Shannah Hall Franckum is a principal with Cambridge Real Estate Company, llc. Her background in the industry includes a role as Director of Retail Leasing with Hammond Real Estate’s commercial division. Shannah Hall Franckum also has a decade of experience with Cambridge Development and Investment Associates, Inc. (CDIA) as Vice President and Director of Leasing, a firm well-known in the area for its rehabilitation and preservation of historic buildings. She is a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of Massachusetts.

Ms. Franckum’s accomplishments with Cambridge Development included implementing the merchandising concept for the Porter Exchange Building Development project, which involved the conversion of the 1928 art deco Sears Roebuck Building into a retail and office complex anchored by Conran's Habitat, an upscale British home furnishings store. She directed the leasing of 220,000 square feet of space to such tenants as The Gap, the Cottonwood Cafe and many local stores which emphasize the unique specialty orientation of Cambridge. She was responsible for leasing to a number of Japanese tenants, forming what has become known in the area as "Little Japan" with a Japanese grocery, sushi bar, noodle shop, and various other Japanese restaurants and retail stores, many of whom are still in the building as tenants of Lesley University who purchased the building from Cambridge Development in the early 1990s. Ms. Franckum was also Secretary to the Partner-in-Charge of the New York office of Touche Ross and Co. Prior to that she was Administrative Assistant to the Director of Practice Development and Management Consulting of the New York offices of Touche Ross and Co.