Robert Alexander is tri-state chairman of CBRE, a commercial real estate firm. He was president of Insignia/ESG prior to its acquisition by CBRE. He also worked for Williams Real Estate Company.

Among Alexanders biggest deals is the 2005 sale of Verizons headquarters, a $505 million office space in the old New York Telephone building on Avenue of the Americas in Midtown. In 2010, Alexander and a CBRE team sold the UBS Building at 299 Park Avenue for $342 million to Rockpoint Group, LLC. Alexander was also on the team that organized Citigroup Global Markets 1,869,752-square-foot renewal lease at Shearson Lehman Plaza in 2013. He was a lead broker at Hudson Yards, where he brought lessees like Coach, SAP and LOreal. Other past clients of Alexander include Lehman Brothers, Deutche Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase and AXA Financial.

He is known by many of his colleagues as Mr. Big, a name he picked up due to his large stature and history of big deals. Real estate broker Robert Stillman has compared his abilities in real estate to Wayne Gretzkys and Michael Jordans in sports.

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