Senior Leadership Team

 

 

 

Richard W. Davidson
President and Chief Operating Officer
Coldwell Banker Commercial Affiliates and Chief Operating Officer
Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC

 

 

 

 

Richard W. “Rick” Davidson was appointed president and chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Commercial Affiliates, Inc., in May 2006 and since his appointment has been credited with reinventing the Coldwell Banker Commercial organization and redesigning the company’s value proposition. In February 2009, he assumed the additional role as chief operating officer for Coldwell Banker Real Estate, LLC. In this expanded capacity, Davidson is responsible for the operation of Coldwell Banker’s 3,300 residential real estate office affiliate network around the globe. He is based at the Realogy worldwide headquarters in Parsippany, N.J., the parent company for both the Coldwell Banker Commercial and Coldwell Banker brands.

Prior to his appointment as president of Coldwell Banker Commercial, Davidson was the founding principal and chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker Commercial Capitol Realty Services, an independently owned and operated company in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan market.

Before establishing Coldwell Banker Commercial Capitol Realty Services in 2003, Davidson spent nine years as managing director of CB Richard Ellis in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan market and three years with Insignia/ESG as executive vice president. As an integral member of the CB Richard Ellis’s regional team, its metropolitan market presence grew exponentially in all service areas, and the firm was named the number one real estate services company in Washington in 1999 and 2000. During his tenure, Davidson received several national awards, including Manager of the Year in 1994 and 1996, and the J. Frank Mahoney and James Didion Chairman’s Leadership Award for Real Estate Excellence in 1997, 1998 and 2000. At Insignia/ESG, Davidson was responsible for day-to-day activities of all leasing, property management, facility management and construction management teams throughout the eastern half of the United States and oversaw a portfolio of more than 225 Million Square Feet.

With more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, Davidson is a licensed real estate broker in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He has received several national awards for real estate excellence, and is a member of the Urban Land Institute and holds BOMA’s Real Property Administrator (RPA) designation which he received in 1990. Davidson is active in Big Brothers/Big Sisters and a number of other local and national charities.

He is an honors graduate of National Louis University in Chicago.