Rob is a Managing Director with FTI Consulting with 19 years of experience in the Real Estate Industry and over 9 years consulting directly for Fortune 500 companies. At FTI, Rob is leading and building a national practice that supports both owners and occupiers of space to drive value out of their real estate portfolios. His primary focus is occupancy cost reductions, footprint optimizations, efficient real estate operating models, and lease vs. own strategies.
Rob holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and a B.S. in Architectural Management from Lawrence Technological University.
The components won’t share a lot of the resources the bigger company had.
In almost every case, the short-term impact on CRE is that the footprint stays the same or increases slightly—2% to 5%— in cases where the additional space needs to be added to the portfolio to accommodate physical separation of employees due to legal or confidentiality reasons.