CHICAGO, TORONTO—Avison Young continues to expand across the globe, and has just promoted a Chicago-based principal to help run that effort. Effective immediately, Hiren Thakar, becomes chief operating officer of international operations. In this new role, he will oversee operations in Europe, Mexico and future locations outside the US and Canada.
Thakar joined Avison Young in 2008 as senior vice-president of corporate strategy. And over the past nine years, the company has grown from 11 to 80 offices and from 300 to more than 2,400 real estate professionals across North America and Europe. Thakar says that a transformation in the real estate world has made it vital that this growth continue.
“The real estate community in general has gotten more international over the last decade,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “Many of our clients are going global, and that means we have to be global as well.” The Toronto-based company first began to expand by opening offices across Canada, then began moving into the US, and now has set a goal of being in all of the world's core real estate markets.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
