9/7/12
Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. has named Managing Director John Huguenard to international director.
With more than 27 years of experience, Huguenard serves as managing director and leader of the firm?s industrial capital markets.? He specializes in industrial investment sales for institutional and corporate clients as well as private owners of real estate.? Huguenard has earned national recognition several times as one of the nation?s top commercial brokers, according to Real Estate Forum. In 2011, Huguenard was named co-MVP for top production in the firm?s capital markets.
Huguenard is a graduate of Indiana University where he earned his bachelor?s degree.?He also earned the professional designations of Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and Certified Commercial Investment Member.
9/7/12
ECS Midwest LLC has named Ali A. Bagherian as a principal engineer of their Buffalo Grove Office.
Bagherian joined ECS Midwest in February of 2012 as the construction services department manager.? He possesses more than 22 years of experience as a project leader, managing major construction materials, geotechnical and environmental projects.
Bagherian?s experience lies within all facets of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal projects.
9/7/12
Krusinski Construction Co. has promoted Dominic W. Valvano to project manager.
Valvano, 32, of Wheaton, joined Krusinski Construction Co. in 2005 as a project engineer. He has been instrumental on several successful projects, most recently for a Fortune 20 client with projects located in Mississippi and Tennessee.
Valvano is LEED accredited and a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master?s degree of architectural studies in building construction and an MSCE in construction management.
9/7/12
Norm Shipley has joined Holland Construction Services as senior project manager with a focus on healthcare construction.
Shipley brings more than 28 years of experience in healthcare construction and real estate.? In his new role, he will be a project manager for the Memorial Hospital-East project, a $118 million joint venture project with Pepper Construction Group that will begin construction in the spring.?In addition, Shipley will be responsible for strategic planning and implementation of healthcare business development.
Shipley holds a bachelor?s degree in civil engineering from Missouri S&T and comes to HCS after serving the last eight years at Murray Co. where he focused on constructing community hospitals in Southern Illinois.
9/7/12
Clint Moreno has joined Syska Hennessy Group Inc.?s Chicago office and will serve as part of their re-launched Information and Communication Technology practice.
Syska?s ICT practice will focus on a blend of products including information technology, security, audiovisual, building automation, fire life safety, medical communications and intelligent building systems to provide support and solutions for any organization looking to upgrade and converge its IT platform with communications.
Moreno will be responsible for providing technical direction and guidance, as well as hands-on project management, for the ICT practice within the Chicago and Midwest. Moreno has approximately 15 years of ICT-related project experience, including simple office structured cabling layouts, UPS systems, collocation data centers, large office spaces, warehouses, hotel/condo buildings and trading floors.
9/7/12
Elizabeth Berlinsky has joined the national real estate law firm Pircher, Nichols & Meeks as an associate in its Chicago office.
In her new position, she will focus on representing both landlords and tenants in commercial real estate leasing transactions.
Prior to joining Pircher, Berlinsky was an associate at Holland & Knight LLP. She has significant experience drafting and negotiating office, retail and industrial leases and ancillary lease documents on behalf of both landlords and tenants; purchase and sale agreements and related closing documents for both acquisitions and dispositions of commercial property; and real estate covenants and license agreements. Berlinsky has represented corporations, pension funds, private equity groups, individuals, municipalities and other governmental entities in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions. She has also worked closely with attorneys in banking and corporate groups to close large-scale, multi-state transactions involving the acquisition of distressed debt portfolios.
8/31/12
Lorraine Adney has joined the Chicago office of RKF as a vice president.
Adney previously served as director of the Midwestern division at The McDevitt Co., where she assisted national 
and international brands in developing retail networks in the United States and in Europe. Prior to joining The McDevitt Company, Adney was a vice president at Baum Realty Group where she was charged with building the company?s fashion tenant representation business. She also previously worked at Jones Lang LaSalle as vice president, retail and director of tenant representation responsible for the company?s tenant representation business in the United States.
Adney began her career working for retail owners and developers. At The Rouse Co., she was responsible for the development of merchandising strategies for new malls and redevelopment projects. On behalf of The Taubman Co., she served as leasing agent responsible for developing and managing properties in the Washington, D.C. market and throughout the country. She also worked at Homart Development Co. in Chicago where she was responsible for enhancing value in regional shopping centers by optimizing rent, merchandise mix and occupancy.
8/31/12
Ryan Companies US Inc. has promoted Eric Abrams to project manager II.
In his new role as project manager II, Abrams is responsible for estimating, coordinating projects, managing the city approval process and overseeing the entire design-build process.
