Building Your Career Through BOMA: A Conversation with Chair, Randal Froebelius & Vice Chair, Manny Moreno

Gillian Downing is a Property Manager with Accesso for one of their Philadelphia assets. Gillian joined Accesso in 2019 as an Administrative Assistant, was promoted to Assistant Property Manager, and recently to Property Manager.

She is the current Chair of BOMA International’s Emerging Professionals Committee and has been a member of the committee since 2020. As a member of BOMA Philadelphia, she is on their Emerging Leaders, Associate, and Membership Committees. She received one of the J. Michael Coleman scholarships to attend the BOMA International Conference in Boston in 2021.

Randal is a seasoned real estate professional with over 30 years of experience in property management, leasing, project management and construction. In 2004 Randal founded Equity ICI Real Estate Services, a mid-sized property management firm based in Toronto, Canada. Equity ICI provides property management, leasing, construction and facilities management services to a variety of investor and institutional owners. Randal is a Past-Chair of BOMA Canada and was previously Chair of BOMA Toronto. He currently serves on the BOMA International Executive Committee and is Chair of the BOMA International Standard Methods Floor Measurement Committee.

As president of PJMB Commercial, Inc., Manny Moreno oversees a 25-building portfolio of more than 560,000 square feet in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been an active member on the BOMA California Board of Directors for almost a decade and is a past president of the BOMA Pacific Southwest Region. Moreno served a two-year term as president of BOMA/Oakland-East Bay from 2014 through 2015 and he remains involved in the local association’s Nominating Committee. In 2018, Moreno served as vice chair of BOMA International’s BOMAPAC Council and participated in the Daniel W. Chancey Leadership Academy. At the BOMA International level, he also has also been involved in a variety of initiatives, including the Standard Methods of Floor Measurement Committee, the Office Building Standard Revision Task Force and, most recently, the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. He also serves on the Board of Managers for the Commercial Real Estate Certification Institute (CRECI), an independent certification body created by BOMA International and BOMI.