IRVINE, CA-Steve Silen has joined New York-based Ernst & Young LLP Construction and Real Estate Advisory Services practice here as a senior manager. He will be leading the firm's Corporate Real Estate Advisory practice for the western half of the US.

Prior to joining EY, Silen was a leader within KPMG's Real Estate and Facilities Management Advisory practice and held senior real estate and facilities-management positions with firms in the pharmaceutical and oil-and-gas industry sectors. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences' and has written a series of articles related to integrated facilities management, sourcing of facilities-management services, real estate strategies, lease administration, balanced scorecard, driving innovation and continuous improvement, and cost reduction.

“We have tremendous confidence in Mr. Silen's expertise and the added value that his experience will bring to our clients,” says Mark Gibson, CREAS Services co-leader, west region, for EY.

CREAS advisory services can assist clients with their portfolio rationalization and site analysis; service delivery strategies operating model design; occupancy cost reduction; outsourcing; organizational design; and technology and process improvements, risk mitigation and control.

As GlobeSt.com reported in September 2013, Eric Entringer, senior manager of Ernst & Young, moderated a panel at RealShare Bay Area that revealed a slight concern of reaching down the risk spectrum to get the deals done.