During his five years at Ryan Abrams has worked on such complex projects as the Loyola Center for Health at Burr Ridge, a three-story, 105,575-square-foot medical office building in Burr Ridge, and the KONE Centre, an eight-story, 121,000-square-foot mixed-use building at Bass Street Landing in Moline.
8/31/12
Helmkamp Construction Co. has promoted Joe Stange of Godfrey, Ill., to director of industrial construction.
Stange is responsible for Helmkamp projects at Dynegy, COP, Ameren, Olin, Dominion and Clean Coal Solutions.
Stange joined Helmkamp in 2001 and has spent a significant part of his career on power generation projects. He has been the project manager for a $45 million FGD civil work project at the Dynegy Baldwin plant in Baldwin, Ill. Stange has a bachelor?s degree in construction management from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and has 30 hours of OSHA training.
8/31/12
James Maher has been promoted to project manager from project engineer at Skender Construction.
Maher joined Skender in 2011 and has helped manage more than 500,000 square feet of interior build-out projects with Skender, including 1871 and JMC Steel, and is currently managing work for Bank of China.
Maher previously worked for W.E. O?Neil Construction Company and holds a bachelor?s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
8/31/12
Anwar Ali has joined MB Real Estate as a senior associate.
Ali was formerly an associate director with Avison Young. As a senior associate for MB Real Estate, Ali will focus his tenant representation expertise in the downtown Chicago market.
Ali has nearly five years of experience in commercial real estate and is an active member of the Young Office Brokers Association and Young Real Estate Professionals. He is a graduate of Williams College and currently resides in Chicago.
8/31/12
Faithful+Gould has promoted Mohamed El-Mehalawi from senior project controls manager to technical director.
El-Mehalawi joined the company in 2011 and has more than 23 years of experience in project management processes, techniques and controls. He has scheduled more than 200 projects with budgets between $50,000 to $100 million for Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.
He obtained a doctorate in industrial engineering from Ohio State University, a master?s degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor?s degree in mechanical engineering from Zagazig University (Egypt).? He is a member of the Project Management Institute, Project Management Institute College of Scheduling, Project Management Institute College of Performance Management, and the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering.
8/24/12
Katherine Calenberg has been promoted to project manager from project engineer at Skender Construction.
Calenberg joined Skender in 2005 from Purdue University, where she received a bachelor?s degree in building construction management. Calenberg has helped manage more than 800,000 square feet of healthcare and senior housing projects with Skender, including St. James Senior Estates and The Residences of Lake in the Hills, and is currently managing the Main Lodge at Hoover Forest Preserve project.
8/24/12
Faithful+Gould has promoted David R. Scott from executive project manager to operations director.
Scott joined the company in 2010 and brings more than 29 years of professional construction and project management experience. He is a graduate of Bradley University with a degree in construction management and is?actively involved with a variety of industry organizations including the Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum and the Construction Management Association of America. He recently returned from his fourth mission trip where he renovated homes for the?less fortunate in Brandon, Minn.
8/24/12
Bob Budington has joined MB Real Estate as a vice president.
Budington is a former senior director at Avison Young. He has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and a diverse background in financial analysis, management and construction, marketing and leasing, investment and redevelopment, and acquisitions and dispositions.
Budington is a graduate of Cornell University and an active volunteer for youth hockey and lacrosse teams in his hometown of Winnetka.
8/24/12
William Ziemek Jr. has been promoted to senior vice president of G3 Construction Group.
G3 is a general contractor serving clients in the commercial, medical, industrial, educational and health industries.? Ziemek will orchestrate sales, marketing and new business for G3, with a focus on interior construction improvements.
Prior to joining G3 in 2008, Ziemek was with CB Richard Ellis for 30 years, leaving as director of project management.
8/24/12
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services recently promoted four Chicago area agents to vice president of investments.
This designation recognizes superior achievement by an associate during his or her sales career at Marcus & Millichap and in the investment real estate brokerage profession.
The agents, their office locations and specialties are:
? Benjamin Firestone, Chicago Downtown, seniors housing
? David Gaines, Chicago Downtown, multi-family
? Ryan Engle, Chicago Oak Brook, multi-family
? Sean Sharko, Chicago Oak Brook, retail and net-leased
Previously, Firestone, Gaines and Engle held the title associate vice president investments. Sharko was a senior associate.
8/24/12
Podolsky Northstar CORFAC International recently named Steven Tick, Melissa Podolsky and Adam Tarantur principals of the firm.
Tick was previously a senior vice president in the brokerage division. He joined Podolsky Northstar in 1995 and boasts more than 25 years of industry experience.
Podolsky joined Podolsky Northstar in 2004 as a member of the property management team. She was named to her previous position as senior vice president in 2011 and is also a member of the company?s board of directors.
