Colliers announced that its executive managing director and market leader for brokerage in the Hampton Roads and Raleigh regions spanning Virginia and North Carolina is shifting roles to prioritize investment sales.

J. Scott Adams, who will remain based in the Norfolk, Virginia, office, will refocus his efforts to become part of a regional capital markets team led by Will Bradley, an executive vice president based in Richmond, and Mark Williford, a senior vice president.

Throughout his career, Adams has completed more than $1.8 billion in investment sales, primarily in the office and industrial sectors. When Bradley's and Williford's transaction numbers are combined the team's total production amounts to roughly $4 billion.

Adams is also credited with leading the firm's stewardship and expanding its business operations in Virginia since 2002, according to the company. In this new hybrid role, Adams will continue to lead its expansion in the Raleigh and Triad regions of North Carolina, an operation he helped launch in 2020.

Colliers has started a search for a new market leader to oversee its central and southeast Virginia markets. Until a replacement is found, Adams will retain his oversight responsibilities for Virginia brokerage markets. The leadership change is not expected to affect local managing directors in place at the company's Norfolk, Richmond and Charlottesville offices.

Ali McEvoy has joined Maven Commercial as a partner with its retail leasing team in San Francisco.

In her new role, McEvoy will continue to focus on retail leasing throughout the region, including the city's prominent Union Square and Financial District areas, according to the company.

“Engaging Ali to our team at such a pivotal juncture will be a big win for current and future clients,” Pamela Mendelsohn, principal at Maven, said in a corporate statement announcing the new hire. “Ali has a significant chronicled past and is highly invested in the future of our Downtown and neighborhoods.”

McEvoy has more than a decade of experience, most recently with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, where she handled direct leasing at San Francisco Centre and Galleria at Roseville and secured deals with Vinfast, See's Candies, Ghiradelli and Pendleton Woolen Mills. She began her retail leasing career with Johnson Hoke, which was acquired by Colliers. During nearly a decade at Colliers, McEvoy amassed a client list of landlords and tenants including Boston Properties, Kilroy, Hines, Beacon Capital Partners, Itoya Japan, Marin Sun Farms, Stussy and Illy Coffee.

BioMed Realty hired Ankit Patel as executive vice president and chief financial officer in the firm's San Diego headquarters, effective Nov. 28.

In his new role, Patel will lead the company's financial reporting, planning and analysis, accounting, tax, treasury, capital markets and information technology functions, reporting directly to Tim Schoen, CEO of the company that offers real estate solutions to the technology and life sciences industries.

Patel brings more than 13 years of real estate experience in the healthcare and life sciences sectors, most recently as a senior vice president of corporate finance and capital markets at diversified real estate investment trust Ventas, where he led financial and strategic planning, external reporting and capital markets functions. His previous roles with Ventas included investor relations, acquisitions and environmental, social and governance, or ESG, efforts.

Before that, Patel worked in investment banking at UBS and management consulting at IBM. He holds a bachelor's in engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Colliers has hired Jerry LoCoco as a vice president in Arizona.

In his new role, LoCoco will continue to focus on landlord and tenant representation, primarily in the Yuma industrial market, in addition to handling leasing, development and project management across various property types in the greater Phoenix area and throughout Texas.

LoCoco brings more than eight years of industry experience, most recently as a senior vice president with Paladin Partners in Dallas. Before that, he was the managing broker at SVN/Commercial Real Estate in Yuma and a vice president and owner of LPC Construction Co. in Yuma. LoCoco holds real estate licenses in Arizona and Texas, a law degree from the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law and a bachelor's degree in housing and urban development from Arizona State University.

International design firm Ware Malcomb has promoted Lori Ambrusch to science and technology studio manager in Washington, D.C.

In her expanded role, Ambrusch will be responsible for leading the firm's science and technology design team in the region and managing select projects for the group.

Ambrusch brings nearly a decade of architecture experience, including five years as a laboratory planner. She joined Ware Malcomb as a project manager in 2021 and handled design and architecture projects for labs and clean rooms. Ambrusch graduated from Penn State with a bachelor's degree in architecture and earned a master's in urban design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in addition to a laboratory design certification also from Harvard.

Molly Hunt has joined Cushman & Wakefield's national industrial advisory group as an associate with its Mountain West team in Phoenix.

In her new role, Hunt will focus on serving the capital markets needs of industrial owners throughout the region. She joins the team led by Executive Vice Chairman Will Strong and Executive Managing Director Phil Haenel. The team also includes Kirk Kuller, senior director; Stephanie Saccente, senior marketing lead; and Callahan Conway, senior financial analyst.

Hunt previously worked as an analyst at Freddie Mac and before that was with a multifamily brokerage team at CBRE. In addition, she has worked on the leasing and sale of industrial, warehouse, back-office and land properties throughout the greater Phoenix area.

Corfac International has added Minneapolis-based Christianson & Co. as the newest affiliate to join its growing global network. The brokerage is the fifth new firm to join Corfac this year, in addition to six new firms that joined the network last year.

Lisa Christianson founded the full-service brokerage firm in 2001 and currently serves as president, principal, owner and broker of the 11-person firm. Christianson & Co. offers full-service brokerage in the office, industrial, retail and land sectors, specializing in tenant and buyer representation.

Prior to founding the company, Christianson founded and then sold the Retail Marketing Group, which focused on marketing shopping malls and neighborhood centers throughout the Twin Cities region. Before that, she worked as an investment broker at a private commercial real estate firm and served as past president of the Minnesota Commercial Association of Realtors, where she was recognized as MNCAR 2019 Broker of the Year. She is active in the Minnesota Shopping Center Association, the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Commercial Real Estate Women’s network.

The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago announced that Phil Stafford, chief operating officer of Colliers in Chicago, has been elected president of the association, effective immediately. He was elected during the association’s 2022 annual meeting held Nov. 17 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

As president of BOMA Chicago, Stafford will guide the strategic direction of the organization.

At Colliers, Stafford oversees business operations for more than 400 professionals across the firm’s Chicago-area offices. He also leads Colliers’ real estate management services division in the Chicago area, overseeing more than 57 million square feet in over 300 properties.

Stafford has been an active member of BOMA Chicago’s leadership since 2010, having previously served as director, treasurer and vice president. He succeeds Derrick Johnson, a senior vice president at Zeller, who completes his two-year term as president this year. Nancy Capadona, portfolio manager at the Hearn Co. was elected vice president; Michael Giese, executive director at Glenstar, was elected treasurer; and Vivian Orozco, assistant general manager of Sterling Bay, was elected as the association’s emerging leader director. They will each hold their positions through 2023.