DTLA Cocktail Schmooze

Lewis C. Horne is the President of the Greater Los Angeles-Orange County Region for CBRE, Inc., the leading provider of commercial real estate services globally. Mr. Horne is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the firm’s eight regional offices, and oversees a 15-person management team to ensure excellence in client service across all CBRE business segments. Under his leadership, the region has grown to include nearly 1,200 employees with diverse expertise spanning the firm’s primary service lines and all specialty practices. Mr. Horne and his leadership team support all regional professionals as they manage more than 80 million square feet of commercial properties and annually complete over 12,000 sale and lease transactions, 500 financial consulting assignments, and thousands of appraisals. Mr. Horne is passionate about collaboration in service delivery, and actively promotes the integration of multiple disciplines to ensure well-conceived, strategic solutions for complex client assignments. He is partnering with CBRE’s Workplace Strategy group to better align the regional offices with this goal, beginning with the transformation of the firm’s global headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. Together they are creating innovative work environments with cutting-edge technology to attract and retain top talent and better meet client needs. Prior to his current role, Mr. Horne held a variety of leadership positions in the company, beginning as an industrial brokerage professional in 1984 and quickly growing to become one of the top 3% of brokerage professionals company-wide. He then moved into a management position, and has successfully grown his career in CBRE leadership for nearly 25 years.

Mick McConnell is a multi-disciplinary architect, retail design leader and executive creative director, with management experience in corporate retail, architecture, environmental graphics, brand strategy, interactive design, graphic design, teaching and advertising. Active in education as visiting professor, critic and lecturer at Harvard, Yale, and others, McConnell most recently was the New York City professor at Syracuse in 2012-2013. An award-winning author of LAX, The Los Angeles Experiment, McConnell has worked with leading corporations, architects, agencies, and design firms both in-house and as a consultant. As the Head of Product Development at WeWork, Mick is developing new design standards, supervising special projects, and working across multiple channels for holistic solutions to large-scale initiatives. Mick previously was the head of design for Chipotle and also served as the Director for the design and construction of the Yas Viceroy Hotel in Abu Dhabi for Asymptote Architecture which consisted of the largest grid-shell in the world and was designed and built in only 20 months.