Kent Ilhardt is a Vice Chairman in Cushman & Wakefield’s Chicago office with over 40 years of commercial real estate industry experience. Mr. Ilhardt has provided advisory services and executed a wide range of lease, purchase and sale and build-to-suit transactions in the office and industrial sectors. He has served as lead brokerage professional for prominent corporate and institutional clients on a global and national basis. A partial list includes Cigna, Delphi Automotive, General Motors, Illinois Tool Works, Intel, Lucent/Nokia, Prudential, Robert Bosch, and Rockefeller Group. Notable in Chicago was his representation of Willis Insurance for their regional headquarters lease in the iconic Sears Tower that resulted in its renaming to Willis Tower.