JLL, EOP, GMAC Add Bay Area Executives

SAN FRANCISCO-Jones Lang LaSalle, Equity Office Properties and GMAC Commercial Mortgage each have named new Bay Area executives over the past week. JLL is adding a managing director of property management and leasing, EOP added a vice president of property management and GMACCM added a new senior vice president.Tom Donoghue, most recently a senior vice president with Shorenstein Co. in charge of 7 million sf and a staff of 50, has joined EOP as vice president of property management for the San Jose Region, responsible for 8.2 million sf of commercial office space in 117 buildings and a staff of 27 property managers. It is a new position for the region, according to EOP. Donoghue spent 15 years with Shorenstein in a variety of roles, including construction project management, security, property management, leasing, business development and asset management.David Churton, who opened Insignia/ESG’s San Francisco office in 1999 and has been on sabbatical for the past two years in Kristiansen, Norway, will become JLL’s Northern California managing director of leasing and management in September. He will focus on new business development and transaction execution. This also is a new position for the area, according to JLL. Prior to Insignia, Churton held senior marketing and leasing positions in California with Cushman Realty Corporation, Trammell Crow Company and Prudential Realty Group. Thomas Bracken, most recently in charge of acquisitions for the Broe Companies, a private Denver-based opportunity investor, has accepted the position of senior vice president in the company’s San Francisco office. Bracken’s primary responsibility will be originating commercial real estate loans in the immediate San Francisco area, but will work out of both the San Francisco and San Jose offices. Prior to Bro Cos., Bracken was president of the real estate finance group for Ford Motor (USL Capital Corporation) for nine years and chief operating officer of Washington Mortgage, a large Seattle-based mortgage banker, for six years.