Ron Zappile

Ron leads Colliers’ Portfolio Strategy Consulting line of business for Occupier Services|Americas.

His team delivers strategic corporate real estate advisory services and high-quality portfolio and workplace optimization plans to corporate and institutional clients. Services include portfolio optimization planning, location strategy, KPI development, M&A due diligence, and organizational assessment.

Selected Accomplishments

• Wins clients with key strategic insights for all Colliers’ Global Occupier Services Enterprise engagements - responsible for engagement, strategy formulation and deployment of multi-year strategic planning engagements leading to downstream tactical execution/transactions. Typical engagements slash operating expense and rooftops by 30% - e.g. SAP, Thomson Reuters
• Envisions new products and services that lead to client attraction and retention - Created market-based Strategic Planning and Optimization tools that analyze clients’ portfolio plans and optimize for mark to market run-rate rationalization, effective and efficient capital expense deployment, and space optimization, saving clients significant expense in their annual run rates. Current client win-rate >30%. Average NPS score 9.6 (out of 10).
• Develops deep subject matter expertise in Electric Utility Sector operations, leading real estate portfolio optimization engagements for Duquesne Light Company (DLC), PECO, CommmonwealthEdison (ComEd), and PSE&G-LI. Typical engagements result in significant saves to O&M budget baseline, and downstream transaction commission
• Achieved an annual run rate savings of $75M, or 20% of baseline, and 30% reduction of occupied sites globally (from 271-> 189) via robust Strategic Planning process and execution of “Metro-Regional Master Plans” for Thomson Reuters.
• Implemented KPI-based “Location Quality Index” methodology for ~30 different clients - tool grades the relative performance of a clients’ portfolio against local and universal benchmarks, prompting engagement and transformational portfolio change. Slashes “analysis-paralysis” time and effectively prompts decision-making.

Property Type

Industrial, Office

Services

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Skills

Corporate Transaction and Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis, Portfolios, Planning, Consultancy Services, Location Advisory and Incentives, Transactions Services

Consumer Products: Pepsico, Nestle, Grupo Bimbo

Financial/Insurance: Thomson Reuters, IHS Markit, World Bank, Nasdaq, Equifax, Bank of Montreal (BMO), Protective Life 

Industrial/Engineering: BAE Systems, Alcon, Schneider Electric, Worley Parsons, HNTB, Koch Industries, Cummins, Danaher/Fortive, Lixil

Pharmaceutical: PTC Therapeutics, GSK

Public Utility/Public Sector: CommonwealthEdison (ComEd), Phildaelphia Electric Company (PECO), Duquesne Light Company (DLC), Hawaii Electric Company (HECO), Department of Education - Puerto Rico, Union County-NJ

Technology: SAP, Nokia, Microsoft, RedHat, Adobe