Jones Lang LaSalle announced it has appointed Brett Miller as the new president of its Canada operations, effective May 14.
Based in Toronto, Miller would oversee the firm’s business across Canada.
Miller joins from CBRE, where, as regional managing director, he ran the firm’s Eastern Canada division for over a decade and grew the firm’s presence significantly. -RTTNews
Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed Gabriel Matar as its new head of hotels for the Middle East and Africa.
Previously, Matar was leading Jones Lang LaSalle hotels team in Paris since 2006. He was also managing the hospitality and tourism division at KPMG for France.
Jones Lang LaSalle announced it has added Paul Berkman, Craig Slosberg, Davie Berke and Justin Haber in New York. The market-leading retail brokers will head the expansion of the firm’s retail tenant representation services in Manhattan.
Berkman joins Jones Lang LaSalle as an executive vice president. Previously, he served as a senior managing director at Newmark Knight Frank Retail, specializing in securing high-profile locations for retailers that are new to Manhattan. Prior to joining Newmark Knight Frank, he was the owner and operator of a 20-store clothing chain.
Slosberg joins Jones Lang LaSalle as an executive vice president. Previously, he served as a senior managing director at Newmark Knight Frank Retail. He focuses on tenant representation, both on a national and local level, and landlord representation, ground-up development, existing residential, office and retail properties. With more than 23 years of experience in retail real estate, he has represented a wide array of retailers and landlords in the tri-state area. Prior to joining Newmark Knight Frank Retail, he was vice president of commercial brokerage and management for Grenadier Realty Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Starrett Corp.
Berke joins Jones Lang LaSalle as a vice president. He previously served as a director with Newmark Knight Frank Retail, executing numerous transactions on including the rollout of several national and local chains. He has provided tenant representation services to a diverse array of clients ranging from the food industry to clothing and apparel to associations.
Haber joins Jones Lang LaSalle as an Associate. Previously, he served as an associate with Newmark Knight Frank Retail. Haber specialized in tenant representation and landlord leasing services. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang LaSalle announced the appointment of Paul Betts as EMEA head of logistics and industrial, effective immediately.
Betts will continue to be based in Paris, reporting to Jones Lang LaSalle’s EMEA management board through international director, Richard Batten.
Jones Lang LaSalle announced that on April 02, 2012, John Lambert will assume oversight of the firm’s retail business throughout Florida. He is based in Orlando.
Lambert reports directly to Steve Yenser, national director of retail markets. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang LaSalle has promoted Nigel Freshwater from investment sales to WA head of sales and investments.
Ben Widdowson has been promoted to WA head of industrial.
Stuart Parry and David Ivey have been promoted to joint heads of valuations and advisory in WA. -WA Business News (Australia)
Jones Lang Lasalle announced the appointment of Jan Pope, who has been named the head of corporate solutions’ West region, effective immediately.
As the head of corporate solutions’ West region, Pope will be responsible for continuing to deliver the value-added integrated real estate services that corporate clients need to further their business. She will also be responsible for creating stronger partnerships between the firm’s markets organization and its corporate solutions clients to ensure that they are benefitting from the entire Jones Lang LaSalle platform.
As the Southwest Market director since 2008, Pope was instrumental in driving growth and expanding business lines. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Svetlana Yarova, a professional with a unique experience on the retail property market, is appointed as head of high street retail.
Yarova will be strengthening Jones Lang LaSalle high street retail department and manage relationship with landlords, tenants and investors.
Yarova has a longstanding real estate experience. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle she worked in Astera Group as a commercial real estate consultant since 2003. From 2006-2008, she held senior positions in company’s planning department, and since June 2008, she was head of retail agency. -SKRIN Market & Corporate News
Jones Lang Lasalle has appointed Mark Wynne-Smith as global chief executive of its hotels business. Wynne-Smith, currently EMEA chief executive of the hotels business, will take over the role from Arthur de Haast at the start of next year. De Haast, who has been combining the hotels business chief executive role with a number of other leadership remits, will become chairman of the hotels business.
