It's time to update those contact managers with CoStar's People of Note, delivering news from the following companies: CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International and Cabanban Rubin & Mayberry.
This week's People of Note includes the following markets: Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Retail.
CHARLOTTE
Lomax To Head Operations for CBRE in Charlotte
Henry C. Lomax Jr. joined CB Richard Ellis Group (NYSE:
CBG) to oversee its operations in Charlotte. Lomax assumed the title of managing director after serving as chief investment officer of Crescent Resources, one of the largest commercial property developers and land managers in the Southeast.
Lomax has nearly 27 years of experience in finance and
commercial real estate. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an M.B.A. in 1984, he spent two years as a senior accountant at Ernst & Young working with real estate, retail and manufacturing clients. Lomax then moved to Bank of America for eight years. As a vice president, he managed financial reporting and asset valuation of portfolios of real estate investments for institutional clients.
His longest tenure was at Crescent Resources, where he worked for 16 years and gained increasing leadership and industry experience. Lomax was a senior vice president in the capital markets group before his election as Crescent’s CIO.
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LOS ANGELES, INLAND EMPIRE
JLL Expands SoCal Offerings With 3 New Execs
Jones Lang LaSalle continued its expansion in Southern California with the hiring of three new executives.
Shaun Stiles (pictured, right) joined the downtown Los Angeles office as executive vice president. The leasing expert will focus on tenant and landlord representation in the Tri-Cities--Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena--and the downtown area.
Stiles has worked in the commercial real estate industry for two decades, most recently as a senior vice president and director at Colliers International. The top producer also spent five years at Cushman & Wakefield and was a broker in the office division of CB Commercial.
Stiles’ long-term clients--Tri-Cities Equity Office, Hines, J.P. Morgan, I.D.S, TA Associates and Embarcadero Capital--will move with him to JLL.
Katie Blasiar, formerly of Colliers, will join Stiles as a senior associate.
JLL also recruited Mitch Fisher (pictured, left) as a vice president in its L.A. North Corporate office in Santa Clarita. The industrial expert will specialize in leasing and acquisitions in Conejo Valley, Eastern Ventura County, San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley.
Fisher is a former vice president in the industrial services group at Grubb & Ellis and a senior associate at Collins Commercial Co. During his 13-year career, he has brokered 300-plus deals with a combined value of more than $100 million.
The company appointed Jeff Bellitti (pictured, right) as a vice president. The 14-year veteran specializes in brokering industrial deals in the Inland Empire market. He will work with tenants and landlords in leasing and acquisitions while based in Ontario, CA.
Bellitti was most recently a vice president at Colliers in Ontario. The senior broker has negotiated more than 6.5 million square feet in deals valued at $155 million in total consideration.
CHICAGO
Cushman Adds to Retail Services Group
Leasing specialist Amy Sider joined Cushman & Wakefield’s Retail Services Group in Chicago. The 10-year industry veteran will oversee developer and landlord relationships and lease vacant
retail space.
Sider assumed the role of associate director after serving as director of retail leasing at Centrum Properties, a residential and commercial real estate developer. Her five year tenure at Centrum included locking in tenants for the company’s strip and lifestyle centers and mixed-use properties.
Sider also worked at Westfield Corp. for five years as an assistant manager, specialty leasing manager and sales analyst.
BALTIMORE
Colliers Taps Haas and Haus as Principals
By Jennifer Wilson
Veteran brokers Matthew J. Haas, SIOR (pictured, left) and Kevin J. Haus (right) joined Colliers International as managing directors and principals. Haas and Haus specialize in the leasing and sales of office and flex properties throughout the Baltimore market.
The duo formerly served as vice presidents at Manekin LLC.
Haas has represented clients including the University of Maryland Medical System, United Way of Maryland, ViPS and Frontier MEDEX. The four-time CoStar Power Broker Awards winner graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park.
After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Haus found his niche in the commercial real estate industry, where he's spent the past 20 years. Haus has represented clients including Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Zynga and Meritain Health.
CHICAGO, RETAIL
Chicago Veterans Form Cabanban Rubin & Mayberry
By Adria Young
Todd Cabanban, Marc Rubin and Kyle Mayberry, retail brokers formerly of Zifkin Realty Group LLC, formed a new Chicago-based commercial real estate firm entitled Cabanban Rubin & Mayberry Commercial Realty. Together, the three founding principals have more than 50 years of commercial real estate experience in tenant and landlord representation.
Cabanban has more than 20 years of experience in the local commercial property market and has represented landlords such as Dollar Tree and BP Amoco.
Rubin's 19 years in the industry includes representing major retailers such as CVS/Pharmacy and AT&T Wireless.
Mayberry has focused on tenant representation and product leasing locally for eight years and has represented clients such as Advance Auto.
Despite its "boutique" reputation, Cabanban Rubin & Mayberry plan to pursue the dollar stores and Discount Department stores in the Chicago retail market rivaling larger firms, in hopes to obtain new business and gain global recognition.
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