Jeffrey Finn, president and COO of NAI Global, has beenappointed chairman and CEO of NAI New York. DG Hart founders JosephGenovesi and Stephen Dadourian will stay on as vice chairmen withprimary responsibilities in production. Manhattan industry veteranHenry Goodfriend, currently vice president of corporate servicesfor NAI Global, will assume the role of managing director of globalservices for NAI New York City.

As part of this transaction, NAI Global will relocate itscorporate Global Solutions group, led by managing director JeanClaude Goldenstein, from Princeton, N.J., to Manhattan. NAIGlobal's Capital Markets group, led by managing director PeterAvalone, also will claim New York City as its base ofoperation.

"Obviously, New York City is the capital of the business worldand building a stronger position there is critical to ourplatform," Finn tells GlobeSt.com. "We realized to achieve thisgoal we needed to combine our resources. This will provideadditional corporate and management resources to accelerategrowth."