Five Lessons from Five Years of Link Logistics

Sonya is the chief administrative officer for Link Logistics, responsible for ensuring operational excellence across the company’s nationwide portfolio of real estate assets. She directs critical firm-wide priorities including property management, customer experience, sustainability, transactions, customer onboarding and people operations.

Helping transform Link Logistics from a newly created startup into a leading operator of industrial real estate over the past five years has been a career-defining project for me. Since the firm was founded in 2019, we have expanded our portfolio from 1,200 properties to more than 3,500; increased our customer base from 3,000 to over 10,000; and grown from 230 employees to over 1,200. Our portfolio now spans more than 500 million square feet across essential U.S. distribution markets. Building this firm alongside talented, kind and committed colleagues has been a thrill. It has also been an education filled with countless lessons for me, both as an executive and as a woman in the historically male-dominated commercial real estate world. I would like to share five of those lessons here.