Cordeau joins Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates as executive vice president

Worcester, MA According to Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates, Dan Cordeau has joined the commercial real estate firm as an executive vice president.

Cordeau brings more than 30 years of brokerage and client-side commercial real estate experience. He will help grow the firm’s business in the life sciences sector, as well as provide office leasing services to both public and private companies throughout Massachusetts.

He joins the firm from the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) where he served as director of leasing, a role in which he managed a department overseeing more than seven million s/f of leases for the various government agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Before DCAMM, Cordeau worked for nine years for the real estate investment trust, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., as a regional senior vice president of leasing. In his last three years at Alexandria, he was responsible for leasing approximately five million s/f of scientific laboratory space throughout eastern and central Mass.

Prior to joining Alexandria, Cordeau was a senior vice president leasing at Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) in Boston where he was co-director of the JLL National Life Sciences Practice and focused on representing tenants and landlords in the life sciences space.

“Dan brings invaluable experience to our team,” said William Kelleher, IV, principal at Kelleher & Sadowsky. “My partner Jim Umphrey and I have known Dan for over two decades, collaborating with him most notably at the Biotech Park, as well as lease deals involving UMass. Memorial Health Care.”

According to Cordeau, “Kelleher & Sadowsky’s excellent team and their coverage of Worcester, Central Massachusetts and the MetroWest region makes this a great fit for my professional goals.” 

Cordeau earned his bachelor’s in management at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.