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The One About CREtech NYC – What Major Challenges Are Facing The Industry And What Can We Do To Overcome Them?

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Dec 8, 2021

Coming on the heels of CRETech’s
return to live events with an 1,800 person turnout in NYC on Oct 13
and 14th, Louisa sat down with three of the leaders who headlined
the event. She spoke with Brad Greiwe, Co-Founder & Managing
Partner at Fifth Wall, Raj Singh, Managing Partner, JLL Spark and
Sharad Rastogi, President of Revenue at JLL
Technologies. 

They talked about their recent
investments, the global movement towards sustainability in
buildings and who the responsibility lies with to make changes
towards net zero, and how buildings will be computers in need of
operating systems in the future.

 

Companies Mentioned:

 

Shout Outs:

 

Key Insights From This Episode: 

 

  • We
    invest in companies where we think that we can be a customer or we
    can be a channel to our clients, and sell their products through
    that channel. – Raj
  • Technology was
    definitely impacting and influencing, from a disruptive or an
    enabling perspective. – Raj
  • But at the same
    time the challenges around, climate tech specifically around
    decarbonizing the built world was also proven to be extremely
    challenging as well. The muscle groups that these corporates need
    in order to engage technology, and decarbonization, require
    different approach. – Brad

 

 

  • And I think what makes this sort of green wave
    a lot different than the ones we’ve seen in the past is that in
    addition to sort of this government mandated demand, there is a
    real impetus and a real interest from corporates to be a part of
    the solution. – Brad
  • I think the two things that stuck out for me
    firstly, was the number of attendees from the regular real estate
    world, as opposed to the technology PropTech world. So, there were
    a huge number of people there who were genuinely curious to
    understand how technology could have an impact on their business. –
    Raj
  • I think change is driven by people, The whole
    world is waking up, why we need to be more carbon neutral, how we
    need to sort of control increase in temperature. What can we do as
    individuals to make the world a better place. And I think that’s
    driving the investors, the occupiers to make different decisions. –
    Sharad
  • I think buildings are will become computers
    eventually, and computers need an operating system. – Sharad
  • I think for a lot of corporates who expecting
    the world to just go back to normal, post pandemic, it’s just not
    going to happen. And having a very comprehensive digital strategy
    is likely going to be your best way to navigate the path forward. –
    Brad


Keywords:
funding,
innovation, sustainability, collaboration, acquisition, smart
buildings, COP26


About Our Guests:

Brad Greiwe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Fifth
Wall

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-greiwe-96022a38/ 

Brad Greiwe is a co-founder and
Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s
strategic vision.

Prior to starting Fifth Wall,
Brad co-founded Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), a multi-billion
dollar owner and operator of single-family rental properties
originally backed by The Blackstone Group. As CTO, he positioned
Invitation Homes as the dominant technology-forward brand in the
single-family rental category, developing a proprietary technology
stack to support the valuation, acquisition, rehabilitation,
leasing, and professional management of over 80,000 homes in 17
major markets, serving 120,000 residents across the U.S.

Brad started his career in
investment banking at UBS in the real estate, lodging, and leisure
group, where he tallied over $33 billion of M&A advisory work
and $1 billion of debt and equity financing, including the sale of
Hilton Hotels to The Blackstone Group for $26 billion—the largest
hotel privatization in history. He then worked in real estate
private equity at Tishman Speyer and Starwood Capital, where he
executed over $30 billion of acquisitions, debt financing, and
development projects.

Brad is originally from
Cincinnati, lives in San Francisco, and graduated from Harvard
University, where he received his BA in economics.


Raj Singh, Managing Partner, JLL Spark 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajsingh/ 

In his role as JLL Spark
managing partner, Raj guides strategic investments to continue
growing JLL Spark’s portfolio, further accelerating innovation and
adoption of PropTech in commercial real estate. Raj is a venture
capitalist, strategist and adviser in the innovation and
information technology sectors. He most recently served five years
as head of investments and then as interim co-head at JetBlue
Technology Ventures—the corporate VC arm of JetBlue
Airways.


JLL Spark – Company Summary

JLL Spark is a global venture
fund, founded in 2017, investing in early to mid-stage property
technology startups. JLL Spark’s team and venture capital fund have
invested tens of millions of dollars in more than 30 early-stage
proptech startups—from IoT sensors to investment platforms and
more.


Sharad Rastogi, President of Revenue at JLL
Technologies 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharad-rastogi/ 

Sharad Rastogi is president of
the revenue division at JLL Technologies (JLLT), a business
division of JLL dedicated to commercial real estate (CRE)
technology.  Sharad leads product strategy and engineering
execution of JLLT’s revenue-generating technology offerings,
helping to unlock data-driven insights and experiences, while
improving the efficiency and ROI of clients’ real estate
portfolios.


JLLT – Company Summary

JLL Technologies (JLLT), a
business division of JLL, was established in 2019 to build and
expand the company’s portfolio of technology products and services
to shape the future of commercial real estate. JLLT is a
first-of-its-kind team that combines commercial real estate experts
with world-class technologists to deliver solutions that transform
the way organizations acquire, manage, operate and experience
space.


About Our Host

Louisa Dickins


https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk

Louisa started her career in
property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising
her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career
in recruitment. She now is a Director at
LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven
by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees
their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a
constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real
estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech
Association (UKPA).


About LMRE

www.lmre.tech

LMRE believe there is a better
way to recruit.
LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus
delivering exceptional talent to the place at the time. They are
passionate about the industry and passionate about people’s
careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an
extension of the business, and their transparency and core values
help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and
innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech
community.



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