Industrious Looking For New CEO, Jamie Hodari Transitioning To CBRE Role
After more than a year of pulling double duty in executive roles with Industrious and CBRE, Jamie Hodari is seeking someone new to run the coworking platform.
The Industrious co-founder has continued as the company’s CEO since it was sold to CBRE for $800M last year while simultaneously serving as the chief executive of the parent company’s building operations and experiences segment. But to focus fully on his CBRE role, Hodari is looking for the right person to run the coworking startup he helped launch in 2012, according to Business Insider.
“I know that the overwhelming likelihood is a stranger who I never met until this process started is going to be running my baby,” Hodari told Business Insider. “There's something daunting about that and a little complicated, but also super exciting.”
Hodari said he is seeking a CEO who is “a badass and ultra ambitious” but will also fit into and preserve Industrious’ existing company culture.
The new Industrious CEO will be one of around 95,000 employees Hodari oversees in his CBRE role. That position unified the company’s building operations, workplace experience and property management under one group, putting Hodari in charge of management and operations for more than 8B SF of space around the world.
Hodari said he learned in graduate school that, to thrive, it's important to be a good follower. He called his transition from CEO of Industrious to his new role "freeing," as he loves having a boss and mentor in CBRE CEO Bob Sulentic.
"In a big public company you just have to be unbelievably good at saying what you're going to do, then actually doing it and building this almost limitless track record of doing that with no fluff," Hodari said of one of the things he's learned from Sulentic.
In September, CBRE hired former Facebook executive Annie Dean to work with Industrious and the parent company's existing workplace strategy consulting practice to help transform the office experience. The innovation-focused CBRE x Industrious Building Experiences Lab will work with the firm’s most demanding clients to design workspaces that offer experiences usually found in premier hotels and restaurants.
Dallas-based CBRE is off to a strong start in 2026, reporting last week that its net income increased during the first quarter by more than 95% year-over-year to $318M. Profits from the firm’s data center land development program were delivered earlier in the year than expected and helped drive growth for the company’s real estate projects.
The world's largest commercial real estate company also announced last week it would partner with Meta Platforms to train thousands of fiber technicians to build next-generation data center infrastructure.
