About Rob
Rob Raymond specializes in corporate real estate strategy for both occupiers and investors. Mr. Raymond has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, including portfolio strategy, real estate operating model and organizational structure, property management, facilities management, financial planning and analysis, process design and benchmarking.
Mr. Raymond has a track record of successfully delivering and leading strategic real estate and facilities consulting services for Fortune 500 organizations. Mr. Raymond began his consulting career in the wake of the financial crisis in 2009 and has developed a unique skillset and perspective towards strategically positioning real estate and workplaces to their most efficient and cost-effective values.
A significant portion of Mr. Raymond’s consulting experience has been supporting clients in the financial sector, including financial services, insurance, banking and real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). These projects have focused on elevating real estate to its highest value and best use through the development of real estate cash flow models and proformas, valuations of owned assets, sale-leaseback strategies and strategic cost reductions through optimization of physical real estate portfolio and operating models.
Relevant Experience:
- Implemented inter-company legal and financial structures for a real estate portfolio consisting of more than 200 locations and 14 countries; strategies enabled more effective financial reporting, shortening the period-end closing timeline by 50% and positioned the company to be more agile in responding to macro events
- Leveraged remote work and effective space planning to develop a strategy to consolidate more than 3,000 employees across four New York City metro locations into a single building, providing an improved location in Manhattan while saving $30 million in annual real estate lease costs
- Advised a company seeking to monetize real estate assets in order to fund digital transformation of its business; identified 170,000 square feet of vacant space for immediate sale and an additional 200,000 square feet of space that could become available through workplace strategy and offshoring of labor; recommended $38 million to $48 million in cash-out opportunities from both sale and exit, as well as sale and lease-back
Education
B.S., Architectural Technology Management, Lawrence Technological University
M.B.A., Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
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Contact
T: +1 248 860 4915
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Office
1301 McKinney Street
Suite 3500
Houston, TX 77010
United States
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Expertise
Corporate Finance
Cost Optimization
Financial Due Diligence
Merger Integration
Strategic Planning and Implementation