Perspective

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.

JobOpportunities

WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING
(CELEBRATION, FL)Senior Project Manager This is a seniormanagement position responsible for setting strategic direction forone or more high-risk, high-dollar projects from blue sky tocloseout in the Florida Real Estate Operations Division.

MCKINSEY & CO.
(NEW YORK CITY) Manager of Real Estate Transactions–Real EstateDepartment This global role focuses particular emphasis onthe Asia-Pacific region, including China, India, Australia and NewZealand, and will work out of Hong Kong or Shanghai. The candidatewho is hired will spend 12 to 18 months training in New York.

HOLLIDAY FENOGLIO FOWLER LP
(PITTSBURGH)Real Estate Analyst–Loan Servicing The company is looking for an experienced real estate analystto join its Pittsburgh Loan Servicing team, with knowledge of andexperience in the commercial mortgage and/or commercial real estateindustry.

SELECTLEADERS
(NEW YORK CITY) Chief Financial Officer–REIT The client isa major global bank for real estate and public finance. Based inNew York, the CFO will be responsible for the design,implementation and management of an accounting and reportingsystem.

COHEN FINANCIAL
(CHICAGO) Manager, Analytics & Assessments Themanager position will manage the support of the transactional flowof the Capital Markets and Advisory Services business lines of thecompany.

SELECTLEADERS
(SAN DIEGO) Director, UCSD Practice Management DecisionSupport The position is at the Hillcrest &La Jolla Department of Medical Group Administration. The directorwill be responsible for creation and oversight of a PracticeManagement Decision Support Unit.

Promotions

GE REAL ESTATE
(STAMFORD, CT) Jayne L. Day, vice president and chief riskofficer, is named a General Electric Co. officer. She joined GE in1991 as finance manager, rising to her current level in 1993.

NAIWELSH
(MINNEAPOLIS) Bill Wardwell is named executive vice president tooversee the firm's 70 brokers and their support staff. He joinedthe firm in 2003.

NELSEN ARCHITECTS INC.
(AUSTIN, TX and SCOTTSDALE, AZ) The firm changes its name toNelsen Partners with the addition of long-time members, Philip J.Crisara, George A. Melara and Erston Senger, to partnership status.Crisara, who launched the Austin office in 1996, serves asexecutive vice president and Texas managing director. Melara isvice president and Arizona managing director while Senger, also avice president, is director of operations.

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) Michael O'Donovan becomes vice president of finance.He has 25 years' experience as a senior financial executive forprivately held and publicly traded companies.

NewHires

JONES LANG LASALLE INC.
(LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO) Joining the Capital Markets Groupis Alex Quintana as managing director in Los Angeles and Patrick C.Shiver as vice president. Quintana most recently was senior vicepresident and senior broker in Transwestern's Los Angeles office.Shiver, also formerly with Transwestern, established the firm'smultifamily capital advisory group in Northern California.

GVA ADVANTIS
(TAMPA) Lauren Geller begins as associate of office services. Shepreviously was a leasing specialist with Arcis Investments Inc.

ANGLO IRISH BANK
(CHICAGO and BOSTON) Michael Goorvich and Richard Muraida joins assenior vice presidents in Chicago and Boston, respectively.Goorvich was with Capmark Finance Inc. Muraida was senior vicepresident and team leader of commercial lending at Eastern Bank'sBoston office.

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. Landau starts as senior vice president andgeneral counsel after spending nine years at Salvo Landau Gruen& Rogers, rising to partner in the Blue Bell, PA-basedfirm.

PLASENCIA GROUP INC.
(TAMPA) Russ C. Valentine, based in Bethesda, MD, begins as seniorvice president of the Mid-Atlantic region. Valentine was seniorvice president for acquisitions and dispositions forCleveland-based Boykin Lodging.

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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.