John C Maher

John C. Maher is Executive Vice President of Global Workplace Solutions Brokerage for CBRE; he is responsible for the growth of CBRE’s brokerage business with corporate clients headquartered in the East. John is recognized in the real estate industry as an innovative leader who has helped a wide range of. corporate clients structure and implement highly successful, long term business partnerships, including the real estate industry’s first global, end-to-end service outsourcing contract, with American Express.

From 1994 to 2003, John was a senior executive with Trammell Crow Company (TCC). He served as Group President of Trammell Crow Corporate Services and Vice Chairman of TCC’s international venture, Trammell Crow Savills. John led the development and execution of a highly effective business development strategy that helped TCC grow its outsourcing business from a base of five customers in 1994 to more than one hundred customers in 2003. At the end of 2006, CBRE acquired TCC.

Prior to re-joining CBRE in 2007, John was Executive Vice President of Colliers International where he was responsible for leading Colliers Corporate Solutions. Under his leadership Colliers was recognized as one of The Top 100 Outsourcing Service Providers in the world.

John is a graduate of the University of Akron, where he serves as an Executive Advisory Board member. He also serves as member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).