
Jonathan W. Bullen
Founding Partner & Chairman
Jonathan Bullen is a founding partner of Colmena Group. Throughout his career, Jonathan has amassed tremendous experience with acquisition, financing, development, restructuring and sale of real estate throughout the Intermountain West. Prior to the formation of Colmena Group, he has been a long-term investor of commercial real estate assets.
He first began investing in real estate in 1984 and is a founding member and major investor of Wasatch Premier Properties, which started in 1990. Wasatch Properties began during the problematic S&L crisis and subsequent government RTC bailout program. Starting as an acquisition strategy, this portfolio now is comprised of over 10,000 apartment units and roughly 2 million square feet of office space across the western states.
Jonathan is also a Founding General Partner of Woodbury Strategic Partners (WSP), a value-add commercial real estate investment vehicle which formed in 2011. WSP acquired 28 assets with a market value of over 500 Million Dollars.
In addition to his real estate experience, Jonathan has owned and managed businesses in the fields of: telecommunications, proprietary career education and the health & fitness industry. Jonathan served as an elected director of the Career College Association from 2006-2008. In addition, Jonathan has served as Executive Director of the Capitol Arts Alliance, which is a public-private partnership that renovated a historic theater and constructed an arts center in Logan, Utah. Jonathan served as mission president of the Oregon Portland Mission (2017-2020) for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jonathan received a BS in Business Administration and Minor in Economics from Utah State University and was born and raised in Utah. He and his wife, Julie, love calling Salt Lake their home and spending time with their children and grandchildren.
Experience
36+ Years of Industry Experience
Education
Utah State University
Bachelor of Science – Business Administration