Travis Plakke

Managing Partner & Principal Broker | The Sullivan Group

Travis Plakke is an expert in commercial real estate development, sales, and leasing and the Principal Broker of The Sullivan Group, with 20 years of fee development and project management experience from restaurants to commercial spaces. From working with architects and designers to bring the vision to life in both form and function, he’s operated on multiple restaurant build-outs, managed GCs and trade partners, and executed back-of-house-systems from tech to accounting and storage to meet the end-product goals and implemented the highest levels of functionality to maximize efficiency.

Along with his restaurant development experience, he brings team leadership, overseeing executives and teams of up to 200. He’s skilled at negotiating with vendors and engineering value where others can’t, creating and integrating scalable and repeatable systems, and working with cities and counties to acquire planning permits and zoning. His work ethic hinges on honesty, transparency, integrity, and understanding his clients’ needs and goals to solve problems at the highest level of professionalism.

Travis is incredibly involved in his community, serving on Firefly Autism's Board of Directors for the last six years and even stepping in as Executive Director for a short time in 2022. Today you can find him heading up the Finance Committee and doing what he does best; looking at numbers and making sure his favorite charity is making money.

Travis is husband to his badass wife Leigh Sullivan, a proud father to three amazing kiddos, Mackenzie, Weston, and Grace, and a proud first-time grandfather to James.

If Travis isn't looking at spreadsheets, he is probably talking about his Rivian, skiing, or paddleboarding. Travis is a real Colorado guy who loves his family, his community, and spreadsheets. Mostly spreadsheets.