R.E. Perry Company

Staff Bios

Russell E. Perry

President

Russell Perry is President and Founder of the R.E. Perry Company. The company was founded to provide dedicated real estate services to select companies on a national and international basis. Russell has over twenty-three years of commercial real estate experience providing client services to fast paced, high-growth companies and service firms. His focus has always been from the real estate occupier's point of view. Russell employs a strategic and consultative approach in his delivery of solutions-oriented corporate services.

Throughout his career, Russell's focus has been to devise and deliver scalable industrial corporate real estate solutions to his clients. Russell was a former broker-salesperson with CB Commercial Group (now CB Richard Ellis) in the Tampa, Florida office where he was quickly recognized as one of the office's top producers. While at CB Commercial, Russell became very involved with maritime related properties and port facilities through the southeast. This interest prompted him to earn his United States Coast Guard Merchant Marine Captains License. While Russell founded the R.E. Perry Company in Tampa in 1988, in 1998 the headquarters were moved to Saint Louis, Missouri as a more centralized location for his national delivery of services. From the beginning, Russell believed that success would be obtained if he valued customer satisfaction ahead of monetary profit. That success continues to this day. As a result, he has built long-standing and mutually beneficial relationships with some of the nations top corporations. Russell has been recognized nationally for his assignments. Russell has significant experience in lease negotiations and structuring, multi-city project rollouts, and large build-to-suit transactions.

Community involvement and support is also important to Russell. He has been active in the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and has held numerous Board positions. Russell is also a board member on the Beaux Arts Council at the Saint Louis Art Museum and a member of the Board of Direction at the Mercantile Library.

Russell is a member of the National Association of Realtors, the Missouri Association of Realtors, the St. Louis Association of Realtors, the Certified International Property Specialist Network, and the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations.

Russell is a graduate of the University of Missouri where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture. Russell resides in Saint Louis, Missouri with his wife and three children.

Clarence L. Perry

Broker-Salesperson

Since joining the R. E. Perry in April 2001, Clarence has been involved with major projects in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Fort Worth, Denver, and China. He has earned his broker's license, the Transnational Referral Certification (TRC), and the Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation.

Clarence joined the R. E. Perry Company after retiring from Weyerhaeuser's Containerboard Packaging Division where he served for 12 years as Vice President of the Central Region Corrugated Packaging Operations and as Vice President of International Development. In Corrugated Packaging Operations, Clarence was responsible for twelve plants in the mid-west with over $500 million in annual sales. In International Development, he was responsible for partner agreements in Europe and packaging business in Asia, which included the land and partner negotiations, the construction and the operation of two corrugated packaging plants in Wuhan and Shanghai, China, with a combined cost of over $35 million. The Wuhan plant's major customers were the Budweiser Wuhan Brewery and the Wuhan Coca-Cola Bottling Plant while the Shanghai plant supplied Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak and other multinational customers.

Prior to Weyerhaeuser, Clarence retired as a Corporate Vice President from Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, Ohio, where he served for 24 years in the Forest Products Division and the Television Products Division. In the Forest Products Division, Clarence began as a corrugated packaging sales representative in Virginia. He held increasingly higher management positions in four plants before being named Vice President of the Central Region where he was responsible for six plants. In the Television Products Division, Clarence was responsible for TV and specialty glass manufacturing and sales to RCA, Zenith, Philips, Sony, General Electric, Mitsubishi and Toshiba. He also had international responsibility for equity holdings and license agreements in Japan, Korea, China, India, the U.S.S.R., East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Europe.

Clarence served for five years as a pilot in the United States Air Force with the Strategic Air Command after graduating from the University of South Carolina where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.

Clarence is a member of the National Association of Realtors, the Missouri Association of Realtors, the St. Louis Association of Realtors, the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute, the Certified International Property Specialist Network, and the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations.

Clarence, his wife Helen, their two married children and six grandchildren all reside in Saint Louis, Missouri.