{"id":1004019639,"date":"2010-04-27T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004019639"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T02:50:44","slug":"rets-taps-thornburg-as-director-for-san-francisco-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/rets-taps-thornburg-as-director-for-san-francisco-office\/","title":{"rendered":"RETS Taps Thornburg as Director for San Francisco Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 27, 2010<br \/>\nBy Allison Landa, News Editor<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/04\/Thornburg-Cheryl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004019640\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/rets-taps-thornburg-as-director-for-san-francisco-office\/thornburg-cheryl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/04\/Thornburg-Cheryl.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3972,2848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thornburg Cheryl\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/04\/Thornburg-Cheryl.jpg?w=1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/04\/Thornburg-Cheryl.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thornburg Cheryl\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1004019640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commercial real estate recruiting and staffing firm RETS Associates has named Cheryl Thornburg as director in its San Francisco office. Thornburg, who specializes in recruiting commercial real estate and financial services professionals in the Bay Area, will work closely with Diane Blake in the firm\u2019s Silicon Valley office in order to attend to the firm\u2019s growing Northern California client base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheryl brings 15 years of recruiting experience to RETS Associates,\u201d RETS president Kent Elliott told CPE. \u201cAdditionally, she has worked with Brandi Newman, managing director of our Los Angeles office, at a previous firm so they have great working synergies. Cheryl\u2019s experience and personality complement the high-end client service that is the cornerstone of our firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newman was hired just six months ago. According to RETS, she has already successfully connected several high-level executives with commercial real estate companies in Southern California. <\/p>\n<p>Thornburg most recently worked with Sullivan Research West, where she secured professionals for companies of varying sizes. Those included Wells Fargo Bank, Westaff: Business Staffing Solutions, and Genentech. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from California State University, Chico.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott told CPE that the firm plans for Thornburg to expand its real estate and financial services practice in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRETS works with a number of top clients and our goal is to achieve deeper market penetration with those clients and other top firms,\u201d he said. \u201cShe will do that by working with Diane Blake \u2026 and leverage off the client relationships that we have built in the Bay Area over the last 8 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott and Christopher Lee founded RETS in 2002; they were joined in 2008 by former CB Richard Ellis executive Jana Turner. RETS\u2019 clients include REITs, developers, investors, pension fund advisors, operating companies and real estate firms doing business in property management, facilities management, corporate services, and brokerage sales and leasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial real estate recruiting and staffing firm RETS Associates has named Cheryl Thornburg as director in its San Francisco office. Thornburg, who specializes in recruiting commercial real estate and financial services professionals in the Bay Area, will work closely with Diane Blake in the firm\u2019s Silicon Valley office in order to attend to the firm\u2019s growing Northern California client base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":1004019640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21742,21744,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004019639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-people","category-west"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RETS Taps Thornburg as Director for San Francisco Office - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/rets-taps-thornburg-as-director-for-san-francisco-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RETS Taps Thornburg as Director for San Francisco Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Commercial real estate recruiting and staffing firm RETS Associates has named Cheryl Thornburg as director in its San Francisco office. 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