DALLAS — Ashland Greene Capital, a multifamily real estate investment firm headquartered in Dallas-Fort Worth, has appointed two new executives to its management team. Peter Hales has joined the board as chief financial officer. Hales will be responsible for overseeing all financial operations at Ashland Greene, including asset management, accounting, finance and acquisitions. Jesse Rosenstock has secured the position of vice president of finance and accounting. In this role, Rosenstock will lead Ashland Greene’s accounting department and contribute to the development of the firm’s finance department.
CHICAGO — Evergreen Real Estate Group has added Jewell Walton to the newly created position of vice president of public partnerships. In this role, Walton will focus on diversifying the firm’s affordable housing portfolio by partnering with public housing agencies to convert assistance for existing public housing communities to long-term, project-based Section 8 contracts under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program. Prior to joining Evergreen Real Estate Group, Walton served as deputy chief of RAD programming with the Chicago Housing Authority and as a project manager for S.B. Friedman & …
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — JLL Capital Markets has promoted Elizabeth DeVesty to the role of director with the company’s New Jersey investment sales team. DeVesty will be based in Morristown and will primarily focus on multifamily investment sales transactions within the suburban tristate area. She will report to Senior Manging Directors Jose Cruz, Michael Oliver and Steve Simonelli. Prior to this role, DeVesty spent 13 years working with JLL and was most recently an associate at the firm. She earned her degree from Marist College in 2008.
Kristi Nootens, managing director and co-head at CP Capital US, a real estate manager specializing in multifamily investments, sat down with Multifamily Affordable Housing Business (MAHB) to discuss the role of women in the industry and how the market may develop as we progress into the second half of 2023. On Women in Real Estate MAHB: Tell us about yourself and your journey. Nootens: My journey to commercial real estate started in large part because both of my parents worked in the industry. My dad was a mechanical engineer who spent a lot …
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Northmarq has selected Bob Bernard as senior vice president of debt and equity. In this role, Bernard will be responsible for arranging debt and equity commercial real estate financing through Northmarq’s varied lending sources. He will be based in the company’s Long Island office. Prior to joining Northmarq, Bernard managed commercial real estate lending teams at ConnectOne Bank, Webster Bank, North Fork Bank, Capital One Bank and Flagstar. He received a master’s degree in finance and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from St. John’s University in …
DENVER — Avanti Residential has selected Richard Bennion as Managing Director. In this role, Bennion will be responsible for strategic growth and institutional capital relationships. Bennion most recently worked at PEF Advisors, where he led the capital formation of a $100 million fund focused on affordable housing and was a member of the company’s senior leadership team and investment committee. Prior to joining PEF Advisors, he worked at Carmel Partners. Bennion received a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NewPoint Real Estate Capital (NewPoint) has hired Mike Ortlip as senior managing director. In this role, Ortlip will provide financing solutions to commercial real estate owners on a national basis through NewPoint’s Agency, FHA/HUD, Proprietary and third-party loan programs. Ortlip is a member of NMHC, the Mortgage Bankers Association, ICSC and ULI. He will be headquartered in Charlotte. Prior to joining NewPoint, Ortlip most recently served as senior vice president at Grandbridge Real Estate Capital.
LOS ANGELES — Blake Rogers and Alex Caniglia have re-joined JLL Capital Markets as multifamily investment sales producers. Rogers will serve as a senior managing director in the Los Angeles office and lead the greater Southern California multifamily team. He will also join the National Multifamily Housing Council. Caniglia will join as a Managing Director in the San Diego office. Both Rogers and Caniglia spent the last three years with Walker & Dunlop, focusing on multifamily investment sales throughout Southern California. Prior to those roles, they both worked at JLL …
IRVINE, CALIF. — Michael Wesson has rejoined Pearlmark as a managing director. In this role, Wesson will focus on debt investment originations. He also opened Pearlmark’s office in Irvine. Wesson joins Pearlmark from CIBC, where he held numerous roles across nine years in New York and Newport Beach. Prior to working at CIBC, Mr. Wesson served as a vice president at Rockwood Real Estate Advisors. He is returning to Pearlmark, where he started as an analyst and rose to vice president prior to joining Rockwood. He received a Bachelor of …
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — EAH Housing has added Katherine Fleming as Senior Vice President of Portfolio and Karim Sultan as Vice President of Operations and Corporate Governance to its executive leadership team. Fleming will oversee EAH Housing’s asset management and compliance departments, as well as manage the firm’s portfolio. Prior to joining EAH Housing, she served as an asset management executive at BRIDGE Housing, RBC Capital Markets and Resources for Community Development. Sultan previously served as chief operating officer at East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, where he was responsible …