Cushman & Wakefield’s CIO describes unifying AI at scale, building trust across 53,000 colleagues, and why the right partnership is the accelerant, not the brake.
by CIO.com
For most large enterprises, AI transformation is a story of silos — business units running competing experiments, data sitting in disconnected systems, and outcomes staying out of reach.
Cushman & Wakefield has taken a different path. Sal Companieh, Chief Digital and Information Officer for the global commercial real estate services firm, has spent the past four years building an enterprise AI core designed for trustworthy, durable, and scalable impact across 53,000 colleagues worldwide.
Sal sat down with CIO.com to discuss how the core is built on a deliberate operating model, unified data strategy, and a Databricks partnership that goes far beyond features.
