(Mark Your Calendars: RealShare Orange County, August 18 in Newport Beach).
IRVINE, CA-HFF has named senior managing director Kevin MacKenzie to head the company’s local debt placement and structured finance team. MacKenzie, who will be moving to the Orange County office from HFF’s Dallas office, will assume the role of office head along with senior managing directors Ryan Gallagher and Sean Deasy.
Since joining HFF in 2004, MacKenzie has been involved in more than $4 billion of commercial real estate financings for retail, office, multi-housing and industrial properties nationally. Before HFF, he worked in strategic finance and business development roles at various venture capital-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Mark Gibson, executive managing director and member of HFF's four-person leadership team, commented on MacKenzie’s appointment in an announcement: "HFF has purposely and strategically grown its West Coast presence over the past two years. In that time frame, we have successfully recruited four significant investment sales teams in Orange County and San Francisco specializing in office, multi-housing, retail and industrial product types and also have expanded via the addition of many individual capital market specialists across our five West Coast offices (San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland).”
Gibson further explained that MacKenzie’s relocation to the West Coast and his promotion to an office head/leadership role is “in keeping with our corporate mission, which is to identify future leaders of our business, quickly put them in positions that appropriately match their leadership skills, and align interests to significantly grow our presence in a given market and/or business line."
MacKenzie’s appointment reflects HFF’s “strong preference to organically grow the firm given our unique culture,” Gibson said. MacKenzie is affiliated with Urban Land Institute, International Council of Shopping Centers and The Real Estate Council. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University.
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