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California People and Company News, Week of Dec. 12, 2025
- Josh Caruana has joined CBRE as market leader for its Los Angeles North region, overseeing operations in the Glendale, Woodland Hills and Oxnard offices. He joins CBRE from Marcus & Millichap, where he built a strong track record in brokerage and sales management across Southern California and then was tapped to lead the Indianapolis office as regional manager.
- Construction management firm Suffolk has hired Roger Moore as a VP and project executive based in the San Francisco office. He will drive business development opportunities in Northern California’s rapidly growing healthcare sector and leverage his track record in overseeing high-profile projects throughout the West Coast region.
- First Draw Capital is a new Los Angeles-based real estate capital advisory firm founded by Antonio Hachem and Kyle Redmond and arranging debt and equity for private and institutional sponsors across the country. The founding team at First Draw Capital has a strong track record of executing complex real estate financings. The founders held senior roles at Slatt Capital, following successful tenures at George Smith Partners.
- SRS Real Estate Partners expanded of its industrial platform with the addition of three professionals in the Newport Beach office. Ian Diaz and Tyler Gebauer join as VPs, and Sean Harlow joins as an associate. All three come to SRS from Marcus & Millichap.
- Westwood Financial, a 55-year-old retail real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles, has closed on the recast and $145-million upsize to its corporate credit facility, increasing it to $470 million. The expanded facility includes meaningful spread compression and provides additional capacity and flexibility to support the company’s continued growth. Both the term loans and the revolving facility mature in 2029, with a one-year extension option.
- LightBox, a leading provider of commercial real estate data and technology solutions, has added automated sales and land comps to its Fundamentals Platform. The company says this provides commercial real estate lenders with a clearer, faster and more defensible way to understand the valuation logic inside their appraisals.
- Armis, a cyber exposure management & security company, formed a strategic partnership with KODE Labs and IntelliBuild to help organizations unify cybersecurity, operational intelligence and governance for building lifecycle management. The joint offering combines Armis’ continuous asset intelligence with KODE Labs’ performance trends and analytics, which are then operationalized by IntelliBuild’s governance and reporting.
- Rently, a resident lifecycle management platform designed for single-family and multifamily operators, announced its integration with AppFolio. Rently’s property listing and touring solution is now available in the AppFolio Stack Marketplace to streamline leasing operations, automate showings and improve lead tracking for both single-family and multifamily properties.
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