CBRE - Key Persons
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- Senior Director, Office Agency
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- Senior Director, Investment Properties
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- Director, Investment Properties
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- Senior Director, Valuations
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- Senior Director, Development
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- Director, Property Management
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- Head of Glasgow Office Agency & Development
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- Head of Building Consultancy, Midlands & South
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- Chief Culture Officer
- Senior Director, EMEA Legal
Professional Experience
Banke A. Odunaike serves as CBRE's Chief Culture Officer with responsibility for ethics & compliance, diversity, equity & inclusion, senior leadership talent identification and development, and succession planning. She is a member of CBRE's global Executive Committee.
Prior to assuming this role in July 2023, Banke was Head of EMEA & APAC Legal for CBRE's Advisory Services business, leading a team of 97 legal professionals across 43 countries.
Banke joined CBRE as Senior Director, EMEA Legal in 2017. She was appointed Head of EMEA Legal in 2020 and her role was further expanded to oversee the APAC region in January 2023.
A champion for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the law, Banke has been recognised as one of the UK's 21 ‘Women Who Will' for ‘Driving Innovation in Diversity & Inclusion' according to the Obelisk Report (in partnership with the Next 100 Years Project).
Banke established CBRE's UK Legal DE&I Taskforce - a team who saw CBRE become foundation signatory to the UK Model Diversity Survey in 2021. She is Executive Sponsor of CBRE's REACH network and sits on the Senior Advisory Board of the Apollo Leadership Institute which brings together general counsel and senior in-house lawyers to collaborate on culture, leadership, and talent; as well as on the creation of meritocratic workplaces. She is also a member of The Eagle Club - a global network of women in senior leadership positions who work proactively to promote equality and the progression of talented women in business.
Banke has over 17 years of corporate-commercial law experience. She is recognised in the legal industry as one of the UK's most daring, innovative and creative lawyers and has been named in The Lawyer Magazine's prestigious Hot 100 list. Banke started her career in Private Practice as a trainee solicitor at Gosschalks. On qualification, she joined Shoosmiths as a Pensions Lawyer and later joined Addleshaw Goddard where she advised Trustee boards and Corporates on pensions strategy and risk mitigation. She moved in-house to Mercer (a Marsh & McLennan Company) in 2012 where she served as EMEA Corporate Counsel (Principal) providing general corporate and commercial advice to Mercer's regional business before making the move to CBRE in 2017.
Banke is active in the community and is a proud mum of two children and a Jack-a-Poo.
Education
Harvard Business School - Leadership for Senior Executives (2023)
College of Law (York) - Dipl Law, LPC (2003 - 2004)
University of Hull - BA (Hons), LLB Law (1998 - 2002)
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- Member of the CBRE Group, Inc. Board of Directors
- President & Chief Executive Officer of CBRE Group, Inc
Professional Experience
Bob Sulentic has been President & Chief Executive Officer of CBRE Group, Inc. since December 2012. CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2022 revenues of $30.8 billion and approximately 115,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries.
Mr. Sulentic is a member of the CBRE Group, Inc. Board of Directors. He also served as the independent Chairman of the Board of Staples, Inc. until its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in September 2017.
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- Director, Lease Consultancy
Chad Doellinger - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary
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- Corporate Secretary
- General Counsel
Professional Experience
Chad Doellinger was promoted to CBRE's General Counsel in July 2023. In this role he has responsibility for all the company's legal affairs globally as well as safety initiatives and corporate security. He Is a member of CBRE's global Executive Committee.
Prior to his promotion, Chad was Chief Transformation Officer, with a focus on operational excellence, programmatic cost management and transformation programs across the global enterprise.
Before becoming Chief Transformation Officer, Chad was Legal Chief Operations Officer with responsibility for driving business and technical practices in delivering legal services across the department. In addition, Chad was a Deputy General Counsel with global responsibility for overseeing litigation, intellectual property, eDiscovery, data science and analytics, and insurance and claims.
While in Legal, Chad was the Executive Sponsor for the Department's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council and the Pro Bono and Giving Back Workstream.
Before joining CBRE in 2020, Chad was a partner in the law firm of Greenberg Traurig and earlier the head of complex litigation at Walmart. He has served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School for the last 20 years.
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- Chief Executive Officer of the Global Workplace Solutions ( GWS ) Business
- Chief Executive Officer, Global Workplace Solutions
- Global CEO of GWS
- Member of the Board of Trustees at St. Mark 's School of Texas
Professional Experience
Chandra Dhandapani has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) business segment since May 2022. Ms. Dhandapani is a member of the company's Executive Committee.
Ms. Dhandapani joined CBRE in 2016 to lead the company's digital strategy and all aspects of technology globally. Ms. Dhandapani turbocharged CBRE's approach to leveraging technology as an enabler, assembled a high-performing team, and strengthened CBRE's expertise in harnessing data as a differentiator.
Ms. Dhandapani is a member of the Board of Trustees at St. Mark's School of Texas.
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- Head of Development Scotland
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- Director, Retail Advisory
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- Director, Lease Consultancy
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- Senior Director, Retail Agency
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- Executive Director, Investment
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- Senior Director, Lease Consultancy
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- Director, Property Management
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- Director, Industrial & Logistics
Croft Young - Chief Investment Officer
Professional Experience
As CBRE's Chief Investment Officer, Croft Young oversees the company's global Strategy and Corporate Development teams. He partners with CBRE's executive, business line and geographic leaders around the world to drive strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) execution and integration, as well as balance sheet investment activity. Mr. Young is a member of the Global Executive Committee.
