THE SPECS: Company: CBRE Location: Seattle, Wash Property Type: Industrial Specialist Year Built with SIOR: 1997

OVERVIEW - Why She’s the Real Deal

Patricia Loveall, SIOR, executive vice president of CBRE in Seattle, and current SIOR Global President,  has spent more than 40 years becoming a trailblazer for women in commercial real estate, and dominating her market in industrial sales and leasing. When she’s not a power broker, she is writing cookbooks, making jewelry and canning.

She's more than just an SIOR.

HIGHLIGHTS - Get to Know Patricia

SR: What was the first job (or weirdest job) you ever had?
PL: Selling birthing beds!  I was a young woman, never having had children, talking to doctors and nurses about the benefits of giving birth on a revolutionary bed. .

SR: What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
PL:  Make sure you are talking to the person who makes the decision.

SR: What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received?
PL: Tough question – I shed bad advice and move on!

SR: Do you remember your favorite meal?
PL: White truffle rissoto at Spago in Maui and beef wellington and Restaurant Gordon Ramsey in London.

SR: Do you have a hidden talent?
PL: Adding the secret, unwritten ingredient to any recipe!  

SR: Where is happiness for you?
PL: Montana.

SR: A penguin walks through that door right now wearing a sombrero. What does he say and why is he here?
PL: He’s in Montana looking for snow and asking where’s the snow?

SR: What do you love to do in your free time?
PL:  Be with friends, can food, make jewelry, read books, go for a drive – see something new.

SR: Where have you traveled to that you are dying to go back again?
PL:  Amalfi Coast - Positano

SR: What’s the greatest risk you’ve ever taken?
PL: My career – working for no salary, just performance based compensation.

SR: What are some causes you care about?
PL:  Organ donation, Make-a-Wish, Girl Scouts and the Homeless

SR: If you could have a personal motto, what would it be?
PL: Be remarkable