Latin American Team of 27 Shifts From CBRE to Newmark Knight Frank
The team, led by real estate veterans and executive managing directors Sergio Pérez, SIOR and Samuel Campos, includes 18 producers, six of whom are senior experts, NKF reports.
MEXICO CITY—A team of 27 real estate professional in Latin America have left CBRE and defected to Newmark Knight Frank.
The new hires add a Global Corporate Services team to Newmark Knight Frank’s Latin American operations in Mexico.
The team, led by real estate veterans and executive managing directors Sergio Pérez, SIOR and Samuel Campos, includes 18 producers, six of whom are senior experts, NKF reports.
A total of 10 new team members will launch a new Newmark Knight Frank office in Leon, Bajío region to reinforce the company’s representation in Mexico, which currently has established offices in Monterrey and Tijuana.
“NKF has made great strides in the Latin American region, consistently expanding our professional roster and service lines and adding new territory,” says NKF CEO Barry Gosin. “The addition of this team underscores the importance of our Global Corporate Services platform. In addition to solidifying NKF’s GCS presence in all of Latin America, increasing the GCS footprint into new countries expands our ability to further integrate our global platform to service our clients’ international markets.”
The team provides strategic consulting services to high profile corporate clients and has deep capabilities in economic incentives negotiation and workplace strategies throughout the Latin American region, NKF officials state.
Previously, Pérez and Campos served as senior vice presidents of business solutions for CBRE, Mexico and both have extensive experience in international business management, portfolio analysis, site selection, WPS and structuring complex industrial and office transactions throughout Mexico.
Pérez began his real estate career as operations director for the ERA Real Estate master franchise in Mexico, later founding Insignia/ESG Mexico, where he was responsible for the industrial division at a national level. He then joined CBRE, where he started the first corporate business services practice team in Mexico and, in the past 13 years, increased the two-person team to the 27-member team who today joins NKF Latin America. Campos started in the public sector more than 25 years ago as principal of economic development for the state of Aguascalientes and then the director of foreign direct investment for the state of Guanajuato.
The team’s senior producers include executive managing directors Edgar Cano and Martha Millán, managing director Héctor Guzmán and associate director Erick Brunet. A total of 12 support professionals on the team encompass transaction managers, researchers and consultancy specialists.
“NKF continues to boldly expand into Latin America, and the addition of industry experts Sergio Pérez, Samuel Campos and the rest of the team, is an incredible victory and sets us apart from any other firm in the region,” says NKF president, Mexico and regional managing director, Latin America Giovanni D’Agostino.