The corporate solutions business division manages corporateclient real estate portfolios with the integration of transactionalservices, facility management services, project managementservices, strategic consulting, occupancy planning and leaseadministration, Hicks says. Many of the clients are national orinternational companies with major clients, including Bank ofAmerica, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Procter & Gamble,Motorola, Whirlpool and HSBC. "In some cases, a corporate clientwould hire us to provide a consistent delivery platform," he says."We are integrating a lot of cultures, we are integrating across alot of geography and we are integrating these multiple services ina consistent way."

The corporate solutions business division has doubled theirbusiness in the past few years and Hicks and Phillips' goals willbe to continue the growth and innovate, Hicks says. "We want tobring clients new occupancy strategies, tools by which to managetheir portfolios (and) we are going to focus very much on ourtalent," he says.