NEW YORK CITY—Bolstering its advisory services capabilities for tenants, CBRE Group has brought on four professionals in transaction and portfolio optimization. The team comes to the firm from Newmark Grubb Knight Frank with a background in both management consulting and brokerage.

The new team joins CBRE's Integrated Transaction Solutions practice, which provides planning and strategy for large, complex transactions and metro-area portfolios across the U.S., and is based in CBRE's Midtown Manhattan office.

Now part of CBRE's integrated transaction solutions practice are Christelle Bron, senior managing director, Derek Chanler-Berat, managing director, Marshall O'Moore, director, and Rachel Hu, financial analyst.

With a breadth of experience in many real estate subject areas, the team will leverage and coordinate the services of CBRE's advisory and transaction teams—such as labor analytics, workplace, capital markets, incentives, supply chain, and more—to create the maximum business and financial impact for clients. Using predictive analytics and option pricing, the team is able to engineer flexible solutions and deal structures that can weather business uncertainty and volatility, helping clients quantitatively manage risk and potentially reduce occupancy costs significantly.

“Christelle, Derek, Marshall and Rachel have a distinctive skill set and approach, which can truly set us apart from our competitors,” says Whitley Collins, global president, advisory & transaction services|occupier. “The team has spent the past five years researching, developing and testing robust predictive analytics and optimization models, providing a truly novel way to solve for the supply/demand equation. We look forward to the contributions they will make in creating exceptional outcomes for our occupier clients.”

Prior to joining Newmark, Bron and Chanler-Berat led consulting teams at Studley (now Savills Studley) and Ernst & Young (now EY). Throughout their careers, the team has provided consulting services to many Fortune 500 occupiers.

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