Jon Adair

Global Director - Real Estate at MongoDB

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

About

Corporate Real Estate professional with 25+ years experience working mainly on behalf of major occupiers of commercial office space. Based in Dublin with global market exposure. Specialties: Strategic portfolio management, lease transactions and negotiation, office design, project management, construction, facilities/workplace management, vendor relationship management

Experience

  • MongoDB (7 yrs 6 mos)
    • Director - Global Real Estate
      Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Global responsibility for overseeing corporate office portfolio of 63 sites, 1.5 million sqft and annual spend of USD30+ million. Primary responsibilities include Strategic planning, Site Selection, Transaction Management and oversight of Design and Construction program. Key contributor to the organisations transition to and sustainability of Hybrid Working. Notable achievements include major office relocations and expansions to offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, London, Paris, Gurgaon and Sydney. Key stakeholder and contributor to the organisations optimization of the real estate portfolio to adapt to changing requirements in terms of location, size and purpose. Member of Finance and Operations leadership team reporting to global CFO.

    • Director of Global Workplace and Real Estate
      Jan 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Leading a diverse and distributed global team of Workplace professionals during a period of Super Growth. Touching markets worldwide in all aspects of Corporate Real Estate and Workplace management. Responsible for all aspects of Portfolio Management, Lease Transactions, Capital projects and Workplace operations for a global office portfolio

  • Asia Regional Head - Corporate Real Estate at AXA
    Jul 2009 - Jul 2018 · 9 yrs 1 mo

  • Project Director at Goodman
    Jun 2007 - Jan 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Head of Business Services, Asia at Macquarie Bank
    Nov 2005 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Regional Account Manager at Jones Lang LaSalle
    2004 - 2005 · 1 yr