Brokers Alan Kleber and John Marshall, who left Cushman & Wakefield in South Florida more than a decade ago, have returned to the global brokerage and brought three teammates with them.
The tenant representatives, along with Ryan Nunes, Alex Phung and Emily Ehrlich, jumped from JLL to Chicago-based Cushman & Wakefield, the firm said. Kleber, Marshall and Phung are based in Miami, and Nunes and Ehrlich work out of Cushman & Wakefield's office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Kleber will serve as vice chairman, the highest level a broker can attain, and Marshall and Nunes are executive managing directors. Phung and Ehrlich work as support members for the team.
The team led by Kleber, Marshall and Nunes adds “a strong global client base" to Cushman & Wakefield, Wanda Riley, managing principal of the brokerage's Florida markets, said in a statement. Riley said the team would focus on growing Cushman & Wakefield's South Florida market as well as its business across the globe.
The addition of the team from JLL is part of Cushman & Wakefield's plan to expand in South Florida. In the past couple of months, the firm has hired several new people in the region, including Vivian Gonzalez and Eva Garza. Gonzalez serves as a senior director on the South Florida office tenant representative team, and Garza is a senior managing director with the Total Workplace Americas team.
Kleber had worked at Cushman & Wakefield for 17 years and Marshall for 15 years before they departed for Cresa in 2011. They both worked at Cresa until late 2015, when they made the move to JLL, where they stayed until last week.
During their first stint at Cushman & Wakefield, Kleber and Marshall led the firm’s South Florida corporate advisory practice.
Combined, Kleber, Marshall and Nunes have nearly 70 years of experience in commercial real estate. Nunes has more than 15 years of experience in corporate real estate, having worked with large companies and startups.
Kleber said moving to Cushman & Wakefield would give the team the opportunity to expand their business.