NGKF Nabs Four Valuation/Advisory Pros

Busi: “We have reimagined the format of a traditional valuation practice.”

NEW YORK CITY—Growing its valuation and advisory practice, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has hired four senior-level professionals for the group. Helene Jacobson, Steve DuPlantis, Ken Audette and Jason Hutchins have joined the firm.

Jacobson joins NGKF as co-leader of US valuation and advisory. She previously spent nearly two and a half decades at CBRE, where she managed the firm’s tri-state area valuation operation. Her role included staffing, quality control, business development, portfolio coordination and marketing. She developed one of the most extensive client rosters in the industry and worked with leading financial institutions, private equity and CMBS firms and insurers across the globe.