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GVA worldwide names new chairman.


Michael T. Cohen cohen
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 has been named chairman of GVA GVA

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 Worldwide, a leading international provider of commercial real estate services.

He succeeds Michael Corbett Michael Corbett can refer to any of the following people
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, chief executive officer of London-based GVA Grimley. Mr. Cohen also serves as chairman of the executive committee of GVA Williams, the New York-based brokerage and management company.

"Michael T. Cohen is a real estate visionary who is well qualified to lead GVA Worldwide into another decade of growth," said Mr. Corbett, who now assumes the title of GVA World wide vice chairman, the position formerly held by Mr. Cohen.

Both GVA Williams and GVA Grimley are founding members of GVA Worldwide, which marked its tenth anniversary last year. Both Mr. Cohen and Mr. Corbett were members of the organizing committee that launched GVA Worldwide in 1994.

"As a private, entrepreneurial partnership, GVA Worldwide today stands as the competitive alternative to the public national or global firm," said Mr. Cohen.

Noting that Mr. Corbett had achieved numerous milestones during his four-year tenure as chairman, Mr. Cohen singled out two achievements: a recent, rapid surge of growth in numerous European, Asian and North American North American

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 of the organization's core capabilities" through the establishment of seven practice groups devoted to corporate services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. , investment, industrial real estate, management services, life sciences, retail, and consultancy and valuations.

Mr. Cohen also serves as president and chief executive officer of Williams Real Estate Co. Inc., GVA Williams's parent company.
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Title Annotation:GVA Worldwide; Michael T. Cohen
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Jan 26, 2005
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