Robert Voit says that with the appointment of Pierce, the company intends to leverage its brokerage division's capacity to handle and understand distressed assets through collaboration with Voit Real Estate Services' other divisions to offer a full spectrum of asset services during this cycle. Among these services are brokerage, construction management, development, property management, strategic planning and financial modeling, entitlement work, financial reporting and development of exit strategies.

Before joining Voit Real Estate Services, Pierce was vice president of marketing at the Koll Co., where he established the Koll Marketing Group to market the 100-acre master planned mixed use Koll Center Irvine project comprising three million square feet of high-rise office. The Koll Marketing Group was also responsible for marketing the 1.3 million-square-foot mixed-use Koll Center Newport. His career includes serving as president of the MacArthur Group, a boutique commercial real estate services firm, and as president and chief operating officer at Brinderson Development Corp. and as a senior sales consultant with Coldwell Banker & Co.

Strasmann, as managing director of Voit's Anaheim Metro commercial brokerage office, will also be increasing Voit Commercial Brokerage's geographic coverage by creating an Inland Empire office. In his previous post at Grubb & Ellis, he was responsible for the company's Orange County, Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley offices.

According to Pierce, the appointment of Strasmann will enable Voit to move forward dramatically in a market in which we see strong opportunity for our firm to increase its market share." Strasmann had been with Grubb & Ellis since beginning his career in 1985. From 2001 through 2009, his region was recognized as Grubb & Ellis' top performing operation nationally in revenue and net profit.

Robb, in his new role as asset manager, will oversee property management, leasing, construction and development services, and he will be directly responsible for creating value for the distressed assets. At his previous post at LaSalle, he managed leasing and disposition strategies for two portfolios totaling 15 properties and valued more than $500 million.

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