Jos Teunissen of SAP Business Service has been named the corporate real estate executive of the year for the Benelux chapter of CoreNet Global.

Jos Teunissen of SAP Business Service has been named the corporate real estate executive of the year for the Benelux chapter of CoreNet Global.

Teunissen is head of merger and acquisitions, global facility management EMEA at SAP, the German-based business software provider.

Until the recent acquisition by SAP, Teunissen was responsible for all Sybase offices in Europe (25 offices in 14 countries). He partnered with business management and other support functions, managing the maintenance, transactions, workplace programmes, portfolio management, lease review, finding new office spaces, lease negotiations, project manage all internal and external office moves and manage office fit-out projects.

As of beginning 2012, he added the responsibility of integrating the Sybase and Ariba facilities into SAP across the EMEA region.

´Teunissen is a leader in the global class of forward thinking corporate real estate executives,´ said CoreNet Global CEO Angela Cain. ´We are proud to bestow this honour.´

CoreNet Global is a professional association for corporate real estate executives and workplace professionals with more than 8,000 members worldwide.