Tarantur joined Podolsky Northstar in 2005. In just more than six years he became a senior vice president and a member of the company?s board of directors. He has successfully participated in the disposition of more than 3 million square feet of industrial, office, flex and retail properties.
8/17/12
Rabiah Reyome has joined the supply chain diversity team at the Chicago office of Jones La
ng LaSalle.
Reyome, the new vice president of supplier diversity, brings more than a decade of experience in supply chain management and procurement in the corporate real estate field.
Reyome has held numerous positions in supplier diversity and global strategic sourcing. She is active in national industry organizations including the Institute for Supply Management, Sourcing Interest Group, National Minority Supplier Diversity Council, Women?s Business Enterprise National Council and multiple regional organizations.
8/17/12
Cullinan Properties recently added Kellie Schmidt to its roster as corporate marketing manager.
Schmidt will work from the company?s Peoria office. Before joining Cullinan, Schmidt worked
in the insurance industry for State Farm Insurance and Humana Inc. At Cullinan, she will be responsible for promoting the company.
Cullinan also recently promoted Kathleen Cullinan Brill to the position of vice president of real estate. Before joining Cullinan Properties in 2006, Brill worked as a real estate agent with WestTown Realty. She has completed more than 1 million square feet of transactions with Cullinan Properties.
Suzanne Williams has also been promoted, to the position of senior real estate representative. She brings more than 10 years of commercial real estate experience to her new position. She began her career as a leasing representative with General Growth Properties.
8/17/12
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Global Corporate Services has engaged Bradley Migdal as a managing director in its Rosemont office.
Migdal comes to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank GCS from a previous position as a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Credits and Incentives Network practice. He also held the same position with Deloitte Tax, and previously was employed as a litigator with a Chicago law firm and the litigation bureau of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
Migdal is experienced in corporate site selection, business incentives projects and economic development. He specializes in working with state agencies and municipalities to negotiate incentive packages: financing assistance and grants, job credits, training grants, sales and use tax benefits, property tax abatements, and other in-kind benefits.
8/17/12
Studley has promoted Jonathan Metzl from associate director to managing director.
Metzl specializes in tenant representation, handling real estate, acquisition and disposition as
signments for some of the area?s most recognizable corporations including DLA Piper, Mesirow Financial and PotashCorp.
Most recently, Metzl completed deals locally on behalf of Kaufman Hall, Markel Corp. and Pregis Corp. Since joining the firm in 2003, he has arranged more than 2.75 million square feet of transactions for Chicago-based companies.
Metzl volunteers his time at Shriners Hospital for Children and with the Special Olympics.? He is also a member of the Auxiliary Board of the Chicago Architectural Foundation. Metzl is a graduate of Indiana University.
8/17/12
MB Real Estate has hired Jason Kleiman as senior vice president.
Kleiman, formerly a principal at Avison Young, brings 12 years of experience in commercial real estate and tenant representation to his new role where he will manage clients? real estate needs on a national basis. Kleiman is an active member of the community and is a board member for the Highwater Foundation as well as the Canada-U.S. Business Council of Chicago. He is a graduate of Indiana University and currently resides in Chicago.
8/17/12
Koenig & Strey Real Living has tapped Diane Glass to fill a newly-created position as vice president of sales development.
Glass will guide the company?s training and education initiatives.?In this new role, she will be responsible for developing a company-wide education strategy, in addition to overseeing the ongoing operations the company?s comprehensive agent training programs.
Glass joined Koenig & Strey in 2007 as an assistant managing broker, opening offices on the northwest side of Chicago and in the surrounding suburbs.? She holds a master?s degree in education, and was previously a technology trainer for another major Chicago brokerage following a successful career as an agent.
8/10/12
Next Realty LLC has promoted Jack Ramirez to vice president of finance.
Ramirez joined Next Realty in 2003 as controller. He is responsible for financial reporting, exp
ense control, cash reporting and tax related work for Next Realty and its related investment entities.
Prior to joining Next Realty, he served as property controller for The John Buck Company of Chicago, and also at Jones Lang LaSalle and CB Richard Ellis as an assistant controller. He began his professional career with U.S. Equities Realty Inc. in Chicago, where he performed property accounting for various institutional clients.
Ramirez earned a bachelor?s degree in accounting from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is a licensed Real Estate broker.
8/10/12
Amy Ricchiuto has joined Skender Construction as marketing coordinator.
Ricchiuto will coordinate proposals and RFP/RFQ responses and assist in furthering Skender?s communication initiatives. Ricchiuto previously worked as marketing coordinator at Development Solutions Inc. and holds a bachelor?s degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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8/10/12
Scott Deliberto has joined Eidco Construction as a site superintendent.
