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California People and Company News, Week of Oct. 30, 2026
- Newmark has hired Justin Rappel as a Senior Managing Director, based in El Segundo. Rappel will team with Executive Managing Director Andrew Briner, Co-Head, U.S. Capital Markets Kevin Shannon, Vice Chairman Ken White, Associate Director Aaron Banks and Senior Analyst Dillan Argue. In his role, Rappel will focus on institutional industrial investment sales and joint venture equity placement. He brings more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience spanning brokerage, acquisitions, development and asset management.
- Kidder Mathews has added Mac Hall to the Century City office as a member of The Solomon Healthcare Advisory Team. Hall joins SVP Daniel Solomon and associate VP Jackie Moeller, focusing on the sale of healthcare real estate. Before joining Kidder Mathews, Hall was with Accenture, where he was a client engagement manager specializing in marketing and advertising.
- Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has acquired the retail investment sales division of Visintainer Group, combining the two most active retail investment sales firms in California’s Central Valley. John Kourafas, CCIM, joins Hanley Investment Group as VP, sales. Jamey Browning joins as transaction manager. Both will remain based in Fresno. Brett Visintainer, CCIM, principal of Visintainer Group, will stay on as a strategic advisor to both teams, focused on clients and 1031 exchange buyers.
- MVE + Partners, an award-winning architecture and planning firm, has announced 17 promotions, including five new Principals, and the expansion of its downtown Los Angeles office. Promoted to principal are Luis Estrada, Paul Kearney, Raymond Albanesi, Tim Beuchat and Joe McClyde. MVE also announced the following promotions across its architectural, planning and technical teams: Senior Associate Partners: Craig Smith, Hakop Musayelyan, Luisa Ceron and Steven Rosier. Associate Partners: Ana Ramirez, Charbel Moumaji and Martin Torres. Associates: Karen Xiao, Andrea Dinsmore, Jason Jia, Ruben Rivas and Kai Parel-Sewell. The firm is relocating its Los Angeles operations to larger offices at The Bloc, 700 S. Flower St., in downtown’s Financial District.
- Skyline Construction announced the hiring of Steve Dunne as Senior Project Executive. With 39 years of construction industry experience, Dunne is recognized for leading complex projects and campus developments for many of Silicon Valley’s most prominent organizations.
- In other news from Kidder Mathews, Andrew Dilfer, SIOR, GLS, has been elected President of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Greater Los Angeles Chapter, and Marc Bonando, SIOR, has been appointed to the chapter’s Board of Directors. Both appointments took effect Oct. 15.
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