Raj Virani

Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategy Leader • Head of Global Real Estate and Facilities for a publicly traded technology company, overseeing portfolio strategy, lease transactions, design, construction and workplace services delivery across 60+ locations in 32 countries — supporting 5,000+ employees across North America, Latin America, EMEA, and APAC. • Architected a cohesive global workplace strategy, launching a dedicated Workplace Experience function and leading design and construction for HQ and engineering hubs — translating business objectives into high-performing, branded environments. • Championed technology-forward real estate operations at the home of enterprise automation — deploying a lease administration platform that replaced legacy Excel tracking, driving accuracy and eliminating manual processes. • Lead site selection, lease negotiations, and design-through-construction delivery for sales and engineering hubs globally — partnering with C-suite to ensure every real estate investment directly supports business growth and talent strategy. • Manage a $65M annual operating and capital budget with rigorous FP&A discipline — achieving a 90% reduction in FF&E expenditure through refined accounting treatment while delivering capital projects on time, demonstrating the financial accountability expected of a public company. • Designed and executed UiPath's first-generation facilities management outsourcing model — leading a global FM RFP, building comprehensive governance frameworks, and directing a team of 11 direct staff and 20+ external partners to deliver consistent service standards across 32 countries.

Promoted to directly manage Real Estate Services regionally as well as influence strategy throughout North America. - Created the real estate policy, enhanced stakeholder relationships, ensured delivery of lease transactions, drove design, construction and facilities operations for 2.1 million square feet of space in 50+ sites, impacting 9,000+ colleagues, including the global HQ. - Planned, developed and delivered a multi-year strategy for a five-phase headquarters restack and renovation transforming business units to Agile workplaces which reduced the occupied footprint by 30%. - Led, managed and empowered a team of senior facility operations managers with regional teams of 130+ internal and outsourced operations staff.

Reported into the Real Estate Services team within the Global Business Operations group and supported Regional Management process improvements. - Managed, mentored and led a team of RE Analysts supporting M&A activities, generalists supporting Regional Managers and the full lifecycle from the RFP process to locating space, to CRE outsourcing. - Created real estate strategies and workplace initiatives for a portfolio of over 12 million square feet of space for 600+ sites in more than 80 countries. - Delivered strategic support specifically for London, NY Metro and Boston locations.

Provided expertise in real estate and finance by analyzing risks and opportunities of real estate projects to optimize the real estate portfolio. - Introduced new capabilities to the Real Estate Services team by creating analytics and performance insights for the real estate portfolio. - Performed analysis of long term plans for Mercer high growth business units and delivered highly effective process improvements. - Improved real estate capital budget forecasting efficiencies by collaborating with FP&A teams.

Hired as the first employee to lead creative and technical design teams for this Real Estate architecture startup firm. - Delivered workplace design, strategic occupancy plans and branded environments for over 1 million square feet of space for F500 companies including Citigroup, Avon, T-Mobile, J.Crew Group, Starbucks, and Colgate Palmolive. - Increasingly new responsibilities included hiring, technology strategic planning, developing firmwide standards. - Functioned as the primary client contact for 25% of the firm’s revenue.

Responsible for design and technical coordination of corporate interiors projects focusing on workplace fit outs. - Implemented all project phases including programming, strategic planning, design development, construction documentation, project bids and construction administration. - Developed firmwide CAD, project organization, project management and construction standards. Supported clients including Starbucks, T-Systems, Citigroup, Colgate Palmolive, and Thomson Reuters.

Minor in Architectural Technology “Portals - Campus to Community” CMU School of Architecture Design Competition – First Place Award

Center for the Sustainable Built Environment Student/Alumni Committee Donnelly Sustainable Energy Services Scholarship winner