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Managing director, European investment management company
(LONDON) This hire will be the head of a new London-based, pan-European investment fund that is being sponsored by a joint venture of two Kuwait investment companies.
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Principal, Affordable Originations
(DALLAS) This position will be responsible for sourcing and securing new lending opportunities and originating high-quality debt investments secured by multifamily assets.
CB RICHARD ELLIS
Strategic Services Manager–Bank of America Corp.
(BOSTON) The hire will complete a variety of strategic and portfolio planning activities including compiling master plans, which are enterprise focused, while addressing geographic issues/opportunities and the client's line-of-businesses.
DEUTSCHE BANK BERKSHIRE MORTGAGE
Asset Manager
(IRVINE, CA) The manager's mission is to monitor the portfolio for problem loans and markets and mitigate risk, provide quality, efficient services per investor requirements, and provide quality, efficient services to borrowers as well as to other departments. | TISHMAN SPEYER PROPERTIES
Senior Associate, Investor Services
(NEW YORK CITY) The position will require interaction with senior management as well as collaboration with professionals in various functional groups of the company including acquisitions, development, finance, portfolio and property management, and tax and legal.
ING FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
Real Estate Audit Manager
(NEW YORK CITY) The AM will perform front-to-back operational audits and special projects, evaluate business risks and internal controls, perform and document audit procedures, and prepare audit reports.
SUNTRUST BANK
VP–Regional Asset Manager
(RALEIGH, NC) Budgeting, marketing, compliance, maintenance and capital improvements will be the concentration of this candidate, which will result in an opportunity to be a value-add component to the ownership of each assigned asset.
KELLERAUGUSTA PARTNERS
VP of Real Estate–Health Care
(BOSTON) This VP must have the expertise to guide, direct and oversee the firm's interests and ensure timely delivery of approvals. |  Promotions No more than one submission per company will be considered per week.
Submissions with multiple names will be capped at three for coverage in Executive Watch. CB RICHARD ELLIS
(DENVER) Industrial real estate broker Todd Witty is promoted to vice president. He joined CBRE in 2006 upon the company's acquisition of Trammell Crow Co.
OPUS EAST
(PHILADELPHIA) Bill Walters moves up to senior director of real estate; David Hagan moves up to director of real estate and Matthew Guers also moves to director of real estate.
SPERRY VAN NESS
(IRVINE, CA) Shane Schafer is made senior vice president. He joined the company five years ago and also serves as senior director for the JBMRA Sperry Van Ness Institutional.
STUDLEY
(LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK CITY) Mike Catalano is promoted from senior vice president to executive vice president. He is also branch manager of the West Los Angeles office. In New York City, William Silverman becomes corporate managing director. The former managing director joined the company in 2003.
LANE CO.
(ATLANTA) Debra Jackson moves to senior vice president of real estate capital markets; she will also join the Lane Co. executive committee. In addition, Paul Richards moves to vice president of the real estate markets group.
AGUIRRE
(DALLAS) Steven M. Solka rises to associate vice president-program management. Most recently, he was involved in bond programs for Dallas Community College District, the Dallas Independent School District and Mansfield Independent Schools District.
STAUBACH
(CHICAGO) AJ Whitehead joins the Chicago office as vice president. He previously served as an office broker and member of the operational planning team in the firm's New York City.
OPUS NORTH
(CHICAGO) Daniel Queenan moves to executive vice president. He takes the role after serving as vice president and general manager of the corporation's real estate and construction operations in the Chicago metro area. | EASTERN CONSOLIDATED
(NEW YORK CITY) Teammates Eric M. Anton and Ronald A. Solarz rise to executive managing director from executive director. Anton joined the firm in 1998 and Solarz started in 1994.
RTKL ASSOCIATES
(DALLAS) Brad T. Barker is named executive vice president as he marks his eighth with the firm. The architect leads the healthcare and health science practice group.
GRUBB & ELLIS
(SOUTHFIELD, MI) Chris Dowell is promoted to senior vice president of the industrial services group and Patrick Shannon becomes vice president of the investment group. Dowell has been on the team since 2004 and Shannon since 2006.
CRIMSON SERVICES
(DENVER) The firm promotes Megan Maddocks to associate broker from marketing coordinator and Shannon Kelly to administrative assistant of the investment sales and acquisitions team.
