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California People and Company News, Week of July 12, 2024
- EQ Office has appointed Kristin Molano as its SVP, Northern California, to be based in San Francisco. She will be responsible for the day-to-day oversight of the existing Northern California portfolio across San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Jose, along with helping to shape company strategy in the region. Molano joins EQ Office from Swift Real Estate Partners, where she was responsible for acquisitions and asset management in the Bay Area.
- Alex Kozakov and Patrick Wade have been promoted to EVP at CBRE. Kozakov and Wade co-lead a retail investment property sales team based in the firm’s South Bay office. They partnered in 2006 and have since completed more than 300 transactions valued at more than $2.6 billion. They joined CBRE in 2013, developing one of the largest and most active networks of investors and capital in the industry.
- Allen Matkins recently elected Melissa K. Bell, Paige H. Gosney, Joseph L. McGeady, Scott Perlin, Stephanie S. Roberts and Jennifer C. Shakouri to the partnership. The new partners represent the litigation, land use, real estate and employment practice groups and are based across the law firm’s San Diego, Century City, Downtown Los Angeles and Orange County offices.
- The Cooper Housing Institute (CHI), an Irvine-based private research foundation dedicated to solving the affordable housing crisis in the U.S., added three new members to its board of advisors, which offers guidance and advice to help CHI address national affordable housing issues. The new members include: Genger Charles, managing director and head of external affairs and impact strategies, Amherst; James Mathy, housing administrator, Department of Health and Human Services, Milwaukee County, WI; and George Searcy, principal, Community Impact Advisors, Orange County, CA.
- Lee & Associates said its Central California office has transitioned from a satellite office to a freestanding office, granting the team access to Lee & Associates’ capital structure benefits. Additionally, the office will aid in growing connectivity, resources, and leadership in the Central Coast region. The Lee & Associates Central California team, which opened as a satellite in February 2023, is led by Chad Brock and Michael Ming.
- StackSource, a Los Angeles-based technology platform for the commercial real estate industry, announced that it has transitioned to an SaaS platform to provide borrowers and brokers lender data and parameters with relevant insight. It will no longer be in the brokerage business. StackSource has data on more than 3,500 relevant lenders and investors and says it will be the only SaaS platform to exclusively work with approved brokers and advisors while providing investors with relevant lending and investment data. The SaaS beta test will launch at the end of July.
- KTGY, an award-winning design firm focused on architecture, interior design, branded environments and urban design, has unveiled a refreshed brand identity, mission and vision: “KTGY, Where Design Lives.” The new ethos reflects the 32-year-old firm’s strategic evolution as a collective of architects, designers, branding professionals and planners. “Our brand evolution lays the foundation for KTGY’s continued success,” said CEO Tricia Esser. “We look forward to working with our clients to realize their visions through inspired design.”
- ◦People
