Phillip A. Infelise
Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Infelise comes to our team as the Chief Operations Officer. Previously, Phillip was the founder and Chief Collaborator at P-Cubed Partners, a real estate planning and project management consortium. Phillip brings more than 40 years of diverse experience as a real estate executive in the C-Suite, strategic planner, project manager working on 3 continents and the UK; more than 12 countries and 50 cities for domestic and international corporations, public institutions, associations, US and foreign governments.

Phillip’s strengths are in plotting appropriate, often innovative and unexpected project strategies and assembling the right team to execute, committed to meeting all schedule and budget goals while producing enhanced workspaces. Known as a “big-picture, big project” professional, Phillip has worked with all the major local/national design-construction teams with unparalleled success, whether building corporate or technical spaces, mid-rise or flex-tech, manufacturing production, hospitality, multi-family or diagnostic laboratories.

Phillip grows start-up or small companies to prominent ones demonstrated as a Founding Partner in the Cresa growth from 25 to 1000; the Cresa National PM Group from 1 to 125; ORS from 15 in one location to more than 100 in three cities; start-up of two commercial general contracting firms and participation in mergers of three real estate entities.

Notable Local Projects: In the Denver area, Phillip has planned/managed a variety of iconic corporate HQ projects from 30K SF to 360K SF, including: Boston Market, DaVita/Healthcare Partners, DigitalGlobe (twice), Gates World HQ, Quest Diagnostics, Spyder, The Gathering Place, Thermo/BioStar and Vail Resorts.

Beyond Denver, the expanded list includes Black Entertainment Television in DC; Beckman Coulter in South Florida; LPL Tower in La Jolla, CA; Sonora Quest in Tempe, AZ and Work Rite Ergonomics in Petaluma, CA; Software AG HQ in Reston, VA. Currently, Phillip is the Executive Project Manager on the $300MM Turkevi Center in NYC for the Government of Turkey that will change the face of the UN corridor in midtown east.

Executive Leadership. Previously, Phillip’s executive positions include:

• Chairman and Vice Chairman, 10 Year Board Member, Cresa LLC, Boston
• National Director, Project & Facility Management, Cresa LLC, Boston
• Chief Operating Officer & President, Cresa Partners-Denver, Inc.
• Chief Operating Officer, The ORS Group, Washington DC
• President – Private Sector, The ORS Group, Washington, DC
• President – Creative Building Specialists and Planned Esthetics, Inc., Long Beach, CA
• Director of Construction, IDM Corporation, Long Beach,

Phillip is also a nationally recognized speaker, moderator, writer and trainer on all matters of planning, workplace design, project and relocation management subjects.

Affiliations

Cresa Chairman of the Board, 2010-2012, Vice Chairman of the Board, 2008-2010
Cresa Board of Directors, 2005 – 2014
Cresa Marketing Committee, Chair, 2009-2011
Board of Directors, Co-Founder, Cresa Cares, 2011-2015
Cresa National Director of Project & Facilities Management, 2013-2015
Chair, Capital Asset Advisory Committee, Jefferson County Schools, Current
President, Private Sector, The ORS Group, 1986-1994
Construction and Engineering Officer, US Agency for International Development, 1982-1986
President, Planned Aesthetics, Inc. 1979-1982

Acknowledgements
Cresa Project Collaboration Award, 2014
Chairman’s Award, Cresa, 2013
First Citizen Award Recipient, Cresa, 2011
Project Management Award, Cresa, 2007, 2009

Education
Bachelor of Arts, International Development, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971
Construction Management Certification, 1995

Publications/Presentations

• “The Multi-Generation Workplace” Core-Net Panel Moderator
• “Changing Dynamics in the Design Industry,”       IIDA Education Series
• “Draft Choices – Creating High Performance Project Teams,” Core-Net
• “Reflection from a Dark Continent,” IFMA Journal
• “The High Performance Project Manager,” Cresa
• “Work it Left, Work it Right,” National Sales Seminar Keynote
• “Techno-Spaces” Denver Business Journal
• “Turn away from Turn Key,” Colorado Business Journal
• 21 Project Management White Papers, Cresa