Management Real Estate

Robert Dion MBA

**** **** **** ***, ******, Colorado 80211

720-***-**** **********@****.***

Objective

Driven and skilled business executive with 15 years of experience and a

demonstrated rapid career progression seeking an executive commercial

leasing position where I can build on my solid experience commercial

leasing, relationship management and large scale operations.

Work Experience

INTRAWEST ULC (Denver, Colorado) 2002 - December 2009

Intrawest is currently a world leader in the development and management of

experiential destination resorts. Intrawest's resort network includes over

15 mountain & beach resorts across North America & Europe and employs 22,000

world-wide.

Vice President - Leasing

Reporting to the President, responsible for all commercial leasing activities

of 10 resort villages across the United States and Canada.

Led all critical lease negotiations with independent retailers, restaurant

owners and franchise representatives.

Increased portfolio occupancy to over 90% through implementation of a

creative leasing approach while reducing turnover through disciplined concept

selection.

Established relationships with realtors, brokers, contractors, trade

associations and financial institutions to facilitate the acquisition of

clients.

Negotiated external broker listing agreements to support internal leasing

efforts.

Developed and implemented new reporting process meeting the requirements of

REIT ownership.

Managed the selection, training and evaluations of senior staff leading to a

reduction in turnover.

Vice President - Commercial Property Management

Reporting to the Executive Vice President / COO, full P&L responsibility of a

commercial real estate portfolio of 10 resort villages across North America

totaling 800,000 sq.ft. with over $15 million in EBITDA.

Created a centralized corporate structure to perform commercial property

management of a newly formed commercial real estate portfolio following the

sale of the asset to a REIT.

Prepared and monitored annual budgets containing detailed leasing plan,

market rent analysis, revenue forecasts, operating expense forecasts, G&A

budgets and capital budgets.

Collaborated with the CEO and CFO during the re-structuring plan for of a

$110 million commercial partnership between Intrawest and a Real Estate

Income Trust.

Acquired extensive experience in all facets of the commercial property

management lifecycle ranging from master planning, leasing to property

management.

Developed and implemented a custom guest satisfaction survey distributed to

resort tenants to evaluate the quality of the property management services

offered by division.

Worked closely with development team in initial & re-development resort

master planning activities.

Robert Dion MBA

Work Experience

GARTNER GROUP (Toronto, Canada) 1999 - 2002

Gartner is the world's leading information technology research and advisory

company. Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and has over 4,000

associates.

Management Consultant

Advised c-level executives in consulting engagements on issues ranging from

business strategy development, business case development, enterprise

application (ERP) selection to software implementation planning & project

oversight.

Participated in several enterprise application (ERP) planning engagements

involving the preparation of evaluation frameworks, business case development,

RFP development, demo preparation, contract negotiations assistance.

Developed the evaluation framework for the selection of a point-of-sale (POS)

software application of a large government agency. The project consisted of a

countrywide rollout in over 7000 retail outlets and had an estimated budget in

excess of $60 million.

Prepared a market penetration strategy for a large pharmaceutical company for

the spin-off of their IT organization. The project included internal

capabilities & market opportunities assessment, gap analysis, and

implementation plan.

Formulated an e-business strategy for a large insurance company including

detailed strategic options for e-commerce & other internet enabled business

initiatives.

Reviewed the CRM / Call Centre project of one of the largest Canadian retailer

and recommended a revised, benefit-driven implementation strategy leading to a

higher and more rapid return on investment.

Conducted global industry-study for one of the top-three automotive original

equipment manufacturer (OEM) and recommended alternative scenarios for supply

chain collaboration and supply chain management for the automotive industry.

ANDERSEN CONSULTING & ARTHUR ANDERSEN (Montr al, Canada) 1995 -

1998

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and

outsourcing company. Accenture currently has offices in 52 countries, 186,000

employees and revenues exceeding $23 billion.

Senior Consultant

Participated as a senior consultant on several large and medium sized systems

development and implementation projects in both public and private sectors.

Led a team of consultants and client personnel through the functional

requirement definition, system configuration and testing phases of a large

ERP system implementation.

Redesigned the business processes of the sales forecasting, order entry and

inventory management functions of a major food producer, resulting in

significant costs savings.

Implemented a warehouse management application at a large food distributor,

enabling significant productivity increases.

Robert Dion MBA

Education

Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario 1998 -

(London, Canada) 2000

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy and Marketing

McGill University (Montr al, Canada) 1991 -

1994

Bachelor of Commerce, Management Information Systems

Other Information

. United States Permanent Resident (Green Card) & Canadian Citizenship.

. Perfectly fluent in English and French; basic level of Spanish.

. Member Urban Land Institute (ULI) and International Council of Shopping

Center (ICSC)

. Level III CSIA Ski Instructor.

. Interests include skiing, marathons and cooking.

References available on request.

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