Corporate planning professional

Robert "Bob" Cook

**** ***** **** *****, ***** Clara CA 95051

Cell Phone: 408-***-**** Home phone: 408-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

PROFILE

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Strategic and financial-planning professional experienced in:

- management of cost structure

- planning for growth, change and contraction

- capital and operational budgeting

- supply / demand forecasting

- global expansion

- government relocation incentives

- business development

- transaction structuring

- acquisition due diligence and integration

- process and organization design

- program management

- business case presentation and decision support

- C-level and BU engagement

EDUCATION

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Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston IL

Masters of Management in Finance (aka MBA)

Rice University, School of Architecture, Houston TX

Masters of Architecture in Urban Design, 1976; Bachelor of Arts (Architecture/Behavioral Science)

EXPERIENCE

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Northrup Grumman Corporation

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Los Angeles CA (2009 to present)

Position: Western Region Strategic Partner, Enterprise Real Estate & Facilities

Role: Coordinate real estate decisions across Northrop Grumman’s largely-autonomous business sectors

Key Accomplishments: Established and lead cross-functional team to assess impact of FASB/IASB proposed accounting standards for leases; lead cross-Sector team in creation of 12-million-sq-ft real estate plan for Los Angeles Region representing annual spending of more than $300 million

JDSU

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Milpitas CA (2008 to 2009)

Position: Director of Strategy and Portfolio Management, Workplace Solutions

Role: Managed financial planning & analysis, budgeting and internal-customer engagement for $90 M (annual budget) real estate portfolio.

Key Accomplishments: Developed footprint consolidation plan that eliminated 10% of 2.5M sq ft portfolio; established new business partnering role; lead budgeting process that identified $20 M of unnecessary capex previously budgeted; developed real estate plans for consolidation of wafer fabrication plants, established two pilots for alternative workplace program; lead acquisition due diligence and integration related to real estate.

Cisco Systems

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San Jose CA (2006 to 2008)

Position: Senior Portfolio Manager, Workplace Resources

Role: Oversaw AsiaPac real estate portfolio and expansion strategy of worldwide real estate portfolio

Key Accomplishments: Guided decision-making for a major expansion in San Jose of 750,000; in coordination with local management, developed plans for delivery of campus for 10,000 employees in Bangalore, India; prepared report on talent availability in India and China.

Sun Microsystems

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Santa Clara CA (1998 to 2006)

Position: Head of Financial Strategy, Workplace Resources

Roles:

Served as liaison between corporate real estate group and Sun’s financial community (Controller, Treasurer, External Reporting, Tax Planning, FP&A) so as to assure real estate group’s alignment with corporate financial goals.

Guided preparation of business cases for strategic initiatives (e.g. alternative workplace investments, expansions, and consolidations) and gained support from financial community

Guided structuring of major real estate transactions (e.g. new campus JV with universities, lease buyouts, and sub-leases) and gained corporate approval.

Key Accomplishments: Conceptualized and implemented Metro Forum program which won Global Innovators Award from Corenet Global; guided feasibility analysis of Sun’s iWork Program which also won a Corenet Global Innovators award; lead financial planning for the consolidation of Sun’s bay area portfolio from 3.7 million sq ft to 2.0 million sq ft.; guided planning and procured Controller support for write-offs associated with the consolidation of Sun’s field office portfolio which resulted in a savings of nearly $100 million; created Metro Plan for Tokyo that split operations into three locations so that sales people could be closer to the distributed customer-base while still saving about $5 million per year in occupancy costs; created asset management function to oversee excess property portfolio; guided planning to reuse Scottish manufacturing facility where manufactured product was reaching end-of-life; managed and outsourced lease administration function and established new focus on management reporting; lead transaction structuring for numerous subleases, the most notable of which was a 170,000 sq ft lease for Gymboree’s headquarters, which lease won the San Francisco Chronicle’s Deal of the Year Award.

National University of Singapore

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Republic of Singapore (1993 – 1998)

Position: Senior Fellow in School of Building and Real Estate.

Conducted research, taught classes in real estate development/finance/urban-planning, and provided consulting services to Singapore government entities and American corporations expanding into Asia.

Metropolis Properties

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Chicago IL (1989 – 1993)

Position: President and Founder

Established own real estate development and consulting company; controlled site for 30,000-sq-ft office building in downtown Chicago; arranged partners; designed brochure that won NAIOP Marketing award, and marketed building to users; ultimately abandoned project due to market conditions; Provided consulting services for the establishment of tax-increment-financing districts in Illinois; Played a significant role, through consulting services, in helping Murdoch, Coll & Lillibridge (now, Lillibridge Health Trust) to establish a healthcare REIT; Also at this time, taught real estate finance as adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and wrote book "Leasing Office Space You Can Afford".

Rubloff, Inc

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Chicago IL (1980 – 1989)

Last Position: Vice President of New Projects

Managed development (ie. project conceptualization, feasibility analysis, financing procurement and negotiations, site acquisition, entitlements, marketing, design and construction, anchor tenant marketing and negotiations, investor relations), for projects worth more than $500 million Projects: 100 North Riverside Plaza, a 750,000 sq ft office building with a 500-car for-profit garage in Chicago; 111 West Washington Street, a 600,000 sq ft renovation of an historic office building in Chicago; 123 North Wacker Drive, a 525,000 sq ft high-rise office building in Chicago, and the Renovation of Renaissance Center, a 3,000,000 sq ft mixed use complex in Detroit.

OTHER

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On faculty at Corenet Global where I teach courses in Performance Management and Dispositions Strategies

Wrote book Leasing Office Space You Can Afford, published by Probus/McGraw-Hill, 408 pp, 1992; also wrote numerous professional and academic articles.

Licensed Architect (Illinois – inactive), Broker (Illinois – inactive), Salesperson (California - active)

Well-traveled, both domestically and internationally; lived/worked in Pittsburgh, Houston, Chicago, Singapore, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles

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