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JLL Adds Pair to Funds Advisory Business

JLL bolstered its Funds Advisory platform with the hiring of Zaahir Syed and Molly Mahoney. Syed and Mahoney join the firm as Directors and will report to New York-based Jerry Cain, who leads the firm’s Funds Advisory business in the Americas.

Syed, based in Los Angeles, will lead the West Coast effort for Funds Advisory, and most recently served at Lazard Private Capital Advisory. He will focus on all aspects of the growing Funds Advisory business, working with real estate investors covering all facets of capital advisory, including fundraising, vehicle structuring, product sourcing, market strategy, and fund restructurings and recapitalizations.

Molly Mahoney

Zaahir Syed

Mahoney, based in New York, will lead distribution efforts, drawing on over 12 years of experience covering institutional investors. She has developed extensive relationships across pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, consultants and family offices. Most recently, she was a Vice President at Shelter Rock Capital Advisors.

 

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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