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Tony LoPinto is CEO of Equinox Partners, an executivesearch firm specializing in the real estate industry, and parentcompany of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in thisarticle are the author’s own.

Job Opportunities

RREEF
(SAN FRANCISCO) Portfolio Associate The hire will assist inthe management of Rreef America REIT III, Rreef's commingled valueadded investment fund.

SELECTLEADERS
(BETHESDA, MD) Associate Project Manager The hire will beinvolved in all phases of the company’s work including: marketingto prospective clients; the feasibility analysis process; andparticipation during project redevelopment.

CARRAMERICA REALTY CORP.
(SANTA CLARA, CA) Senior Property Manager The hire should havefour to six years of experience working in a variety of developmentand third party companies, as well as an understanding ofaccounting practices, property management, building security andmore.

HOLLIDAY FENOGLIO FOWLER LP
(NEW YORK CITY) Senior Real Estate Analyst - Investment SalesResponsibilities include financial modeling, market analysis, thecreation of offering materials, and significant interaction withclients and the investment community.

TISHMAN SPEYER PROPERTIES
(NEW YORK CITY) Director of Residential Property AccountingThe hire should be knowledgeable in cooperative, condominiums,rent-stabilized financial reporting, understand regulations forco-ops, condos and rent-stabilized apartments.

SONNENBLICK GOLDMAN
(BOSTON) Vice President The VP will work as a member oftransaction teams, marketing financing opportunities (both debt andequity) and investment sales on behalf of our clients, as well asother duties.

STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDEINC.
(ATLANTA) Director, Full Service Development East orWest The hire will help drive growth by soliciting andexecuting new management contract and franchise agreements for theWestin, Le Meridien and Sheraton brands, or other brands as may beassigned.

Promotions

CHARLES DUNN CO.
(LOS ANGELES) Eileen Conn rises to regional vice president fromsenior portfolio manager. She joined the firm in 1997 as an on-sitemanager for a Downtown high rise.

APARTMENT REALTY ADVISORS
(ATLANTA) LisaRobinson becomes COO after two years with the firm as nationaldirector of operations.

GROSVENOR
(VANCOUVER, BC) James Delmotte is made vice president ofinvestment and equity lending, getting oversight for a new team toprovide mezzanine financing for residential development projects inthe headquarters city, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington,DC.

NELSEN ARCHITECTS INC.
(AUSTIN, TX andSCOTTSDALE, AZ) The firm changes its name to Nelsen Partners withthe addition of long-time members, Philip J. Crisara, George A.Melara and Erston Senger, to partnership status. Crisara, wholaunched the Austin office in 1996, serves as executive vicepresident and Texas managing director. Melara is vice president andArizona managing director while Senger, also a vice president, isdirector of operations.

NAIWELSH
(MINNEAPOLIS) Bill Wardwell isnamed executive vice president to oversee the firm's 70 brokers andtheir support staff. He joined the firm in 2003.

CADENCE McSHANE CORP.
(DALLAS) Roger Pavlovich climbs to vice president from seniorproject manager. He joined the construction firm in March 2000 as aproject manager.

LIBERTY PROPERTY TRUST
(TAMPA, FL) Joseph Johnston rises to city manager of the firm'sTampa region, tasked with oversight for development, acquisitionsand strategic direction. He succeeds Robert Goldschmidt, who willcontinue as senior vice president and regional director in Floridaand Texas.

YOUNAN PROPERTIES
(LOS ANGELES) MichaelO'Donovan becomes vice president of finance. He has 25 years'experience as a senior financial executive for privately held andpublicly traded companies.

CROSLAND LLC
(TAMPA, FL) Scott Lay isnamed director of land development for the Tampa region.

New Hires

CB RICHARD ELLIS
(GRAND RAPIDS, MI) Ty Hallock comes on board as managing directorfor the local office. The former NFL player previously worked forGrubb & Ellis Co.'s Paramount Commerce office.

LCOR INC.
(NEW YORK CITY) Seth R. Landaustarts as senior vice president and general counsel after spendingnine years at Salvo Landau Gruen & Rogers, rising to partner inthe Blue Bell, PA-based firm.

PLASENCIA GROUP INC.
(TAMPA, FL) Russ C.Valentine, based in Bethesda, MD, begins as senior vice presidentof the Mid-Atlantic region. Valentine was senior vice president foracquisitions and dispositions for Cleveland-based BoykinLodging.

CREEKSTONE MANAGEMENT
(HOUSTON) Diana Armstrong is made vice president of assetmanagement for the Creekstone Cos.' affiliate. She most recentlywas senior vice president of acquisition and asset management forTCP Realty Services LLP.

CASSIDY & PINKARD COLLIERS
(WASHINGTON, DC) David Webb comes on board as managing director ofthe structured finance group. Webb recently was executive vicepresident of Cushman & Wakefield Inc.'s project finance group,which he founded in 1998.

JONES LANG LaSALLE
(SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO, NEW YORK CITY) Patricia Roberts begins assenior vide president for the strategic consulting group. InChicago, the firm added Charles Hoag to its capital markets groupas a vice president. In the New York City office, Robert Hackettstarts as a managing director to oversee corporate solutionsbusiness in the tri-state area.

VENABLE LLP
(WASHINGTON, DC) Ari Karen and Caryn G. Pass are made partners inthe firm. In addition to hiring the former Krupin O'Brien LLCattorneys, the firm has added associates Heather Broadwater, GraceLee, James Fagan and Trevor Blake.

GMAC MORTGAGE
(HORSHAM, PA) Connie Millerassumes the post of director of contract administration while LouisGlinn starts as director of analytics and controls. Miller wassenior vice president for Aurora Loan Services. Glinn most recentlywas vice president of financial reporting for Chase Home Finance'sservicing acquisitions group.

SHANGRI-LA HOTELS & RESORTS
(HONGKONG) Didier Le Calvez is made executive vice president of Europeand North America and general manager of the Shangri-La Hotel,which opens in early 2009 at 10 D'Iena in Paris. He will oversee athree-year initiative to open hotels in London, Vancouver, Chicago,Miami, Las Vegas, New York City and Toronto.

PASSCO COS.
(IRVINE, CA) Yvonne Schroederde Orr becomes the firm's general counsel. She was the formerfranchise counsel director for Taco Bell Corp.

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Anthony J. LoPinto

Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn Ferry’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. For the past 18 years LoPinto has been serving his clients with deep knowledge and perspective on talent needs and organizational challenges to public and private companies – knowledge gained from a 25-year career in real estate. Prior to his current position, he founded and served as chief executive officer of a boutique real estate executive search firm, where he oversaw offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has successfully led several high profile search engagements for chief executive officers, directors and a wide-range of executive level positions across all industries and sectors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in European history from Loyola University in Chicago.