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New York Times Tony LoPinto is CEO of Equinox Partners, an executive search firm specializing in the real estate industry, and parent company of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.

Job Opportunities
AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES
Financial Analyst
(ALEXANDRIA, VA) The analyst will study and review the underwriting of investment returns for new construction and development projects.

SELECTLEADERS
Director, Development & Investments
(MEXICO) The director will be responsible for development activity for industrial investments in the Mexican markets.

GRUBB & ELLIS
Regional Director, Engineering
(DENVER) The successful candidate will provide senior-level engineering oversight and assistance for the company's managed properties.

HEALTHCARE REALTY TRUST
Client Manager
(NASHVILLE) The manager's responsibilities include overseeing medical suite planning and construction for new projects as well as communicating with tenants, contractors and architects.
HINES
Acquisitions Director
(NEW YORK CITY) The company seeks a director to coordinate the development and execution of the annual office acquisition plan for the New York tri-state area.

FLORIDA: RREEF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO.
District Manager
(ATLANTA) Reporting to the regional director, the district manager will oversee all property management, leasing functions and personnel for multiple assets in Florida.

WOODLAND HIRE LLC
Vice President, Tax Accounting
(NORTHBROOK, IL) The company seeks a CPA with multi-state tax experience to ensure compliance with state tax laws and regulations, monitor changes in tax laws and research potential tax issues with foreclosures.
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.
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD
(NEW YORK CITY) C&W has promoted Louis D'Avanzo to executive vice president. He has been with the firm almost 20 years, most recently as an executive director.

NORTHMARQ CAPITAL
(HOUSTON) Roger Trapnell has been named senior vice president/senior director after more than two decades in the real estate business.

HENRY S. MILLER COMMERCIAL
(HOUSTON) Bruce Jester and Rollie Andre have been appointed executive vice presidents/division leaders. Both have been with the company more than 15 years.

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD SONNENBLICK GOLDMAN
(NEW YORK CITY) The firm has promoted three staff members to senior director. Alexander Hernandez, who joined the company in 2001; Holden Lim, a nine-year veteran; and Jay Wagner, who came on board in 2007, will all take on their new responsibilities immediately.

RTKL ASSOCIATES INC.
(DALLAS) Patrick F. McCurdy and Alice Wainwright have been named vice presidents in the firm's healthcare group.

NBBJ
(NEW YORK CITY) Two-year veteran Jane Ayers has risen to principal at the architecture and design firm. She specializes in retail spaces.
THE HAMPSHIRE COS.
(MORRISTOWN, NJ) The company appoints Lisa McGunnigle asset manager. She previously served as an assistant to the senior vice president of portfolio and investment management.

DIVERSIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT INC.
(NEWTON, MA) The firm has raised two to senior project planner. Patrick Oubre and Eva Hamori take on the newly created positions. In addition, Phil Leonard was named vice president of operations.

HART REALTY ADVISERS
(SIMSBURY, CT) Peter C. Gryzbala is promoted to managing director, investment management and Daryl R. Krivanec is appointed senior director, investment management.

GRAMERCY CAPITAL CORP.
(NEW YORK CITY) Robert R. Foley has been named chief operating officer. He joined the company as chief financial officer in 2004.

GRUBB & ELLIS REALTY INVESTORS, LLC
(SANTA ANA, CA) The company promotes Michael Waddell to senior vice president of asset management. He has been with Grubb & Ellis for three years, first as senior asset manager and later as vice president of asset management.
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.
CB RICHARD ELLIS
(BOSTON) The company has hired Peter Dominski as director of strategic accounts. He moves from Urban Retail Properties, where he was a senior vice president.

SOMERSET PARTNERS
(NEW YORK CITY) Gregory P. Knoop has been named executive vice president and director of leasing and asset management for the commercial real estate portfolio. He was most recently head of asset management and leasing with Taconic Investment Partners.

PM REALTY GROUP
(DALLAS) In an effort to support growth in the medical sector, PM Realty has formed a leasing team to develop medical properties and appointed Kyle Libby vice president of leasing. Libby joins the company from the Cirrus Group.

GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES
(NORTHBROOK, IL) The company has named Arnold Cohen marketing manager for its Northbrook Court shopping center property. Cohen previously served as marketing director for a major financial institution and was owner and principal of Treiber Research Resources.

