Phil Ainlay

Vice President

Phil Ainlay is a Vice President Office Leasing. His experience with CBRE covers the full spectrum of tenant advocacy and strategic occupancy planning, including developing, in concert with his major clients, workplace strategies to ensure that his clients maximize their real estate facilities. Phil has developed considerable expertise in the University Avenue / Downtown North office market, having successfully negotiated on behalf of his major clients, new and renewal lease agreements for approximately 1 million square feet of office space within the past few years alone. Phil has 25 years direct experience in the real estate industry, including 11 years in brokerage, and 14 years in progressively more responsible roles at a major Canadian financial institution where he led a team of 12 real estate professionals in optimizing a 300 branch network in Ontario. Phil’s team was responsible for identifying new branch sites, and relocation sites to ensure market competitiveness. He was also responsible for preparing business cases for alterations to the branch network (i.e. for new branches/relocation opportunities/branch closure candidates),demographic studies, handling all lease renewals for the network, and executing property dispositions. Phil also brings to his current CBRE role, and to his clients, a broad based business background. He was a District Manager for a major financial institution for 7 years, where he was responsible for the development and execution of financial and business plans for a group of 15 branches (with 325 staff) in Midtown Toronto. He led the key focus areas of sales management, business development, human resources, risk management, marketing and audit functions.