Mark Grinis

Biography: Mr. Grinis is the Americas Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Leader for the firm’s $2 Billion dollar real estate business with over 17,000 professionals worldwide. The practice is the leading provider of Assurance, Tax, Transaction, and advisory services to the real estate industry. Prior to this his current role, Mr. Grinis has served in several leadership positions for the firm, including the firm’s real estate Private Equity practice, M&A and Restructuring group, Central Region practice leader, and head of the Transaction Real Estate Group. Mr. Grinis has over 30 years of experience and has served as a lead advisor on over $75 billion of transactions, and as the lead audit partner for several real estate funds with aggregate assets under management in excess of $100 billion. He is currently leading the digital transformation initiatives for the firm’s real estate business including working with the firm’s alliances partners in the development of new technology based solutions and transformative business processes. He is a Member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and has spoken at the 2018 and 2019 ULI Fall Meetings. At the 2018 ULI Fall Meeting, Mr. Grinis hosted a panel discussion entitled “What is Critical for Change” in the real estate industry. At the 2019 ULI Fall Meeting, Mr. Grinis was a featured speaker on the panel discussion entitled “The Future of Real Estate Technology: How to Use What You Know and Stay Ahead of the Flow”. While living in Japan for seven years, Mr. Grinis was the managing partner for EY’s Asian Real Estate practice. His clients included the leading securities firms, the Japanese government and the largest city banks and insurance companies. During his tenure in Tokyo, he was one of the key leaders who helped establish ULI in Japan. He has advised various ministries of finance, central banks and legislative committees for eight countries on strategies to address non-performing ass