Zlocki joins Newmark Knight Frank team as a senior managing director

Chris Zlocki has joined Newmark Knight Frank Global Corporate Services as a senior managing director, consulting. Over the course of his 18 years in consulting, he has established a reputation of scale in development, planning and strategy for corporate and institutional clients. His range of experience encompasses the financial services, real estate development, industrial and higher education sectors. Throughout the years, he has developed expertise in portfolio strategy, operational consolidation, capital expenditure management and financial forecasting. "Chris adds the perfect complement to our existing consulting practice within GSC," said Michael Ippolito, chairman, global corporate services. Prior to joining Newmark Knight Frank, Zlocki co-founded Trace Venture Associates, a network of business consultants and management advisors focused on portfolio, business and capital expenditure consulting services with the objective of improving the returns on a client's available capital. During his tenure with Trace, he led engagements focused on manufacturing investment scenario planning, capital forecasting, business unit strategic analysis, real estate development strategies for adaptive re-use projects and portfolio health and sufficiency studies. Preceding the formation of Trace, Zlocki was a director of strategic planning at HLW International, where he led engagements on behalf of Fortune 500 clients. During this time, Zlocki was successful in developing innovative data-centric strategic modeling processes and tools to be implemented in the planning of financial, capital expenditure, manufacturing and operational improvement. Before dedicating his career to the alignment of business and footprint solutions, Zlocki gained experience as an urban designer and master plan consultant. Zlocki has led seminars at Harvard University's GSD executive education program on portfolio planning. He has also lectured and taught in the discipline of scenario planning at various professional and corporate lecture series. Zlocki was awarded the HRH Starrett award during his graduate studies at Columbia University; he received the Ian McHarg award for innovation and design excellence during the completion of his graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania Zlocki holds an M.S. degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, a master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Political Science from Penn State University.