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In The Trenches with Porter Bellew, CIO, Washington Real Estate Investment Trust
In this week’s “In the Trenches,” Chris Saah chats with Porter Bellew, Chief Information Officer for Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, one of the oldest publicly traded REITs in the country. CS: Porter, why don’t we start by you telling us about Washington Real Estate Investment Trust. Those of us...
In The Trenches with Jonathan Levi, CTO, Cassidy Turley
Jon Levi is a man who has been passing himself at the airport the past few years. As CTO of Cassidy Turley, he has seen his user base grow from 350 to 2800 over the past four years. We recently caught up with each other one evening at a middle-eastern...
In the Trenches with Boxer Properties COO, Justin Segal
We asked Justin Segal, COO of Boxer Properties, a real estate investment company that specializes in the development, turn-around, acquisition, management, and disposition of a variety of commercial properties, to share his success and challenges to introducing innovation into the industry. CS: When we’ve talked about IT in the commercial...
Presidents Obama and Clinton Launch The Better Buildings Challenge; Tour Transwestern Managed Property
President Obama last Friday announced nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. The $4 billion investment includes a $2 billion commitment, made through the issuance of a Presidential Memorandum, to energy upgrades of federal buildings using long term energy...
In The Trenches with Transwestern’s Eugene Kesselman
In this week’s “In the Trenches,” Chris Saah chats with Eugene Kesselman, Chief Information Officer for Transwestern, one of the largest privately held commercial real estate and development firms in the U.S. His IT department provides support to over 1,600 team members at over 280 corporate and management offices. ...
In the Trenches with CBRE’s Don Goldstein
In this week’s ‘In the Trenches’, Chris Saah chats with Don Goldstein, Global CIO for CB Richard Ellis. CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) is the world’s premier, full-service real estate services company. Operating globally, the firm holds a leadership position in virtually all of the world’s key business centers It’s been...
In the Trenches with PREIT’s Helane Stein
In this week’s ‘In the Trenches’, Chris Saah chats with Helane Stein, Director of IT for Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT), one of the first equity REITs in the U.S., with a portfolio that consists of 49 retail properties, including shopping malls, community centers and development properties. What...
In the Trenches with Boston Properties’ Jim Whalen
Source: Reposted from: In the Trenches with Boston Properties’ Jim Whalen In this week’s ‘In the Trenches’, Chris Saah, CIO, Transwestern chats with Jim Whalen, SVP & CIO, Boston Properties on both the process of technology adoption and some of the factors that have been key to his success in...
In the Trenches with Childress Klein’s Ryan Allbaugh
Source: Reposted from: In the Trenches with Childress Klein’s Ryan Allbaugh In this week’s ‘In the Trenches’, Chris Saah, CIO, Transwestern chats with Ryan Allbaugh, CIO, Childress Klein on how Ryan worked closely with his Property and Facility Management team to create one of the most successful, connected buildings...