Bay Area Power Women Share Their Stories
Commercial real estate has its challenges, and some of those challenges are heightened when the person moving up in the company is a woman in what remains a male-dominated industry. We caught up with some of our 2017 Bay Area Power Women to have them share with us their own experiences in CRE, their movement into leadership positions and their desire to help young women entering the industry to thrive.
Ivy Greaner, chief operating officer and regional vice president, FivePoint
When I began my career in the commercial real estate industry, women were either leasing agents, property managers or marketing/administrators, not investors, developers or senior executives. I started as a leasing agent, since I was tired of working weekends and…
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