Cushman & Wakefield announced that the real estate services firm has hired Marc Franco as Managing Director, Investor Services, where he will focus on institutional client care in the East Region of the U.S. He will work in partnership with Kristina Wollan who leads Investor Services in the West Region. Franco will be based out of the firm?s Midtown Manhattan office. In his new role, Franco will be responsible for ensuring the firm?s institutional investor clients benefit from the firm?s broad, integrated platform of investor services, including Capital Markets, Agency Leasing, Property Management, Valuation & Advisory and Project & Development Services.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Franco was a Senior Vice President with USSA International, the U.S. subsidiary of PIF, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, where he was responsible for helping to build relationships between U.S.-based companies and the Giga-Project developments in KSA. Prior to USSA, Marc was Head of Real Estate Asset Management for the Americas at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for managing a multi-billion dollar office portfolio throughout North America, covering 14 cities across the U.S. and Canada. He also held positions at Mitsui Fudosan America, The Praedium Group, GVA Williams and Reckson Associates.

Franco earned his undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and his MBA from Hofstra University. He was previously a board member on Warren Township?s Board of Education, serving as the president in 2021.