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THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE
Director, Community
(BETHESDA, MD) The Director will manage the Institutes two main community outreach programs--the Technical Assistance Panel Program and the Urban Marketplace Conference and Expo.

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD
Investment Manager
(NEW YORK CITY) The Investor will primarily be supporting a private real estate investment firm that invests in office, retail and residential properties nationwide. Responsibilities include managing, reviewing and reporting specific financial information related to the property.

SELECTLEADERS
Chief Financial Officer
(EAST COAST) A REIT based on the east coast seeks a CFO to provide strategic leadership, planning, oversight and management of the capital markets and institutional and investor relations activities of the company.

CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST
Commercial Property Manager
(LINTHICUM, MD) Responsibilities include the overall management of staff and properties, ensuring that customer service is provided and properties operate within their established budgets.
SELECTLEADERS
Assistant Vice President, Real Estate Portfolio Manager
(NEW YORK CITY) The AVP will be responsible for all asset management functions associated with a portfolio of real estate investments.

MORGAN STANLEY
Real Estate Fund of Funds Analyst
(NEW YORK CITY) Responsibilities include assisting the portfolio manager by underwriting private equity real estate funds, co-investments and secondaries; assisting with monitoring the existing portfolio and working with the distribution team to prepare presentations.

JONES LANG LASALLE
Project Manager
(BURBANK, CA) The Manager will provide project management and owner's representation for a specific client's projects, oversee projects from design through construction, develop the scope and schedules for tenant and building improvements and address clients' special requests and needs.

CIGMA CORP.
Senior Level High-Rise Construction Management - Dubai
(NATIONWIDE) The Manager will oversee luxury high-rise projects and manage a team of project managers. The successful candidate will prepare strategic project management plans, establish project management processes and procedures, manage consultants and provide overall leadership to the project team.
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.
REALTYTRAC
(IRVINE, CA) After three years as the company's chief technology officer, Michael Keane has been named to the newly created position of chief product officer. He has been with the company since its inception in 1996.

OPUS WEST CONSTRUCTION CORP.
(PHOENIX) The company has promoted Skip Martinkovic to regional safety director. He joined the company in 1996 as a safety coordinator.

GRUBB & ELLIS REALTY INVESTORS, LLC
(SANTA ANA, CA) Elizabeth Grossman has risen to vice president, asset management. She joined the company in 2005 as a transition manager and most recently served as regional asset manager.

QUINLAN PRIVATE GOLUB
(WARSAW, POLAND) The company has appointed Avi Nota director for new territories. He has been with Quinlan since 2007.
CB RICHARD ELLIS
(PHOENIX) The firm has raised Jack Hannum to senior vice president and Bryan Taute to first vice president.

JER PARTNERS
(MCLEAN, VA) Kevin Nishimura and Kevin Yam have been promoted from associate to vice president. Nishimura has been with the company since 2003. Yam joined in 2004.

PASSCO COS. LLC
(IRVINE, CA) The company has elevated Jeff Olshan and Todd Siegel to vice presidents of asset management. Olshan will focus on multifamily properties and Siegel will concentrate on malls and retail properties.

JONES LANG LASALLE
(CHICAGO) Roger Staubach has been elected as a member of JLL's board of directors. He currently serves as the executive chairman of the firm's Americas region, a role he took on in July 2008 following JLL's merger with the Staubach Co.
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.
THE SCHONBRAUN MCCANN GROUP LLP
(NEW YORK CITY) Stanley Perla has been named managing partner of Cornerstone Accounting Group, a spinoff of Schonbraun McCann's accounting and assurance services practice. He was previously with Vornado Realty Trust, where he was vice president and director of internal audit.

KEYSTONE PACIFIC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC.
(NEWPORT BEACH, CA) Morgan Kuzmanic has been appointed on-site activities and facilities manager for the company's One Ford Road community.

TRANSWESTERN
(PHOENIX) Darrell Magnuson has been named senior research analyst with the company. He previously held the same position with Grubb & Ellis/NRE Phoenix

COLLIERS BENNET & KAHNWEILER
(CHICAGO) Jeannine Rio has moved to the company's property management division. Before joining Colliers Bennett, she was vice president of operations for ING Clarion Realty Services.

SIGNATURE BANK
(NEW YORK CITY) Alan Roth has been hired as group director and senior vice president for private client banking. He moves from North Fork Bank, where he spent seven years as a senior vice president after a 15-year career in commercial real estate.

HOK
(DALLAS) Kim Hogan has joined the firm's interiors practice as senior vice president and interior design director. She was previously with Corgan Associates, Inc., where she was a principal.

TRANSWESTERN
(PHOENIX) Perry Gabuzzi has come on board as an associate in the office leasing team. He previously served as a researcher/runner at Lee & Associates.

NAI NORRIS, BEGGS & SIMPSON
(PORTLAND) The firm has expanded its brokerage team with the addition of Matt Dodd, Kirra O'Brien and Scott Pierce. Dodd and O'Brien will focus on land sales and investments while Pierce will be part of the industrial brokerage team.

PM REALTY GROUP
(HOUSTON) Sommer Walden has been named vice president and director of marketing with the firm. Walden moves from The Staubach Company, where she was responsible for managing and developing Staubach Retail and Cypress Equities.

LILLIBRIDGE
(CHICAGO) The company has appointed Bob Campbell vice president of development for the Atlanta regional office. He most recently served as a project executive at Marshall Erdman & Associates.
ROCKEFELLER GROUP DEVELOPMENT CORP.
(NEW YORK CITY) Mark Singerman will head up the company's new office in Phoenix as regional director. The move comes after eleven years with Crosswinds.

ICRETE
(LOS ANGELES) John C. Cushman III has joined the board as co-chairman. He is director and chairman of Cushman Winery Corp. and is on several other boards, including Cushman & Wakefield, ARTOC Universal Properties and D.A Cushman Realty Corp.

LBA REALTY
(SAN DIEGO) John Garrigan has been hired to serve as leasing director for the San Diego region. He joins the company from Cruzan/Monroe where he was portfolio leasing director.

J.E. ROBERT COS.
(MCLEAN, VA) Pamela Flores has come on board as vice president, marketing communications. She previously worked for HLB Communications, Inc.

PACIFIC REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, INC.
(PORTLAND) The company has added Ryan Livesay to the team as an associate broker. His previous employers include Integrated Corporate Property Services and a New York City hedge fund.

RETAIL WEST
(SACRAMENTO) The firm has expanded its Sacramento office with the addition of Ariel Fox as leasing agent. She moves from Terranomics, where she was a top producer.

LEE & ASSOC.
(LOS ANGELES) Phil Royster has been appointed president of strategic growth with the company. He spent 25 years with Grubb & Ellis and developed the company's affiliate program.

RICHARD BOWERS & CO.
(ATLANTA) Tarkenton Thompson has joined the company. The former vice president of tenant advisory services for Transwestern Commercial Services will focus on office and industrial brokerage as well as private party investments.

CB RICHARD ELLIS INVESTORS
(LOS ANGELES) Darren Dahlman has been hired as a senior director on the strategic partners U.S. team. He moves from McCarthy Cook & Co., where he was a leasing director.

PLANNED COS.
(PARSIPPANY, NJ) The company has added Thomas Gorgla to the payroll as the New York operations manager for Planned Security Services. He previously worked at SIRIUS Satellite Radio, where he was director of corporate security and safety.

SPECTRUM PARTNERS LLC
(BETHESDA, MD) Suzette J. Timme has been named vice president, director of asset management after five years as general manager of The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City.

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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.