jersey - 42RG00235200 |
| District of Columubia - GA2002081 | New York - 46000050108 |
| Georgia - 319819 | North Carolina - A8008 |
| Florida - RZ3835 | Ohio - 2015004517 |
| Hawaii - CGA1135 | Oregon - C001211 |
| Idaho - CGA-4271 | Pennsylvania - GA003907 |
| Illinois - 553.002103 | South Carolina - 7461 |
| Indiana - CG41500089 | Texas - TX1380048G |
| Kansas - 3109 | Utah - 7148564-CG00 |
| Maryland - 32741 | Virginia - 4001016985 |
| Massachusetts - 103389 | Washington - 1102260 |
| Michigan - 1201075477 |
Professional Affiliations
Mr. Loo is a regularly invited speaker and moderator at many of the major data center conferences in key markets across the North America, EMEA and APAC regions. He is also involved in the data center industry as a member of 7x24 Exchange, AFCOM and Infrastructure Masons. In addition, Mr. Loo has achieved the Counselors of Real Estate® (CRE) designation, Fellowship with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), RICS Registered Valuer designation and Accredited Tier Specialist (ATS) designation with the Uptime Institute.