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Cheryl Gray, QuadReal Property Group

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QuadReal Property Group
Toronto, ON

In 2017, Cheryl Gray became part of the executive team that launched QuadReal Property Group, which manages 48 million square feet of real estate and $24 billion in assets. QuadReal couldn’t have chosen a better executive VP of enterprise innovation: Gray has been working in commercial real estate for almost 40 years.

Gray believes that while commercial firms are trying to promote diversity, there’s still work to be done. “While women are far more prevalent today in commercial real estate than when I first started my career,” she says, “there is still room for improvement, such as creating opportunities for increasing diversity and achieving greater representation in the C-suite and boards of commercial firms.”

Gray has a busy few years ahead of her. The first international member to be elected an officer of the Chicago-based Institute of Real Estate Management, she will serve as president elect in 2019 and president in 2020. She’s also been charged with publishing a cybersecurity wellness guide for the commercial real estate industry as part of her duties as co-chair of BOMA Canada’s cybersecurity task force.