Prior to joining Eidco, Deliberto was a project manager/superintendent for Metropolitan Pro
perties of Chicago, where he worked on numerous projects including the adaptive reuse of The Metropolitan Tower, a 242-unit residence, and a 13,600-square-foot retail assignment with Chase bank.
Deliberto was also director of construction services and a construction manager for Equity Marketing Services Inc. where his project list included The Metropolitan Tower, The Park Monroe, Park Boulevard, The Columbian, Parkside of Old Town, Avenue East, The Strand, Dockside, 400 N LaSalle and 474 N Lake Shore Drive. He was also president, designer and builder for Deliberto Carpentry Inc.
8/10/12
Chicago-based Lillibridge Healthcare Services Inc. recently named Charles Wagener executive vice president of property management and leasing.
Wagener joined Ventas ? Lillibridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ventas ? from Metropolis Investment Holdings Inc., a German-based company, where he had been a senior vice president responsible for leasing and managing the performance of a portfolio that included 6 million square feet.
Previously, he was vice president of operations for the Chicago region of Equity Office Properties Trust, which included oversight of 55 properties consisting of more than 20 million square feet located in seven states. Earlier in his career he was a senior property manager with Hines Interests Limited Partnership and held several positions with the John Buck Company.
8/10/12
Fitzgerald Earles Architects and Associates has hired Camille Kurowski as an arc
hitectural designer.
Kurowski will oversee design, space planning, construction documentation and overall architectural services for the firm?s clients. Kurowski has degrees in both architecture and interior design, and previously was an architectural associate with DePalma Group in Chicago. In that position, she assisted with construction documentation, architectural design presentations and managing client relationships.
She also is a former design intern with Getty?s and a former vice president of programs for the Interior Furnishings and Design Association. Prior to working at IFDA, she was an architectural associate at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago.
8/10/12
Steven V. Hunter, a partner in the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP, has been selected as one of the 2012 Honorees at the Conversation Awards.
The Conversation Awards seek to highlight the achievements of individuals who are leaders and trendsetters in entrepreneurship, politics, corporate America, entertainment, community service, the arts and more.? Hunter is a trial lawyer representing corporations and lending institutions in commercial, banking, real estate and construction litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country.
8/3/12
Thornton Tomasetti has promoted Thomas D. Poulos to senior principal.
Poulos, who leads the firm?s aviation market sector, has been with Thornton Tomasetti sinc
e 1997. He has more than 20 years of experience leading complex projects for all types of structures, including design-build.
Poulos is a licensed structural engineer in Arizona and Illinois and a licensed professional engineer in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin. He is certified in the practice of structural engineering by the Structural Engineering Certification Board and is registered with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying as a certificated model law structural engineer. He holds a bachelor?s degree in civil engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. and a master?s degree in structural engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
8/3/12
Studley has promoted Eric Feinberg to corporate managing director with its Chicago off
ice.
Feinberg was previously a managing director. A former consultant with Accenture, Feinberg specializes in representing multi-national corporations, financial institutions and non-profits. He has negotiated more than 3.5 million square feet of transactions since joining Studley in 2002. Notable clients include Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the American Bar Association.
A graduate of the University of Rochester, Feinberg earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the past board president of Hostelling International Chicago and a current board member of the Anti-Defamation League.
8/3/12
Next Realty LLC has promoted Marc Blum to president and chief operating officer.
Blum joined Next Realty in 2001 as principal, leading the company?s acquisition efforts. In 20
04 he was given the responsibilities of chief operating officer. As president and chief operating officer, Blum?s diverse responsibilities include acquisition and dispositions, property and asset management, leasing of all portfolio properties, as well as partnership and financial structuring and reporting.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of real estate investment and portfolio management. Blum?s work has encompassed a variety of areas, including acquisition, repositioning and disposition of more than $750 million dollars in real estate assets, financial analysis and due diligence. Previously he served as vice president of acquisitions for Klaff Realty and senior asset manager for Ocwen Financial Corp. and Ocwen Investment Corp.
8/3/12
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has elected John S. Sebree vice president.
Sebree will continue in his role as the national director of the firm?s National Multi Housing Group, a position he has held since November 2011.
Prior to rejoining Marcus & Millichap in 2011, Sebree was a managing director with HFF. Before HFF, Sebree was a successful Marcus & Millichap investment specialist for 17 years. He developed a strong brokerage practice in Chicago and opened the firm?s Indianapolis office in 1996.
Sebree graduated from Indiana University with a major in business.
8/3/12
Tim Lally has joined Skender Construction as safety director.
Lally will oversee all environmental, health and safety plans at Skender and ensure that protection programs are implemented to the highest standards. Lally previously worked as senior safety supervisor at Power Construction and holds a bachelor?s degree in health and safety management from Indiana State University.