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that it has named Tom Bayne-Jardine is to succeed Bill Monk as lead director of the corporate solutions UK business group.
Monk will assume the role of chairman, supporting Bayne-Jardine, and continue to lead key client relationships.
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Tracey Byer joins as head of JLL’s markets corporate solutions initiative in the UK.
Byer joins from DTZ, where she held several senior roles, most recently head of sales for UK property management. Before then, she worked for Grubb and Ellis Europe, where she led the EMEA corporate services team, and before then was vice-president at Johnson and Higgins UK & US.
Jones Lang Lasalle has appointed two new EMEA research directors.
Robert Stassen will be the new head of EMEA capital markets research. Stassen joins from Credit Suisse, where he was he was a senior equity analyst covering European property stocks.
Andrew Burrell becomes head of EMEA forecasting. Burrell was previously chief economist at consultancy King Sturge.
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Terry Stieve has joined as executive vice president. He will be based in the company’s St. Louis office.
Stieve will focus on strengthening and developing client relationships among industrial investors and occupiers in the region.
A 22-year veteran of the St. Louis commercial real estate industry, Stieve most recently worked for Cassidy Turley, where he served as a senior vice president and principal since 2001. He also spent four years as a broker for Trammell Crow and, before that, worked for nine years at Cushman & Wakefield. He also is a former offensive lineman with the St. Louis Cardinals football team. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Jones Lang LaSalle announced that Neal Warling has joined as senior vice president and Newcombe Clark has joined as vice president for office and industrial brokerage.
Warling and Clark will serve clients in Ann Arbor and western Michigan and specialize in landlord and tenant representation.
Warling founded Bluestone Realty Advisors in 2005.
Clark is also from Bluestone Realty Advisors, where he was a founding associate and partner. -Detroit Free Press (Michigan)
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that it appointed Alistair Meadows as head of its international capital group, Asia-Pacific (ICG), effective August 2010.
Mr. Meadows, a capital markets specialist, will be based in Singapore. He will work alongside Andrew Martin, a member of the ICG based in Sydney, Australia, and Stuart Crow, head of Asia-Pacific capital markets in Singapore, to help drive the expansion of the firm’s global capital markets business. Mr. Meadows will focus on facilitating cross border capital flows and investment transactions, driving sources of capital especially in Korea, China and South-east Asia, to invest outside of the Asia-Pacific.
Mr. Meadows has 15 years of international real estate experience within the Asia-Pacific and Europe, and joins JLL from DTZ Sydney, where he held the role of regional director, capital markets. During his tenure with DTZ, he was responsible for major cross border investment transactions, with both in-bound capital to Australia and out-bound capital to Europe and Japan. -The Business Times Singapore
Jones Lang Lasalle also announced that Richard Haig and Phil Dowd will join as vice presidents and Denise Rispolie will join as sales representative in the firm’s Toronto tenant representation practice.
Haig, Dowd and Rispolie specialize in representing corporations in office leasing transactions in the Greater Toronto Area, and have worked on transactions with many of Canada’s leading corporations. They collectively bring more than 50 years of commercial real estate industry experience to the firm, and are all active members of the Toronto business and civic community. -Canada News Wire
Jones Lang LaSalle announced the expansion of its energy and sustainability services group with the establishment of a comprehensive solar power solutions capability, led by industry veteran David Gralnik, who recently joined as senior vice president.
Gralnik will lead the solar power solutions team to assess client portfolios and determine the potential for generating power for property occupants to use or to sell to local utilities, consider all cost/benefit factors, including taxes, incentives and financing options as well as upfront costs and operational savings, negotiate contracts for building owners, including power purchase agreements with occupants and/or lease agreements with solar developers, as well as manage projects to ensure proper installation without disruption to tenants or employees. He will be based in the San Diego office. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle has announced that Togrul Gonden joins the company’s Moscow team as a head of retail property management.
