SparrowHawk Taps Margaret Fitzgerald as CFO

Margaret E. Fitzgerald has been named CFO of SparrowHawk, the Houston-based industrial real estate investment and management firm. Fitzgerald brings more than 20 years of accounting, financial management and compliance experience to the organization.

For the past 14 years, Fitzgerald was an executive with Hines Interests, serving in positions in Houston as well as in Luxembourg.

“The addition of Margaret Fitzgerald, a professional with her extraordinary experience and expertise, immediately puts us in a better position to accomplish the growth plans we have for SparrowHawk,” said SparrowHawk CEO Alfredo Gutierrez. The firm plans to grow to $1 billion in assets under management within the next few years.

As CFO, Fitzgerald will oversee internal and external financial reporting, the annual external audit, investor relations and reporting, forecasting, debt compliance, cash management, financial modeling for acquisitions and leasing, budgeting, and insurance and risk management.

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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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