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8/3/12
Colliers International | Chicago has added Vice President Joshua Crane to its downtown office team.
Crane, 33, will focus on increasing and maintaining the downtown Chicago office leasing portf
olio, which includes the marketing and leasing of Tribune Tower, a 730,000-square-foot office building located at 435 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Other projects include new developments at 150 N. Riverside Plaza and 108 N. Jefferson St., both located in the Chicago CBD.
Crane?s career spans more than 12 years, most recently as leasing director at Golub & Company where he focused on leasing Class A and B office properties in the Chicago CBD. There he oversaw the leasing of more than 1.3 million square feet. Crane also worked as a leasing representative at Friedman Properties where he focused on the leasing of office space in River North?s historic Courthouse District. His expertise includes landlord representation and the marketing of properties and partnership relations.
7/27/12
Ventas Inc. has appointed John K. Hart to the newly created position of senior vice president and chief information officer.
Hart, 48, joined Ventas from CME Group Inc., the world?s largest futures exchange by trading volume, where he worked for 16 years, most recently as managing director of technology. At the CME, where he supervised a team of 200 IT professionals, Hart was responsible for managing the exchange?s enterprise architecture, business systems, security, telecommunications, networking, help desk and operations.
Earlier in his career he was an assistant vice president at First Options in Chicago, and prior to that he was a senior network architect with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
7/27/12
ECS Midwest LLC has hired Frank Gonzalez as facilities department manager.
Gonzalez possesses more than 20 years of experience in architecture and construction, ranging from design to restoration and preservation, as well as forensic studies.? In recent years, his emphasis has been on high-rise commercial and residential buildings in dense, urban areas.
In his new position, Gonzalez will be responsible for leading the department, which specializes in reserve studies, condition reports, fall protection system auditing, fa?ade ordinance evaluations, and historical preservations.
7/27/12
Andrew Margolick has joined A&G Realty Partners as partner.
Margolick brings 13 years of real estate experience, including five years in investments and acquisitions. He has had a successful career in disposing and restructuring more than 2,000 leases nationwide for both healthy and distressed companies and has saved his clients more than $200 million in leasehold obligations.
Prior to joining A&G, he was a vice president at Hilco Real Estate and president of ARM Consulting.? Margolick is recognized as one of the leading dealmakers in the country, and has represented such companies as A&P, Zales, WorldCom, Bally, The Pantry, Oakley, Panda Express, Mikasa,? J. Jill, Select Comfort, Papyrus,? and Anchor Blue.? At The Margolick Financial Group, Margolick was instrumental in the acquisition of 15 million square feet of enclosed regional mall space, and raised $400 million of investment equity and $1.5 billion of debt.
7/27/12
Steven Hippel recently joined Oak Brook-based Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust as chief financial officer.
Since 2009, Hippel has served as Inland? Diversified?s chief accounting officer.
Prior to joining Inland Diversified, Hippel served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of ORIX Real Estate Capital Inc., directing all corporate and partnership financial reporting, accounting, treasury and tax compliance for a nationwide portfolio of real estate and mortgage assets.
7/27/12
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Global Corporate Services has hired Bradley Migdal as a managing director in its Rosemont office.
Migdal comes to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank GCS from a previous position as a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Credits & Incentives Network practice. He also held the same position with Deloitte Tax, and previously was employed as a litigator with a Chicago law firm and the litigation bureau of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
Migdal is experienced in corporate site selection, business incentives projects and economic development. He specializes in working with state agencies and municipalities to negotiate incentive packages: financing assistance and grants, job credits, training grants, sales and use tax benefits, property tax abatements, and other in-kind benefits.
7/27/12
RE/MAX Suburban recently earned multiple honors from the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network for its outstanding performance in 2011.
The RE/MAX Suburban ownership team of Bob Baker, Jim Nelson Sr., and Jim Nelson Jr., received the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes loyal and dedicated service to the RE/MAX system and to the objectives of providing quality service and continued growth while retaining the affiliation of current RE/MAX agents.
Baker and the Nelsons were saluted for their roles as pioneers in the RE/MAX system, founding one of the first RE/MAX offices in Illinois and then building the largest office network in the Northern Illinois region.
7/20/12
Kurt Knipp has been named chief operating officer at Chicago-based ESD (Environmental Systems Design, Inc.), a company that specializes in the consulting-engineering design of high-performance building systems.
In his new position, Knipp will be responsible for leading ESD?s day-to-day operations. He has more than 30 years of experience with a diverse background in executive management and consulting for a variety of domestic and international companies.
