Dave is a Principal with Avison Young, a non-profit and commercial real estate brokerage. He has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate corporate tenant representation and landlord representation services in the Washington Metropolitan area. Dave’s experience spans a wide range of real estate transactions on behalf of his clients, including lease acquisitions and dispositions, build-to-suits, investment sales, and land sales. He has been involved in more than 20 million square feet of real estate transactions since 1996.

Dave joined the Tysons office of Avison Young as a Principal in April 2011. Formerly, he was an Executive Director with Cushman & Wakefield, which he joined in early 2004. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Dave spent eight years with Transwestern Commercial Services as Senior Vice President. In that position, he specialized in office leasing and sales in Northern Virginia and was a stockholder in the firm. Dave Millard was also a partner at Smithy Braedon during his tenure there from 1984-1996.

Dave began his real estate career in 1980 with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) where he was an interior design Project Manager. While at SOM, he was the Project Manager for the interior design of the 350,000 sf Terrace Building expansion of the National Geographic Society Headquarters. In 1982 and 1983, Mr. Millard was Director of Interior Design for Ellerbe Associates (now Ellerbe Becket).

Dave is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, B.A. in Government, and holds an MBA in Finance from Loyola College in Baltimore.