Sarah Abrams
Visiting Lecturer; SVP Global Real Estate, Iron Mountain
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Sarah K. Abrams is Senior Vice President, Global Real Estate at Iron Mountain, a Fortune 1000 company and public REIT focused on preserving, protecting and unlocking value from organizations’ information and assets. Sarah joined Iron Mountain in January 2012 and leads a global team responsible for real estate strategy, transactions, project delivery, facility management and sustainability initiatives for the company’s multiple business lines with a portfolio of 90M SF and 1,400+ facilities across 60+ countries. Sarah serves on the company’s Enterprise Risk Committee and as a Director of the company’s Political Action Committee.
Prior to joining Iron Mountain, Sarah was president of Fidelity Real Estate Company, the corporate real estate division of Fidelity Investments, a financial services company. Prior to joining Fidelity in 1996, Sarah was a Senior Vice President at USTrust, a Boston-based bank, where she ran its Real Estate Owned Department and established its first Environmental Risk Department.
Sarah holds a BA in Economics, magna cum laude from Boston University, a JD degree from Cornell Law School and a Masters of Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate, where she holds an adjunct lecturer appointment.
She is a past president and a current Advisory Committee member of the New England Chapter of CoreNet Global, a past president and current member of CREWBoston (Commercial Real Estate Women), and a past president and current member of NAIOP Massachusetts. Sarah is a former member of the Industry Advisory Panel to the US Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations as well as the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority. Sarah was inducted into CoreNet Global’s Distinguished Leaders Circle in 2019 and recognized as a Distinguished Leader by CREW in 2014.