Cushman grows office lease team; CBRE expands Kentucky group; Colliers boosts multifamily brokerage

Cushman & Wakefield added Zach Wooten and Stephen Clifton as executive directors. The firm is bolstering its office agency group in Atlanta which represents landlords in marketing and leasing buildings. Payton Maxheimer also made the move from Transwestern to Cushman.

The three brokers most recently worked in Transwestern's Atlanta office, where they served on the agency leasing team and worked with local operators, institutional groups and real estate investment trusts.

Cushman & Wakefield also announced that Patrick Mulready joined the firm as a managing director in the firm’s Hartford, Connecticut, office, where he will focus on investment sales and office leasing. He joined the firm from CBRE, where he began his career in 1996 as an appraiser specializing in office building valuations. 

Blake Scinta joined CBRE’s office in Louisville, Kentucky, as a first vice president, handling industrial and logistics transactions, the brokerage said. He will provide leasing and sales services to industrial tenants, landlords and investors.

Scinta was most recently a senior associate at Cushman & Wakefield. His eight-year career includes handling notable lease and purchase deals involving Kentucky clients such as Stellar Snacks, Sealed Air Corp. and IJW Distillery. He is a Certified Commercial Investment Member and a board member of CCIM’s Kentucky chapter. 

Colliers added Chad DeFoor as a senior vice president in its Atlanta office, handling multifamily investment sales, the brokerage said. DeFoor has 20 years of industry experience, including asset management, acquisitions, dispositions and other brokerage involving workforce housing.

DeFoor has sold more than 37,000 apartment units valued at more than $2.6 billion. He is a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute and the Georgia chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management. 

Trammell Crow promoted Jake Marks and Matt Hill to managing director in its Dallas-Fort Worth office, among several promotions nationwide announced by the Dallas-based developer. Marks has worked at Trammell Crow for 24 years and is involved with project financing, venture structuring and industrial investments throughout northern Texas. Hill previously served as a principal and will continue to lead its U.S. debt business.

Trammell Crow also promoted Kevin Hickman to principal in the Dallas office. He previously served as a senior vice president overseeing residential projects. Trammell Crow also said it elevated Gabe Hungerford to principal in its Southern California office. He was previously a senior associate handling multifamily and other projects.

Also named principals were Scott Kirchhoff in the Georgia office, handling residential developments; and Josh Udelhofen in the Midwest office, after prior work as a senior vice president handling multifamily and industrial developments in the St. Louis and Chicago regions.

San Diego-based BioMed Realty, a Blackstone portfolio company and one of the nation’s largest owners of life science real estate, promoted three executives. The firm said it promoted Johan Bostrom to senior vice president of corporate finance and portfolio insights, and John Moshy to senior vice president of development. Prior to the promotions, both were vice presidents.

BioMed also promoted Matt Masterson to vice president of leasing, after he was senior director of leasing.

All three have several years of service at BioMed, which oversees a nationwide portfolio of biotech offices and labs spanning more than 16 million square feet.