JLL's Atlanta office has hired Lauren McNally, who has more than 19 years of commercial real estate experience, to serve as regional manager of property management. In her new role, McNally will lead the expansion of JLL’s property management business, the firm said. JLL’s current portfolio in the Atlanta region contains 80 million square feet in 306 office and industrial buildings. For McNally, who most recently served as director of property management operations at the Brookdale Group, her move marks her return to JLL, where she spent 14 years managing properties across Atlanta. She began her career as a tenant service coordinator at JLL and eventually worked her way up to a vice president and senior general manager role. As a JLL regional manager, McNally will be a member of the Atlanta senior executive leadership team and help drive business expansion and growth initiatives in the region, the brokerage said.

McNally's experience in Atlanta and the Southeast will help JLL expand its property management presence in the region, said Mark Zettl, JLL’s president of property management. “As flight to quality predictions play out, it is important that we have leaders equipped to navigate and best manage existing and future assets to make sure they attract blue-chip tenants," Zettl said in a statement.

Colliers U.S. has tapped business executive and entrepreneur Jeanette Bennett to serve as executive managing director and market leader for its brokerage operations in Utah. In her new role, Bennett will oversee all brokerage operations, business development and the recruitment and retention of employees, Colliers said. She will report to David Josker, president of Colliers' U.S. West region, the firm said. Bennett has founded and expanded companies and is an activist with Utah non-profits, most recently running a media business she founded in the state. Bennett's background has positioned her to "play a pivotal role in driving our brokerage operations forward," Josker said in a statement. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said in a statement that "Jeanette has been championing the state of Utah for more than 25 years as an effective community voice and successful business leader" and "her skills and influence make her uniquely qualified to join Colliers" and lead its brokerage business in the state.

Institutional investment management firm Realterm expanded its capital markets team with the hiring of Minhaj Choudhury as a vice president in the firm’s New York City office. In his new role for the company based in Annapolis, Maryland, Minhaj will be responsible for cultivating new investor relationships and capital-raising efforts along the East Coast for Realterm’s fund products and other ventures. Choudhury, who has more than a decade of investor relations and business development experience, spent the past five years as vice president at Park Madison Partners, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with investment consultants, family offices and registered investment advisers, or RIAs, in the U.S. and Canada. Before that, he worked for nearly four years at Neuberger Berman. Choudhury began his career as an institutional sales analyst at investment firm Blackrock. The addition of Choudhury "underscores our commitment to continuing to grow Realterm’s North American investor base," Christy Gahr, director of North America capital markets at Realterm, said in a statement.

Guardian, a developer, owner and operator of multifamily properties, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Dave White as senior vice president of acquisitions. White will play a pivotal role in leading Guardian's acquisition activities and developing and refining Guardian's investment strategies, the firm said. It also said he will lead Guardian's expansion into new markets. Over the past two decades, White has served in executive positions at Prudential Real Estate Advisors and Pacific Urban Investors, where he was responsible for originating more than $500 million of multifamily and preferred equity investments in the Bay Area, Pacific Northwest and Denver. Guardian President Tom Brenneke said in a statement that White's "experience and approach align well with our company’s mission to rebuild our multifamily acquisitions platform.”

Newmark has hired Ania Jastrzebska to serve as managing director of its global managed services as the firm expands the group's offerings and focuses on lease administration, property accounting and asset management. In her new role based in New York City, Jastrzebska will oversee the continued development of Newmark’s managed services and focus on delivering value to existing and new clients, the firm said. She also will work closely with the brokerage's range of owner and occupier service lines, the brokerage said. Jastrzebska, who has more than two decades of experience in commercial real estate services and outsourcing, has worked in managing services for domestic and international real estate portfolios. Before joining Newmark, Jastrzebska served as managing director of global real estate services and lease management solutions lead at Accenture.

Berkadia has added investment sales broker Christian Overton, who spent the past 12 years at Eastdil Secured, to its hotels and hospitality team. As a senior director based in Washington, D.C., Overton will be responsible for hospitality equity transactions in Berkadia’s national investment sales hospitality group, the firm said. He reports to Berkadia's head of hotels and hospitality, Andy Wimsatt, who said in a statement that Overton's experience and "longstanding relationships with the investment community will strengthen Berkadia's market share growth in the institutional space." During his time at Eastdil Secured, where he most recently served as a senior vice president of its global hospitality practice in Los Angeles, Overton was involved in more than $8 billion of equity sales transactions.

Lee & Associates Maryland, fresh from adding a three-person, mid-Atlantic retail sales and leasing team this year, has expanded its operation with a new broker. Lee said it hired Kristin Rebeck, who has more than 17 years of commercial property brokerage experience, as a senior vice president. In her new role, Rebeck, who specializes in the commercial office, flex office and industrial properties across the greater Washington, D.C., area, including the Maryland suburban Maryland regions, will work with tenants, landlords, investment groups and institutional owners, Lee said. The hiring of Rebeck follows the addition of former Broad Reach Retail Partners professionals Mark Mueller and Glenn Ulick, who joined as senior vice presidents, and Kaitlyn Thomas, who joined as an associate. In addition to KLNB, Rebeck was a broker at Edge, The Tenant Agency and Cresa. Lee & Associates Maryland now has nearly commercial real estate professionals in its Columbia-based operation.