Adam Gilbert is an accomplished Real Estate Executive with over 20 years of experience in developing, managing, and optimizing owned and leased real estate portfolios.
He created and led asset management and entitlement plans to meet complex business needs while improving real estate operations and planning to achieve budget and profit goals.
Adam has led complex development projects, securing buy-in from public and private stakeholders, building consensus among diverse interests, and driving project progress by managing consultants and contractors.
Adam has negotiated over 100 leases as landlord and tenant, leading to the transformation of media office and creative workplaces across the globe.
Some of Adam’s most significant projects and achievements include:
Collaborating with senior executives on the master project agreement and environmental permits for Hong Kong Disneyland and working closely with government agencies and environmental groups.
Garnering unanimous support to extend the Development Agreement for Disney’s Studio Lot / global corporate headquarters in Burbank, CA.
Obtaining all governmental and jurisdictional approvals for a 58-acre studio and sound stage development project planned in Newhall area of Los Angeles County.
Developing and implementing strategies to sell non-core real estate including facilitating 1031 exchanges to defer capital gains taxes.
Leading all efforts to acquire and manage real estate aligned with long-term development plans engaging externally with elected officials, city staff, legal counsel, architects and engineers and internally with senior corporate executives.
Running global amenity benchmark analysis leading to the childcare, foodservice, and fitness projects across to met employee demand.
Leading effort to consolidate occupant clients from multiple to one location, transforming workplace standards and operations during the process.
Managing a team of over 200 operations professionals and third party staff to maintain over 6.0M square feet of owned corporate facilities.