MIAMI—After a 19-year run at Cushman & Wakefield, industrial real estate rock star Sky Groden is leaving the firm to join Cresa South Florida as principal of Industrial Advisory Services. Groden served as an executive director at CushWake.

Groden has been active in the South Florida industrial leasing and sales market for nearly two decades and has been involved in industrial transactions totaling 15 million square feet collectively worth more than $1 billion in sales volume.

“Adding top talent like Sky to the Cresa team will help us build on our success as we strategically expand in South Florida,” Cresa Managing principal John Marshall tells GlobeSt.com. “With Sky's leadership, we are equipped to bring our tenant advisory focus to the industrial market and help tenant occupiers drive ROI from their commercial real estate decisions. Our approach will disrupt the local industrial market, which has historically been marred with conflicts of interest.”