Mark Nicholls is Corporate Workplace Executive for Bank of America, where he is responsible for developing workplace and real estate strategies for the company’s 203,000 associates, covering over 97 million square feet of space in approximately 9,000 facilities.  He also manages a $5.5 billion expense and capital budget.

Nicholls joined the bank in May 2001 as Personnel Executive for Transaction Services. Until assuming his current role in September 2004, he was Senior Personnel executive for the Technology & Operations, Quality & Productivity, and Legal lines of business, leading personnel strategy for 30,000 associates.
 
Before joining the bank, Nicholls held various leadership roles at Honeywell and its predecessors for eight years. He initially joined AlliedSignal in 1993 to provide leadership for the General Aviation Avionics and Aerospace Services.  There Nicholls led a change management and growth process that resulted in the organization growing from $800 million revenue and 1,800 people to $3.4 billion revenue and 5,000 people in 1998.  He then accepted the role of Vice President Personnel for Marketing, Six Sigma & Supply Chain and was responsible for both the AlliedSignal/Honeywell merger and the Honeywell/GE merger. Prior to 1993 he was Vice President of Personnel for Progressive Companies in Cleveland, Ohio.

Nicholls received a bachelor’s degree in Business and Organization Development from Bowling Green University in Ohio and an MBA from the University of Georgia.  He is currently an Executive Board member of Jobs for America’s Graduates and is participating on the Real Estate Executive Board.  Nicholls is a private pilot and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.