Alain Desmarais, MBA

Executive Vice President, Broker of Record
400-55 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 6L5

T: 613-780-1566
F: 613-236-5958



Alain Desmarais, is Executive Vice President and Broker of Record of Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa.  He has a very successful practice as an Office Leasing specialist with Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa.  His clients have benefited from his leasing expertise, his experience as an effective negotiator and his extensive knowledge of the office leasing market.  As a top-ranking leasing specialist, Alain has received numerous company awards recognizing his superior sales performance.  He is a multi-year member of the President’s Round Table, a multiple recipient of the Award of Excellence honoring sustained sales excellence, and a recipient of the National Top Ten Award which recognizes superior sales performance.

Alain joined Cushman & Wakefield Ottawa (formerly Royal LePage Commercial) in 1992 and subsequently became a leading producer in the Ottawa office leasing market prior to becoming Senior Managing Director and Broker of Record in 2008. Alain is a graduate of the MBA program at Queen’s University and a recipient of the Ottawa Business Journal’s Top Forty Under 40 Award.  A partial list of his clients includes the following organizations:

CLIENTS

ACCC

Airwide

Ajilon

Altera Corporation

American Express

AT&T

Australian High Commission

AXA Insurance

BCE

Bombardier

Canada Newswire

Canadian Bankers Association

Canadian Renewable Fuels   Association

CGA Canada

Ciena Systems

Cognos

College de Jonquiere

Deloitte & Touche

Dell Canada

DST Output

Drake Beam Morin

Emerald Software

Ericsson Communications

Flextronics

Freedman & Associates

Freescale Semiconductor

Gartner Group

GE

Great-West Life

HP / EDS

IBM (Rational Software)

ING

Institute on Governance

Insurance Bureau of Canada

Investors Group

ISS Canada

JP Morgan Chase

L3 Communications

Laurentian Bank

London Life

Lucent

Marsh Canada Limited

Mercer (Canada) Limited

NexInnovations

Nokia

OC-CCAC

Ontario Realty Corp

Orangutech

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Queen’s University

Rand Worldwide

Raytheon

RBC Dominion Securities

Right Management

Rockstar Consortium

SAS Institute

Smart & Biggar   Featherstonhaugh

SPAR Aerospace

Telesat Canada

Thornley Fallis

Tundra (BelAir Networks)

Warren Shepell

Wellington Strategy Group

WindDance

World Vision

WPP Group (Hill &   Knowlton)

Xerox

Zurich Canada