Mike Burnam is President and Chief Investment Officer at SMARTCO, L.P., which owns 230+ self-storage facilities with over 17.7 million square feet of storage space in the US, Canada and the UK. Mike was Chief Executive Officer at Storage Trust Realty, taking the company public in 1994 then in 1999, selling it to Public Storage.
Mr. Burnam was previously Chief Executive Officer and Trustee at Warburg StorageMart Partners, then navigating the takeover and eventual taking private of InStorage, publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, making StorageMart one of the largest self storage companies in Canada.
Mr. Burnam has developed, built, financed and sold over $6 billion in self-storage properties. He has been the President of the Self-Storage Association and has served four times on the national Board of Directors, currently sitting as the “Legacy” member on the national BOD.
Mr. Burnam also sat on the Canadian Self Storage Association Board of Directors in 2007 and is a co-founder of the Self Storage Institute, established in 2015, which is comprised of the top thirty largest private self storage operators in the United States, Canada, UK, Mexico, Australia, Sweden and France. In Q1 2021 a minority interest in the company was sold to GIC and Cascade, representing the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore and a high net worth family office.
