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Joshua Fost remains undaunted by vast global infrastructure 

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Jan 23, 20041 min

Colliers International CTO launches Web sites across 51 countries and 14 languages

Joshua Fost faces a tremendous coordination challenge as the first CTO of Colliers International USA, an $880-million consortium of 56 independently owned real-estate companies in 51 countries. Example: At the end of 2003, after a two-year campaign led by Fost and Marketing Vice President Karen L. Galvin, Colliers finally launched globally coordinated Web sites, featuring content appearing in 14 languages.

On the infrastructure side, he’s coordinated a global directory that integrates the contact information from each company’s e-mail servers, which may be running Exchange, Notes, Groupwise, or even outsourced e-mail applications. “My favorite thing is having a person come to me with a problem and then delivering something that’s faster, cheaper, and easier to use than they ever imagined,” Fost says.