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RACHEL CASANOVA Senior Managing Director Workplace Innovation 1290 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10104 | Direct +212 698 2666 | rachel.casanova@cushwake.com

in their businesses. She believes that disruption to the status quo is surely upon us and we need to use all levers to own the change, not be swept up by changing expectations. After serving on the Board for 6 years, she is the current Co-President of the Human Ecology Alumni Association Board at Cornell University and is actively engaged in numerous community building efforts in her town where she lives with her husband and two middle- school aged children. SELECT CLIENTS • BVN • Cleary Gottlieb • The Federal Reserve Bank • University of Pennsylvania Health SystemCenter for Healthcare Technology • Alexicon Pharmaceuticals • American Express • Discovery Communications • Citadel • The Rockefeller Foundation • Thomson Reuters • MetLife • KPMG • United Nations • Cushman &Wakefield • Mintz Levin • Fitzpatrick Cellas • Fried Frank

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE Rachel Casanova joined Cushman &Wakefield in 2019 as Senior Managing Director, Workplace Innovation. Prior to joining the firm she founded Balansett after working in the field of Workplace Strategy for the last 23 years, helping companies transform their real estate assets in order to reinforce long-term business strategies, corporate culture, and increasingly integrated space, technology, and performance goals. During the course of her career, she has had an opportunity to address workplace-related advances frommultiple vantage points—working within an end user environment, commercial furniture manufacturer, multiple architectural firms and, most recently, leading the Connected Spaces global practice at a digital marketing and communications company. Her portfolio spans strategic and occupancy planning, programming, culture driven workplace strategy, and workplace standards development. She also has deep experience in transition management for today’s evolving workplaces. Her clients span legal firms, professional services, technology, nonprofits, and architectural firms. She is frequently called upon as a subject matter expert and has contributed regularly to CoreNet audiences in conferences and education seminars. She has recently spoken at Worktech. RealComm, CRE Tech, Cornell University, NYU, IIDA Facility Forum, and Neocon. At Balansett, Rachel was working with progressive companies that are motivated to use the workplace to support and lead culture, innovation, and growth