Avison Young’s John Sikaitis Joins CBRE

Sikaitis will be senior vice president, CBRE Platform.

John Sikaitis, a data and analytics expert in the commercial real estate industry, is joining CBRE as senior vice president, CBRE Platform.

Sikaitis spent 15 years at JLL, where he helped to build their data platform and developed go-to-market broker-support models, including market intelligence products at the point of sale. He also ran a research-led local-market advisory service using data, analytics, intelligence and technology to create bespoke market strategies for investors and tenants.

Since 2019, he has been chief innovation officer at Avison Young, where his team developed a CRE data analytics technology platform that has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the business world’s best innovations of 2022.

Sikaitis will partner with Sandeep Davé, CBRE’s Chief Digital & Technology Officer, on the company’s Advisory data and market-facing technology and with Richard Barkham, CBRE’s global chief economist to on the research data and platform.

He will join CBRE on March 15 and report to Vikram Kohli, CEO of the CBRE Platform.