Mark Gibson

As a seasoned executive and active board member, Mr. Gibson recently retired from Ernst & Young where he led two practices as a Partner and Global Practice Leader: Construction and Real Estate Advisory and the Global Construction (E&C) Advisory.

With more than 40 years of experience in real estate, construction and hospitality consulting, operations and business outsourcing, Mr. Gibson specializes in risk analysis, business process assessments and re-engineering, organizational design, outsourcing, project management; occupancy cost reduction, procurement analysis, disputes resolution, technology selection and shared services assessments.

Coming from a military and civil engineering background, Mr. Gibson has managed projects totaling $100 billion in China, Vietnam, the US, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, UK, Myanmar, Australia, India, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Brazil, Middle East, Africa and Europe, ranging from freeway junctions in the UK to the world’s largest bridge in Hong Kong.

Mr. Gibson’s clients include some of the world’s largest organizations and his projects have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings to them. Among these projects are the rationalization of the real estate portfolio for one of the largest US states; the outsourcing of the entire real estate function at a Fortune 500 company; diagnostic and process improvement at one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the US; and enterprise risk management for an international developer.

Mr. Gibson is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP), Chartered Arbitrator and Full Member of the Association for Project Management. His work has been published in the Corporate Real Estate Journal, Business Xpansion Journal, and CFMA Building Profits Magazine and he recently authored his first textbook, The Planning, Design and Executing of Projects.

Mr. Gibson has taught at NYU and Columbia University as an Adjunct Professor and has recently joined the faculty of University of California Irvine.