Full Name
Margy Sweeney
Job Title
Founder & CEO
Company
Akrete Communications, Inc.
Speaker Bio
An entrepreneur and 30-year veteran of the commercial real estate industry, Margy is the Founder & CEO of Akrete, the nation’s #3 PR firm for real estate development and finance offering media relations, content creation and marketing services. As part of these services, Akrete prioritizes the promotion of leading female voices in the real estate and financial services industries. Margy’s individual roles in the industry have been wide-ranging including development marketing manager, journalist, ghostwriter, PR agency leader, entrepreneur and board chairman and director.
Margy is a passionate advocate for women professionals and expansion of economic opportunity. In addition to her leadership of Akrete, she also serves as the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of SomerCor, one of the nation’s top SBA 504 lenders, as well as a Board Director and Governance leader for the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center, an economic development organization focused on manufacturing excellence and global competitiveness.
Akrete was founded in 2011 and Margy built the firm from the ground up on a unique “work when and where it makes sense” business model designed for working parents, creatives and others seeking non-traditional workplace approaches. This native-hybrid approach to workplace strategy has offered competitive advantages that have helped Margy and her all-female leadership team recruit top real estate writers and media professionals, and to serve more than 100 clients to-date including industry leaders such as JLL, BGO, Kiavi and KeyBank Real Estate Capital.
Margy was named a 2023 GlobeSt.com Woman of Influence and is a leader of the Urban Land Institute’s national Marketing Communications Forum. She has also been a CREW Network member for more than 20 years and participates in multiple other industry groups and Boards of Directors. Akrete is a regular sponsor of The Goldie Initiative and counts a total of three GlobeSt.com Women of Influence in its leadership also including Nicole Stenclik (2024) and Michelle Pittman (2025).
Margy is a passionate advocate for women professionals and expansion of economic opportunity. In addition to her leadership of Akrete, she also serves as the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of SomerCor, one of the nation’s top SBA 504 lenders, as well as a Board Director and Governance leader for the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center, an economic development organization focused on manufacturing excellence and global competitiveness.
Akrete was founded in 2011 and Margy built the firm from the ground up on a unique “work when and where it makes sense” business model designed for working parents, creatives and others seeking non-traditional workplace approaches. This native-hybrid approach to workplace strategy has offered competitive advantages that have helped Margy and her all-female leadership team recruit top real estate writers and media professionals, and to serve more than 100 clients to-date including industry leaders such as JLL, BGO, Kiavi and KeyBank Real Estate Capital.
Margy was named a 2023 GlobeSt.com Woman of Influence and is a leader of the Urban Land Institute’s national Marketing Communications Forum. She has also been a CREW Network member for more than 20 years and participates in multiple other industry groups and Boards of Directors. Akrete is a regular sponsor of The Goldie Initiative and counts a total of three GlobeSt.com Women of Influence in its leadership also including Nicole Stenclik (2024) and Michelle Pittman (2025).
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