NEW YORK CITY-Mark Jaccom has been promoted to co-chairman of the New York Tri-State Region at Colliers International. Colliers CEO Dylan Taylor tells GlobeSt.com it’s an opportunity to have Jaccom focus on deal making in the New York market. Meanwhile, Michael T. Cohen, president of the Colliers International Tri-State Region, is returning to a full schedule at the firm after a leave of absence.

“We’re certainly getting some traction in New York,” Taylor tells GlobeSt.com, adding that the firm has hired some 50 people in the Tri-State area in the last 12 months. “In that environment we need our best producers and sales people focusing on that type of activity.” 

 Jaccom had been CEO of the New York Tri-State Region at Colliers International and always had a hand in deal making at the firm, but was unable to give his undivided attention to it due to other responsibilities.

“During my time as CEO over the last three years, I never stopped doing brokerage,” he says. “I just couldn’t concentrate on it 100%—if I was lucky it was maybe 40% or 50%, maybe less.”

Taylor says that Jaccom and Robert L. Freedman—the other co-chairman of the New York Tri-State Region—“are both two of our best revenue producers,” a sentiment Cohen echoes.

“Mark was originally brought in to be a big producer and he was one of the significant reasons that we landed, for example, the Colgate account,” Cohen says. “We’re all player-coaches, but Mark had to devote a lot more of his time to coaching than playing over the last few years and it’s just good business to move him back into playing.”

As Colliers International’s efforts in the Tri-State region continue to bear fruit moving into 2012, Taylor thinks that the firm’s success has also been a factor of the slowly improving economy.

“I think it’s a little bit of both,” he says of hard work versus environmental factors. “Certainly we see the market improving. It would be nice if it improved even quicker, but we certainly are in our view taking market share and have been very contrarian over this last two to three years where we’ve been investing heavily both in terms of acquisitions and recruitment.”

Though transitions are currently underway, Cohen and Jaccom’s updated roles at the firm will be officially effective January 1, 2012.