Executive bandwidth
Your portfolio has outgrown the capacity or experience of the current team, but a permanent executive is not the right answer.
Owner-side real estate leadership
Senior real estate leadership for consequential decisions and complex execution.
SSC brings more than 30 years of experience and an owner’s perspective to every stage of the real estate lifecycle: closing the gaps between the parties, taking risk out of real estate and operations, and keeping continuity from inception through ongoing operations.
30+Years of experience
4M+ SFPortfolio led
$1B+Asset value
$500M+Development and capital programs
Anchored in Intelligence.Flexible Execution.Dynamic Reach.
Where SSC fits
Experienced judgment, engaged at the moment it matters.
Not every organization needs another full-time executive. Some need senior leadership now, without the delay, overhead, or narrow scope of a conventional hire.
A critical transaction or project
A site, lease, acquisition, development, or capital program needs an owner-side leader who can see around corners and drive decisions.
Continuity through change
A transition, restructuring, or leadership gap requires a steady senior point of accountability across internal and external teams.
The problem
Every gap is a risk.
Everyone on a real estate project does their part well. The risk sits in what each role does not cover, and in the handoffs between them.
PartyFocused onThe risk left with you
BrokerMarket intelligence, the shortlist and the negotiation, through signingWhether the site can deliver, and everything after signing
Landlord or developerThe propertyInfrastructure and delivery: can the site meet the project’s requirements, on schedule?
Architect and engineersThe designWhether the space meets the technical needs, and whether the design fits the budget
ContractorThe contract scopeChange orders for what the drawings left out
Project managerThe projectA finished space no one is set up to run
Internal teamThe businessDecisions that wait, because real estate is no one’s day job
SSCYour outcome, and only thatCloses the gaps: one advocate, start to finish
The SSC difference
“Consultants advise. Fractional executives lead.”
SSC does more than produce a recommendation. We align stakeholders, establish decision discipline, anticipate execution risk, and stay engaged through the outcome.
Anchored in Intelligence
A complete, strategic view of real estate, built over more than 30 years, more than two decades of them in life science. We know every role at the table, because we have built and led the teams that execute and deliver.
Flexible Execution
Scaled to what you need.
Need a resource? We bring a network of proven providers.
A problem with no clear answer? We find the solution, and often a creative one.
Need to hand off a project? SSC is your team.
Dynamic Reach
Across the lifecycle: one partner from inception through operations.
Across the parties: covering the ground each role leaves open.
Across the map: a national network, working wherever the project is.
“More than two decades on the other side of the table. Now on yours.”
The landlord’s perspective, working for you.
What we do
Integrated Real Estate Solutions
A comprehensive approach to an organization’s real estate needs, from inception through ongoing operations. One senior partner, start to finish, shaped to the need.
Portfolio Strategy
Program of requirements, portfolio diagnostics, occupancy and capital planning, governance and executive reporting, and long-range real estate roadmaps.
Site Selection
Market, workforce and incentive analysis, and a shortlist of sites and buildings judged on what they can deliver, working alongside your broker.
Due Diligence & Infrastructure Risk
Power, utility capacity, entitlement, environmental and permitting risk, assessed with utilities and engineers before capital is committed.
Leasing & Transactions
Owner-side strategy, lease and work letter review, acquisitions, dispositions and RFPs, working alongside your broker on the economics and terms.
Development & Redevelopment
Feasibility, entitlement, master planning, build-to-suit delivery, repositioning and adaptive reuse.
Owner’s Project Management
Team selection and procurement, budget, schedule, contracts and risk, with owner-side oversight from concept through move-in.
Capital Projects
Capital planning and renewal programs in operating buildings, delivered around the people and operations inside.
Facilities & Operations
Operations setup, vendor and service contracts, budgets and resilience, and standing up the team that runs what gets built.
SSC Your embedded partner: continuity from inception through operations, and the knowledge stays with you.
Complex facilities: laboratory, office, greenhouse, biomanufacturing, data center and mission critical.Engage one solution or the full spectrum.
How we engage
Senior leadership, scaled to the assignment.
More than 30 years of commercial real estate experience, for a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive. Less of your team’s time, less risk.
Executive Advisory
One-time or ongoing counsel to owners, boards, and executives on the decisions that matter most: capital allocation, portfolio strategy, pipeline, and project governance.
Project-Based
A defined scope, owned through to completion: a site search, diligence, an acquisition, a development, or an operations setup.
Fractional Executive
Embedded senior leadership with defined responsibility for strategy, transactions, projects, and team direction. Full executive capability without a permanent hire.
Most begin as a single project and become a long-term partnership.
Every engagement
Define the decision → Build the path → Stay through execution
How it is structured
A fixed fee, a monthly retainer, or hourly with a not-to-exceed cap, matched to the scope.
SSC engagement · Client undisclosed
A U.S. R&D headquarters for a client with no one on the ground.
A European specialty chemicals manufacturer establishing its U.S. R&D headquarters, with no local employees and no local address. A 7,500 SF spec lab conversion with major mechanical, electrical and plumbing upgrades.
On time and on budget
A true extension of the client.
What SSC did
- Lease
- Advised on the lease, work letter and project scope.
- Project
- Built the master budget and schedule. Ran vendor selection, from RFP and RFQ through bid leveling and recommendations. Advised on contract form, contract negotiation and interior finish selection. Served as liaison between the contractor’s project manager and the design team to resolve RFIs and coordination issues.
- Move-in
- Coordinated furniture, signage, the move, structured cabling and managed services, and sourced lab equipment.
- Operations
- Set up HVAC service, janitorial and chemical waste handling. Continuing technical and operational support after move-in.
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Oliver Sherrill’s record as principal
Complex facilities, delivered.
Before founding SSC, Oliver Sherrill spent more than two decades with Alexandria Real Estate Equities, the last ten years as Senior Vice President leading its Research Triangle region.
Medicago
97,000 SF plant-based vaccine manufacturing facility, delivered in 12 months under a DARPA pandemic-readiness program (2011).
Monsanto (now Bayer)
72,000 SF, the first fully automated research greenhouse in the United States (2009).
Fujifilm
A 61,500 SF purpose-built R&D facility (2015) and an 88,000 SF expansion (2023), within a relationship of more than 20 years.
Beam Therapeutics
100,000 SF build-to-suit gene and cell therapy facility (2022).
$590M acquisition
Led the acquisition of a 2.2M SF, 20-building campus and its repositioning from a single-tenant site into a multi-tenant innovation campus (2020).
Pilot plant conversion
A 100,000+ SF pharmaceutical pilot plant converted for silicon carbide manufacturing.
Projects led by Oliver Sherrill at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, 2000–2024, before founding SSC. Further projects for Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and NIH.
The experience behind the advice
The record behind every engagement.
Full P&L responsibility for a Research Triangle platform that grew from 350,000 SF to more than 4M SF, backed by a network built over three decades: utilities, economic development and incentive authorities, brokers, contractors, architects and engineers.
4M+ SFPortfolio led
$1B+Asset value
$116M+Annual revenue
$500M+Development and capital programs
- 38Buildings
- 400+Acres master planned
- ~1M SFGround-up development
- 2M+ SFRedevelopment
- 97%Occupancy in 2024
Figures from Oliver Sherrill’s tenure at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, 2000–2024.
Start with the decision in front of you
Add experience before you add complexity.
Anchored in Intelligence. Flexible Execution. Dynamic Reach.
Owners weighing a significant real estate decision or facility investment gain the most from an early conversation. Contact Oliver Sherrill, Principal, directly.
oliver@sherrillstrategic.com 919-224-6103 Research Triangle Park, NC · Serving clients nationally