Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce announced that its director of office and investments, Alison Beddard, has been appointed to represent CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Network as the national organization’s 2016 President-Elect.
Beddard has been committed to CREW Network and its local chapter, CREW Utah since she first joined in 2008, advocating its mission and value to the commercial real estate industry. She is utterly dedicated to the success of the organization and its more than 9,500 female and male professionals within CREW’s 70-plus local, North American chapters.
She served as CREW Utah’s 2012 President, as well as its Sponsorship Committee Chair, Membership Committee Chair, and as a Director of CREW Utah’s Board for three years, liaising between CREW Network’s national organization and local chapters in Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Denver, Northern Colorado, Minnesota, Omaha, St. Louis, and of course Utah. Under her leadership, the chapter’s annual sponsorship and membership increased by 80 percent.
As President-Elect, she will serve on the executive committee of the Board of Directors of CREW Network. She will travel across North America, meeting with key leaders within the commercial real estate industry and C-Suite level decision makers to discuss their vision of advancing women in commercial real estate and how CREW Network can help them achieve that goal. She and the board of directors will also visit the 74 local chapters, meeting with chapter leaders to offer member support and advancement opportunities.
Beddard began her career with Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce in 2005, having since built a profitable brokerage practice, representing regional and national companies and non-profit organizations and institutions in all aspects of commercial brokerage, including acquisitions, dispositions, build-to-suits, land acquisition and leasing and sales, closing over $73 million in transactions between 2010 and 2015.