REGENCY CENTERS
(JACKSONVILLE, FL) Michael Kinsella becomes senior vice president of operations, responsible for asset management, property management and leasing in the Southeast region. He had been vice president and regional officer for Florida. |  New Hires No more than one submission per company will be considered per week.
Submissions with multiple names will be capped at three for coverage in Executive Watch. CROSLAND
(CHARLOTTE, NC) Tracey L. Whitson comes on board as vice president of operations in the residential division. She was vice president of operations for Archstone-Smith.
NEXCORE GROUP
(CHICAGO) William Maggard is hired in the healthcare real estate developer's new Chicago office and Mervyn Alphonso is hired in its Baltimore office.
NAI HANSON
(HACKENSACK, NJ) Barry J. Cohorsky joins the Morris County team as vice president. He moves over from Studley where he was managing director/brokerage. In addition, Angelo Mitlo joins as sales associate. He moves over from Team Marketing Services where he was manager.
FEDERAL CAPITAL PARTNERS
(WASHINGTON, DC) The company appoints two executives: Alan Shearer as managing director-land and Garland Faist as vice president-controller. Shearer is a former senior vice president, land for NVR. Faist was vice president-corporate controller for the Mills Corp.
PARAGON COS.
(INDIANAPOLIS) Jonathan Wood is hired to direct finance and capital activities. He comes to the firm from Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, where he served as director.
EASTERN CONSOLIDATED
(NEW YORK CITY) Barbara Byrne joins as chief economist. She previously was with Jones Lang LaSalle, and served as an economist and research director at Colliers ABR.
CB RICHARD ELLIS
(PHOENIX and CLEVELAND) Kevin Schuck and John Rehling are hired in the Retail Services Group as senior vice presidents. Most recently, Shuck was director of development at Newquist Commercial Properties. He previously worked at CBRE's Phoenix office in the 1980s and 1990s. Rehling comes from Staubach. In Ohio, 13-year veteran Robert Leibold returns to the firm as vice president of the office services group after a six-year stint with Developers Realty/Enterprise Construction.
MCCOLGAN & CO.
(ATLANTA) Peter A Lamas is hired as senior vice president. His resume most recently includes director of Alvarez & Marsal Real Estate Advisory Services.
NEWMARK KNIGHT FRANK
(GREENWICH, CT) Hilarie S. Siles comes to the firm as an executive managing director; she will be responsible for Westchester and Fairfield counties. She previously was a vice president in the Westchester, CT office of CB Richard Ellis.
| LEE & ASSOCIATES
(NOVI, MI and OAKLAND, CA) James Harrigan comes on board as a principal in the firm. The industrial broker spent the past 12 years with Signature Associates in Southfield, MI. In Oakland, Ben Jones joins the team as an associate. He has been involved in office leasing in the East Bay area since 2006.
TRANSWESTERN
(BETHESDA, MD) Kerry McClellan is hired as leasing associate. She will focus on tenant and landlord advisory services for suburban Maryland.
AGUIRRE
(DALLAS) William L. Dawkins is added as senior vice president-construction. Prior to joining the company, he was vice president of national accounts for a utility company.
GRUBB & ELLIS
(SHERMAN OAKS, CA) George Stavaris joins as senior vice president, focusing on San Fernando Valley industrial properties. He makes the switch from Colliers International where he was vice president.
DIVCOWEST
(SAN FRANCISCO) David Brandwein will assume responsibility of operations and asset management for the company. He spent the past five years as a vice president of Colliers International.
PARAGON COS.
(INDIANAPOLIS) Attorney R. Stan Evans joins the company as vice president. His duties will include coordinating brokerage and development functions. Evans comes from Realty Advisors Inc., which he co-founded in 1991.
LAURUS-VALENS
(NEW YORK CITY) Kendall Raine joins as partner and senior managing director. He will be responsible for strategic and capital markets initiatives. Most recently, he was managing director in the investment banking department of A.G. Edwards.
WELSH COS.
(CHICAGO) The firm adds Alissa Helgesen as regional real estate director. She previously was president and founder of Circle Realty Advisors LLC, a two-year-old company based in Lake Zurich, IL.
MERCANTILE COMMERCIAL CAPITAL
(DALLAS) The Altamonte Springs, FL-based lender picks Tom Spaniel to be its first correspondent in Dallas/Fort Worth.
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD
(LOS ANGELES) Cybele L. Thompson moves into the client solutions group as a director in the Downtown office. She previously was a vice president and general manager in the San Diego area for Trizec Properties/CarrAmerica. | |
