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Property Manager
(LOS ANGELES) Responsibilities include providing day-to-day operations management of a property and maintaining relationships with tenants and contractors.

DUKE REALTY CORP
Assistant Property Manager
(HOUSTON) The company seeks a highly motivated self-starter with at least two years of commercial real estate/property management experience.

JONES LANG LASALLE
Global IFM Platform Manager
(MENLO PARK, CA) The manager will lead the delivery of work to the company on a global basis, develop and sustain a high-quality team, ensure that clients' expectations are met, interact on a regular basis with the appropriate managers to discuss service delivery and forward planning and develop, refine and implement best practice procedures.

DBSI—DISCOVERY REAL ESTATE SERVICES
Regional Development Manager
(ST. PETERSBURG, FL) The manager will be responsible for the profitability of the region and will provide overall leadership and business direction for regional operations and development.
SPERRY VAN NESS
Research Analyst
(PORT CHARLOTTE, FL) Working under the senior partner, the analyst will assist with a wide variety of duties associated with commercial real estate services, including market research, preparation of summary reports and assisting with commercial brokerage and development analysis.

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.
Regional Oversight Manager
(SALT LAKE CITY) The manager will be responsible for leading a regional team for corporate services and real estate and providing CSRE support for various business units in the Salt Lake City office.

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES
Manager of Pricing and Revenue Management
(ALEXANDRIA, VA) Responsibilities include assisting in establishing and implementing pricing, revenue optimization, marketing and leasing strategies based on market conditions and revenue targets for a portfolio of apartment communities.

ACKMAN-ZIFF REAL ESTATE GROUP LLC
Managing Director
(NEW YORK CITY) The company seeks a seasoned professional who has financial underwriting and analytical expertise, an established network of contacts and a willingness to continue prospecting and canvassing and the ability to manage the executing process and work in a team environment.
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.
KRAUS ANDERSON REALTY
(BLOOMINGTON, MN) Jack Appert has been appointed real estate development associate. He joined the company as an intern in 2007.

CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST
(HOUSTON) Kristy Simonette has been raised to chief information officer from vice president of business services and Todd Triggs has been named vice president of real estate investments.

MARCUS & MILLICHAP
(SACRAMENTO, PALO ALTO and LONG BEACH, CA) The company has named Nicholas Scelsa senior vice president investments. He is a 23-year veteran of the company. In addition, Kirk Trammell has been appointed senior vice president investments after 19 years with the company and Michael Derk has been promoted to vice president capital markets after five years with the company.
ADVANCE REALTY GROUP
(BEDMINSTER, NJ) Advance has promoted Frederic A. Zack to general manager of One Gateway Center in Newark. He rejoined the company earlier this year after two years as COO of Precision Building & Construction.

ALEX BROWN REALTY INC.
(BALTIMORE) David E. Wolfe has been named general counsel for the firm. He joined the company in 2004.

PHILLIPS PARTNERSHIP
(ATLANTA) The company has raised Susan Phillips to chief operating officer and Rob French to senior vice president.

MADISON MARQUETTE
(WASHINGTON, DC) Philip Akins, formerly the chief accounting officer with the company, has been promoted to chief financial officer. He joined Madison Marquette in 2006.
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.
JONES LANG LASALLE
(ATLANTA) Michael Reece has joined JLL's capital markets group as a financial analyst for the office property investment sales team and David Friedman has taken the position of executive vice president with the company. Reece previously worked for Carter, where he was a senior director in the investment sales advisory group and Friedman was with Starwood Capital Group.

MADISON PARTNERS
(LOS ANGELES) Peter Best and Lisa St. John have been hired as principals with the firm. Both were previously managing directors with Jones Lang LaSalle.

MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOC.
(WASHINGTON, DC) James P. Gross has been named associate vice president of accounting, tax and bank regulation. He moves from NetBank, Inc., where he was the chief financial officer.

CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST
(HOUSTON) Camden has named Bob Fisher vice president and general counsel, Kip Zacharias vice president of business services and Kelvin R. Westbrook as a member of the company's board of trust managers.

GIBRALTAR LLC
(SEATTLE) Mike Giusti has come on board as chief financial officer. He was most recently a revenue systems analyst for Expedia, Inc.

