Kate Oliveira
Managing Director
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Kate is a Managing Director at CBRE and leads Client Solutions for retail clients in the US. In current her role, Kate owns the solutioning and continued development of CBRE’s retail occupier accounts business by leveraging various enterprise offerings including location analytics, transaction management and lease administration and introducing them to new and existing clients.
Kate was previously a Managing Director in CBRE’s Consulting organization, where she gained critical knowledge of the CBRE platform and services. Prior to CBRE, Kate was a Senior Manager in the Strategy and Transactions practice at EY for almost 10 years, specializing in real estate valuation services and corporate real estate strategy. Additional professional experiences include a tenure as an AVP at a start-up Blackstone portfolio company offering financing for single-family rental investments. She also taught middle school math in the Dominican.
Kate was previously a Managing Director in CBRE’s Consulting organization, where she gained critical knowledge of the CBRE platform and services. Prior to CBRE, Kate was a Senior Manager in the Strategy and Transactions practice at EY for almost 10 years, specializing in real estate valuation services and corporate real estate strategy. Additional professional experiences include a tenure as an AVP at a start-up Blackstone portfolio company offering financing for single-family rental investments. She also taught middle school math in the Dominican.
Representative Roles
- Delivered quarterly results for a net asset valuation of a multi-billion-dollar grocery-anchored retail portfolio with more than 150 assets
- Studied differences in behavior among retail segments including Power Center, Community / Neighborhood Center, Lifestyle, High Street / Flagship, Mall and Outlets for retail valuation assignments
- Assessed covid-era market rental rate impacts by retail type including apparel, specialty, footwear, cosmetic & beauty, pharmacy (essential retailer) for lease impairment exercises
- Served as project executive overseeing the strategic planning and execution of a Fortune 5 headquarters consolidation entailing almost 1M square feet and impacting approximately 4,000 employees
- Performed a campus optimization study assessing stay / reinvest and exit / move scenarios considering qualitative and quantitative factors entail more than 500,000 square feet and a baseline occupancy cost of approximately $50M
- Developed an optimal future state portfolio for climate and sustainability company resulting in shutting 1/4 of branch locations
- Controlled all aspects of a critical real estate business distribution channel from inception as product owner managing 10 business divisions to deliver program definition, milestone tracking and key technology roll-out for 3rd party audiences of greater than 25,000
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