About McMorrow Report.com

McMorrow Report is a Web site and Trend Report for corporate, government, educational, institutional and healthcare facilities managers, real estate managers and outsource service managers. The Trend Report is delivered as an electronic newsletter with links to feature content and news articles on the Web site.
News, features, analysis, opinions and White Papers on developments in the facilities management, real estate and outsourcing industries will be offered from an independent perspective.

Eileen McMorrow is the Editor and Publisher of McMorrowReport.com, launched October 2003.

McMorrow has dedicated her business journalism career to the facilities management, real estate management, interior design and architecture professions. Before McMorrow Report, she was Editor in Chief/Associate Publisher of FACILITIES Design & Management magazine for 10 years.

Industry Activities

• Board of Directors, International Facility Management Association (IFMA), 2005-2007
• IFMA’s World Workplace sponsoring publication, 2003-2006
• IFMA’s World Workplace conference board member, 2001-2002
• Greater New York Chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).
• Director, The Best of NeoCon Awards competition, 1994-2006—the premier contract furniture and furnishings award for which hundreds of companies compete to win for the past 16 years
• NeoCon conference board member, evaluating "Facilities Management" and "Office Design" track proposals, 1999-2006.
• NeoCon World’s Trade Fair sponsoring publication, 2004-2006
• InterPlan/Design New York City conference board member, 1994-1999
• Alt.office journal and alt.office conference adviser, 1996-1998
• Symposium on Healthcare Design, conference board member responsible for developing the healthcare facilities track, 1998-2002

Awards

FACILITIES Design & Management received several awards under McMorrow’s editorial management:

• 2002 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for "Best News Coverage" of the September 11, 2001, terrorism attacks and their effects on the American workplace in New York and Washington, DC.
• 1999 and 2000 Anbar Golden Page Awards for "Most Original Content" and "Most Readable Content" in the Operations & Production category.

She was only second editor in chief to serve the publication in its 22 years, having trained under Founding Editor and IFMA Fellow, Anne Fallucchi. She helped build its circulation to include 100 percent of the Fortune 1000 among its monthly circulation of 35,000.


Industry Partner

As the Director of "The Best of NeoCon Awards"—the premier contract furniture and furnishings award for which hundreds of companies compete to win for the past 16 NeoCon expositions—McMorrow is widely recognized by the contract furniture and furnishings industry. Teams of facilities and real estate managers and interior designers judge approximately 325 commercial products in 28 categories, resulting in Gold or Silver Awards. In conjunction with Contract magazine and Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., Chicago, she has expanded and directed the competition. The Best of NeoCon 2006 will be co-sponsored by Contract magazine, McMorrow Report, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., the International Interior Design Association and the International Facility Management Association. Eileen looks forward to inviting McMorrow Report subscribers to serve as Best of NeoCon jurors.

Eileen also enhanced the visibility of "The Nightingale Awards"—the only U.S. contract health care furniture and furnishings competition. Nightingale Awards were co-sponsored by FACILITIES and The Center for Health Design and were transitioned to Contract magazine, www.contractmagazine.com

Memberships

• International Facility Management Association (IFMA), Greater New York Chapter member, and IFMA Board of Directors member for 2005-2007.
• CoreNet Global, association of corporate real estate executives, associate member.

Education

Master of Arts in European Integration, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 1993. European Integration is the study of the economic, political, historical and legal framework of the European Union from its inception following World War II and the Marshall Plan through the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s.

Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and Journalism; and Political Science, Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey, (now The College of New Jersey). 1985.

Personal
Eileen resides in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, Michael Walsh, and sons, Brendan, a kindergartner, and Dermot, a pre-schooler.