Before joining ESD, Knipp worked as managing director at Lake Pointe Partners LLC, a Chicago-based boutique performance-improvement consulting practice that he co-founded in 2004.
7/20/12
Kate Brannelly recently joined Chicago-based CTLGroup as the firm?s director of marketing and business development.
Brannelly brings a broad range of marketing, communications and business development expertise
to the firm, along with experience in the client-focused practice group marketing concept employed by CTLGroup.
Brannelly will partner with the firm?s practice group chairs to lead the marketing and business development plans for each of their market segments.
Brannelly brings more than 28 years of marketing and business development experience with regional and global architectural and multi-disciplinary design firms. Before joining CTLGroup, she was the chief marketing officer for Legat Architects, where she was responsible for strategic planning, business development and marketing of the firm?s diverse market segments.
7/20/12
Reed Construction has hired Kyle Fread as project manager.
The full-service general contractor has made several new hires in recent months to accommodate the company?s growth. Fread was previously employed by Power Construction in Schaumburg as a project engineer. He brings nearly ten years of experience to his position with Reed and will be responsible for pricing, budgeting, competitive bidding, contract control and scheduling. He will also manage the construction process and daily activities for his assigned projects.
Fread is a LEED AP and received his degree from Purdue University. He currently resides in Chicago.
7/20/12
Tim Binning, broker/owner of RE/MAX All Pro in Bloomingdale and Sugar Grove, and RE/MAX Great American North in St. Charles, recently was named Broker/Owner of the Year, Multi-Office.
The award was presented by the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network at the network?s annual awards event this April.
Binning earned the award based on his successful efforts to keep his three offices thriving despite the tough market conditions faced by real estate professionals today.
As a result of Binning?s leadership, RE/MAX ranks as the market-share leader in all the local markets in which his offices are located, holding more than 30 percent share in each.
7/20/12
Rawly Lantz has rejoined Cawley Chicago Commercial Real Estate as senior vice president.
Lantz represents office landlords and tenants in the Chicago suburban market. Lantz is a market specialist providing expertise to his entrepreneurial and institutional clients through lease and sale negotiations, tracking real time tenants and trends in the marketplace, and preparing comprehensive market analytics.
7/20/12
Daniel Smolensky of The Modal Group has achieved the SIOR industrial designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office?Realtors.?
SIOR is a Washington, D.C.-based international professional organization of more than 3,000 commercial real estate professionals, 2,800 of whom have earned the SIOR designation.
Prior to his founding of The Modal Group in 2008 Smolensky was with First Industrial Realty Trust and CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).??The Modal Group focuses on advising tenants and buyers of industrial and office space.
7/13/12
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has promoted Steven Weinstock to vice
president.
Weinstock currently serves as the regional manager of Marcus & Millichap?s Oak Brook office, a position he will continue to hold.
Weinstock joined the Detroit office of Marcus & Millichap in 2001 as a multifamily and self-storage investment specialist. In 2008, he became sales manager of the firm?s Columbus and Cincinnati offices. He was promoted to regional manager of the Oak Brook office in 2009.
Weinstock received a bachelor?s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and a juris doctorate degree from Wayne State University Law School. He is a certified commercial investment member.
7/13/12
Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has named Tim Franz senior vice president.
Prior to joining Quantum, Franz spent five years at Zifkin Real Estate Group where he was a top performer focused on disposition, acquisition and product leasing.
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7/13/12
MB Real Estate has promoted David Burkards to senior vice president from vice president within the firm?s Corporate Services and Tenant Advisory group.
Burkards joined MB Real Estate in 2002 as an associate and quickly rose within the organization based on his expertise and transaction volume. He has completed approximately 2 million square feet in leases from Chicago to Brazil for clients including Astellas US Holdings, Piper Jaffray & Co., Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, U.S. Bank, and the American Cancer Society. Most recently, Burkards represented Coyote Logistics, one of the nation?s fastest growing firms, with its headquarters relocation and subsequent expansions totaling nearly 150,000 square feet in Chicago.
7/13/12
Mark Gunderson has joined Chicago?s J.F. McKinney & Associates.
Formerly with the John Buck Company, Gunderson joins J.F. McKinney as senior vice president and principal. As a member of the company?s senior leadership team, Gunderson will focus on new business development and specific office leasing assignments.
Previously, Gunderson worked as a senior vice president at the John Buck Company, where he focused on new development projects and leasing. He has worked on a variety of landmark towers in downtown Chicago, including 111 S. Wacker, 155 N. Wacker and The Rookery Building.
7/13/12
Kudan Group?s Adam Salamon recently obtained the nationally recognized broker price opinion resource certification.
