William (Bill) Lee Email & Phone Number

Rahway, New Jersey, United States

Dynamic Executive Director at Merck, leading the Real Estate, Workplace, and Strategic Planning division. With a focus on driving strategic initiatives and optimizing workplace environments, I align real estate assets with corporate goals, fostering innovation and growth. Skilled in managing complex projects, I bring a vision that enhances operational efficiency and delivers sustainable results. Passionate about creating spaces that inspire collaboration and success.

Currently teaching sessions for Executive Education for Real Estate at Harvard University. Topics include real estate development, market trends, finance, technology, mixed use development, emerging markets, and smart real estate.

Seoul, South Korea (Remote From The Us)

Development of a strategy for a real estate fund and development project that emphasizes distinctive ICT assets and a competitive advantage.Delivery of consistent and reliable guidance on technological solutions pertaining to real estate and ESG measurement and solutions. Lead collaborative investment alignment of LP and management leadership in order to optimize their resources, minimize potential conflicts of interest, and ultimately enhance opportunities for success.

Foster City, California, United States

Master planning for HQ campus, and workplace and global real estate strategies.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Bill Lee is spearheading the execution of Gaw Capital’s Technology and Infrastructure real estate investment platform. Gaw Technology and Infrastructure “GTI” is a group with a global mandate for data center and its related network infrastructure with a main geographic focus on the developing and emerging countries throughout Asia.

Redmond, Wa

Direct management of corporate headquarters (Redmond, WA) real estate and development activities consisting of 502 acres and 14 million SF of high tech office space, labs, and specialty spaces, compromising of 60% of global real estate assets.Campus Refresh planning effort includes master plan, infrastructure civil engineering, renovation of 8.6 million SF, design and construction of approximately 3 million SF, financial plan, and implementation plan (Phase 1 began in 2015). Concept of walkability and convenience for the campus with mixed land use concepts and sustainability efforts to deliver a campus that is the best environment in the world for innovation.Cost reduction efforts under implementation, which is anticipated to reduce total costs by $1 Billion and an efficiency plan to reduce real estate portfolio by 21%. Management of consolidation of 3 department/work streams to streamline communication and project management process. Management of 9 FTEs and over 400+ vendor FTEs.

Oversight of 22,000 acres of real estate and 7 million square feet of space with an executive leadership role in planning, organizing, and directing real estate development and management operations for the UC campus.• Essential functions include asset management, space planning, faculty and staff housing, mortgage orientation program, and foundation real property gift receivership.• Capital finance duties include strategic financial planning and budgeting for campus construction projects, requiring oversight of project accounting, scheduling, public works contract administration and economic development.• Collaborative efforts entailed working closely with 6 distinct administrative divisions, academic leaders, as well as joint venture opportunities with third party developers.• Master planning within department involved campus master planning, building and code permit services, inspections, and state level environmental approvals.• Facilitative leadership of 150 leases and supervision of 12 FTEs, both represented and non-represented staff.• Acquisition of real Property for housing of UC system wide (10 campuses) consolidation programs.• Execution of Public Private Partnerships for new construction and financing for the campus; projects include multi-use sports facility (5,000 seats), clinical facilities for Health Science and Medical programs, 3.5M Watt Solar Farm, and campus bookstore.

Irvine, Ca

Chief Executive for investment and consulting company responsible for all real estate operations, reporting to Board of Directors/Executive Committee level regarding progress updates, budget planning and transaction approvals. Projects ranged from $10M to $500M.Essential functions included equity and debt finance solutions, asset management, entitlement, development, leasing strategies, and negotiations of lease agreements, and predevelopment planning for foreign projects.

Irvine, Ca

Fortune 200 National land development and home-building company with annual revenue of $14 Billion.• Acquisition and operation of the 3,626 acre El Toro Marine Airbase redevelopment in Irvine, CA with a development budget of $1.5 Billion through venture capital and development partners. The mixed use urban master plan features 5.2 Million square feet of commercial uses, 5,000 residential homes, the Orange County Great Park (largest urban park in the US), 240 acres for education uses, man-made lakes, golf course, urban transit center, theme parks, and state of the art education facilities.• Project oversight included acquisition of the property through US Navy’s auction process ($850M), establishment of a new division for Lennar Corporation (hired 32 FTEs), planning and design, community outreach programs, management of collaborative entitlement process with the City of Irvine and the Orange County Great Park Corporation, debt financing of $912.5M, and creation and implementation of a strategic business plan.

Phoenix, Az

National land banking company with annual underwriting business of $450 Million. Underwriting and acquisition of $200M annually.• Market Management and Development of residential and commercial properties in California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.• Roles and responsibilities related to financing of development process and disposition of properties - reporting directly to the Investment Committee and Fund Managers.

Greater San Diego Area

Southern California Regional real estate development company with annual revenue of $500 Million. Real estate acquisition responsibilities including land, homebuilding, and commercial development.• Managed the feasibility and negotiation process with a multidisciplinary team through due diligence with an ongoing advisory role to the project manager after closing.• Essential functions included providing equity interests from overseas investment partners in Korea and Japan, weekly reporting of all acquisition and equity raising activities to the Executive Committee, and management of overseas business operations (including travel 12 times per year).• City of San Diego representative for the sister city programs with Chunju, Korea.

Greater San Diego Area

Diversified real estate development company with operations in the Pacific Northwest and East Asia. Supervised the development of 500 unit multi-family development project• Supervisory projects in development of 500-unit multi-family project (Russelville), industrial/incubator products (Hayden Island), American style homebuilding operation in Japan, office buildings and single tenant occupancy buildings.• Project deliverables consisting of public and tax credit financing, private equity, and county tax abatement for transit oriented development (PDC).• Affordable housing development using publicly funded tax credits and was awarded the most amount of tax credits in the State of Oregon.• Project oversight of financial analysis, entitlement, planning and design, construction management, and leasing of apartments and office/industrial products.

Master Of Urban Planning, Concentration In Real Estate Development

Activities and Societies: Building Industry Association & Harvard Alumni Association, Alpha Lambda Delta Scholastic Honor Society, Harvard.

Bachelor Of Science In Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Bucknell International OrganizationCompleted Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE/E.I.T.)

Bachelor Of Arts In East Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Asian Student Association of BucknellExchange program with Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Education record

Activities and Societies: Student Body PresidentRecipient of Patrons Award (award given to student most representative of the school).

Education record