California + Los Angeles + Finance | August 17, 2023

Berkadia Adds Director, Associate Director in LA

Berkadia added director Chris Tresp and associate director Kenji Thomas to the investment sales platform, based in Los Angeles. They will report to Mike Miner, SVP – co-head of investment sales and production operations.

Before joining Berkadia, Tresp was a VP at CBRE for eight years, and spent three years as a director at Newmark. At Berkadia, Tresp will specialize in multifamily investment and land sales as well as equity placements for ground-up development throughout Southern California.

Thomas previously held roles at Eastdil Secured, The Dinerstein Companies, and JPI, gaining extensive experience in multifamily advisory services and institutional development. He will specialize in multifamily equity and land sales throughout Southern California for Berkadia, as well as portfolio sales and capital structuring for complex real estate transactions.

Pictured: Chris Tresp.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 13-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 15-20 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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