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corporate real estate & facilities management

Work Experience

Profile

A talented and highly adept Senior Facilities and Real Estate Director, with over 20 years’ practical experience in the successful management of corporate facilities and substantial portfolios of real estate throughout EMEA.

Extensive experience of building long lasting client and supplier relationships, establishing effective communications and managing stakeholder expectations, ensuring controlled management of deliverables and services.

Practical, demonstrable experience of successfully managing the implementation of significant Greenfield initiatives, designing and deploying innovative solutions and applying a structured approach to Real Estate and Facilities Management.

Highly skilled in restructuring and integrating facilities service delivery, employing initiatives such as ‘sales & lease back’ to maximise real estate profitability.

Fully capable of delivering cost effective solutions and realising significant benefit to business, both financially and operationally.

Free lance consultant in (corporate) Real Estate and Facilities Management for Reuters Insight and Vista Research


Key Skills and Attributes

Excellent presentation and communication abilities, comfortably communicating with Client, Senior Management and Operational personnel at all levels.
Results orientated ‘can do’ attitude with a professional yet approachable management style.
Commercially and business aware, focused on maximising profitability by applying effective management strategies.
Highly experienced in the management of globally distributed RE portfolios and the negotiation of service supply agreements.
In-depth knowledge and experience of programme management and direction, managing large scale reorganisation and integration initiatives.
Ability to formulate and implement resilient solutions and strategies for the provision of Real Estate and Facilities services that meet, or exceed, client expectations.
Proactive personnel manager – establishing operational resources, coaching and empowering team members, developing and transferring skills.


Career Achievements

Successfully managed the integration of 700+ sites throughout Europe after $10bn corporate merger, introducing ‘Sales & Lease Back’ initiatives and integrating Real Estate and Facilities services.
Established niche FM services company in Benelux and France, successfully growing into a profitable enterprise employing 100+ personnel.
Set up Greenfield Real Estate and FM network throughout Europe and South Africa, negotiating service delivery agreements and building extensive Client/Supplier relationships.
Over 20 years of successful Real Estate and Facilities management, holding responsibility for significant budgets and portfolios of property in excess of 700 sites, on a truly global basis, negotiating contracts and managing all aspects of Real Estate services and facilities service delivery.




These and many other achievements display a demonstrable, practical history of successfully managing substantial Real Estate portfolios and ensuring cost effective delivery of Facilities Management services, enhancing quality of service, increasing management visibility and adding significant realisable benefit to business.


Career History
03/2008 - Present Executive Director Real Estate
ABU Dhabi Government

Short term agreement
Advising Abu Dhabi Governmental Restructuring Committee, on the development of a corporate real estate function to manage a government portfolio (mixed combination of typical government buildings and commercial property) of approx. 5000 properties.
Prepare the organisation for world class delivery of property services.
Advise on the construction of a new village of 14.000 villa’s including infrastructure, and proposed tool to manage the village, including software and FM (IT) tools
Analyse current (work)processes and improve to obtain best in class practises.
Reorganize current workforce and optimize staff including more effective and efficient use of manpower. Reduction from current 520 staff to 80 + end 2009
Prepare and deliver massif outsourcing exercise for FM (both hard and soft services) for entire portfolio, from RFI, RFP and recommendation to board.
Manage a team of architects, civil- mechanical and electrical engineers.
Manage all support functions, green buildings consultants, H&S, quantity and quality surveyors, building surveyors, materials managers and so on.
Asset Management




2006 – 03/ 2008 Director – Corporate Real Estate
Johnson Controls Inc.

Overall responsibility for Real Estate portfolio of 400 properties in Europe and Africa, including all office, production and warehousing facilities.
Holding budgetary control with four Operations and one Finance manager directly reporting.
Formulation and execution of strategic policies relating to Real Estate and Facilities management.
Establishing and maintaining business relationships with local businesses, brokers and government departments.
Project Management of major ‘Sales & Lease Back’ integration initiative.
Programme Director with responsibility for the integration of 700+ sites throughout Europe following $10bn corporate merger.

1998 – 2006 Account Manager – Global Client
CB Richard Ellis

Responsible for client’s Real Estate portfolio and Facilities Management throughout EMEA, covering Israel, European, Baltic and Scandinavian countries.
Management of outsourced service provision to client, formulating strategic and tactical policies and providing consultative advice.
Maintenance of business relationships and developing new business opportunities.
Responsible for implementing policies, having three Operations and two Finance managers reporting directly.

1988 – 1998 Director / Founder Owner
GSO CompaNet BV

Founder and Director of niche Facilities & Corporate Real Estate management company focused on service provision throughout Benelux and France.
Holding full responsibility for P&L budgets and tendering regional service contracts.
Established and maintained strategic alliances and business relationships.
Grew company to a profitable enterprise, employing circa 100 personnel when sold.

1988 – 1989 Regional Director
Westerveld Hilversum

Regional Director within the Netherlands for this major facilities provider.
Overall responsibility for circa 400 personnel and yearly turnover of $6m.

1983 – 1988 Director
GAK, Head Office

Working on a global basis, Director Social Security for the Naval Sickness Fund.
Overall management of personnel with full budgetary control.
Responsible for corporate reorganisation and services negotiation.



Education

Masters Degree (MBA), ELITE/MBC 1976
Facility & RE Management, Antwerp University 1993

Military Service: Lieutenant (Liaison Officer) – Belgian Army
Languages: English, French, Flemish, Dutch and knowledge of German


References and further detail available on request

Education

MBA

Skills

Corporate Real estate
Facilities Management
Portfolio management
Property Management

Languages

Nederlands, Engles, Frans, duits

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