Togrul will support the team with the 2 new instructions (5th Avenue and GALERIA shopping centers) and the set up of the retail operations in Russia. He will be reporting to Dirk Wichner, European director, head of property management services.
Togrul joined Jones Lang LaSalle in 2006 and worked in in the Berlin, Munich and Istanbul offices. -SKRIN Market & Corporate News
Chris Browne has rejoined Jones Lang Lasalle as a managing director to head integrated facility management services for the Americas. He will be located in the Chicago office.
A recognized expert with a 25-year track record in facility management and client services, Browne will be responsible for enhancing and growing the IFM platform by driving innovation, recruiting and retaining key talent, ensuring client satisfaction and attracting new clients.
Most recently, Browne was responsible for Hewlett-Packard’s global property portfolio as vice president-global service delivery. Previously as a senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, he held various leadership positions including regional director for global corporate services in the Eastern U.S. and Latin America, head of facilities management EMEA and global head of facilities management. In his prior tenure at Jones Lang LaSalle, he led the growth of the firm’s facility management portfolio in the Northeast and Southeast regions of the United States and managed one of the firm’s key accounts. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle announced three international directors promotions in its Singapore office.
Chris Archibold has been appointed head of markets, Singapore.
Archibold joined the Firm in 1995 and has over 18 years experience advising both investor and developer clients within Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East regions. As Head of Markets, Singapore, Chris is responsible for the delivery of transactional and advisory services.
Susheel Koul has been appointed head of regional business development for integrated facilities management, Asia-Pacific.
Susheel has extensive experience working with high profile clients to establish business solutions and strategies, best practices, audit and due diligence, building business cases and obtaining internal client consensus on outsourcing decisions. Susheel joined Jones Lang LaSalle in 2001.
Marina Krishnan has been appointed head of integrated facilities management, South Asia.
Krishnan is responsible for the provision of facilities management solutions to corporate clients in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. She also holds the title of Head of Regional Accounts in Asia Pacific, responsible for global and regional facilities management client accounts operating in the region. She joined the Firm in 1999 and has over 20 years experience in the real estate industry.
Jones Lang LaSalle hired three long-standing industry experts to lead its Americas real estate investment banking (REIB) business and assume executive leadership roles for the company’s Americas capital markets business.
Thomas O. Fish, Michael J. Melody and Thomas J. Melody will steer the company’s Americas REIB business as executive managing directors. The trio will partner with Americas capital markets president Jay Koster and the capital markets leadership team to help drive the expansion of the company’s overall Americas capital markets business. They will focus on expanding and driving a REIB business that currently has a foothold in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C., with an emphasis on helping create a fully integrated investment sales and REIB business across the Americas. They all will be based in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Houston office.
Recently departed CB Richard Ellis, and with more than 75 years experience between them, the trio has been responsible for the completion of debt and equity transactions over the past decade. The three principals have a long history operating as strategic partners, with the Melodys having formerly helped build L.J. Melody in its pre-CBRE days. Fish joined the team in 1996 upon CB Commercial’s acquisition of L.J. Melody. Collectively, following the acquisition, they helped develop L.J. Melody into one of the nation’s largest real estate investment banking firms. L.J. Melody & Company changed its name to CBRE Melody in 2005. Each served as vice chairmen of CBRE, and individually held various positions during their CBRE tenure including co-CEOs of the debt and equity finance group, president of CBRE Capital and head of the Southwest Region for the debt and equity finance group. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle announced the appointment of David Macadam as head of retail division, a newly created business unit in the MENA region. This newly established division will provide development advisory, leasing and management services to all retail clients throughout the region.
Macadam has over 28 years experience in the commercial, residential, mixed-use and retail real estate industry. He has completed projects throughout the Middle East and Canada. As a GCC based senior executive for nearly six years, he has been responsible for leasing, mall design, merchandise mix and viability analysis of iconic retail projects including Dubai Festival City and Dubai Mall. He is a member of the Dubai Real Estate Regulatory Authority and the Middle East Council of Shopping Centres.
