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NEWPORT BEACH, CA-Christenson Advisors has hired industry veteran Jack Van Berkel as a partner and managing principal. Based in the firm’s Newport Beach office, he will play a key role in building the company’s brand as a full service real estate consulting company.
Van Berkel brings a decade of commercial real estate experience that includes leadership positions at both Grubb & Ellis Co. and CB Richard Ellis.
Van Berkel joins CA from Grubb & Ellis, where he was executive vice president, chief operating officer and president of real estate services since 2007. During that period, he oversaw the expansion of the firm’s real estate services capabilities, including the formation of Grubb & Ellis Landauer Valuation Advisory Services. During his tenure, he also was responsible for the recruitment of more than 250 senior brokerage professionals into the organization.
Earlier, Van Berkel spent more than four years at CB Richard Ellis as senior vice president of human resources. He was instrumental in the successful integration of Insignia Financial Group and Trammell Crow into CB Richard Ellis' organization. Prior to joining CBRE, Van Berkel held senior global human resource, operations and sales positions with First Data Corp., Gateway Corp. and Western Digital.
According to the firm’s website, Christenson Advisors is a full service real estate consultancy firm which provides customized, hands-on executive recruiting, compensation consulting, financial advisory and other consulting services - including strategic planning, organizational assessments and succession planning to the global real estate industry.
The company was founded in early 2008 and is headquartered in Chicago with satellite offices in Dallas, Los Angeles and New York. CA Funds Group, a sister company of Christenson Advisors, is a registered broker-dealer focused exclusively on providing capital raising, consulting and advisory services to the real estate industry.
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