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Greg Brown
Greg is a competitive spark that helps Storable to achieve our goals in the industry. He keeps us motivated and inspired to get the job done and continue to shape the future of Self Storage. As General Manager of Self-Storage, Greg’s charge is hitting our revenue goals, leading our sales, implementation, and customer success teams, and expanding our market presence. No short order, but there’s nothing Greg likes more than a challenge.
Greg grew up in Chicago and is a big fan of Chicago sports teams; especially the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs. Greg was taught at a young age the importance of hard work and focus. He graduated from Miami University with a degree in Business Psychology. With school debt and little money, Greg opted for a career in sales that eventually landed him at a successful start-up that went public and where he fell in love with the innovative and energetic environment that comes with a brand new enterprise. Greg’s worked for a number of companies since, including many of whom were acquired or went public, including Access Health/McKesson; Evity/BMC Software; Convio/Blackbaud, WebMD, and Bazaarvoice.
When Greg isn’t helping us hit our goals, you’ll find him expending that competitive energy elsewhere. He’s an avid cyclist and loves the outdoors. But more than staying active, Greg enjoys time with his family the most.
Joe Doherty
Joe Doherty is SSA’s SVP, Chief Legal & Legislative Officer. In conjunction with SSA-affiliated state associations, he has led successful legislative initiatives in close to 40 states. SSA’s legislative efforts focus on modernizing self storage lien laws, providing for simplified licensing to sell tenant insurance, and defeating legislation harmful to the storage industry.
He is lead state government relations for the self storage industry. Has successfully lead initiatives to modernize state self storage lien laws and to authorize insurance licensing for self storage operators. Joe also serves as the association's first in-house counsel and corporate secretary.
Joe has a J.D., summa cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law and B.A. in History from Emory University. Joe, his wife Christa, and their five children live in the Mount Vernon section of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Matthew Gardner
Matthew Gardner is widely recognized as being one of the foremost real estate economists in the country and speaks to more than 75 groups per year where he offers his opinions regarding economic and housing markets condition.
In addition to his speaking engagements, Matthew sits on the Washington State Governors Council of Economic Advisors and is an Advisory Board Member at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington where he also lectures in real estate economics.
Matthew’s economic forecasts are used by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and his housing forecasts are used by Reuters (Roy-turz) in their U.S. Housing Market forecast and by Fannie Mae in their National Home Price Expectation Survey.
Matthew received his undergraduate degree in economics from St. Johns College, Oxford, and he holds graduate degrees in economics and econometrics from the London School of Economics.
Recognitions that he has received include being chosen as the 2022 Partner of the Year by the Seattle-King County Realtors Association, and as the 2023 Partner of the Year by the Washington Realtors Association. He was also voted Industry MVP by the readers of the Seattle Agents Magazine.
Melissa Huff
Melissa's self storage journey began as a property manager in 2008. She has 17 years of experience in the self-storage industry having worked from a property manager overseeing the operations of two facilities to taking an integral role in the development of a third party management company. During her time with that company they grew to operating 35 locations across three states.
Today, Melissa works with owner operators in a variety of capacities. From consulting with industry newbies during their new acquisition or development, to conducting facility audits and making recommendations for improvement, to holding employee training sessions, my consulting covers the full range of self storage operations.
She serves as director of both the Tennessee and Louisiana Self Storage Associations; co-host of the Gabfocus Webinar with Tommy Nguyen, and Gabfocus Self Storage Podcast with Josh Huff. Melissa is always happy to talk with owner operators and managers about their operations.
Carlos Kaslow
Carlos Kaslow is a California attorney and serves as the General Counsel to the Self Storage Association. He is the editor of the Self Storage Legal Review, the SSA's legal periodical. He is a founding partner of the Self Storage Legal Network; the industry's only telephone and e-mail legal information service.
Carlos has provided legal consulting services to several of the largest
U.S. self storage operators and provides the national and state
self storage associations with legal and drafting assistance on lien law reform
bills. He has written numerous articles on legal and insurance issues
confronting the self storage industry for the SSA Globe and other industry
publications. He is the co-author of the Rental Agreement Handbook, the Self
Storage Association's state annotated lien manual series and The Best of the
Self Storage Legal Network: Answers to the 75 Most Frequently Asked Legal
Questions on the Self Storage Business.
He also co-writes a column in the SSA Globe magazine and teaches online legal seminars for the SSA Online University.
Nels Ross
Nels Ross is "The (Original) UP Guy" – speaker, entertainer, and co-founder of The UP Guys and UP Team LLC. He works solo and with others to uplift and empower at corporate, educational, motivational, and other events. His background includes: degrees in math and education; touring with a nonprofit circus; "juggling" work and family life; and promoting wellness, mental health, growth, and more.
Fun Fact: He uses his first and middle names as a stage name and claims, “Three names is too hard to remember.”