In today’s business environment, real estate is a strategic asset. Given the critical nature of location decisions with short and long term implications, aligning company needs and objectives with the right location enables companies to achieve extraordinary corporate performance.
This program examines the various factors that companies consider when selecting a new location and provides two specific case studies: Keurig Green Mountain and their decision on a suburban location in Burlington and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ decision on their urban location in Boston’s Back Bay. Each of the panelists has various expertise in location decisions and will share their insights on how best to align company business objectives with location specific parameters.
SPEAKERS
Suzanne LeBlanc is the Director, Americas Real Estate and Facilities for Dassault Systemes. Prior to joining Dassault Suzanne was the Regional Head of Operations, Americas for Nokia. With over 45 offices totaling over 1 million SF she was responsible for all aspects of her portfolio from strategic planning to property management. Suzanne has also worked for Sovereign Bank where she led the
strategic planning efforts for Sovereign’s office portfolio, NELSON, where she headed up strategic planning in the Northeast for the Bank of America account and State Street Bank where she was responsible for real estate in North America.
Rimi Chakraborty, Senior Vice President, T3 Advisors is an expert in strategic real estate planning with in-depth knowledge and background in location decisions and working with clients to optimize their real estate portfolio, globally. Rimi has worked with companies such as LinkedIn, HubSpot, Enernoc and LogMeIn in the development of integrated real estate planning and workplace strategies. She also created T3's tHarmony tool that enables companies to quantify the qualitative factors associated with a headquarters search, in addition to financial models that illuminate the financial implications of various real estate scenarios.
Peter Smichenko, Director of Real Estate, Keurig Green Mountain has experience in the asset, property and construction management sectors and in leading either multi country or global real estate efforts for IDX Healthcare, CRA International, Dassault and most recently
Keurig Green Mountain. While at Dassault, Peter led the final construction and transition for Dassault’s North American Headquarters in Waltham. He led the process of relocating one of its Brands from Providence to Johnson, RI. Peter is currently preparing for the consolidation of Keurig Green Mountain into its new office building in Burlington later in 2014.
Lawrence Healey is currently the Director of Real Estate, Strategy and Planning at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). During his tenure, Larry has overseen the first relocation of the Boston headquarters, some 503,000SF and has developed and implemented two long term real estate programs, the purchase and renovation of a 345,000SF building in Quincy, and the new 326,000SF building in Hingham, MA, as well as several smaller scaled projects within Massachusetts.
COST
End User Member: Free
End User Non-Member: $75.00
Service Provider Member: $65.00
Service Provider Non-Member: $85.00
Talent in Transition Member: Free
Non-Member: $25
Additional $20 cost after registration deadline
Registration Deadline May 7th
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