EASTERN CONSOLIDATED
(NEW YORK CITY) Jerome S. Benayoun has been hired as director and Benjamin E. Fishkind has been appointed financial analyst. Benayoun joins the firm from Peter Ashe Real Estate Group. Fishkind was an analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE
(IRVINE, CA) Tracie Blankenship, the director of business development for Keystone Pacific Property Management, will serve as secretary for CAI's Orange County board of directors.

GOLDEN TREE INSITE PARTNERS
(NEW YORK CITY) Robert Rediker has joined the firm as director of asset management. He spent almost two decades with Forest City Ratner Cos. in a number of management positions.

PROPERTYTRACT
(SADDLE BROOK, NJ) Robert D. Hadi comes on board as director of sales. He joins the company from Western Management Corp.

NAI CAPITAL
(PASADENA, CA) The company welcomes new executive vice president and branch manager Carl Anderson. He was most recently with the Downtown Los Angeles office of Grubb & Ellis.

STUDLEY
(LOS ANGELES) Matt Brainard joins the company as corporate managing director.

GVA KIDDER MATHEWS
(BELLEVUE, WA) Lauren Powell has been appointed a member of the firm's brokerage division, where she will specialize in office leasing and sales.

NORTHMARQ CAPITAL
(BETHESDA, MD) Three investment sales specialists have moved from Marcus & Millichap to NorthMarq. Jim Kornick, Jerry Burg and Matt Clinebell will all join the company's recently launched commercial investment sales initiative.

RTKL ASSOCIATES INC.
(DALLAS) The firm has hired John D. Seely as vice president in the healthcare group. He joins the company from PageSoutherlandPage.
CORELAND COS.
(TUSTIN, CA) After three years with REP Commercial, Thomas Tway takes a leasing/sales associate position with Coreland.

THE HAMPSHIRE COS.
(MORRISTOWN, NJ) Daniel Miller comes on board as fund controller, responsible for all aspects of accounting and tax matters pertaining to two of the company's institutional real estate investment funds. He spent the last seven years at Ernst & Young, where he was a manager in the real estate audit practice.

TELES PROPERTIES
(LOS ANGELES) The firm welcomes new agents Kelly Aluise, Susan Larison and Julie Lubin.

NAI JAMES E. HANSON
(HACKENSACK, NJ) C. Robert Lonshein and Gary Richman have joined the company as senior vice president and sales associate, respectively. Both were previously with Lee & Klatskin Associates.

GRAMERCY CAPITAL CORP.
(NEW YORK CITY) John B. Roche has been hired as chief financial officer. He comes from New Plan Excel Realty Trust.

DYL GROUP
(MIAMI) The developer has appointed M. Dale Reed vice president of operations.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
(SAN FRANCISCO) Dave Alpert, vice president of HGA Architects and Engineers, has been named national chair of AIA's committee for corporate architects and facilities management knowledge community advisory group.

NBS REAL ESTATE CAPITAL LLC
(PORTLAND, OR) Marcus Parker has been hired as vice president of acquisitions, responsible for sourcing, underwriting and closing investments on behalf of the Morrison Street Funds, a series of funds managed by NBS.

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
(OLYMPIA, WA) The company adds Mike Volk to its natural resource group. Volk will represent timberland as a real estate broker.

HIGH STREET EQUITY ADVISORS LLC
(BOSTON) Andy Zgutowicz has assumed the role of senior vice president of national accounts. He moves over from First Industrial, where he was a senior investment officer.

THE LARAMIE CO.
(DENVER) Katie Hummer has come on board as broker associate. She most recently worked with Intrawest.

MORRIS, MANNING & MARTIN
(ATLANTA) M. Allison Gould joins the company's commercial real estate lending group following 21 years with FannieMae and a stint with CWCapital LLC.

LEXINGTON REALTY TRUST
(DALLAS) Chris Delzell is named vice president of industrial asset management. He joins the firm after six years with Henry S. Miller Commercial.

TUCKER DEVELOPMENT CORP.
(NEWARK, NJ) Moshe Glick has been appointed regional development vice president. He was previously vice president of development with Pinnacle Cos.

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Anthony J. LoPinto

Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn Ferry’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. For the past 18 years LoPinto has been serving his clients with deep knowledge and perspective on talent needs and organizational challenges to public and private companies – knowledge gained from a 25-year career in real estate. Prior to his current position, he founded and served as chief executive officer of a boutique real estate executive search firm, where he oversaw offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has successfully led several high profile search engagements for chief executive officers, directors and a wide-range of executive level positions across all industries and sectors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in European history from Loyola University in Chicago.