Jones Lang Lasalle appointed Thierry Delvaux as a managing director with the firm’s international desk.
Delvaux is relocating from Budapest, Hungary, to set up the new international desk hub in D.C., and will target and accelerate the growth of inter-regional business, particularly from current and prospective U.S.-based multinational clients, while also advising on individual transactions.
Prior to this role, Delvaux was the country manager for Jones Lang LaSalle in Hungary and Romania.
Jones Lang Lasalle has named Mike Ellis as director of its Mid-Atlantic market.
Ellis is currently responsible for agency leasing in D.C. as well as JLL’s national agency brokerage in North and South America. He will replace David McGarry who is now JLL’s director of Markets East.
Ellis joined JLL in 1997 when it merged with Jones Lang Wooton.
Jones Lang Lasalle also added Brian Connolly as a vice president on the leasing team.
Connolly previously served as a vice president with Richards Barry Joyce & Partners.
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that industrial-leasing specialist Jim McCahon had joined the firm’s Philadelphia office as vice president.
McCahon will be responsible for assisting clients in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware markets in site selection, tenant representation, and the disposition/acquisition of industrial real estate.
McCahon had been vice president of acquisitions at Patriot Equities. -The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Ann Sperling has been appointed chief operating office for the Americas region effective this month.
Responsibilities for this critical role include driving execution of the Americas regional plan, leading the Americas management committee in developing and implementing key operating policies, overseeing the region’s planning process and compensation program, integrating support functions with the businesses and driving continuous improvement of business processes to maintain the firm’s high standard of client service.
Sperling will succeed Bill Thummel, who has held the position since 2005 and has been named to the newly-created chief operating office role for the firm’s global corporate solutions organization.
Sperling and Thummel will work together in the coming weeks to ensure a smooth transition.
Previously, Sperling was managing director at Catellus Development Group, a national mixed-use development company and wholly owned business of ProLogis. As the chief operating executive for Catellus, she oversaw strategy, finance, operations and marketing. She joined Catellus following the CBRE/Trammell Crow merger, capping a 25-year career at Trammell Crow during which she rose from her first job in retail leasing to become senior managing director and area director for the firm’s Rocky Mountain region. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle has promoted four executives to senior-level positions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Geno Coradini has been named managing director in retail outsourcing services.
In addition, the firm named Christopher Fernandez as vice president of corporate solutions-Sabre account in Southlake.
Brian Oley was named as vice president of mission critical solutions in Dallas.
Randy M. Rayford was named as vice president of project and development services in Fort Worth. -Dallas Business Journal
Jones Lang Lasalle promoted associate director Craig Wallace to national director in Scotland after significant growth in the planning and development division.
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Daniil Vladov has been appointed the head of the representative office. Previously he was the head of the company’s sales area department.
Jones Lang Lasalle has announced that Andrew Gould, currently head of its professional advisory group, is to become chief executive of its English business in July 2009. Gould replaces Andy Mottram, who has been head of the English business for four years.
Jones Lang Lasalle has hired Scott Watson as senior vice president, in the agency leasing and tenant representation team. The firm has also appointed Glenn Thackeray and Tyler Kenny who join the team as sales representatives in an ongoing effort to bolster the firm’s presence in the growing GTA West market. This team joins from a large national brokerage and will all be based in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Mississauga office. Scott Watson has 10 years of experience in suburban office leasing focusing on both landlord and national tenant representation. Glenn Thackeray will specialize in suburban office leasing, landlord representation. His recent assignments include heading portfolio leasing for a major Canadian financial institution’s one million square foot Metro West portfolio. As sales representative for the office leasing team, Tyler Kenny will focus on suburban tenant representation for expansion, renewal and subleasing assignments. Kenny holds a bachelor in business administration from the University of Prince Edward Island. Additionally, Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Nathan Marks as industrial research analyst. He joins from RealNet Canada. -Canada News Wire
Jones Lang Lasalle named Susan Ruby as vice president and director of its industrial services in Florida. Ruby, who is recognized as one of the area’s top industrial brokers, spent more than 20 years in the Orlando office of Cushman & Wakefield of Florida. She was recently director of industrial brokerage services for the office. Her background includes tenant and landlord representation, industrial land and facility sales, industrial development and build-to-suits.
