ABOUT ME
About me
Passion for Real Estate and Technology by Sergio Rojas Leyva
Since very early age I’ve been involved with real estate, my father who is a retired residential local developer at Mexico City introduced me to real estate when I was just a kid. I was connected to real estate in several ways, first finding a good land option or existing building (I would like to say that a lot of opportunities of acquiring a good property came alone to my dad), then structuring the project, making the construction or the adequations and then finally looking for right tenants for the property, negotiating and closing the lease contract, as well I took part on the management of rent collection, lease renewal and looking for a new tenant from scratch when a tenant left the space.
I would like to mention that my professional background is on technology, I hold a computer science engineer bachelor degree from Tec de Monterrey and early on my professional career I loved to program and develop applications (mostly in Java). Nevertheless, I have had always a strong attachment to real estate and I’ve been able to integrate very well two of my passions, real estate + technology.
Several years ago, I made the commitment to myself to follow a real estate path for the rest of my professional career, until now I’ve the feeling that I I’ve taken the best decision.
In my opinion, real estate is sexy in every way that you can think on. You can find art such as sculptures, paintings in the lobby of a great office building, even the building is art itself (Chapultepec Uno at Reforma Avenue is a wonderful example, what about the view?). To work in amazing office spaces is incredible, and what is important is all what happens inside, professional and personal relationships are built (or not), dreams come true (or not). How great is to pick your coffee in the morning and enjoy the moment in the line with your friend that you work with (while you wait you usually talk about how you will conquer the world).
Retail is another great story, new malls are providing great experience to customers, as well you can have a delicious dinner, or a delightful cup of coffee, earlier you visited your favorites stores and you bought that shoes or shirt that will fit to you incredibly, or maybe (as I love to) you went to the bookstore and you enjoyed reviewing the latest releases and you took some books that will give you great ideas, entertainment or even will improve your life.
Industrial property for me is a hidden world that few know about and so much mystic happens inside these kind of facilities, from aircraft propeller construction (that actually happens today at Queretaro aerospace Park as well as the construction of other aircraft essentials) with super complex processes and high quality and security standards, everything operated by committed and hard working professionals, using technology, vehicles, collaborating in a highly integrated environment with suppliers and clients, all these ingredients enable and create an incredible capacity to produce and distribute millions of products such as beer, food, clothes, auto parts, aircraft parts, you name it. We all know that today distribution (mainly drived by e-commerce) is the thing!
Professional experience
Sergio Rojas is a commercial real estate leader and advisor based at Mexico City with international experience. Sergio has demonstrated capability to understand business needs and high proficiency to deliver results.
With more than 16 years of experience he started his career as a programmer, occupying different positions in different industries (real estate, banking and brokerage house). He became Head of IT for Latin America Region for Colliers International in 2011, at Colliers he has been designated as Director of Lease Administration service line serving Latin America clients. Nowadays Sergio also holds the position of Corporate Solutions director as well. Nowadays Sergio also helps on managing own family real estate portfolio.
His education includes a computer systems engineering bachelor degree at ITESM (Tec de Monterrey), an MBA at EGADE Business School and he successfully coursed the Top Management D-1 program at prestigious IPADE Business School.
He has strong experience on the direction of teams of as long as 30 members with projects that required multidisciplinary contribution and leadership in several countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru and United States.
Together with his team he is currently managing a portfolio of more than 2,000 leases and currently he is managing more than 50 industrial, office and retail transactions.
Through his career Sergio has been able to negotiate hundreds of leases and has been able to achieve millions of dollars in savings for his clients.
Education
+ Top Management D-1: IPADE Business School – 2015.
+ MBA: EGADE Business School - 2011
+ Computer Science Engineering: Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) - 2005
+ i11 Real Estate. Real Estate Development. Dec 2020 – Mar 2021.
+ RE Investment and Development. Universidad Anahuac / ULI. Jan 2018 – July 2018.
+ PIC by AMPI - Certified Real Estate Professional by Mexican Association of Real Estate Agents (AMPI) - 2017
+ Real Estate Diploma - National Autonomous University of Mexico and Mexican Association of Real Estate Agents (UNAM AMPI) - 2017
+ Seminar in Real Estate Law - Mexican Association of Real Estate Agents (AMPI) - 2016
+ Diploma in Next Generation Telecommunications: Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) - 2013
+ Diploma in Project Management: Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) - 2007
+ Diploma in eBusiness solutions and Datamining: Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) - 2006
+ Course on Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development of the University of Twente in Eschede, Netherlands - 2011
+ English Course in The Hampstead School of English in London, England - 2003
