Susan King Glosby and Nora FitzGerald were interviewed about WorkAway Solutions on May 31, 2018 by Sajid Islam. Background Susan and Nora knew each other as friends. They depended on one another to take care of each other’s children and support one another’s work. They would occasionally cowork at each other’s houses but primarily worked from home. However, one day in June of 2017, the two went to a cafe for a change of scenery. There, they spent $40 on…
On May 24, 2018, Sajid Islam of Discover Coworking interviewed Sajani Amarasiri about Colombo Cooperative. Inspiration Sajani was born and raised in Sri Lanka until she came to the Pittsburgh for university, at 18. Her career took her to Seattle where she worked with Amazon and Microsoft. The year Sajani left Sri Lanka was the year the civil war ended. When she returned to Sri Lanka, it was interesting to see how different it was when from when she left.…
On May 9, 2018, Sajid Islam interviewed Jessica Edwards. Below is the summary of the conversation. Background Jessica Edwards comes from Buffalo, NY where she had her first coworking experience. There, she contributed to the redevelopment of the area and got selected to be curator of design innovation garage (dig). Dig coworking space was inside a 4-story business incubator on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, which has been the economic hub for Buffalo over the past decade. Jessica opened and…
On May 10, 2018, Sajid Islam interviewed Shahzad Bhatti and below is the summary of the conversation. From Recession to Future Vision Shahzad Bhatti comes from a real estate background and worked in commercial real estate during the recession both in London and Dubai. Shahzad moved to Dubai nine years ago. Dubai was impacted significantly when the recession hit. With one client, Shahzad launched a business center but quickly learned that the business center model was becoming redundant. As…
Coworking has taken on a predominant role in commercial real estate (CRE). A panel at GCUC discussed how to take advantage of the financial resources available. The panel consisted of Michael Neiman, Co-head of Savills Coworking and Alternative Workplace Group, Lucia Diana, Global Real Estate at Verizon, Mandi Wedin, Senior Director at Washington Reit, Karen Ward, Head of U.S. Real Estate Investment Banking, and Frank Bistrian, CEO of Work Well Win. Transition From Leases It is important to differentiate and…
