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Harry Klaff Joins Avison Young to Run Client Platform

Harry Klaff has joined Avison Young as president of clients, a newly created role, based in Washington, DC. He will focus on occupier, owner and investor engagement globally, enhancing connectivity across the firm’s service lines and affinity groups.

Klaff joins Avison Young from JLL, where he served as a managing director, specializing in tenant representation. He has more than 30 years’ experience in commercial real estate, completing more than $10 billion in transactions for leading space occupiers.

“We all need to find new ways to realize the full potential of real estate as the world adapts and changes, and our client experience service model leverages real estate for business benefit through our collective intelligence of people and data,” said Avison Young CEO Mark E. Rose. “Harry’s decades of experience mentoring fellow colleagues and leading clients through their needs and challenges makes him purpose-fit to run our client engagement platform.”

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-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 7-10 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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