After almost five years in the firm\u2019s London office, Cushman & Wakefield Inc. executive Jeff Cushman has relocated to the New York world headquarters and has been promoted to executive managing director, CPN learned exclusively today. Cushman will be responsible for cross-border client development strategies, as well as initiatives for current and prospective global clients across the firm\u2019s service lines. He reports directly to global COO John Santora. As Cushman (pictured) returns home, he brings both a global perspective and external and internal relationships created while overseas, all made with knowledge that he would eventually bring them back to the States. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to understand a place until you actually live there,\u201d he told CPN. \u201cWe can be local in our thinking. (My position) brings a broader global role; we can lean on what I\u2019ve learned and experienced and apply it to the Middle East, South America and Asia.\u201d Cushman & Wakefield has been making a greater push globally, and this position will also allow the firm to act in a more coordinated fashion when doing business internationally. \u201cI traveled often and met senior developers, investors and landlords in Europe, which has a lot of value and will help us get to people.\u201d he said, adding that multinational clients no longer want global service–\u201cthey expect global service.\u201d The firm is now streamlining as much as possible, using Cushman\u2019s links to bridge the gap between Europe and the United States and to help connect the right teams to the right projects. A deal in Manchester, U.K., for instance, may involve a team from Manchester, a team from London and Cushman; his role would be to help the teams meet with executives from targeted U.S.-based tenants. In London, he oversaw Cushman & Wakefield\u2019s efforts to coordinate the activities of the firm\u2019s local office agency teams throughout Europe with the firm\u2019s global platform, including helping structure and organize the firm\u2019s office marketing and leasing perspective and enabling the firm to better identify and access key decision-makers on behalf of some of Europe\u2019s largest landlords, including Tishman Speyer Properties, Minerva and Unibail. He also represented the interests of U.S.-based multinationals operating in Europe, including Marsh & McLennan, Qualcomm and Gilead Sciences in multiple markets, including London, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Madrid. Cushman returns to the United States during a volatile time in the country\u2019s economy, but he noted that London, another major financial center, has also felt the effects of the credit crunch. And although the rest of the world has lagged behind in feeling the pain just yet, business has not seemed to slow: he\u2019s participated in recent calls from Luxemborg, Sweden, Panama, Canada, India and China, to name a few. \u201cI have a very expensive phone bill,\u201d he laughed, \u201cbut it\u2019s an exciting job and I\u2019m happy to be back.\u201d Cushman is the great grandson of the company\u2019s founder, J. Clydesdale Cushman, and represents the seventh generation of the Cushman family to work in real estate in New York City. Prior to joining the firm, he served as senior director of leasing in Northern California for Tishman Speyer Properties and also oversaw the leasing and marketing efforts of 5.9 million square feet of office space in Manhattan\u2019s Rockefeller Center. He earned his BS and JD degrees from Santa Clara University in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After almost five years in the firm\u2019s London office, Cushman & Wakefield Inc. executive Jeff Cushman has relocated to the New York world headquarters and has been promoted to executive managing director, CPN learned exclusively today. Cushman will be responsible for cross-border client development strategies, as well as initiatives for current and prospective global clients…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003784198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n