Background Antreas Ghazarossian, founder of Cost Containment Advisors, has a history of responding to corporate America's evolving facilities needs. He owned and managed Douglas A. Edwards, a corporate real estate services firm, integrating and deploying "best in breed" service teams. Recently, he expanded his concept to managing major cost containment and outsourcing initiatives at Johnson Controls, a Fortune 120 firm, and the founding of his own firm specializing in these issues. Antreas' long held belief has been that corporate facilities can and should be a powerful tool for impacting an enterprise's well being overall. He has supplied facility advice in support of corporate goals and objectives, leading the critical thinking and action process, providing flexibility at all junctures, and managing and mitigating risk. Antreas' other skills and attributes include: Relating quickly and well to top management's style and language Successfully straddling strategic, tactical and implementation activities Providing mentoring; and always training/supporting team members Rapidly and accurately assessing the corporate big picture Generating data easily with advanced computer expertise Achieving the recognition of industry leaders Thinking in a highly non-linear fashion Adapting easily and taking flexible approaches to clients Negotiating astutely, using numbers, benchmarks and research Communicating clearly and personably Antreas founded Douglas A. Edwards, a full service real estate advisory services firm. Starting in 1976 through its sale in 1998, the firm was recognized as a pioneer within the industry for responding to corporate clients' evolving facility needs. Most recently, Antreas extended his pioneering concepts related to integrated service delivery and cost containment to the founding of Cost Containment Advisors. His belief is that clients need integrated, non-core service delivery platforms. He refined this approach at Johnson Controls' Integrated Facility Management Division, which manages more than 1.2 billion square feet in 35 countries with more than 250 worldwide accounts; it is the only organization capable of delivering such services on a global basis. Cost Containment Advisors' leadership in computer technology and analysis consistently adds value to clients. Custom designed computer models, benchmarks and proprietary data banks have supported clients in an increasingly demanding environment, integrating complexity, thoroughness and accuracy. These models easily adapt to conform to clients' in-house reporting needs. Cost Containment Advisors serves multi-billion dollar national and international clients, along with major foreign governments. Providing services aimed at strategic cost reduction and deployment, the firm directs multi-million dollar projects and deals with a full range of complex requirements. Cost Containment Advisors' work is characterized by a keen ability to assess and articulate client needs and to formulate and effect strategy that is timely, flexible and efficient. Shrewd problem solvers, they create solutions that successfully incorporate the variable demands and inevitable surprises of each assignment. Antreas is a regular speaker at corporate conferences where he explains concepts for the forceful management and containment of occupancy costs. He illustrates both conventional and "purist" models and the strategies for adapting them to meet preferred corporate operating modes. Business Experience Cost Containment Advisors, Inc. (2000-Present) Greenwich, Connecticut. Founder and President. (The firm's name was ServiceForBusiness at its inception.) Johnson Controls, Inc. Integrated Facility Management Division. (1999-2000) Atlanta, Georgia. Director of Global Real Estate Services Douglas A. Edwards, Inc. Founder and President. (1976-1998) New York and Greenwich, Connecticut Interactive Properties. Director, International and Corporate Division. (1974-1975) New York and Washington, D.C City Center Real Estate, Inc. Director, International Division. (1972-1973) New York City and Washington, D.C Procter & Gamble, Product Management. (1971-1972) Cincinnati, Ohio Education Columbia University, New York. Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. Junior and Senior college education, B.S., cum laude, Dean's List Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Freshman and Sophomore college education, Dean's List all semesters Comboni College, Khartoum, Sudan, High School Diploma, with honors Armenian Kevorkoff School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Elementary and Middle School Languages English French Italian Greek Arabic Armenian Amharic Community Positions West Lyon Farm Condominium Association, President Long Island University, Member of The Chancellor's Advisory Board Greenwich Academy, Chairman of Senior Fund The University of the South, Parents' Council, Chair, Sewanee, TN The University of the South, Parents' Council, Sewanee, TN Greenwich Academy, Special Gifts of the Annual Fund Greenwich Academy, Chair of Class of 1998 Class Endowed Fund Columbia University, Business School 25th Reunion. 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