Damian Harrington
MRICS, M.Sc
Head of Research | Global Capital Markets & EMEA
EMEA Capital Markets
About
Professional Summary
Damian Harrington is a Director and Head of Research for both Global Capital Markets and EMEA at Colliers. He has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry living and working from various locations across EMEA including London, Dubai, Prague, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Damian is responsible for producing research for internal and external clients. His expertise helps to provide clients with global capital market trends and analysis, and connects them with strategic and actionable insights, such as the changing nature of global capital and the impact on global capital flows. Damian has produced numerous research papers and generated analysis of markets across all asset types - from residential to offices, retail to logistics and hotels to niche sectors such as life sciences, air cargo and data centres. Damian is a member of the EMEA location strategy team and a key member of Colliers ESG focus group. He speaks regularly at internal global conferences, external industry events hosted by GRI, ULI and other key industry bodies, plus key annual events such as MIPIM and EXPO REAL.
Damian holds a Masters degree in European Property Development and Planning from University College London, a BPI Bachelor of Planning from the University of Amsterdam and a BA (Hons) in Town and Country Planning from Manchester University. He is also a qualified surveyor, holding an MRICS with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Accomplishments
Damian has achieved most of the things he set out to do - working and studying abroad and across a range of real estate sectors, helping to develop a deep knowledge and experience of different markets. Damian is well educated and is a qualified surveyor and planner with a strong understanding of how the business works, enabling him to provide advice on issues that matter. Damian alos ran his own business consultancy prior to joining Colliers, so he knows how to prioritise and deploy time and resources effectively.
Education
MSc European Property Development and Planning, University College London
BPl Bachelor of Planning, University of Amsterdam/University of Manchester
Ba (Hons) Town and Country Planning, University of Manchester
Memberships & Involvements
RICS, RTPI, SPR, ULI
Clients
ARK Data Centres, AT Kearney, Bloomberg, CTP, Carcoustics, Farasis, Faurecia, Garmin, Heathside, Hollister, Ideal Automotive, IMOE, Immofinanz, Koch Industries, Lingnang, Macquarie, Mapletree, Molex, Oaktreee, Phillips-Medisize, Sitel, Skanska, TI Automotive, Varroc, Verdion, Wuest & Partners,
Testimonials
Feedback on Gen Y Reports:
"Many thanks for the report. I rarely read the full reports from agents, but I read this one with care and focus. Certainly a very interesting, thought provoking piece of research. Especially for traditional companies such as GE (Capital)."
"Thanks for the note - a very interesting paper and has already opened conversations with clients! Having circulated copy of the report to some of my key occupier and developer clients, have already had very positive feedback (Michael Donohoe, Head of Business Space, Colliers International - Ireland)"
“Thank you for this, it certainly made for an interesting read and I definitely agree with the points on “New Challenges”, “Freedom and Feedback” and “Companionship at Work”. I’ve observed each of these on many occasions and it’s reassuring to see it’s generational and not specific to our industry (Technology Client).”
"This is a great article – well done! My background is in management consulting at McKinsey and I cannot stress enough to our brokers the importance of talent management approach in our client service." (Maria Melo, VP, Colliers International California)
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Karel Stransky
Director | Head of Corporate Industrial Advisory
Occupier Services EMEA
London - West End
I have obtained Master's Degree in Geography from Masaryk University in Brno in 1984 and MBA from Sheffield Hallam University in 1997.
First ten years of my proffesional Iife I worked as a planner both in private consulting as well as for the City of Brno as a Deputy Chief Architect heading Urban Development & Renewal Team. There I have gained not only the understanding of how planning impacts the development but also how to proactively use planning policies to initiate and support developments in both greenfields and brownfields. I had also studied relevant planing practices in the UK, Netherlands, USA and Japan.
I joined Bovis P&O Team in Brno in 1994 shortly after this developer started to build Czech Technology Park, which was one of the first industrial developments in Central Europe in cooperation between the City and Technical University. My mission was to promote this development, identify potential customers, work with the construction team in order to accomodate the needs of the tenants and manage the leaase transaction on behalf of the developer. I worked with companies such as Siemens or Silicon Graphics , which became the first tenants of this development.
In 1996 I joined Colliers International as Senior Property Consultant to build the Industrial Real Estate Agency in the Czech Republic.
I have grown and managed the industrial team of Colliers up till 2009 during which period this team became leader in the Czech industrial market having transacted over 3 milion sq m of industrial floor space and land both on behalf of the occupiers as well as the landlords. Most of the customers were international companies such as Prologis, AIG Lincoln, Ctp or Goodman on the landlord side or Bridgestone, VF Europe, Johnson Controls, Schenker, DSV, Gebruder Weiss, DHL, Moduslink and many others on the occupier side .
During this period I have also worked on behalf of the my international occupier clients Bridgestone and Moduslink in the other European markets such as Spain or France as well as various countries of Central Europe.
Shortly after the begining of financial crisis in the early 2009 I became Managing Director of Colliers Czech Republic and took the team through the trubled, loses making period and transformed it to the profitable business.
In the midle of 2011 I have joined newly formed Corporate Solutions team in London to accomodate the needs of my existing as well as new industrial and manufacturing customers across EMEA. Since then I have actively managed industrial and manufactuirng related projects in 17 countries of Europe, US and Asia covering the whole business life of the real estate: from location consulting through lease or freehold acquisition, portfolio management to the building dissposals.
Elias is Head of Location Strategy, Occupier Services - EMEA..
He has advised over 650 companies on where to locate new operations and where to consolidate existing ones.
In doing so he brings to bear a deep understanding of business operations, and of how to tune them to local operating conditions.
Having conducted field work in 47 countries and over 250 cities globally, he applies this expertise across all business functions: headquarters, manufacturing, R&D, warehousing and distribution, and shared services.
Elias expertise ranges from location strategy through tactics to project implementation. He developed robust data-models but holds that experience is key to deliver recommendations that work.
He regularly speaks and publishes on location strategy, emerging markets, business resilience and corporate deployment trends.
Elias teaches International Business Strategy at one of Europe’s top-10 universities, sits on the board of various international business associations and is member of the Site Selectors Guild.
Zuzana has over 10 years of experience in the commercial real estate sector. Her strength lies in real estate portfolio analysis and optimization, transaction management, financial modelling, process development and performance management. Zuzana is in charge of identifying and delivering real estate portfolio optimization strategies.
Zuzana advised on numerous lease acquisitions, renegotiations and lease terminations, asset acquisitions and disposals and other types of transactions in different parts of EMEA and has led the development of processes and systems to deliver consistent service delivery across the region. Zuzana’s expertise lies in overseeing the performance of local experts to ensure seamless delivery to her clients, providing strategic and best practice portfolio advice and day-to-day transaction management. During 2014, Zuzana was also seconded to General Motors Real Estate team.
Since September 2020, Zuzana is part of Complex and Emerging Market Solutions group where she specializes in high quality end to end solutions in challenging and frontier geographies across Africa, the Middle East and Eurasia.