Ilan Zachar's Resume

ILAN ZACHAR • 305.450.5114 • [email protected]

STRATEGIC REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: CIO • CTO Envisioning Solutions • Executing Strategies • Delivering Transformation

Ø Visionary technology executive who creates, sells, and implements unique, cost-‐effective technological solutions that

increase revenue and efficiency—while slashing risk and complexity. Ø Globally focused, trilingual leader with extensive experience in the US; Western, Eastern, and Northern Europe; and

Latin America. Ø Inspirational professional who transforms business, team, and corporate culture. Deadline driven manager who

delivers complex, critical initiatives on time, every time. Ø Direct communicator who leads leverages persuasion and influence to build synergies and ensure commitment to

technological innovation. Ø Tenacious negotiator who leverages a global rolodex to dramatically reduce cost. Ø Trusted partner who adds value by sharing knowledge across business units, organizations, and teams.

CIO, Gazit Group USA, Miami, FL, US / Amsterdam, NL 2007-‐Present Direct all strategic technology operations for 3 divisions of publicly traded, $18B real estate development leader with mandate to increase efficiency and competitiveness and lower total cost. Lead team of 8 direct reports and additional vendor resources. Create and manage ~$4M in combined annual budgets. -‐ Spearheaded end-‐to-‐end technology and business integration strategies for previously fragmented Russia, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Latvia operations -‐ Led standardization and consolidation of all applications, disaster

recovery and business continuity, operating systems, and email -‐ Revenue Growth and Business / Technology Consolidation: Piloted implementation of unified JD Edwards Finance and Property Management system. Developed and presented demonstrations to all seven country heads to ensure committed buy-‐in to technical and business transformation.

• Determined critical business / financial requirements and ensured project go ahead through delivery of comprehensive, $750K, multi-‐country analysis to

• Led implementation of $3.2M property management solution—including translation and abstraction of 3,500 leases from 7 original languages to English—replacing legacy manual / Excel / paper process with unified electronic repository.

o Maximized revenue, cash flow, and profitability by streamlining tenant and lease administration, accelerating rent collections, and automating management and agent-‐fee payments.

o Ensured rapid detection of billing, management, and cash flow issues—with simplified planning and reduced business risk.

o Provided full regulatory compliance across 7 nations. • Currently leading $6.1M consolidation of 7 national financial applications to unified solution—anticipated to cut

financial preparation time by as much as 50%—with final project delivery by Q4 2015. • Spearheaded development of localized Real Estate modules fully compliant with multiple national regulations.

o Currently in negotiations with Oracle / JD Edwards for implementation in next global release. o Presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 – 2014 on single instance / multiple currency solutions.

Cost Reduction: Created comprehensive 3-‐year strategy to support continuous, double digit growth.

• Slashed total costs by $4M / 20%. • Reduced total cost of hardware ownership by $240K over 3 years by transition from lease to purchase strategy—with

no reduction in support. • Cut Microsoft audit costs by $360K through rapid analysis and correction of licensing issues. • Eliminated $330K in consulting costs by leveraging previous analysis to overcome fragmentation, reduce inefficiency,

and lower cost in recently acquired Finnish subsidy—with additional $150K phone cost savings through analysis of most critical business needs.

ILAN ZACHAR • 305.450.5114 • [email protected] Negotiations: Leveraged international vendor relationships and strong negotiation skills to ensure industry-‐leading discounts.

• Delivered $1.2M in total discounts including $475K / 45% discount for SECNAP Network Security services; $215K / 69% discount for Oracle JD Edwards licenses; and $100K / 69% discount for Oracle HFM licenses.

Deployments: Analyzed business requirements, and led creation and deployment of high ROI solutions.

• Implemented $1.2M, state-‐of-‐the-‐art videoconferencing system—with negotiated 40% savings. • Delivered full ROI within year 1, by dramatically reducing international travel costs, and enabled full CEO attendance

at all board meetings, press, analyst calls, legal calls, and meetings. Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity: Developed comprehensive, $200K disaster recovery strategies encompassing 4 countries on 3 continents.

• Ensured full remote failover and satellite phone capabilities to assess extend of damage. • Created and implemented corporate governance policies and procedures to anticipate, meet, and exceed global SOX-‐

modeled requirements—with 100% compliance. CIO & VP, Equity One, Inc., Miami, FL, US 2002-‐2006 Created and executed all technology strategies. Built responsive, customer focused, 10 member IT team, and developed and managed $1.5M budget.

• Led implementation of technical infrastructure to support explosive growth from 28 shopping centers owned and managed to more than 200—within 2 years.

• Spearheaded transition from legacy, DOS based property management system to JD Edwards ERP 8. Delivered project $2M / 66% under budget—with full integration of 100+ newly acquired properties. Upgraded to 8.11 in only 120 days—the 1st Oracle site globally on this version.

• Established and enforced initial SOX certification standards and mapped control COBIT 3 to COBIT 4 objectives to address evolving regulations—and successfully achieved annual approval.

• Authored risk management and disaster recovery plan ensuring full recovery of email, ERP and supporting business applications—within 72 hour window. Reduced 3rd party DR solutions cost by 60% through tenacious negotiation, and enabled immediate, satellite phone communication with New Orleans property management post-‐Katrina, enabling extremely rapid repair and recovery.

• Ensured continuous access to tenant and vendor information through automation and centralization of insurance certificate database.

CTO, MSC Software, Miami, FL, US 2000-‐2002 • Built and led team of developers and content managers. Directed all global infrastructure operations. • Piloted creation of one of the first global eCommerce portals-‐supporting 3K+ shopping centers.

Previous professional experience includes Senior Systems Engineer / Senior Consultant with Macromedia / IBM.

EDUCATION and LANGUAGES

BA, Business Administration with Finance Concentration American InterContinental University

English (Fluent) • Spanish (Fluent) • Hebrew (Fluent)

PATENTS, PUBLICATIONS, and AFFILIATIONS

United States Patent #20120124069 / Mobile Digital Property Portfolio Management System

SpammerTrap Crushes Backscatter Attack / Secnap • Data Protection & Disaster Recovery in Today's IT Environment / Realcomm EDGE • Atrium European Real Estate Reconciles Financial Close Data from Seven Countries Faster and Maximizes

Revenue and Profitability / Oracle

Research Emeritus Member, ICSC 2007-‐2012 / Recognized as Technology Solutions / R&D thought leader