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Women of Influence 2013

Meet 45 of the most powerful and prominent female executives in commercial real estate today.

By Sule Aygoren | Updated on August 30, 2013

This is an HTML version of an article that ran in the July/August 2013 issue of Real Estate Forum. To see the original story, click here.

 

Meet 45 of the most powerful and prominent female executives in commercial real estate today. Chances are, you know them already.

DONNA ABOODChairman & Founding Partner Colliers International South Florida Coral Gables, FL Call her a pioneer. For years, Donna Abood was the only female CEO of a Colliers partnership worldwide. The 28-year commercial real estate veteran got her start at Abood & Associates in 1989, birthing the skills she’d need to lead Colliers through the ups and downs in Florida. A dealmaker at heart, Abood still works on transactions every day, even while mentoring the next generation of CRE pros. She’s inked more than 50 million square feet of office leases in South Florida over the years and has a reputation for her ability to lease any kind of office building. She sits on too many boards to list here. “Gender has become less and less of an issue for both men and women at negotiating tables,” Abood says. “The attributes of women’s empathy, ability to listen and ability to naturally multi-task make them more likely to be a strong player in commercial real estate.”

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