NGKF Recruits Joe Donato, Maury Zanoff

WASHINGTON, DC—Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has brought over two members of CBRE's capital markets team-Joe Donato and Maury Zanoff. It has also added tenant representatives Junius Tillery, Brian Liss and Chethan Rao to its talent bench. Separately the company has opened a new office in Raleigh, NC.

Donato and Zanoff, vice chairmen, will lead the company's Mid-Atlantic region debt and structured finance business. They have executed more than $40 billion of equity and debt deals across the country, averaging over $2 billion in transaction volume yearly for the last four years, including financings for CityCenterDC, Sentinel Square I, II and III, Metropolitan Park, Annapolis Towne Centre, and Exelon Tower at Harbor Point.

Tenant advisors Tillery, Liss, both executive managing directors, and Rao, a senior managing director, are joining from DTZ, where they worked with Boeing, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, TASC, CACI and Kratos Defense. They have also represented companies in the technology and financial services industries including Verizon, Unisys, Capital One, American Express and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vocus and Alarm.com.

The Tillery/Liss/Rao team is based in NGKF's McLean, VA-based office. The Donato/Zanoff team is based in Washington DC but cover Virginia and Maryland as well.

Separately NGKF has opened a new office in Raleigh, NC, with an eye on the region's pharmaceutical, technology and research and major university medical centers.

"As part of the renowned Research Triangle anchored by three world-class research universities, Raleigh is a key market in the Southeast and draws many businesses and employees each year," explained Brett Hunsaker, executive vice president and regional managing director for NGKF in the Southeast and Washington, DC, in a prepared statement. The office plans to target traditional tenants in the Triangle, as well as other industries that want to enter or expand in the area.