Perspective

Tony LoPinto is CEO of Equinox Partners, an executive search firm specializing in the real estate industry, and parent company of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.

Job Opportunities

INLAND REAL ESTATE
Senior Loan Originator
(LOS ANGELES) The originator will be responsible to market, source, structure, perform preliminary underwriting and assist in closing short-term, value-added opportunistic real estate transactions. The originator will have the support of the, to be hired, analyst and administrative assistant. The selected candidate will be responsible for opening the office and working with the director of originations and the president to staff the office.

FORE PROPERTY CO.
Controller
(LAS VEGAS) This position will provide construction accounting services to a pipeline of new market-rate and tax-credit properties that are in various stages of development. In addition, the Controller will be responsible for property management accounting for a portfolio of stabilized multifamily properties.

JONES LANG LASALLE
Director of Operations
(NEW YORK CITY) The director of operations will report directly to the chief operating officer for the Tri-State Region (New York City, New Jersey, Westchester and Fairfield County, CT). Primary lines of business include leasing brokerage, property management, project management, facilities management, capital markets and corporate services accounts.

BUCHANAN STREETS PARTNERS
Chief Financial Officer
(NEWPORT BEACH, CA) The CFO will oversee investor reporting through the management of the vice president of finance and accounting personnel; oversee all fund level tax and audit matters; develop lending relationships; negotiate loan terms and documentation for fund credit facilities, approve lending terms for project level financings; and prepare fund offering documents.

SELECTLEADERS
VP–Facilities Management
(NEW YORK CITY) The successful candidate will, among other responsibilities, direct all aspects of company's growth and development in relation to changing space needs and ongoing maintenance of current facilities to ensure the presence of the company aesthetic; and develop and implement comprehensive office services for 700-plus employees in New York, as well as all outer offices.

METLIFE
Real Estate Investments, Acquisitions & Development Manager
(SAN FRANCISCO) The position will develop and maintain relationships key external principals such as brokers, developers, owners, lawyers and consultants to source investment opportunities within established guidelines; source, originate, and underwrite JV development opportunities with new and established development partners; and must be able to make internal recommendations and to close prospective equity real estate transactions.

TIAA-CREF
Research Analyst
(NEW YORK CITY) Responsibilities include preparing research reports analyzing the investment for specific real estate transactions both in the US and abroad; collecting data, maintaining databases, designing and constructing analytic spreadsheets containing appropriate functions and macros, researching professional literature; and monitoring, analyzing and forecasting real estate market conditions.

PALMS ASSOCIATES
Regional Property Manager
(VIRGINIA BEACH) The multifamily firm is seeking an individual to lead and train a property management team. The candidate must be technology driven and have a strategic eye toward growing rent potential.

Promotions

CANNON DESIGN
(SAN FRANCISCO) Carl Hampson rises to vice president and design lead for the local office.

STRATEGIC HOTELS & RESORTS
(CHICAGO) Paula C. Maggio becomes senior vice president. She will continue as general counsel and secretary.

PM REALTY GROUP
(HONOLULU) Matthew G. Bittick is promoted to senior vice president of investment sales and leasing. The former vice president, who joined the team in 2003, is the firm's first investment sales manager for the Pacific Rim division.

New Hires

PANATTONI
(ORANGE COUNTY, CA) Stephen M. Batcheller is named partner to lead the Orange County and Inland Empire operations. Batcheller comes from the ranks of CB Richard Ellis' institutional group.

CASSIDY & PINKARD COLLIERS
(WASHINGTON, DC) Martha Almquist comes on board as a senior vice president to focus on the Northern Virginia market. Almquist most recently was managing director for Equity Office Properties.

GROSSMAN COS.
(QUINCY, MA) Joining the firm as a broker is Frank M. O'Neill, who has nearly two decades of industry experience. The veteran, a former director of economic development for the state, founded Boston Real Estate Partners in 1995.

TVO NORTH AMERICA
(EL PASO) Gary R. Hedrick joins as executive vice president and CFO, ending a stint as president and CEO of El Paso Electric Co. In addition, Hedrick will be CFO for affiliate TVO Groupe.

SCI REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
(LOS ANGELES) Dr. Dorriah Rogers is named executive managing director, and Scott Sterleker starts as senior portfolio manager. Rogers was a senior consultant for MAP Consulting. Sterleker most recently was involved in the expansion of Deer Valley Resort in Park City, UT.

GALE REAL ESTATE SERVICES
(ROSELAND, NJ) Paul A. Ovale begins as a vice president for the subsidiary of Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The LEED-accredited professional was the former assistant director of design and construction for the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp.

GRUBB & ELLIS
(CHICAGO) Mark Talley becomes vice president in the office group. He previously was Jones Lang LaSalle's client relationship manager for the City of Detroit.

COUSINS PROPERTIES
(ATLANTA) James D. Edwards is elected to the board of directors, keeping the roster at nine after the retirement of Richard W. Courts II. Edwards retired in 2002 as managing partner of Global Markets for Arthur Andersen LLP.

BROWN HARRIS STEVENS
(NEW YORK CITY) Karen Duncan takes over as sales director for Apple Bank Building Condominium. The veteran most recently was part of Zeckendorf Marketing.

LANDAMERICA AMERICAN TITLE CO.
(DALLAS) Barbara M. Horn, an industry veteran, joins the firm as business development director.

WRIGHTWOOD CAPITAL
(ATLANTA) Michael Renier comes aboard as senior director of investments after working as vice president for Regions Bank.

CLARETT GROUP
(NEW YORK CITY) Eric J. Deutsch, former president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, joins as managing director. The senior executive will be overseeing development of residential, office and mixed-use projects.

BMC CAPITAL
(DENVER and DALLAS) In its latest hiring round, Brad Rymer and Gordon Winegar are named vice president for the new Denver office while Selena Millstead and Zar Harro start as loan officers in Dallas.

RELIABLE DEFEASANCE
(BEVERLY HILLS, CA) Mark Schulz begins as managing director for the one-year-old firm. He previously was CFO and financial director of Hopkins Real Estate Group.

JONES LANG LASALLE
(CENTURY CITY, CA) Reid McGlamery is the new vice president of the real estate investment banking unit. He was a former associate director for Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP. Also, Javier Rivera joins as vice president in the capital markets group. He previously was director of acquisitions and development manager for the Ratkovich Co.

MEREDITH & GREW
(BOSTON) John F. Dolan III starts as an associate, assigned to the Route 128 Mass Pike market. He was the former new business development manager for Cramer in Norwood, MA.

CENTERLINE HOLDING CO.
(NEW YORK CITY) John Trentos starts as managing director and senior portfolio manager in the credit risk products group to lead a new initiative into collateralized loan obligation. He was a former senior portfolio manager for Sandelman Partners LP.

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER
(CHICAGO) The firm's new partners are Brad Ritter and Gregory Spitzer, both from Kirkland & Ellis, and Daniel Perlman, previously with Katten, Muchin & Rosenman LLP.

PROPERTY & PORTFOLIO RESEARCH
(BOSTON) Jeffrey Havsy joins as global strategist to oversee the US office investment strategy. He was the former vice president for strategic research at Equity Office Properties.

REALOGIC ANALYTICS
(CHICAGO) Brian E. Goldman is made manager of the capital markets group. He has previously at John Hancock, rising to senior investment officer.

NAI GLOBAL
(MIAMI) David Berger becomes managing director for Latin America and the Caribbean in the move from Colliers International Inc.'s Latin America division, where he was a vice president.

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