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Meet Gerard Picco, Real Estate Practice Leader at PGV Advisors

February 28, 2017

In addition to a role as Principal, Gerard Picco is the Real Estate Practice Leader in PGV’s New York office. PGV Advisors, LLC is a company that provides its clients with strategic cost reduction, improved working capital, profitable revenue growth, and asset optimization. With operations nationwide, PGV Advisors works fervently within the Florida, Houston/Dallas, Atlanta, and New York markets. The primary concentration at PGV is to create value for organizations by helping to improve upon their cost structure as well as their internal business processes.

One of the sectors in which PGV assists in savings for clients is within in the Real Estate industry. As a Real Estate Practice Leader, Gerard Picco maintains more than 20 years of experience within the commercial Real Estate sector. Gerard’s role encompasses an emphasis on driving creative and strategic solutions alongside value-add consulting advisory for tenant transaction and portfolio management. He able to complete this through implementing cost reduction and optimization services across multiple asset classes including: office, industrial, manufacturing warehouse, and retail.

One of the missions at PGV Advisors is the aim to become an extension of an organization’s existing team to help a company maintain control of their processes, making it more cost-effective. By employing the essential resources such as CRE technology platforms, portfolio analysis, lease administration, lease audit, tax appeal, cost segregation and facilities audit, Gerard is able to achieve exceptional results for all PGV’s clients. Gerard’s personalized “best practices” real estate business models reduce overall client spend on average by 32%. A few of Gerard’s key corporate clients include companies such as Sulzer Pumps, AMC Networks, Terex, Scholastic, Tekni-Plex, Audax, United Nations, L-3 Communications, Update Legal, and Bonnier Publishing.

PGV Advisors offers their services to a wide variety of organizations within any industry including: non-profits, higher education, hospitality, manufacturing and more. The PGV team customizes their approach based on where each institution is spending money and then develops a road map through understanding the distinctiveness of each organization’s culture and user needs. This allows for the PGV Advisors to develop practical solutions, which drives a lower total cost model, thus allowing organizations then allocate those resources to the goal of every business – strategic growth.

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