2009 Honorees

Bruce E. Mosler
President & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield

Mr. Mosler leads the world’s largest independent real estate services firm and serves on its board of directors.  With 2007 revenues in excess of $2.1 billion, Cushman & Wakefield employs more than 15,000 professionals operating from 221 offices in 58 countries. 
                            
Mr. Mosler has led the firm’s rapid growth, including the acquisition of the leading real estate services firms in Canada and Russia; oversaw the expansion of the firm’s Global Capital Markets group; and secured IFIL Investments, S.p.A. as the firm’s new majority shareholder.

Mr. Mosler has twice received the prestigious Real Estate Board of New York “Deal of the Year” award, winning in 1998 for the Reuters Building and in 1999 for bringing the European retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) to its United States flagship location on Fifth Avenue. He has been chosen in a poll of his peers as the Commercial Property News “Brokerage Executive of the Year,” most recently in 2008, and named CPN’s national “Property Services Executive of the Year.” 

In 2003, REBNY presented Mr. Mosler with its annual Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award for his service to the community, and in 2008, REBNY’s Louis Smadbeck Broker Recognition Award.  Mr. Mosler serves as a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, and on the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York.  He is Vice Chairman of The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, and is a member of the boards of the Police Athletic League, the Partnership for the City of New York, and Duke University’s Trinity College, among other civic and charitable organizations.