NEW YORK (MAY 11, 2021) – Savills today announced that Dr. Wayne Gearey has joined the company as a senior managing director in its expanded Location Strategy practice. He will be based out of the firm’s Dallas office.

Dr. Gearey is a location strategy expert with more than 25 years of experience. He will work with KLG Advisors, Savills market leading strategic location and workforce advisory practice, which advises some of the largest and most recognizable global organizations. Dr. Gearey and his team of three specialize in providing the same market leading location strategy and labor analytics expertise to the industrial, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors. Joining Dr. Gearey at Savills are Amy Fobes, Nicole Tremain and Johnny Mond. Fobes, a managing director, will be based out of the firm’s Denver office; Tremain and Mond, associates, will be based out of Dallas.

“We are building the most innovative suite of analytical tools to support our clients. Savills excels in the space of providing actionable analytics, both predictive and prescriptive, to drive the best outcome for our clients. Having a recognized expert such as Dr. Gearey join the team will further enhance our capabilities to support our growing tenant industrial practice,” said Gregg Healy, the recently appointed head of Savills Industrial Services Group, who will work closely with the newly acquired team.

Dr. Gearey is an industry thought leader in applied strategic location economics, social planning, geodemographics, and social epidemiology. His client roster includes organizations such as Amazon, CVS, and New Belgium Brewery, and he has served as a consultant to local and regional governments within North America and Africa. Dr. Gearey was also National Director and senior vice president of location advisory for JLL. He received the firm’s top honor, The Da Vinci Innovation Award, for developing models that helped clients identify strategic labor market opportunities.

“The pandemic has augmented the significance of location strategy for nearly every organization. Human capital has only amplified as the top priority,” said Kevin Kelly, Executive Vice President, Savills KLG Advisors. “Wayne and his team will allow us to further expand our capabilities to key sectors and markets while strengthening an increasingly important business function.”

Dr. Gearey’s career highlights include labor supply and demand modeling for industrial, warehouse and manufacturing clients; assembling and interpreting complete geodemographic data for health markets; modeling COVID-19 risk for clients, as well as state and local governments. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Professor at the University of Texas in Dallas.

Dr. Gearey received a Ph.D. in social science and geography from Coventry University in England; an MSc in business process reengineering and GIS from the University of Salford, England; and degrees from Simon Fraser University and the University of Calgary. Additionally, he completed academic work at Johns Hopkins University.