Finn Johnson specializes in  assisting commercial real estate firms with their transition to a more efficient, responsive and profitable operating model. Services include organizational assessments, business planning, business process optimization, migration to the cloud, staff support and implementation. Primary client’s include brokerage firms, property management companies, lease administration service providers and early stage technology companies within the commercial real estate space.

Finn was co-founder, President & CEO of RE BackOffice, which provides on-demand back-office support services to the commercial real estate industry. Services include marketing support, lease administration, research, analytics and web development. The company combines an off-shore production facility in Mumbai to deliver a high quality / low cost work product, along with the Internet to deliver services globally, 24/7, via its website.

Prior to RE BackOffice, Finn was Vice President of e-Business for NAI Global, the fifth largest commercial real estate services company with over 325 offices and 5,000 agents worldwide.  Finn’s primary responsibility was to work with the members and clients of NAI Global in its implementation of technology across the organization. Finn was also responsible for the on-going development, promotion, adoption and use of the NAI Global technology platform across the enterprise.

Finn’s practical real estate experiences include commercial loan underwriting with Union Bank in Los Angeles, six years as an investment real estate broker in San Francisco and four years in development and asset management for a regional office building developer based in New Jersey. Over his real estate career, he has personally been involved in the acquisition and/or disposition of over $100 million in commercial real estate assets, managed a portfolio of office buildings totaling 500,000 square feet, managed the approval process on several development projects exceeding 500,00 square feet in potential build-out, and performed third party due diligence on CMBS projects valued in excess of $1.1 billion.