xecutive notes
FOREST CITY
ENTERPRISES
Two corporate officers have
risen in the ranks at this
Cleveland-based firm. Linda
M. Kane has been promoted
to SVP, chief
accounting
and adminis-
trative officer.
She will add
to her role of
chief account-
ing officer
Kane such duties as
cash manage-
ment and risk oversight. The
firm has also tapped Charles
D. Obert as vice president
and corporate
controller. He
will now over-
see corporate
external and
internal report-
ing. Previously,
Obert was
Obert assistant con-
troller and vice
president of Forest City Rental
Properties Corp.
for the Carrollton, TX-based
firm’s Motel 6 and Studio 6
brands.
Among his
responsibilities
are developing and executing all
communications cam-
Palmer paigns and
helping to
develop the brands’ strategic
direction. Most recently in his
20-year career, Palmer served
as senior vice president of
marketing for NRT Inc.
position of executive vice president, general counsel and secretary is Lisa Cohn. Previously,
she was SVP and assistant
general counsel. She has been
with the firm since 2002.
joined JLL’s Denver office. Also
serving as a vice president
specializing in tenant representation, Welker brings 17 years
of experience to the post.
ACCOR NORTH
AMERICA
This hotel owner and operator
has added Jeffrey Palmer to
its team. The new senior vice
president will manage all
aspects of marketing, sales
reservations and distribution
AIMCO
Apartment Investment and
Management Co. has elevated
two executives
at its corpo-
rate offices in
Denver. Miles
Cortez, who
first joined the
REIT in 2001,
will now act as
Cortez chief adminis-
trative officer.
He will over-
see various
investment,
community
development
and corporate
functions.
Cohn Taking over
Cortez’ former
CB RICHARD ELLIS
In the firm’s Honolulu office,
Kimberly
Lord has
assumed the
position of
managing
director of
retail services
in Hawaii.
Lord Formerly SVP
of retail asset
services, she will now oversee
the firm’s retail portfolio in the
state and lead its national
strategic retail advisory team
as well as its retail brokerage
operations.
STARWOOD CAPITAL
The new head of debt invest-
ments at the Greenwich, CT-
based investment firm is
William Green. He joins the
company after spending seven
years at
Wachovia
Securities,
managing its
commercial
real estate
securitization,
structured
Green finance, equity
co-investment,
loan servicing, asset management and trading functions. As
global head of real estate capital markets, he led the firm’s
expansion into international
markets and helped to grow
capital deployment for the
group nearly tenfold. At
Starwood, he will oversee the
firm’s debt investment business.
Colliers ABR Taps Bernstein as Vice Chair
New York City—Richard Bernstein,
the former president of Trammell
Crow New York, has been named
vice chairman of Colliers ABR Inc.
Operating out of the firm’s headquarters here, the executive will
help guide the firm’s strategic direction and expand its operations,
especially in the area of transaction
management. During his tenure at
Trammell Crow, Bernstein arranged
leasing and
equity deals for
such clients as
JPMorgan
Chase & Co.,
Random House,
Coty, King &
Spalding and
the Chubb Corp. Bernstein
JONES LANG
LASALLE
The Chicago-based company
has added
new execu-
tives to two of
its regional
offices. In
Silicon Valley,
CA, Romy
Zeid will serve
Zeid as a VP, pro-
viding tenant
representation services in
Northern California’s South Bay
and Peninsula
markets. He
comes to the
firm from
Wayne Mascia
Associates,
where he was
a tenant repre-
Welker sentation and
sales specialist
for the past three years.
Meanwhile, David Welker has
DUKE REALTY CORP.
Tim Hain, formerly a senior
leasing associate, is now a VP
of leasing in
the firm’s
Tampa, FL
office. He will
focus on the
company’s
Central Florida
office and
Hain industrial port-
folio and pur-
sue build-to-suit opportunities.
He initially joined Duke’s Atlanta
office in 1998 and relocated to
Tampa in 2000.
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