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Kidder Mathews Plans CEO Transition; Frame Taking Reins from Lyon

Kidder Mathews’ Chairman and CEO, Jeff Lyon, who has led the firm’s rapid growth as the largest privately-held commercial real estate firm on the West Coast over the past 21 years, announced the firm will complete its 3-year succession plan. The firm’s president and COO, Bill Frame, will be promoted to CEO on July 1, 2020.

Brian Hatcher, currently president of brokerage, will become the firm’s president and COO. Lyon will transition out of the CEO role and will remain chairman of the board.

In 1992, Lyon merged his family-owned business with Kidder Mathews. He worked as a broker and consultant and served on the Kidder Mathews board until he was named President and CEO in 1999. He was promoted to Chairman and CEO in 2006. Under Lyon’s leadership, the company achieved record levels of revenue, increasing from $27 million in 1999 to $212 million in 2019, and total transaction volume grew from $769 million to $9.6 billion.

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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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