Mr. Young brings deep real estate industry knowledge, extensive investment banking experience and strong strategic and leadership skills to his role.
Prior to joining CBRE in July 2023, Mr. Young was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, where he covered a range of blue-chip public and private clients in the real estate, investment management, and hospitality/leisure industries. In 14 years with Morgan Stanley, he completed over 150 strategic and capital transactions aggregating over $175 billion in value across M&A and the full range of public and private capital markets products, including complex structured partnerships and cross-border M&A.
Mr. Young previously served 13 years as an officer (active duty and reserve) in the United States Marine Corps. He is a director on the board of the Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit Veterans Service Organization.
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- Associate Director, Valuation & Advisory Services
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- Chief Executive Officer of CBRE 's Real Estate Investments ( REI ) Business
- Chief Executive Officer, Real Estate Investments
Danny Queenan has served as Chief Executive Officer of CBRE's Real Estate Investments (REI) business segment since May 2022. In this capacity, Mr. Queenan directly oversees the businesses that comprise the REI segment; CBRE Investment Management, the company's global real asset investment management business, and Trammell Crow Company (TCC), its real estate development business. These businesses had AUM of approximately $144 billion and a $33 billion development portfolio (in-process and pipeline), respectively, as of September 30, 2022. Mr. Queenan serves on CBRE's Executive Committee.
Prior to this role, he was Chief Executive Officer of CBRE's Advisory Services business segment, which includes Advisory & Transaction Services (Occupier and Investor), Property Management, Capital Markets and Valuations. These businesses produced nearly $10 billion of revenue in 2021.
Mr. Queenan previously led the REI business segment in 2018 and 2019. Earlier in his career at CBRE, Mr. Queenan served in such roles as President and COO of CBRE Investment Management and Chief Executive Officer of TCC. He also served as Chief Executive Officer CBRE's Asia Pacific business.
Mr. Queenan earned his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law.
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- Director, Industrial & Logistics
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- Managing Director, Scotland
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- Academic Fraternity - Member
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- Senior Director, Head of Aberdeen Office
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- Senior Personal Assistant
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- Senior Director, Residential Development
Professional Experience
Emma Giamartino is Chief Financial Officer of CBRE and oversees the company's global finance organization, which includes controllership, financial planning & analysis, financial risk & assurance, insurance, investor relations, tax and treasury. She is also responsible for capital allocation, working in partnership with CBRE's executive, investment management and development leaders on real estate investment activities.
She is a member of the company's global Executive Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of Industrious, a leading provider of premium flexible workplace solutions; CBRE is Industrious' largest shareholder.
Prior to becoming CFO of CBRE, Ms. Giamartino served as Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Corporate Development. She joined CBRE in February 2018 to lead CBRE's M&A activities in the Americas. Prior to joining CBRE, Ms. Giamartino served as Director of Corporate Development at Verizon Communications where she executed M&A transactions and strategic investments across Verizon's core businesses.
Earlier, Ms. Giamartino worked in Nomura's technology, media and telecommunications group, where she held progressively responsible positions, most recently as Vice President, Investment Banking for the group. She began her career at Financial Security Assurance, a financial guaranty insurance company focused on municipal bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
Education
Columbia Business School, Master of Business Administration
Duke University, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
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- Senior Director, Lease Consultancy
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- Global Head of Local Project Management
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- Senior Director, Valuation
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- Senior Surveyor, Operational Real Estat
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- Executive Director, UK Planning Co - Lead
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- Senior Director, Lease Consultancy
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- Chief Executive Officer of CBRE 's Advisory Services
- Chief Executive Officer, Advisory Services
Jack Durburg has served as Chief Executive Officer of CBRE's Advisory Services business segment since May 2022. This global business segment includes Advisory & Transaction Services (Occupier and Investor Leasing), Property Management, Capital Markets and Valuations and produced nearly $10 billion of revenue in 2022. Mr. Durburg is a member of the company's Executive Committee and Foundation Board.
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- Head of Business Operations
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- Head of Southampton Office
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- Director, Building Consultancy
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- Senior Director, Development Monitoring
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- Associate Director, Rating
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- Director, Project Management & Building Consultancy
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- Senior Director, Life Sciences
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- Managing Director, the North
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- Head of Birmingham Property Tax Group, Rating
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- Director, Property Management
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- Senior Director, Development & Residential
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- Director, Property Management
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- Associate Director, Project Management
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- Head of Office Occupier Advisory, Birmingham
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- Head of Planning & Development, Midlands & South
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- Managing Director, UK Residential
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- Senior Director, Contracted Accounts
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- Senior Director, Valuation
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- Head of Birmingham Valuation
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- Head of Industrial & Logistics, North
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- Senior Director, Building Consultancy
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- Senior Director, National Building Consultancy
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- Head of Birmingham Investment
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- Senior Director, Industrial & Logistics
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- Head of Northern Project Management and Building Consultancy
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- Senior Director, Industrial & Logistics
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- Head of UK Industrial & Logistics
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- Senior Director, Building Consultancy
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- Head of Birmingham Industrial & Logistics
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- Director, Industrial & Logistics
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- Executive Director, Valuation & Advisory
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- Head of Birmingham Lease Consulting
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- Senior Director, Office Agency
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- Managing Director, London
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- Senior Director, Lease Consultancy
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- Managing Director, CaMKOx
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- Head of Property Management Credit Control UK
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- Senior Director, Valuation
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- Senior Director, Valuation & Advisory
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- Senior Director, Valuation & Advisory
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- Director, Residential Capital Markets
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- Head of Birmingham Office Advisory
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- Executive Director, Investment