Cushman & Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held commercial real estate services
firm, has announced that its Chairman of the Board, Carlo Barel di Sant’Albano, has today
started in his role as a Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Cushman & Wakefield,
EMEA.
As announced by the Firm on March 21st 2012, Carlo succeeds Paul Bacon who held the role of
EMEA CEO since 2007 and who will remain involved in the business as Chairman of the French,
German, Italian and Russian boards until the end of the year.
Carlo was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cushman & Wakefield in March
2011 and is responsible for the strategic oversight and stewardship of the firm on a global
basis. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of EXOR and was instrumental in its
acquisition of a major stake in Cushman & Wakefield in March 2007. Since then he has been
closely involved in the business activities of the Firm and prior to becoming Chairman of the
Board, served as a member of the Cushman & Wakefield Board.
Glenn Rufrano, Global President and CEO of Cushman &Wakefield said; “I have worked with
Carlo and in close partnership over the past couple of years on the successful creation and
execution of our strategic growth plan globally. Carlo brings broad industry insight, in depth
experience and the leadership skills to drive our growth strategy in the EMEA region and the
global firm. I look forward to working with him and the European leadership team to ensure we
achieve our goal to be the very best at what we do and to deliver first class value added
services to our clients.”
Carlo is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He
previously had a 20 year career in Investment Banking latterly with Credit Suisse. He is based
at Cushman & Wakefield’s European headquarters in London.