Occupier Services

Well respected within the industry, Andrew is an Executive Managing Director with over 20 years of global experience within Corporate Real Estate. Andrew has a wealth of knowledge having advised dozens of Fortune 500 companies throughout the world on developing real estate transformation solutions.

As Executive Managing Director of EMEA Occupier Services.  Andrew drives strategy, client service delivery and spearheads the growth of Colliers’ occupier business within the EMEA region.

Andrew leads integrated service delivery for all occupier clients specialising in corporate real estate services, portfolio strategy, transaction management, brokerage, lease administration, project management, workplace services, and facilities management outsourcing advisory across the EMEA region.

Prior to joining Colliers, Andrew worked for CBRE where he has held senior leadership roles within their Global Workplace Solutions business in Chicago, Hong Kong, New York and London.  He has gained extensive global experience advising large corporations on their global real estate organization and strategy over the last 18 years, having worked across EMEA, North America and Asia Pacific.  Andrew also currently serves on the global board of directors of Corenet, the leading global association for the corporate real estate profession.

He has lived and worked internationally and has a deep understanding of the cultural and regional challenges within a global organisation.
 

Peter is Head of Enterprise Clients, Occupier Services EMEA. He is focussed on ensuring Colliers' Occupier Services enterprise clients are receiving best-in-class solutions to manage their organisations and portfolios.

He is responsible for ensuring service excellence including account growth, setting direction on account strategy & innovation. He leads the programme to hire, grow and develop our Account and Transaction Managers.

In addition, Peter is also responsible for leading Colliers EMEA Cross Border Tenant Representation, coordinating the in-country Tenant Rep teams to deliver multi-market solutions to our occupier clients.

Peter is a senior member of Colliers Global Tenant Advisory Council and maintains close working relationships with key Colliers occupier focused teams across all global regions in order to seamlessly connect clients, advisers and brokers.

James Rawdon-Mogg is the Head of Enterprise Client Solutions for Occupier Services in EMEA, leading on business development, account mobilisation and client account transformation.  James is a member of the EMEA Occupier Services Advisory Board.

James has been working in EMEA Occupier Services at Colliers International since January 2014, managing corporate client accounts, developing new relationships and service lines. Prior to joining Colliers, James qualified as a commercial Chartered Surveyor with Savills and spent 3 years as a self employed consultant. As a former member of the Army Reserves, James also spent a year on mobilised full time service on operations in Afghanistan (Op Herrick 12/ 13).

James has 15 years’ experience in commercial asset management, corporate real estate consultancy, lease advisory and property management, qualifying as a surveyor (RICS) in 2009. He has worked on client accounts ranging from large corporates such as National Grid, Electronic Data Systems, BP and Shell, to small investment clients with commercial portfolios. 

In his spare time, James is also a (very) amateur jockey, riding mainly in point to point races and also occasionally under rules.

JanJaap and his team help organizations rethink the way they work and develop new work- and office concepts that impact on organizational goals, productivity, engagement and health of employees. Office concepts are translated to requirements for location, building and interior. JanJaap is specialized in developing work concepts and requirements for corporate clients by balancing corporate best practices and specific local demands based on local conditions, specific workprocesses and country culture.

Previously he held a senior role with Atos Consulting where he developed innovative work and office concepts for a variety of clients mainly in the public sector. He joined the AOS Group in 2012 and since Colliers International acquired the company in 2015 he has been advising a variety of clients on workplace solutions including IBM, Deloitte, ING and many more.

Tom Sleigh joined Colliers in 2019 as Head of Flexible Workplace Consultancy in the EMEA region. Tom supports occupier clients in the execution of their flexible workspace strategy and requirements, in addition to advising flexible operators on their expansion strategy throughout EMEA. He also supports real estate investors considering entering the sector, specialising in partnerships between asset owners and operators. 

An experienced Real Estate and Construction professional who has worked for over twenty years providing advice across the life cycle of commercial properties for a number of large multi-national corporate clients. These include Centrica, Whitbread, Shell, Microsoft, GSK, PeopleSoft, and Nokia Networks.

A technical background coupled with management expertise, key areas of success include: Design management, project management, risk and value management, programme management, PMO, stakeholder and change management.

Head of Complex & Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS).

Having spent almost 10 years at various real estate leadership roles at Honeywell, a Fortune 100 company, I bring to the table over 14 years of experience combining brokerage, consultancy, real estate strategy, planning & execution and facilities management.

I have a proven track record in carrying out lease acquisitions, dispositions or consolidations and wider real estate strategy manners simultaneously across various regions and cultures.

I play jazz piano, enjoy travelling and creating travel videos.

Nicholas brings a depth of industry experience gained both client and supply side to provide a unique capability in an advisory capacity for strategic development, transformation and implementation of all types of FM and outsourcing models.  

Understanding the capabilities of FM suppliers and the dynamics within the industry, underpins effective and sustainable FM solutions that are aligned to client business drivers. A foundation of FM experience ensures that outsourcing and FM strategies are robust and sustainable. 

Working in the UK, Dubai, Nigeria and Europe Nicholas has developed and delivered effective and efficient FM solutions within professional services, banking, telecoms, transport, rail, media, utilities and manufacturing industries. 

Nicholas has a technical background and a proven capability to deliver transformation agendas with pace, professionalism and passion.

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. 

Will joined Colliers International in 2015. Based in London, Will currently has the role of Portfolio Strategy & Innovation Lead and is responsible for the development of the PortfolioExpert platform, specifically a new technology that brings portfolio data to life, with simple benchmarking and critical date management which facilitate collaborative strategy development in pursuit of savings.

Will is responsible for the provision and support of the Colliers 360 Technology suite in EMEA, liaising with the US Technology Team.

Will has successfully developed business and IT solutions for the business development team in Corporate Solutions. Will won the Da Vinci Award for innovation for his work integrating teams through technology.

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.