Conwell Joins C&W as Lead, e-Commerce and Electronic Fulfillment Practice

SEATTLE - May 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Commercial real estate industry veteran Ben Conwell of Seattle has joined Cushman & Wakefield as senior managing director and practice lead for the firm’s newly formed e-Commerce and Electronic Fulfillment Specialty Practice Group. The former director of North American real estate for Amazon, he is based at the firm’s local alliance office.

Mr. Conwell has deep experience in locating and building electronic fulfillment and e-commerce facilities, having led the largest and fastest expansion of network capacity in Amazon’s history. While there, he managed a fulfillment network of 90 facilities comprising 60 million square feet and helped deliver 25 million square feet of build-to-suit projects alone. Conwell also has held leadership roles at commercial real estate firms, specializing in capital formation, investment management, asset management and land development; he maintains an active membership in NAIOP.

“Ben brings a wealth of experience from the occupier perspective, as well as a diverse background in various aspects of commercial real estate,” noted Cushman & Wakefield’s John Morris, executive managing director, Logistics & Industrial Services lead, Americas. “His skills in e-commerce real estate strategies, logistics, project management and client needs identification will support us as we continue to organize around our clients’ needs.”

In his new role, Conwell is focused on the firm’s clients, intellectual property development, and presenting Cushman & Wakefield’s leading capabilities in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer fulfillment industrial facilities. “Ben will help our current and prospective clients – including occupiers and investors – be better informed and more effective in planning and executing fulfillment centers and distribution facilities,” Morris noted.

For Mr. Conwell, the move to Cushman & Wakefield is a natural progression following his time at Amazon. “Cushman & Wakefield’s industrial team is at the forefront of servicing established and emerging clients as e-commerce continues to redefine the industrial real estate landscape,” he noted. “I look forward to being part of this collaborative team and building on the firm’s transformative work in this sector. I am grateful for the opportunity to align myself with this organization.”

Based in Rosemont, Ill., and with local representation nationwide, Cushman & Wakefield's Logistics & Industrial Services platform provides global resources and local expertise for tenant and landlord representation, disposition and acquisition services, transaction management, and industrial consulting including labor and demographic analysis. In 2014, globally, this group completed more than 8,200 industrial lease and sale transactions, including Capital Markets transactions, totaling 337 million square feet, with an aggregate value of $16.8 billion.