Avison Young Continues Global Expansion

Hiren Thakar will help lead the firm’s global expansion.

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.