Global brokerage JLL has made a strategic hire responsible for advising commercial real estate clients on their energy needs related to solar, wind, electric vehicle charging and storage.

Kristy David has joined JLL as a senior vice president on its clean energy and infrastructure advisory team. Based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, David is expected to play a key role in advising public- and private-sector clients on achieving clean energy and sustainability goals.

The move comes as a growing number of local governments have set net-zero carbon targets that are requiring cities, municipalities and individual building owners to assess how they build, operate and power commercial properties to achieve reductions in emissions. This is according to JLL's recently released "Decarbonizing Cities and Real Estate: The U.S. Landscape from a Global Perspective" report.

“Kristy will strengthen the depth of JLL’s financial advisory capabilities in the renewable and clean energy, infrastructure, advanced fossil and industrial sectors, where she has worked to close multi-billion-dollar projects domestically and internationally,” Managing Director Josephine Tucker, head of clean energy and infrastructure advisory at JLL, said in a corporate statement.

David brings more than 15 years of experience in project finance, commercial due diligence and public-private partnerships, most recently as a vice president with Greengate LLC where she advised on multisource financing deals and performed financial, market, credit and probabilistic analysis. David holds a master's in international finance and international energy policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's in economics from New York University.

Pine Tree has promoted Conor Bossy to chief investment officer of the Northbrook, Illinois-based retail real estate firm.

In his expanded role, Bossy will continue to manage Pine Tree's acquisition strategy while originating key relationships for the firm.

Bossy joined Pine Tree in 2015, and since then has overseen more than $1.1 billion in shopping center acquisitions totaling over 6 million square feet. He most recently served as an executive vice president and director of acquisitions at Pine Tree.

Architecture, planning and interiors firm RDC has promoted Jackson Thilenius to senior principal of its hospitality and interiors practice group.

In his expanded role, Thilenius will continue to run an international practice providing integrated interior design, branding and procurement services across the hospitality, workplace, retail and residential sectors for clients including Hilton, Equinox, Marriott, Starwood, Pacifica Hotels, FivePoint, Avalon Bay Communities, CIM, LaserFiche, Skanska and IHG.

Thilenius is a licensed architect with more than 30 years of design experience in hospitality, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, urban planning, art installation, interiors and bars and restaurants across the United States, as well as in Hong Kong, Manila, China, England, Costa Rica, Italy and Spain. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has served as a freehand drawing instructor and design critic.

Phil Geiger has joined Stream Realty Partners as a managing director in the firm's Chicago office.

In his new role, Geiger will focus on tenant representation, transaction management and new business in the office property sector, partnering with Brian Duffy and Patrick Russo to accelerate the platform's growth.

Geiger joins Stream from JLL, where he most recently served as a managing director after joining the firm in 2004 as an associate. Throughout his career, Geiger has focused on large-scale occupiers and multimarket companies in the technology, trading and nonprofit industries.

Sigmund Schorr has been promoted to senior vice president of NAI James E. Hanson in Teterboro, New Jersey.

Schorr joined the firm in 2009 after its acquisition of Schilp & Co. and since that time has focused on land sales across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Over the past 13 years, Schorr has completed 130 transactions spanning 783 acres and 650,000 square feet with a total consideration of nearly $87 million.

The brokerage firm also promoted Joseph Vindigni to vice president. He also joined the firm after the Schilp & Co. acquisition. Vindigni specializes in the office sector and has completed more than 150 transactions spanning 625,000 square feet and valued at nearly $35 million since 2009.

Joseph Khouri has been promoted to senior vice president with CBRE in Cleveland, Ohio.

Khouri is a 20-year commercial real estate industry veteran who joined CBRE in 2013 and is a member of the brokerage's advisory and transaction services group, where he represents retail property owners and occupiers in lease and sale transactions throughout the country. With this promotion, Khouri becomes the first CBRE Cleveland retail professional to be promoted to senior vice president.

The brokerage firm also promoted Kevin Moss to first vice president. He also is a member of the advisory and transaction services group and becomes the youngest CBRE Cleveland professional to hold that title. Khouri and Moss both focus on retail and together have executed more than 500 transactions in excess of 2.5 million square feet, resulting in over $500 million in total consideration.

Avison Young has hired Emily Marquardt as a vice president and agency leasing broker in the firm's Chicago office.

In her new role, Marquardt will focus on office leasing services throughout greater Chicago, reporting to Damla Gerhart, Avison Young principal and managing director.

Marquardt most recently served as a vice president at Telos Group, where she represented building owners in the leasing and marketing of roughly 8 million square feet of commercial space with an aggregate value of nearly $2.02 billion.

St. John Properties has promoted Michelle Van Newkirk to assistant vice president of contracts.

Van Newkirk most recently served as a director of contracts for the Baltimore-based commercial real estate firm that has developed more than 22 million square feet in nine states. She has been with the company since 2006.

In her expanded role, Van Newkirk will continue to support the acquisition department with drafting and implementing transactional documents covering the sale of real estate assets, in addition to overseeing a team that handles research activities related to property deeds and transaction information.