The National Association of REALTORS offers BPOR certification to realtors as a means to provide their expertise in the valuation assignment of properties. ?It also gives Realtors the ability to produce reliable CMA?s for their clients. Salamon has been specializing in commercial and retail real estate with Kudan Group since 1999.
7/13/12
The Society for Marketing Professional Services Chicago chapter recently announced its new board for the 2012-13 program year:
- President: Kate Mullaney, CPSM ? Director of Business Development, Cotter Consulting
- Immediate Past President: Matt Rebro, CPSM ? Director Business Development, Pepper Construction
- President Elect: Megan Briars ? Director of Marketing, OKW Architects
- Treasurer: Megan Muter, CPSM ? Marketing Manager, BauerLatoza Studio
- Secretary: Derek Ward ? Director of Business Development, Frederick Quinn Corporation
- Membership Chair: Shelley Finnigan ? Business Development, Thornton Tomasetti
- Programs Chair: Brie Yaksic ? Regional Manager, Project Development, Guidepost Solutions TDC
- Professional Development Chair: Laura Klancnik, CPSM ? Marketing Manager, Jones Lang LaSalle
- Special Events Chair: Joseph Cushing ? Executive Vice President, Cushing & Co.
- Sponsor Chair: Leann Dockins, CPSM ? Project Development, KJWW Engineering Consultants
- Communications Chair: Steve Nargang, PE ? Vice President, Gage Consulting Engineers
7/6/12
Northbrook-based Pine Tree Commercial Realty has appointed Vatsal Desai to the new positions of creative director and property associate.
Desai, 25, of Carol Stream, will be in charge of marketing and web design, and will assist with development, acquisitions and asset management.
Prior to joining Pine Tree, Desai served as an architectural intern at Gensler Chicago and Gilfillan Callahan Nelson Architects. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he earned a master?s degree in architecture with a concentration in real estate development, sustainable architecture and construction management.
7/6/12
John G. O?Brien has been named vice president and counsel at Attorneys? Title Guaranty Fund Inc.
O?Brien has resigned from the ATG Board of Directors to assume his new responsibilities; Chicago attorney Jonathan Sherry replaced him.
O?Brien, who has practiced law in Arlington Heights since 1972, was president of the Illinois State Bar Association from 2009-10 and is past president and current chairman of the board of directors of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association, an organization he founded in 1994. IRELA, composed of real estate attorneys from all corners of Illinois, is the only bar association that represents the interests solely of real estate attorneys. ATG and IRELA have partnered over the years to advocate for real estate attorneys and the clients they serve.
7/6/12
John Plezbert is the new business development director for the infrastructure and environment division at Chicago-based URS Corporation, a provider of engineering, construction and technical services.
Plezbert comes to URS after logging 40 years of service in the public sector in Chicago. Plezbert worked as the first deputy executive director of the Public Building Commission of Chicago, where he managed an agency with a portfolio of more than $3 billion of capital projects in planning, design and construction.
6/29/12
Ivan Baker, director of economic development in Tinley Park, has been elected to the Executive Board of the OUEDI Economic Development Institute.
OUEDI, founded in 1962, is an advanced multi-year training program for economic development professionals. Sponsored programs are provided throughout the United States and Mexico
As board member, Baker joins 12 economic developers from throughout the country, as well as university officials, to direct and facilitate advanced OUEDI economic development training, which is accredited by the International Economic Development Council.
6/29/12
ARCO/Murray National Construction Company Inc. has welcomed three new hires, Daniel Pratt, Rod Zamparo and Steve Gray.
Daniel Pratt and Rod Zamparo joined the team as project managers. Pratt recently graduated from the University of Illinois with a dual major in architecture and civil engineering. Zamparo has six years of experience and received his degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. Steve Gray has been added as a traveling superintendent, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry. Gray was previously employed at Duke Realty.
6/29/12
Jonathan P. Sherry has been appointed to the board of directors of Attorneys? Title Guaranty Fund Inc.?
Sherry, a real estate broker since 1993, has also been named as a director for two ATG subsidiaries,
The Judicial Sales Corp. and Auctions by ATG, both based in Chicago. Sherry will also serve on the Member Services Committee of the ATG board, where he has been an advisory member for the past two years.
Of counsel to Pedersen & Houpt, a 60-attorney Chicago law firm, Sherry owns and operates a law practice concentrating on residential and commercial real estate, and represents closely held corporations. He has handled all aspects of more than 3,000 real estate and loan closings including title reviews and clearance matters, document and closing statement preparation and reviews.
Sherry also represents developers in all matters necessary to convert apartment buildings to condominiums and incorporates and represents, as corporate counsel, closely held corporations.
6/29/12
Will Crowden has joined Baum Realty Group.
