Christopher D. Wild
- Role
- Director, Corporate Real Estate & Construction at Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christopher D. Wild
I have a diverse professional background with expertise in commercial real estate…
Experience
Director, Corporate Real Estate & Construction
Jul 2018 — Present
Oversight of real estate activities in the Americas for Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Fortune 100 company with approximately $40 billion in annual sales and employees worldwide. The company is the world leader in serving science, enabling its customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. • Provide strategic direction and leadership to internal team of lease administration and database manager, real estate transaction manager, and real estate analysts, as well as external teams of real estate brokers, construction project managers, lease audit & tax appeal consultants, real estate attorneys, and other service providers. • Key business partner in the company’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, quickly securing additional real estate to establish new operations and expand upon existing operations. Real estate project lead to deliver new PCR testing production site, which supplied more than 10 million test kits per week to customers in 140+ countries. • Develop strong and impactful relationships with business executive leadership team and local management to execute upon strategic initiatives to establish locations in areas targeted for new business, expand existing facilities to support business growth, consolidate redundant operating locations, and dispose of excess space. • Execute upon real estate strategy for a rapidly growing large company through management of real estate associated with new acquisitions, reconfiguring existing assets to achieve maximum efficiency, and ensuring adherence to Global Corporate Real Estate Playbook, which ensures company standards are met across multiple locations. • Generated over $50 million in annualized P&L savings, cost avoidance, and free cash flow through execution and management of over 300 real estate projects for the company.
Education
UCLA
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Business Administration
University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
MBA, Finance and Accounting
Universidad de Salamanca
Certificate, Advanced Spanish Studies
Skills
- Lease Negotiations
- Real Estate Financing
- Real Estate Tax Appeals
- Real Estate
- Process Improvement
- Construction Loans
- Real Estate Transactions
- Finance
- Commercial Real Estate
- Corporate Real Estate
- International Real Estate
- Spanish
- Contract Negotiation
- Financial Analysis
- Negotiation
- Valuation
- Business Process Improvement
- Construction Management
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