[IMGCAP(2)]Mike Ohmes, executive vice president of transactionand advisory services for NorthMarq, notes that the addition of thetwo new brokers is part of a growing NorthMarq investment salespractice around the country. Mario Mexia has more than 30 years ofexperience in the commercial real estate industry, with a trackrecord of negotiation and representation for corporations andinvestors in the disposition and acquisition of industrial andcommercial properties. He was the founding principal of CommerceCRE, where he was an investment sales professional and a realestate consultant for several prominent global companies. BeforeCommerce CRE, he was an international real estate portfolio managerat Trammell Crow Co.n providing transaction management services toFortune 500 companies. He also spent more than 10 years at Cushman& Wakefield specializing in acquisition and dispositionindustrial and office properties.

Matt Mexia will represent institutional and entrepreneurialowners and lenders in the acquisition, disposition and strategicplanning of investment real estate in Southern California. Mostrecently, he was a vice president for Commerce CRE, where hefocused on acquisition and disposition of assets, includingdistressed properties. He also served as a consultant to the FDICthrough Prescient Inc., advising on distressed bank-owned realestate properties. His commercial real estate background alsoincludes experience as a real estate analyst at Holliday FenoglioFowler, where he was responsible for underwriting investment sales,debt and equity transactions. Before HFF, he was also a financialanalyst for Trammell Crow Co. in Los Angeles and Dallas.

The Mexias join the 12-person NorthMarq office that has beenoperating in Southern California for 20 years. It is led by RobHervey, senior managing director, and Mike Elmore, managingdirector.