CRE’s DEI Drive Faced Setbacks But Achieved Minor Gains Amid 2024's Market Slowdown

According to a new Bisnow investigation, the commercial real estate industry has still made some progress over the last year in adding more people of color and women at its highest levels, but the C-suites at 100 of the largest companies remain more than 85% white and over 70% male.

Inland Real Estate Investment Corporation has four women in its nine-person C-suite, making it the No. 3 most gender diverse of the 40 developers and investors Bisnow analyzed.

"We are constantly trying to improve. We'd like to see as much diversity as possible in every facet of the company so that we can make sure that we're taking in different opinions, different ways to attack problems so that we can move the company forward," commented Cassie Hrtanek, chief operating officer of The Inland Real Estate Group, LLC.

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