Cresa

Cresa is an international commercial real estate firm headquartered in Chicago, IL. Cresa is notable for its occupier-only real estate representation services.

Cresa

Industry	Real estate
Genre	Real estate advisory
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Chicago, IL , U.S.
Number of locations	50+
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Tod Lickerman (CEO) Gary Gregg (Executive Chairman) Greg Schementi (President) Tom Birnbach (Vice Chairman)
Number of employees	1,250 (2025)[1]

Awards

Cresa has received multiple awards and has been included on top achievement lists, including Site Selection's Service Provider of the Year, American Business Journals’ Best Places to Work,^[2] INC. 5000,^[3] and Realcomm's “Top Ten Most Innovative Brokerage Firms.^[4]” Several Cresa offices have been consistently honored with Best Places to Work recognition.^[5]

In 2010, Cresa was certified as a "Sustainable Business Leader",^[6] having completed the Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP) -- a program of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) that provides guidance, support and technical assistance to facilitate the "greening" of small and medium-sized businesses.

United Space Alliance awarded Cresa its 2010 Small Business of the Year award^[7] for the firm's work in developing USA's “workplace of the future” office standards.

Notable personnel

Tod Lickerman was appointed CEO in 2021; Mr. Lickerman joined Cresa's Board in 2019 and has extensive commercial real estate experience spanning over 35 years. Mr. Lickerman previously served as Global President and Americas CEO at Cushman & Wakefield. Prior, he served as Global CEO of DTZ, where he led the firm in taking the company private and acquiring Cassidy Turley and Cushman & Wakefield. In total, he helped acquire and integrate 20 companies into the global platform company that Cushman & Wakefield is today with revenues in excess of $7 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lickerman served as CEO of Corporate Solutions Americas at JLL and ran several divisions including healthcare, energy, and European facility management.^[8]