Crowden has been a leader in the commercial real estate industry for more than 10 years specializi
ng in retail brokerage. He has successfully represented dozens of property owners including Macerich, Newcastle Limited and The Sterling Bay Companies and has also performed extensive workout services with many local and national banks, including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase Bank, and American Chartered Bank, helping them dispose of numerous troubled assets.
Crowden is also well versed in tenant representation and has worked on assignments ranging from single store openings to multi-unit national rollouts where he has acted as the point person for real estate site selection.
In 2011, Crowden was retained by New Era Cap Co. He was hired to exclusively represent their real estate interests in a national rollout of flagship, company and outlet stores.
6/29/12
Carol Simpson, a partner in the Simpson Law Office, has been appointed chair of the ATG Trust Company Board of Directors.
Simpson will preside over board meetings, have a seat on key ATG Trust committees, and interact 
with the ATG Trust president and executive staff on long-range planning and financial decisions that affect the company. Simpson was elected to the ATG Trust Board in 1999 and the ATG Board in 2009. Her areas of concentration include real estate, estate planning, trust, tax and agricultural law. She is a member of the Knox County and Illinois State Bar Associations and is a founding member of the Western Illinois Estate and Financial Planning Council.
She earned her bachelor?s degree at Augustana College and her law degree at William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minn., joining the firm of McLaughlin, Hattery, Simpson & Sullivan in 1986, which has evolved over the years into the Simpson Law Office. She previously served as trust officer of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Bushnell, Ill.
6/22/12
Michelle L. Needles has joined Studley as a director with the firm?s Strategic Portfolio Solution
s Group.
Needles will work with the firm?s national transaction management team, providing multi-market transaction services to corporate clients.? She will be based in the company?s Chicago office. Needles joins Studley from CBRE.
A fitness enthusiast, Needles is actively involved in the Chicago running community serving as a race volunteer for the Chicago Marathon and as a training instructor for all race distances. She is also a charity runner with the Chicago Diabetes Project.
Needles earned a bachelor?s degree from Michigan State University.
6/22/12
Opus Development Corp. has hired Mark Bell as a real estate manager in the Chicago office.
Bell will assist in identifying and procuring opportunities in the industrial and residential sectors 
at the local, regional and national levels as well as support the student housing sector in Chicago and the Midwest.
Bell brings five years of industry experience to Opus. Prior to joining the company, Bell was an associate at Colliers International, where he represented corporations and institutions in the acquisition, disposition, leasing and development of industrial real estate.
Bell graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor?s degree in communications and earned his master?s in business administration at DePaul University?s Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business with a concentration in real estate finance.
6/22/12
Joe Pomerenke and Elliot Mata have become partners and shareholders of ARCO/Murray National Construction Company Inc.
Pomerenke, director of business development, has been responsible for developing partnerships with ARCO/Murray?s national clients as well as uncovering new opportunities in Chicago.? Mata is a director of operations, overseeing all operational responsibilities of the Process Division.? Both started with ARCO/Murray in 2005.
6/22/12
Cushman & Wakefield has added three project management professionals to its Corporate Occupier & Investor Services Group in Chicago.
Thomas Fioretti has joined the firm as senior managing director and Midwest leader of the Project Management Group. Bill Starcevich will serve as a managing director of the group, and Jim Becker has been appointed to a project manager position.
Fioretti brings more than 30 years of Chicago area building experience to Cushman & Wakefield, including high level involvement in base building construction and renovation, tenant improvements, pre-construction consulting and full service build-to-suit type projects. For six years, he successfully ran an independent project management firm, Fioretti Associates Inc., where he built a reputation as one of the top project management firms in Chicago. Most recently, Fioretti served as managing director of the Project Management Group at the Grubb & Ellis Co.
Starcevich brings more than 20 years of experience in base building construction and renovation, tenant improvements and pre-construction consulting to Cushman & Wakefield. He has held senior project manager positions with Leopardo Construction, Turner Construction Co., LaSalle/Clune Construction and Fioretti Associates. Most recently, Starcevich served as vice president and senior project manager at Grubb & Ellis Company.
Becker has experience in managing both new construction and interior renovations on behalf of clients, design teams and subcontractors ensuring the successful completion of projects. His previous experience includes serving as assistant project manager for Fioretti Associates. Most recently he served as a project manager at Grubb & Ellis Company.
6/22/12
Industry veteran Steven W. Brown has been named to the new position of president of Baird & Warner Title Services, a division of Baird & Warner Real Estate.
Brown?s arrival marks the launch of the company?s move into the commercial title arena and other related services.
In his new role, Brown will work to grow the title business by expanding the products and service offerings among real estate brokers and attorneys.
6/22/12
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