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Juan José Gallardo is a Mexican International Real Estate Professional based in Miami, Florida. He was born and raised in Mexico, starting his career in Real Estate in 1986. A lawyer by training, he coursed postgraduate studies in the Legal Regime of International Business, specializing in Real Estate business in 1994.

With the signage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, major commercial real estate firms like CB Commercial, LaSalle Partners, Colliers International and Cushman & Wakefield began their incursion to the mexican market. At the time Juan owned a real estate firm that served major clients like Grupo Posadas and Bancomer. But the 1995 crisis that began with the "December mistake" of 1994 caused a market collapse that only big firms with deep pockets were able to survive. After a 3 years struggle, Juan conceded defeat and decided that "if you cannot fight them, you should join them". And so he did. In September 1997, he joined what was at the time a joint-venture between Grupo Sare and CB Commercial (later to become CBRE). He took a position as Director of Corporate Services, assisting major corporations like American Express and UBS. His successful assistance to secure the Disney Imagineering account for Latin America and Caribbean propelled him to the position of Regional Director of Corporate Services for the region. He relocated to Miami in 1998.