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Cresa New York Has A New Principal In John Cahill

The New York office of Cresa is announcing that John Cahill is joining the firm as principal, senior advisor and New York head of Cresa’s life sciences practice.

Race to The Top: Joe Stettinius

With his new title, chief executive of DTZ’s Americas region, Joe Stettinius is assuming a major role in the firm’s plan to vie for leadership in global real estate services.

John Kessler Appointed COO At Empire State Realty Trust

Empire State Realty Trust Inc. today announced that John Kessler has been appointed president & COO.

February 2015 – Briefs/People

C&W Grabs Massey Knakal; Silverstein Properties Appoints Kerret as President; BKM Capital Partners Adds Five to Team; NeighborWorks America Names New CEO; Stone Point Capital Grabs Situs, Makes Powel New CEO; ARCP’s Schorsch, Kay Say Goodbye; Bowles Named President of Kidder Mathews’ West Coast Brokerage; Wood Partners Hires Barrett as Director of Houston Office.

Who Are Today’s Rising Leaders?

CPE unveils this year’s Stars to Watch, 17 up-and-coming individuals and teams from across the commercial real estate industry that are sure to make more waves as they climb the career ladder.

Executive Spotlight: Christine Schultz, Colliers International

Christine Schultz, global vice president of marketing and research for Colliers International, talks about the company’s efforts to deliver value with its new blog.

Stars to Watch 2015: Craig Wilson

Executive Managing Director, DTZ What Others Say About Him: Steve Modory, managing partner with Champion Partners, recently worked with Wilson on three separate office lease transactions totaling 600,000 square feet with Wilson’s client State Farm Insurance.  “This was an integral piece of a much larger State Farm commitment to the North Texas region,” he said. “We owned the buildings in the Dallas suburb of Richardson that his client wanted to lease on a short-term basis but with flexibility to extend for the long term. There were several complicating factors in getting these leases completed. Craig helped his client understand and work…

Stars to Watch 2015: Armand Tiberio

Senior Vice President, Investments, Marcus & Millichap What Others Say About Him: “Armand has incredible energy, knowledge and finesse,” said Howard Heitner, former COO of AIG Financial, who worked with Tiberio on the sale of more than 200 properties.” Most Proud Of: In 2001, Tiberio joined colleagues Robert Sheppard and Spencer Hurst to launch Marcus & Millichap’s Tax Credit Group, the first national brokerage firm dedicated to serving owners of Low-Income-Housing Tax Credit properties. Today, TCG is the largest LIHTC brokerage group in the U.S., having grown from just a handful of members 10 years ago to more than 50…

Stars to Watch 2015: Lauren Staniec

Sustainability Coordinator and Enhancement Project Manager, Pyramid Management Group  Most Proud Of: Destiny USA, Pyramid Management Group’s 2.4 million-square-foot shopping and entertainment destination in Syracuse, N.Y., is the largest LEED Gold-certified retail commercial building in the world, and Staniec was instrumental in obtaining the title. She also considers serving as a speaker at several sessions at last year’s GreenBuild conference one of the highlights of her career, as well as helping to forge a relationship between Pyramid and the USGBC. “That they feel like they can call on us to share our experiences—good, bad or ugly—has been really great,” Staniec…

Stars to Watch 2015: Robert Stamm

Executive Managing Director, Savills Studley Most Proud Of: Robert Stamm is not only responsible for advising multi-cultural clients, he is also in charge of the firm’s crossborder Investment business in the Americas. In his capacity as advisor to Frankfurt, Germany-based Deka Immobilien GmbH, he helped bring the open-ended fund together with New York’s Ashkenazy Acquisitions in 2014 for the $170 million purchase of an 8,400-square-foot retail condominium at 522 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan. “You can imagine not only the numbers (but) the cash flows and regulations of a German fund, its culture, its language—all these different disciplines. It was our…