Executive Leadership

Bob Sulentic has been President & Chief Executive Officer of CBRE Group, Inc. since December 2012. He assumed additional responsibilities as Board Chair in November 2023. CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2022 revenues of  $30.8 billion and approximately 115,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries.

CBRE is ranked #135 on the Fortune 500 and has been Fortune’s Most Admired Real Estate Company for four out of the last five years. 

Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Sulentic served as President of CBRE, with responsibility for all business segments. In addition, he served as the company's Chief Financial Officer in 2009, during the depth of the global financial crisis. Earlier, Mr. Sulentic served as Group President for CBRE’s EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Development Services businesses.

Mr. Sulentic began his real estate career with Trammell Crow Company in 1984 as an Industrial Leasing Agent in Houston, Texas. Throughout the next 23 years he served in various leadership positions, including Project Partner, Divisional Partner, Managing Director and CFO. Mr. Sulentic was elected President and CEO of Trammell Crow Company in October 2000, and he became Chairman of the Board in April 2002. He served in those roles when Trammell Crow Company merged with CBRE in late 2006.

Mr. Sulentic is a member of the CBRE Group, Inc. Board of Directors. He also served as the independent Chairman of the Board of Staples, Inc. until its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in September 2017.

Mr. Sulentic received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. Mr. Sulentic founded and chairs a private foundation that supports various charitable endeavors by providing direct grants to third-party organizations as well as executing its own initiatives.

Chad Doellinger was promoted to CBRE’s General Counsel in July 2023. In this role he has responsibility for all the company’s legal affairs globally as well as safety initiatives and corporate security. He Is a member of CBRE’s global Executive Committee.

Prior to his promotion, Chad was Chief Transformation Officer, with a focus on operational excellence, programmatic cost management and transformation programs across the global enterprise.

Before becoming Chief Transformation Officer, Chad was Legal Chief Operations Officer with responsibility for driving business and technical practices in delivering legal services across the department. In addition, Chad was a Deputy General Counsel with global responsibility for overseeing litigation, intellectual property, eDiscovery, data science and analytics, and insurance and claims.

While in Legal, Chad was the Executive Sponsor for the Department’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council and the Pro Bono and Giving Back Workstream.

Before joining CBRE in 2020, Chad was a partner in the law firm of Greenberg Traurig and earlier the head of complex litigation at Walmart. He has served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School for the last 20 years.

Emma Giamartino is Chief Financial Officer of CBRE and oversees the company’s global finance organization, which includes controllership, financial planning & analysis, financial risk & assurance, insurance, investor relations, tax and treasury. She is also responsible for capital allocation, working in partnership with CBRE’s executive, investment management and development leaders on real estate investment activities.

She is a member of the company’s global Executive Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of Industrious, a leading provider of premium flexible workplace solutions; CBRE is Industrious’ largest shareholder.

Prior to becoming CFO of CBRE, Ms. Giamartino served as Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Corporate Development. She joined CBRE in February 2018 to lead CBRE’s M&A activities in the Americas. Prior to joining CBRE, Ms. Giamartino served as Director of Corporate Development at Verizon Communications where she executed M&A transactions and strategic investments across Verizon’s core businesses.

Earlier, Ms. Giamartino worked in Nomura’s technology, media and telecommunications group, where she held progressively responsible positions, most recently as Vice President, Investment Banking for the group. She began her career at Financial Security Assurance, a financial guaranty insurance company focused on municipal bonds and mortgage-backed securities.

As Chief Operating Officer of CBRE, Vikram Kohli has oversight responsibility for CBRE’s two real estate services segments – Advisory Services and Global Workplace Solutions.  He also oversees CBRE’s Digital & Technology and Research activities.

Previously, Mr. Kohli had direct responsibility for key components of CBRE’s platform, including Sustainability, Strategy, Research, People and Digital & Technology. In this capacity, he led a commercial real estate platform that drives compelling advantages for CBRE’s internal and external clients and is a growth accelerator for the company.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kohli served in global roles as Chief Executive Officer, CBRE Platform and Global Group President, Business Intelligence. He also previously led key global Corporate Finance functions, including FP&A, Business Finance and the FIO.

Prior to that, Mr. Kohli was Chief Operating Officer of CBRE in South East Asia. In this role, he had oversight of CBRE’s business in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia and Singapore. Earlier, he was the Regional Managing Director, South East Asia.

From 2014, he was Executive Director, Sales Management, Asia Pacific for five years, where he was responsible for driving an efficient sales management process across all business lines and geographies in the APAC region. Earlier, he served as Senior Director, Global Transactions where he worked closely with CBRE’s Global Head of Advisory and Transaction Services (Brokerage) to develop and implement a strategic growth plan for this business line across all regions.

Mr. Kohli joined CBRE in 2001 in India as part of the Transactions team focusing on occupier advisory and office leasing.

Danny Queenan has served as Chief Executive Officer of CBRE’s Real Estate Investments (REI) business segment since May 2022. In this capacity, Mr. Queenan directly oversees the businesses that comprise the REI segment; CBRE Investment Management, the company’s global real asset investment management business, and Trammell Crow Company (TCC), its real estate development business. These businesses had AUM of approximately $144 billion and a $33 billion development portfolio (in-process and pipeline), respectively, as of September 30, 2022. Mr. Queenan serves on CBRE’s Executive Committee.

Prior to this role, he was Chief Executive Officer of CBRE’s Advisory Services business segment, which includes Advisory & Transaction Services (Occupier and Investor), Property Management, Capital Markets and Valuations. These businesses produced nearly $10 billion of revenue in 2021.

Mr. Queenan previously led the REI business segment in 2018 and 2019. Earlier in his career at CBRE, Mr. Queenan served in such roles as President and COO of CBRE Investment Management and Chief Executive Officer of TCC. He also served as Chief Executive Officer CBRE’s Asia Pacific business.

Mr. Queenan earned his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law.

As CBRE’s Chief Investment Officer, Croft Young oversees the company’s global Strategy and Corporate Development teams. He partners with CBRE’s executive, business line and geographic leaders around the world to drive strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) execution and integration, as well as balance sheet investment activity. Mr. Young is a member of the Global Executive Committee.

Mr. Young brings deep real estate industry knowledge, extensive investment banking experience and strong strategic and leadership skills to his role.

Prior to joining CBRE in July 2023, Mr. Young was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, where he covered a range of blue-chip public and private clients in the real estate, investment management, and hospitality/leisure industries. In 14 years with Morgan Stanley, he completed over 150 strategic and capital transactions aggregating over $175 billion in value across M&A and the full range of public and private capital markets products, including complex structured partnerships and cross-border M&A.

Mr. Young previously served 13 years as an officer (active duty and reserve) in the United States Marine Corps. He is a director on the board of the Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit Veterans Service Organization.