Bob Thornton, SIOR Baker Realty Company P.O. Box 53471 Knoxville, TN 37950-3471 bobthornton@bakerrealtycompany.com   Bob Thornton, Director of Industrial Real Estate for Baker Realty Company, specializes in the selling and leasing of industrial property in Knoxville and throughout the East Tennessee Valley Region. Bob, a member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, has over twenty-three years of experience in industrial development and industrial real estate brokerage. In 1980 Bob was employed as an industrial development consultant for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Bob served as a liaison to corporations, state representatives, and local communities in East Tennessee for the purpose of recruiting new industry to the area. In 1985 he joined Baker Realty Company as an Industrial Real Estate Broker, and since, has been involved in hundreds of industrial sales and leasing transactions involving buildings and land in and around the Knoxville and East Tennessee area EDUCATION – CERTIFICATION SIOR, Advanced Topics Industrial Brokerage, 201 &203, Orlando, FL Tennessee Real Estate & Computer School, Knoxville, Courses : Land Trust Workshop, 1994 Buyer Brokerage, 1992 Working with Buyers, 1990 Commercial Real Estate Ethics Selling Real Estate in Cyberspace, 2000 Tennessee Real Estate Educational Systems, Inc. Real Estate Marketing/Sales Seminar, 1988 Economic Development Institute, University of Oklahoma, Normal, OK Georgia Institute of Technology Basic Industrial Development Course, 1981 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1979 B.S. in Business Administration/Marketing RECENT TRANSACTIONS Avery Dennison Bayer Advanced Bike Athletic Book Warehouse Carlisle Tire Continental Air Creative Foam Development Corp. of America Durakon Federal Mogul Fulton Bellows Ingram Books King Business Forms Levi Strauss Metron North America Modine Manufacturing Mueller Industries Nushua Packaging Corp. of America Pinnacle Steel Poly-One Corporation Republic Plastics Rexnord Corporation TNT Logistics/Honda   PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Society of Industrial and Office Realtors/SIOR East Tennessee Industrial Council Knoxville Chamber of Commerce TN Industrial Development Council   “Committed to the continued economic growth and quality of life for all of East Tennessee”