Colin Lovering joins Avison Young in Romania
Avison Young announced the strategic hiring of business development specialist Colin Lovering, a press release shows.
2017-10-13 12:45:27
Effective immediately, Lovering becomes Senior Vice-President of Enterprise Solutions and Advisory Services in Bucharest. In this newly created role, he will focus on expanding Avison Young's profile and overall footprint in the rapidly developing Romanian market.
Lovering brings 30 years of business development, sales training and coaching experience in a cross-section of industries to Avison Young, most recently as a sales leader and performance coach with Corporate Office Solutions (COS).
Prior to joining COS, Lovering was the Business Development Director with human resources consulting firm Premier Global International in Bucharest. Before moving to Premier Global, he spent 18 years with Sealed Air Corporation, holding sales, management and director positions in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. and France with responsibilities for local and global sales teams and leading teams that earned multiple awards for service excellence. Prior to joining Sealed Air, he was a sales executive for eight years with Viking Packaging.
Lovering is Chairman of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce, a senior tutor with the Institute of Sales Management, and an associate lecturer at the University of Bucharest.
"I am delighted to join Avison Young and to have the opportunity to play a leading role in the development of the firm's enterprise services platform and the expansion of advisory services," says Lovering. "I look forward to training and coaching up-and-coming real estate professionals as we recruit new talent and expand the company's footprint in Romania."
Avison Young is a growing commercial real estate services firm. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company comprises 2,400 real estate professionals in 80 offices, providing value-added, client-centric investment sales, leasing, advisory, management, financing and mortgage placement services to owners and occupiers of office, retail, industrial, multi-family and hospitality properties.