Marcus & Millichap, a commercial property-investment firm serving the self-storage industry, has named Charles “Chico” LeClaire an executive managing director of investments in the company’s Denver office. The title is the highest an investment professional can attain inside the firm, according to Bob Kaplan, vice president and regional manager of the Denver office. LeClaire was promoted from senior managing director of investments.

LeClaire joined Marcus & Millichap as an agent in October 1990. He specializes in self-storage property investments and serves within the firm’s National Self-Storage Group. He has been named the company’s top storage-investment professional several times and ranked among its top-10 agents nationwide in 2004 and 2016. He has been among the top 30 agents companywide six times.

In 2016, LeClaire sold more than $500 million in self-storage facilities in 16 states. Next month, he’ll become the first real estate broker to be inducted into the national Self Storage Association Hall of Fame, according to a press release.

LeClaire graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Founded in 1971, Marcus & Millichap is a commercial property-investment firm with more than 1,700 investment professionals in offices throughout Canada and the United States. The firm closed nearly 9,000 transactions in 2016 with a value of approximately $42.3 billion.

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