Gialanella to Head Cushman's US Retail Expansion

NEW YORK CITY-Cushman & Wakefield has tapped David M. Gialanella to build some muscle into its US retail business and coordinate global retail strategies for the firm. The 18-year C&W veteran and newly appointed executive vice president of retail operations has a core group in place and plans to expand the firm’s retail presence into several key markets.

Gialanella, who has close ties to Cushman’s London-based European operation Healy & Baker–the two firms merged in 1998–tells GlobeSt.com he is planning to aggressively pursue the US retail market, which, he says, is poised to become one of the “top three or four businesses” on Cushman’s domestic priority list. “We’re already in it,” he says. “Now we want to grow it.”

To that end, Gialanella has spent the last three weeks assembling an in-house team to head up the retail group. “I basically have got our retail strategy moving in three or four directions. I’ve built a core staff of people. I brought a Healy & Baker person in to focus on cross-border business development and client servicing. Another individual, based in Chicago, is coordinating the focus on domestic research in retail areas.” Technology and sales and marketing professionals have also been brought onboard to round out the group, Gialanella says.