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New York People and Company News, Week of July 11, 2025
- CIM Group announced that financial services leader Paul Weisenfeld has joined the firm as head of national accounts as it continues to grow its Private Wealth Group. Weisenfeld will be based in New York.
- Gantry, reportedly the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., announced three new partners joining the firm’s board of directors as shareholders in the firm’s producer-owned/producer-led private corporate structure. The new partners hold the title of principal and are production leaders in their respective offices: Tom Grzebinski in New York, Joe Monteleone in St. Louis and Mark Reichter in Kansas City.
- Michael Taxin has joined CBRE as a senior managing director, responsible for managing CBRE’s NYC retail business. Previously, he served as senior managing director at Cushman & Wakefield, overseeing the firm’s retail and office brokerage operations in New York City and leading the Stamford and Westchester business. Before that, he managed Newmark’s retail brokerage division in New York City.
- Financial services provider Merchants Capital has added Serah Lee as SVP of originations. Based in the company’s New York office, Lee brings more than 12 years of experience from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, where she originated, structured and closed agency debt financing via Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Commodore Construction, a leading national construction company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Mount Vernon, NY, appointed industry veteran Doron Netanel as its new CEO. He will oversee the company’s current operations, strategic growth initiatives and its expanding pipeline of construction projects. He will also lead Commodore’s future development strategies.
- Thornton Tomasetti hired Karina Williams as CFO, based in the New York office. Williams brings more than a decade of financial leadership experience across diverse industries. Before joining the firm, she was CFO for Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions’ North America region as well as for its global projects and mobile water services treatment business units.
- Electra USA, a leading electromechanical contracting company, appointed Patrick Walsh as the company’s new CFO. Walsh brings more than 30 years of experience leading financial strategy, corporate operations, and business growth across leading construction firms.
- Anchin announced the winners of its 2025 Construction and Design Awards during the firm’s 15th annual celebration, hosted at The Meeting Galleries in Midtown Manhattan recently. This year’s honorees, celebrated for their outstanding contributions to the A/E/C industries in the form of Anchin Legacy Awards, included: ACEC of New York, EJ-Electric Installation Co., Gensler, Langan, New York Building Congress, Perkins Eastman, Shawmut Design & Construction, Subcontractors Trade Association, Thornton Tomasetti and Turner Construction Company.
- The Industrial and Office Real Estate Brokers Association (IOREBA) announced its 2025-26 board officers at the 56th Annual Golf, Tennis and Pickleball Outing held at the Morris County Country Club in Morristown in June. Lorenzo Lambiase of NAI James E. Hanson was installed as president for the 2025-26 term. He is joined by Bree Manchanda of CRE Solutions, LLC as VP, James McGuckin of Marcus & Millichap as secretary and Josh Glussky of Sheldon Gross Realty as treasurer.
- ◦People