Jones Lang LaSalle named Paul Whitman as president of its Dallas-Fort Worth segment. Whitman will oversee 500 professionals working in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Kansas City real estate markets. Whitman has spent almost four decades in the commercial real estate industry and has negotiated more than 10 million square feet in lease transactions. He previously was with The Staubach. The company also announced that Jim Yoder has been named investor services director for Dallas. In this role he will oversee agency leasing, property management and coordination with investment sales. Yoder, formerly with Trammell Crow, has 22 years of commercial real estate experience and joined Jones Lang LaSalle a year ago to serve as managing director in the firm’s Dallas office.-Dallas Business Journal
Jones Lang Lasalle promoted Stan Stec to manager of its global finance operations. He was global controller.-Chicago Sun Times
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that it has made three management changes that will take effect in January 2009. Alastair Hughes, currently CEO for EMEA, has been named CEO for Asia Pacific, succeeding Peter Barge who will become chairman for Asia Pacific. Christian Ulbrich, who currently leads the firm in Germany, will become CEO for EMEA and join the global executive committee (GEC). In his new role as chairman for Asia Pacific, Mr. Barge will provide strategic oversight of global business line development, while also continuing as chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels until his retirement in 2010. Peter Barge who has previously stated his intention to retire in 2010, in addition to his role as chairman of Asia Pacific, will remain a member of the firm’s GEC with an expanded remit for strategic oversight of global business line development.-PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle announced it has added Shamm Kelly as senior vice president at its San Francisco office. Kelly comes to Jones Lang LaSalle from Colliers International where she worked for more than 20 years. -Contra Costa Times (California)
Joseph Brady, Branson Edwards and Lewis Kornberg joined Jones Lang LaSalle as managing directors. The three were previously with The Standard Group. -Chicago Tribune
Jones Lang Lasalle named Brian Hake as director of administration, corporate solutions, a new position. He was previously global treasurer of the real estate services and money management firm.-Chicago Tribune
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that it has agreed to acquire the assets of The Standard Group. Through the acquisition, The Standard Group’s Joseph Brady, Branson Edwards and Lewis Kornberg will join Jones Lang LaSalle as managing directors. They will be based in Chicago.
Brady has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina and is a member of the ICSC Economics Subcommittee. Edwards has a master’s degree in business administration real estate from the University of North Carolina. Kornberg has a master’s degree in business administration from Washington University, St Louis. An additional 14 employees will join the firm and operate across the United States-in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. -PR Newswire
Jones Lang LaSalle announced that it has agreed to acquire the assets of Klatskin Associates, and Klatskin Associates Management Company, the New Jersey operations of the former Lee & Klatskin Associates, a provider of integrated industrial real estate services in New Jersey. Charles Klatskin, a pioneer in the industrial sector of the real estate industry for more than 40 years, will play a key advisory role for the New Jersey team. The firm’s other principals – Robert Kossar, David Knee, Charles Fern, Joel Lubin and Anthony Scaro – join Jones Lang LaSalle as executive vice presidents. An additional 20 people will join Jones Lang LaSalle from Klatskin.-PR Newswire
Jones Lang Lasalle announced that Charles Doyle, 48, has been named to the position of chief marketing officer. In this role, Doyle has global oversight responsibility for marketing, communications and research in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, with strong links to LaSalle Investment Management and the firm’s global hotels group. He reports to chief executive officer Colin Dyer and is based in London. Doyle’s extensive marketing experience has been focused in the professional services sector. He was most recently the global head of business development and marketing for Clifford Chance, the world’s largest law firm. -PR Newswire
