Bricks vs Clicks Lunch & Learn
Ben Conwell is an accomplished e-commerce and fulfillment expert and serves as the Practice Leader for Cushman and Wakefield's Americas group. He has a distinguished career including time at Amazon leading the North American Logistics Real Estate team, doubling their footprint to exceed 60MM sq.ft. of space. Join us as Ben shares his insights for the future of e-commerce and fullfillment.
Ben is Senior Managing Director and Practice Leader for Cushman & Wakefield’s eCommerce and Electronic Fulfillment Specialty Practice Group for the Americas. His responsibilities include counsel on strategy, site selection, design and execution for leading retail and logistics occupiers and investors, intellectual property presentation and business development. Ben provides Cushman & Wakefield clients the most up to date market-leading counsel to effectively plan and execute their supply chain and fulfillment and real estate strategies. He serves on the C&W Industrial and Logistics Services Leadership Team and Executive Committee.
Prior to C&W 2015, Ben was Director of North America Logistics Real Estate for Amazon. He managed a fulfillment network of 90 facilities comprising 60 million square feet and led the delivery of almost 30 million square feet of high-tech build-to-suit projects. Ben also oversaw all real estate functions for site selection, negotiation, buildout and completion for the launch of Amazons’ sortation centers and last mile infrastructure.
For 24 years prior to joining Amazon, Ben held leadership roles in leasing, development, capital formation, sales and acquisitions and asset management which include industrial, retail, office, residential, master-planned communities, natural resources and golf properties.
Ben holds an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a Bachelors from the University of Richmond.
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