Corporate Real Estate Stories

There are many paths into, and stories of successful professional careers in corporate real estate, and each contributes a strand to the great tapestry that makes the profession so challenging, so rewarding, and makes being a member so much fun. We hope that you will enjoy these profiles and stories.

We’d love to hear your story too. To share, email djordan@corenetglobal.org.

YOUNG LEADER PROFILES

WHY/HOW I CHOSE A CAREER IN CORPORATE REAL ESTATE

Q&A with August Russo, Financial Analyst Cushman & Wakefield

Q&A with Gabrielle Bower, Project Coordinator CBRE (Iron Mountain) Recent grad, Boston University, Boston MA

Q&A with William Puzak, Senior Undergrad, University of Denver

WOMEN IN CORPORATE REAL ESTATE

Q&A with Gloria Mamwa, MCR, SLCR, Regional Head of Property, Africa & Middle East Standard Chartered Bank, United Arab Emirates

Q&A with Jane Muir-Sands, Vice President Group Real Estate and Operations IBM, London

Q&A with Jeri Ballard, Executive VP, Real Estate, Business Operation Centres, and Corporate Travel Shell International B.V., The Hague, Netherlands

Q&A with Leah Ong, MCR, Director - Real Estate Volvo Group Australia

CONVERGENCE OF CORPORATE REAL ESTATE, IT, HR

Q&A with Jenna Geigerman, Director, Real Estate & Strategy Citrix, Cary, NC

Q&A with Martin Clarke, MCR, Sr. VP, Global Head of Workplace Services Northern Trust Corp.

COVID-19 IMPACT PROFILES

• June 22: Alberto Laris, Partner, GAYA Construcciones, Mexico City, Mexico
• June 22: Soumyajit Pal, MCR.w, Senior Manager - Global Accounts, The Executive Centre, India
• June 15: Adam Mihlstin, Sr. Real Estate Manager, T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA, USA 
• June 15: Dr. Ainoriza Mohd Aini, Senior Lecturer, Department of Real Estate, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• June 15: Filippo Vecchione, EuroMed Real Estate Senior Manager, Dassault Systems, Milan, Italy
• June 15: Josh Alfafara, Country Manager, Philippines, The Executive Centre, Manila, Philippines
• June 15: Liyuan Mo, Sr. Director, RE & F, North Asia, Oracle, China
• June 8: Chu Nwanze, Portfolio Planner, Lagos, Nigeria
• June 8: Lily Wang, Senior Facility Manager, China, Pfizer, Shanghai, China
• June 1: Chelsea Jiang, RE Manager, China, UPS, Shanghai
• June 1: Lawrence F. Lander, Principal and Director of Programming and Planning, Planning Design Research Corporation, Houston, TX
• June 1: Ramzah Khan, Studio Manager, Ware Malcomb, Washington, D.C.
• May 29: Joyce Zhang, Real Estate Strategy & Transactions Lead, Unilver, Shanghai, China
• May 22: Sharon Friedberg, Executive Vice President, Fischer, Dallas, TX
• May 20: Ajay Chaturvedi, ASA Property Manager, and ASEAN Cluster Head Property, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
• May 15: Christopher Smith, Managing Director, Asia Corporate Real Estate, Manulife, Hong Kong
• May 15: Debby Sanders, Strategic Property Advisor and Regional Business Manager, The Property Group Ltd, New Zealand
• May 15: Hiroko Sannomaru, Director, Corporate Services, Visa Worldwide Japan, Tokyo
• May 15: John Martin, Assoc. Director Global Real Estate & Facilities, Zimmer Biomet, Warsaw, IN, USA
• May 15: Marcelo Girardi, FM Senior Manager Latin America, Kimberly-Clark, Brazil
• May 8: Ivy Sun, Senior Real Estate Manager, BMW Group, China (Video)
• May 4: Arvindh Prakash Ayyaswamy, Microsoft, India
• May 4: Catherine Sullivan, Telstra, Australia
• May 4: Cheryl Goh, Shaw Industries, Singapore
• May 4: Jessica Jia, Bayer, Shanghai
• May 4: Jodee Barnett, Cushman & Wakefield, Southern California
• Member Perspectives: Al Kinisky of SAP