Colliers, Cornish, HFF Add Execs

Rowell

SAN FRANCISCO-Colliers International has brought Anjee Solanki and Sean Lee Jenkins on board, Josh Rowell has been named to lead Cornish & Carey in San Mateo and Holden Lim has joined Holliday Fenoglio Fowler in San Francisco in a recent round of hirings and promotions in the San Francisco Bay area.

Solanki, formerly a senior vice president in client services for Madison Marquette, joins Colliers as an EVP of retail services for the West Coast. Working from the San Francisco office, she will report to Mike Kent, Colliers International’s president of real estate management services. She will work with institutional and private clients on strategic asset management assignments involving retail properties and also will assist clients with the repositioning and re-launching of existing retail assets and redevelopment projects.

Solanki was involved in launching Kukuiula Village, a 90,000-square-foot retail resort development on the south shore of Kauai that was built as an amenity to a 1,000-acre master-planned neighborhood. Before joining Madison Marquette, she managed more than one million square feet of retail neighborhood and big box centers for CalPERS valued at $145 million.

Lim

Rowell, who has been named manager of the San Mateo office for Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank, will serve both in that management assignment and as a commercial brokerage leasing and sales agent. Former San Mateo office Manager Bob Garner, who managed the office for over 13 years, has left management to focus his full attention on his brokerage career.

Rowell, who began his career in commercial real estate with Cornish & Carey Commercial 13 years ago, was a “Top Five” producer for the San Mateo office nine of his 13 years and the “Number One” agent for four of those years. He has earned a host of other honors during his time at the company.

At Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, Lim has joined the firm as a managing director in the San Francisco office to focus on institutional grade hotel and resort property transactions throughout North America. He has more than 21 years of experience and most recently was the president of Hospitality Link, a real estate advisory firm specializing in the hospitality sector.

Before that, he was a senior director with Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman, where he completed more than $3.4 billion in transactions including dispositions, debt financings and equity recapitalizations. Before Cushman, he was a senior associate at HVS International, where he appraised more than $1.9 billion in hotel and resort real estate. He has also held various management positions at Westin Hotels.

Jenkins

Jenkins joins the Colliers’ Redwood City Office, bringing a background in finance, marketing and technology to the commercial real estate industry. He will specialize in investment sales and leasing. Before joining Colliers, he worked in the financial industry, assisting firms in business development, raising capital and marketing. His experience also includes expanding his clients’ marketing activities in the US and Europe and opening the doors to institutional investors. Recently, Jenkins has been consulting for a large property development firm in Southeast Europe, preparing materials for potential investors in their hotels and large resort properties.