Master's in Real Estate
James B. King

Consulting / PwC - For the past fourteen (14) years, Mr. King has been a Real Property & Facilities Practice Leader at PwC Public Sector Practice / Guidehouse Inc. (spun off from PwC in 2018, now operating as Guidehouse, a Bain Capital company) focusing on delivering user/occupant focused Real Property & Facilities, Capital Project and Portfolio Management solutions to government, multilaterals, and commercial and institutional clients. Representative engagements include:

·       Real property portfolio strategies for the U.S. Department of State and separately, the United Nations (global)

·       Delivery & Transition for NATO’s new €1.25B, 2.6M SF headquarters in Brussels BE

·       Campus recapitalization planning for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point NY

·       Real property acquisition process and global facilities management redesign for Microsoft

·       Facilities sustainment & recapitalization policy, methodologies, and strategies for the U.S. Department of Defense 3.2B SF portfolio, for Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure

Corporate Real Estate / Sony - Prior to his work at PwC/Guidehouse, Mr. King led Sony Corporation of America’s Corporate Real Estate Division, for eighteen (18) years, with responsibility for the operational and occupancy-focused real property functions of Sony’s North American electronics businesses and US-based entertainment businesses (e.g. Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Computer Entertainment (Playstation)); encompassing 350 locations and 24,000,000 square feet of administrative and technical properties spanning 30 Countries, more than $5 billion in asset value, and combined business unit revenue of more than $22.7 billion (2010).

His work focused on minimal risk and cost while maximizing value, utility, and flexibility; delivering the facility resources necessary for business units to operate and compete effectively, as a priority, and delivering property financial performance in addition. He draws upon more than thirty (30) years of industry leadership in corporate and institutional facilities; planning & development, executing and managing end-user property needs for a broad range of businesses, institutions, transaction types, geographies, and asset classes.

Academic & Incidental Experience - Full-semester graduate courses in Corporate Real Estate, International Real Estate, and Commercial Real Estate Fundamentals; Georgetown University, University of Maryland, New York University |  Serves on Georgetown's Fulbright and Marshall Scholarship Interview Committees  |  Development of Liberia’s nascent Library of Congress and National Archive facilities, a post-conflict, USAID engagement  |  Urban design for Cambridge, MA’s 27 acre, 2.3 million SF mixed-use University Park at MIT project; Architecture for dormitory and laboratory buildings at Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania  |  Leasing and asset management for 75/101 Federal Street, an 800,000 SF office tower in Boston’s Financial District

Education & Credentialing

·       Harvard University, Master of Real Estate Development, MDes

·       University of Maryland, Master of Architecture, March

·       Georgetown University, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, BSFS

·       Licensed Architect, New York

·       Licensed Commercial Real Estate Broker, New York

·       LEED AP, Building Design & Construction