Our Team

Started in the Corporate side of the real estate business in the mid-1960’s including real estate management positions for Tenants at Towers Marts and Properties, Oshawa Wholesale, Canadian Tire, Vice President of Real Estate at Tamblyn Drug Marts, and Senior Manager Real Estate Development with Bank of Montreal.

Landlord leasing positions at Marathon Realty, Village by the Grange, Group R, General Manager, Shannon Properties; and Vice President Shopping Centre Division, Orlando Corporation.

With this Corporate experience, entered the Consulting business in 1999, which lead to Goudy Real Estate Corp. With a 40 year career in real estate, has the experience to assist both Landlord and Tenants.

Alan joined Goudy Real Estate Corp. in 2009 after more than twenty years representing major national and international retailers as a corporate real estate executive. His experience includes many years in the Quick Service Restaurant industry as well as with Canadian Tire in Ontario and Atlantic Canada and several years managing Wal-Mart Canada’s real estate and construction program nationally. Over this time Alan has been responsible for more than 10,000,000 square feet of retail expansion across Canada.

With in depth knowledge of site selection, lease negotiations, construction and development, including zoning and site plan approvals, Alan is well qualified to assist both retailers and landlords in their real estate development programs. In the course of his career Alan has developed a deep understanding of retail markets across the country as well as an extensive network of industry contacts including retailers, developers and landlords as well as brokers and consultants.

Alan has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and an MBA. His industry affiliations include the International Council of Shopping Centres, the Real Estate Council of Ontario and the Canada Green Building Council. Alan’s understanding of retail and retail real estate is invaluable in assisting clients secure optimal locations.

John is a civil engineer from the University of Waterloo. He comes from a construction project management background and has worked as a project manager for Black & McDonald, Cineplex, Bird Construction, and Verdiroc Construction. From 1995 to 2011 he worked for Blockbuster Canada overseeing the growth of the chain from 150 stores to more than 450. He was part of Blockbuster Canada’s executive team for more than ten years and managed the real estate, lease administration, store planning, construction and facilities departments as the Sr Director of Development. He chaired Blockbuster’s capital committee and looked after new business development for Blockbuster.

John is also president of Blocknet Retail Development Services Inc. which provides out-sourced services such as strategic planning, lease administration, construction project management and facilities management to small-box retailers and quick service restaurant concepts.

Lyn has over 30 years of real estate experience starting in residential sales with JDS, Senator Homes and Tridel Corp. and the last 18 years in commercial real estate representing Landlords and Tenants.

She has extensive experience in the lease up of new and existing retail strip plazas. In addition, she has been very successful helping small to mid-size retailers grow their businesses with selecting the ideal location for their business. Her success can be attributed to being very focused; an excellent listener, and is effective at marketing.

Lyn is married and the proud Mother of 2 children and lives in Markham.

Kathleen is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of experience in Corporate Finance specializing in Project Management.

Kathleen has transferred these skills to help her clients analyze, evaluate and negotiate on properties to help them meet their business requirements and investment goals.

Richard has been in retail leasing for over 25 years with Little Caesars. In his position as Vice President and General Manger of the brand, led all disciplines including marketing, finance, accounting, supply chain, operations, real estate and development.

Prior to that, Richard was the Director of Real Estate and Franchise Development successfully expanding the brand across Canada.

Rick has over 20 years of commercial real estate experience specializing in retail leasing and development. He was the Vice President of Leasing at Bentall Retail for 9 years, where he supervised the Eastern leasing team and specialized in remerchandising and reworking multi-format shopping centres. This involved redeveloping old format shopping centres to modern efficient models, unlocking value and the successful repositioning of the centres.

The Portfolio size was over 10 million square feet of retail at that time. He developed and integrated new procedures for the leasing department. Duties included training and supervising the day-to-day activities of the leasing representatives, with emphasis on budget goals for annual targets including the calculation of net effective rent projections and presenting proposals to pension fund owners/partners of the shopping centres for approval. Supervised integration of Beutal Goodman and Sunlife retail portfolios into Bentall Retail Services model. Cultivated new business opportunities including niche retail in institutions such as Toronto Western Hospital, and created strategies and presentations for new business to existing portfolio, thereby increasing value of properties.

At First Capital, he asset managed 25 properties (approx. 2 million sq. ft.). Strategised, managed and leased high-end/mixed use centres such as Shoppes at Liberty Village, Humbertown Shopping Centre, York Mills Gardens, Meadowvale Shopping Centre, Rutherford Marketplace and Leaside Village.

His specialty is retail leasing, however he has extensive experience with office and industrial real estate as well.

Kurt’s real estate career spans over three decades and he brings both experience and expertise in a wide variety of areas. As a Director of Leasing with Cambridge, now Ivanhoe Cambridge, Kurt worked with many of Canada’s premier retailers in a variety of projects. As the Vice President of Real Estate for Prime Restaurants, Kurt was responsible for company growth across Canada with a variety of restaurant brands including Casey’s, East Side Mario’s, Prime Pubs (Fionn MacCool’s) and Bier Market.

Prior to joining the Orange Group, Kurt was a team leader at BLJC (now Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions) where he oversaw a variety of retailer mandates and projects, until just recently commenced Rainhard Realty Services LTD, trading as Goudy Rainhard Realty Services Brokerage.

Kurt is involved in a variety of activities and sports, along with passion for his son’s craft brewery, Rainhard Brewing Company, located in the Stockyards, (Keele and St. Clair), Toronto.