THE STAYTON AT MUSEUM WAY
(FORT WORTH, TX) Laura Stephenson has been named marketing coordinator for the Stayton. She was previously a sales administrator for BI.

DJM REALTY
(MELVILLE, NY) DJM has expanded its restaurant division with the addition of John Fox as senior advisor.

HARWOOD INTERNATIONAL
(DALLAS) The company has appointed John Dienes managing director, capital structuring. In the course of his career, he has worked for Republic National Bank of Dallas, FirstRepublic Bank, United Companies Financial Corp. and Citibank.

FIRST COMMERCIAL REALTY & DEVELOPMENT, INC.
(SOUTHFIELD, MI) The company has hired David H. Eisenberg as associate broker and Erwin O. Lee as a sales associate. Eisenberg moves from Benicke Group, where he was a broker. Lee was previously with TDR Associates, which he joined after retiring from the U.S. Navy.

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
(HOUSTON) Marshall Clinkscales and the company he founded, MSC Properties, have become part of Colliers.

CRESAPARTNERS
(BOSTON) The company's site selection team has expanded with the addition of Michelle Cammarata as vice president of workforce and location planning. She previously served as vice president of the business incentives advisory practice at Duff & Phelps.

ALEX BROWN REALTY INC.
(BALTIMORE) Aaron G. Wade has been named an acquisition officer with the firm. He moves from Toll Brothers, Inc., where he was a senior land acquisition manager.

PHILCO PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
(DALLAS) Jennifer Owens has been named director of new business development after serving as vice president of property operations—multifamily division with Henry S. Miller.
THE COLONEY GROUP OF RE/MAX PARTNERS
(MIAMI) Robert T. Perdigon has been appointed financial director of the foreclosure response team. His previous experience includes time with Barnett Bank, Healthcare Microsystems Inc. and Marsh Currington Consulting.

LEE & ASSOC.
(CHICAGO) Todd Torok has come on board as an investment specialist. He was with GVA Williams from 2004 to 2007.

THE PLAZA AT EDGEMERE
(DALLAS) Diane Wheeler has been named administrator of the Plaza. She held the same position at the Villa at Mountain View from December 1997 through April 2008.

GRUBB & ELLIS CO.
(SANTA ANA, CA) David Kilborn, Jr. has been hired as senior vice president, office group. He was previously with Carter Real Estate.

EDENS & AVANT
(WASHINGTON, DC) Alexandre Peker has joined the company as vice president of leasing, focusing on urban, mixed-use development activities. He moves from The Westfield Corp., where she was vice president—luxury leasing.

LBA REALTY
(SAN FRANCISCO) Mark Bodie has been named leasing manager for the Northern California region. He comes to the company from Prudential Real Estate Investors, where he was an associate.

PLANNED COS.
(PARSIPPANY, NJ) Carl Stoffers has been appointed regional manager for the southern New Jersey and Philadelphia market. He previously worked as a regional manager at Anderson Security.

FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST, INC.
(CHICAGO) Len Murray has been hired as development manager for the Dallas/Ft. Worth region. Before joining the company, he was senior vice president of Vantage Cos.

NELSON
(MINNEAPOLIS) Susan Spiers has moved from Walsh Bishop Assoc. to take the position of regional director, business development with NELSON.

CB RICHARD ELLIS
(HONOLULU and KAKULUI, HI) Marc Higuchi and Russell Asamoto have come on board as members of the asset services team in Honolulu. In addition, Joan Larson has joined the CBRE Maui office in Kahului. Higuchi and Larson will be real estate managers and Asamoto will be a senior accountant.

MARCUS & MILLICHAP
(DETROIT) Andre Daitch and Peter Wenzler have been named vice presidents investments.

CAPMARK FINANCE INC.
(DALLAS) The company has appointed Ashley Harkness senior vice president in the mortgage banking office. He previously served as a vice president in JPMorgan Real Estate's commercial mortgage backed securities group.

NAI HORIZON COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
(PHOENIX) NAI has added Susan McCall to its payroll as a healthcare RealtySource agent. She moves from RE/MAX Alliance Group.

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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.