Our Team
Chairman of the Board
Ian Burnstein is a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Business Owners Alliance (BOA). He also is the co-founder and president of the Storage Business Owners Alliance (SBOA). SBOA is a buying group for self-storage owners and operators that creates savings on expenses for self-storage facilities and is utilized by more than 15,000 locations nationally. Ian is also the co-founder and president of SBOA Tenant Insurance. In this capacity, Ian led the creation of an innovative and industry-leading organization that enjoys the participation of many of the largest self-storage private operators. He is also one of the creators of List Self Storage that is the preeminent self-storage property listing service. In addition, Ian is the co-founder and COO of Storage Pros Management, LLC. In this capacity, he coordinates all operational aspects of the company including property management as well as marketing and technology for a portfolio of 56 properties encompassing more than 3,000,000 rentable square feet of self-storage.
Ian has developed, owned and managed storage facilities since 2001 and is a member of the Michigan bar. While in law school he was the editor-in-chief of his law review. Ian has been an active principal in more than $750 million of real estate investments and has served in an advisory capacity in numerous other real estate transactions.