Three to Co-Lead C&W's Global Occupier Services Group

NEW YORK CITY—Following the recent appointment of John Santora to CEO for North America, Cushman & Wakefield has appointed three of its executives to its global occupier services leadership team.

The unit will be co-led by Todd Schwartz, the group's global COO, Mark Wanic, head of Americas occupier services, and Richard Middleton, head of EMEA and Asia Pacific occupier services. All three also were appointed to the brokerage firm's global management committee.

Global Occupier Services creates comprehensive solutions for real estate portfolios. The group has more than doubled its revenue and EBITDA since becoming a strategic initiative of C&W in 2010. The leadership team will co-manage C&W's continued investment in this business and will be responsible for coordinating global account teams to develop integrated solutions, flexible operating models and best-in-class service to solve clients' needs across multiple service lines.

“I congratulate Todd, Mark and Richard on their expanded roles at Cushman & Wakefield. They fully appreciate the importance of our 'client only' approach and their combined local and global knowledge will deliver breakthrough innovations to our clients. They are passionate about serving our clients and together will enhance our occupier services platform across service lines and geographies,” says Edward C. Forst, Cushman & Wakefield's president and CEO.

Schwartz, who joined C&W in 1999, is responsible for driving all the resources of the firm in collaboration with his regional colleagues to deliver performance-based results and the achievement of client objectives. He also oversees the business planning and day-to-day operational functions of the Global Occupier Services group, which includes real estate accounting and technology solutions for clients. Over the past four years, he was instrumental in supporting the growth of both the occupier and investor services platforms through his operational leadership, strategic oversight of the project management organization and coordination of C&W's acquisition of Cousins Properties' third party management business in 2012.

Wanic and Middleton will manage the goals, objectives, and financial performance of the global occupier services group across their respective region. Wanic has been instrumental in the Americas for growing new and existing occupier clients by delivering innovative solutions as well as aggressively recruiting new occupier leaders and teams to C&W over the past eight years. Prior to joining C&W in 2007, he served as vice president of global channel partner sales operations at Computer Associates, Inc. and also performed a similar role at Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent). He previously lived in the Netherlands from 1997 to 2000 and directed Lucent's international real estate operations, where he managed a 15-million-square-foot portfolio.

Middleton has more than 25 years of real estate experience and has been with Cushman & Wakefield in Asia Pacific since 1997, based in both Hong Kong and Beijing. In 2010, he took over the leadership of corporate occupier and investor services in Asia Pacific. He played a leading role in the 2013 acquisition of Singapore-based Project Solution Group, which positioned Cushman & Wakefield as a market leader in project management services with one of the largest platforms in the region, the brokerage firm states. He was previously C&W's managing director of Greater China, where he expanded the firm's service offerings and launched an office expansion program. On joining C&W, Middleton set up the firm's advisory capability in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining C&W, he spent six years with Jones Lang LaSalle, both in Hong Kong and London, after having started his career at Property Market Analysis, the leading independent real estate research consultancy in the UK.