Karthik Agaram Venkatesh

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Karthik is an experienced Business Analyst who is adept in transforming raw customer data into intuitive dashboard visualizations using best-in-class data analytics engines like Tableau, PowerBI and RoamBI. He conveys key insights to executive management, which enables them to make data-driven business decisions. He has converted raw data in structured or unstructured format from SQL Server, MySQL, Access, Excel and csv databases into actionable insights.

Karthik joined the CBRE - Cincinnati team in May 2018 and leads portfolio analytics for the GWS Portfolio Advisory and Transaction Services team. In his current and previous roles in the last 10+ years, he has implemented business intelligence solutions for customers in different verticals like Telecom, Supply Chain, Quality, Facilities Management, Finance, IOT, Real Estate and Portfolio Management.

Karthik has been involved in each step of the Analytics solution development process starting from gathering client requirements, understanding their current manual reporting process and finding out the data challenges that they are facing. He understands the key elements in the different data sources that the client has and has discovered underlying patterns in the key performance indicators that are of business value to the customers and has automated the insight discovery process.

Karthik has the experience of performing Regression Analysis, GAP Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Pareto Analysis, creating Scorecard Reports, searching for Availabilities data in different markets, finding Sales Comps, Lease Comps, Landlord Debt information using Costar and has developed Benchmark dashboard views to compare the Actuals against the Target. If specific story board views are required by the client with specific filter selections to answer certain questions, he has created custom dashboards for that purpose. He has discovered outliers in the data and identified the reasons for the outlier. Karthik has proposed situation specific recommendations through the dashboards based on the business requirement.

While doing his master’s degree from UT Dallas, Karthik was an active leader in the Indian Students Association and has managed several events in the university.

Team Overview

The team is comprised of a deep and diverse group of professionals who specialize in driving progressive corporate portfolio optimization and real estate transaction management programs. The team maintains total outcome accountability—from up-front savings diagnostic scope through downstream strategy implementation—with performance governed by transparent KPI results at the individual transaction level as well as with portfolio and annual spend run rate controls.

The team is a trusted partner to companies in a wide spectrum of industries and maintains a value-to-fee ratio of 14-to-1 across all client accounts. The team is responsible for over $1B in client occupancy spend—and manages ongoing optimization initiatives including the full array of real estate transactions including property acquisitions, dispositions, sale leasebacks, build-to-suits and alternative financing structures—across 75 million square feet in more than 60 countries.

The team is an early adopter of new technologies and several of the team’s leaders are Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified. These two key elements, combined with the quality and experience of the team’s professionals contribute to the exceptional outcomes delivered for their clients. The team has been recognized on numerous occasions with client supplier of the year award recognition as well as with an array of accolades within CBRE for service excellence and innovation.