Robert F. Wetherald, Aia Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL

Rob is an accomplished corporate real estate executive with the leadership and proven ability to translate vision into results. He employs experience, creativity and critical thinking skills needed to optimize regional, national and global real estate portfolios for growth-oriented, industry leaders such as Deutsche Bank, Zurich and Oracle Corporation. He.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for Oracle's North American corporate facilities and services. Assumed a lead role with Line of Business management during a time of unprecedented organizational growth and change.Optimized the real estate footprint and standardized the facilities processes and procedures through 30+ acquisitions and significant organic growth. Took the lead in.

Led the design, construction, leasing and negotiation efforts on large-scale, ground-up, mixed-use developments. Project involvement spanned financial analysis and budgeting, client account management, resource management (architects, contractors, consultants, legal team, finance team), and obtaining municipal entitlements by serving as liaison to City.

Established the corporate real estate function, including hiring, orientation and deployment of staff, creation of operating procedures and contracting of all external resources. Managed the design and construction of the award-winning, LEED certified corporate headquarters, consisting of a 160,000 SF office building, 18,000 SF annex building, 7,500 SF.

Responsible for corporate real estate strategy and the management of design and construction projects in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Australia. Managed an annual capital budget in excess of $300M. Implemented the New York-metropolitan real estate consolidation/disposal strategy that relocated 6,500 staff from 1.4M square feet across various Midtown.

Global management responsibility for a 3M SF foot portfolio. Managed real estate transactions, lease negotiations and lease administration, design and construction, facilities management, central purchasing, business continuity, travel and other corporate services functions. Responsible for an annual operating budget exceeding $100M, 38 facilities.

Chairman, Board of Directors 1992 – 2002; Chairman Emeritus, Member of Strategic Planning Committee 2009 – 2011. Led the acquisition and restoration of the Robie House, Hyde Park, IL.

Managed all aspects of design and construction projects ranging in value up to $2M. Responsibilities included programming client needs, selecting and supervising consultants and contractors and managing project budgets and schedules.

Responsible for interpreting client needs, devising solutions, supervising the production of construction documents and providing on-site supervision of construction activities.