Andrew Zezas

Current

• President & CEO at Real Estate Strategies Corporation
• Ideas, Insight, and Inspiration Director at RealStrat Training

Past

• Senior Managing Director at Insignia/ESG, Inc.
• Licensed Salesperson - Business Development & Client Services at Cross & Brown Company
• Business Development at MacPherson Agency

• Account Executive at VR Business Brokers

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Industry

Commercial Real Estate

Andrew Zezas’s Summary

Corporate Real Estate Advisor:
I have provided guidance to companies and executed complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and enhancements, to support their business objectives, solve financial and operational challenges, reduce risk, uncover hidden opportunities, create more profits and greater flexibility. We have won numerous awards, and have a list of clients who engage us over and over.

CEO:
I enjoy leading a dynamic corporate real estate services company that supports the unique operational and financial objectives of mid and small-cap co's in NJ and around the U.S.

Author:
I achieved real satisfaction in completing The CFO's Guide to Understanding Corporate Real Estate Transactions, its companion Guide, and +75 articles on business, real estate, and customer excellence. 2 new books are in the works, entitled "Understanding Commercial Real Estate" and "You're Not in the Business You Think You're In!"

Conference Speaker and Trainer:
I enjoy helping business and real estate executives, customer relations and sales professionals acquire knowledege and skills to enhance their careers and create more successful relationships. I have spoken in the U.S. and Canada for organizations, including: Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), American Management Association (AMA), Financial Executives International (FEI), Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), CoStar, Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG), and others. I am excited to have been accepted into the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Realtors Commercial Alliance Signature Series of Speakers.

Leader:
* Founder, (Former Chair), Co-Chair: SIOR Tenant Rep Specialty Practice Board (SPB)
* Board Chair: Real Estate Advisory & Development Services (READS)
* Member: Legislative Committee - New Jersey Association of Realtors

Andrew Zezas’s Specialties:

Aligning real estate with a company's business objectives. Supporting the specific needs of financial executives, management teams, private equity and investor and globally owned corporations. Motivating young and seasoned business executives to adapt to new ideas, both in my conference speaking services and in my corporate real estate advisory services.

Andrew Zezas’s Experience

• President & CEO

  Real Estate Strategies Corporation

  (Privately Held; Real Estate industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

  As founder and chief strategist at Real Estate Strategies Corporation, my primary role is to advise our clients and execute transactions that will yield the optimal approach to uncovering hidden liquidity in their leased and owned real estate, and guiding them as to how best they can redeploy that real estate to reduce risk and increase flexibility, whether they're focused on acquiring, disposing, or just enhancing what they occupy.

• Ideas, Insight, and Inspiration Director

  RealStrat Training

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

  Taping into our considerable experience in providing client excellence and service, and ensuring that our clients' objectives are achieved, we provide skills training and knowledge acquisition to groups seeking to enhance the careers of their members, to expand their knowledge base, and to acquire new skills in customer relationship management, sales, career growth & success, and commercial real estate.

• Senior Managing Director

  Insignia/ESG, Inc.

  (Commercial Real Estate industry)

  June 1988 — January 2002 (13 years 8 months)

• Licensed Salesperson - Business Development & Client Services

  Cross & Brown Company

  (Commercial Real Estate industry)

  June 1985 — June 1988 (3 years 1 month)

• Business Development

  MacPherson Agency

  (Real Estate industry)

  1984 — 1985 (1 year )

• Account Executive

  VR Business Brokers

  (Financial Services industry)

  1983 — 1984 (1 year )

Additional Information

Andrew Zezas’s Interests:

Music (where's Southside Johnny when you need him?), the beach, my family, sending positive energy out to the universe, great movies, growing my kids into solid adults, keeping a smile on my wife's pretty face Other websites: www.AndrewZezas.com www.TheCFOGuides.com www.TheExecutiveGuides.com CorporateAdvisor.wordpress.com

Andrew Zezas’s Groups:

FEI
SIOR
IOREBA

•    Corporate Real Estate
•    Finance & Accounting Professionals
•    SIOR - Society of Industrial and Office Realtors Worldwide
•    Financial Executives International (FEI)
•    Private Equity Networking
•    Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Network
•    Bergen Chapter - FENG
•    NJTC - New Jersey Technology Council
•    SIOR Global
•    Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce
•    Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey
•    SIOR Tenant Representation Specialty Practice Board
•    FENG - Princeton, New Jersey - Chapter
•    Fragrance & Flavor Industry
•    The Financial GAAP - NJ Area Financial Executives
•    North Essex Chamber of Commerce - NECC
•    NY/NJ QA and IT Professionals
•    New Jersey Bergen County Networking Group
•    Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce
•    The Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Zezas’s Honors:

Visit http://www.realstrat.com/awards.htm to view Awards details

SIOR - Largest Deal of the Year 2008
NJBIZ-Business of the Year 2007 Awards
Real Estate Strategies Corporation Named Finalist

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 New Jersey Awards Program –
Andrew B. Zezas, SIOR Named Finalist for Second Time

NJBIZ-Executive of the Year 2006 Awards
Andrew B. Zezas, SIOR Named Finalist

NJBiz-Largest Real Estate Deals

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® (EOY) 2005 New Jersey Awards Program - Andrew B. Zezas, SIOR Named Finalist

"A-Team Hall of Fame" and "Most Valuable Broker of 2004"

William Dorsey Award for Client Service Excellence 2004

Top 50 New Jersey Commercial Real Estate Service Providers 2006, 2004, and 2002

Broker of the Year 2001 and 2000

NAIOP-Creative Deal of the Year 1995

Broker of the Year 1993

Andrew Zezas’s Contact Settings

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