The largest independent commercial real estate firm on the West Coast is getting bigger.

Kidder Mathews recruited three commercial brokerage teams, in the multifamily, retail and land sectors, from CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield to join its offices in greater Los Angeles and San Diego.

Ray Adams and Clark Rorbach have joined Kidder Mathews’ San Diego office as a senior vice president and a vice president, respectively. The multifamily team brings over 40 years of experience in commercial real estate, specializing in investment properties.

Together, Adams and Rorbach have closed over 450 multifamily transactions and completed over 300 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. Prior to Kidder Mathews, both brokers were with Cushman & Wakefield. Adams was with the firm for 28 years, and Rorbach for 11.

Ken McLeod, Alex Vasquez and Patrick Ylagan have joined Kidder Mathews in Los Angeles. McLeod and Ylagan will be based at the firm’s El Segundo office, while Vasquez will work from the newly opened San Fernando Valley location. The retail team was previously with CBRE in west Los Angeles and specializes in investment sales throughout Southern California.

McLeod joins Kidder Mathews as a senior vice president. He has more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience with a focus on retail properties and shopping centers. Over the course of his career, he has completed over $1 billion in transactions on behalf of institutional and private clients globally. Prior to joining Kidder Mathews, he spent 11 years at CBRE and before that was with the former Grubb & Ellis.

Vasquez joins the firm as a vice president. He has over 25 years of industry experience, specializing in the sale of retail properties on behalf of sellers. He spent the past eight years with McLeod at CBRE, and earlier in his career was an urban planner with the city of Santa Clarita in Southern California.

Ylagan is a senior associate at Kidder Mathews. He has been in the commercial real estate industry since 2015, most recently at CBRE, where he focused on investment sales with Vasquez and McLeod.

Matt Marschall, Dylan Marschall and Warren McCafferty have joined Kidder Mathews in Carlsbad, specializing in the land and agribusiness side of commercial real estate. The team offers brokerage and consultation services for a wide variety of properties including cropland, permanent plantings, nurseries and greenhouses, transitional land, farms and ranches, agricultural facilities, water rights, natural resources and minerals, and complex land analysis.

Matt Marschall has joined the firm as a senior vice president and brings 40 years of commercial real estate experience. He most recently served as an executive managing director with CBRE's land and agribusiness practice while providing appraisal services and litigation support for a range of properties and investment-grade assets, and before that he was with Cushman & Wakefield. Marschall holds the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and the AI-GRS designation, and he is an Accredited Rural Appraiser through the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, as well as a Fellow with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Dylan Marschall joins Kidder Mathews as first vice president. At Cushman & Wakefield, the younger Marschall worked on appraisal assignments throughout North America. After Cushman, he began his brokerage career at CBRE, where he worked for over six years.

McCafferty will serve as a senior associate at Kidder Mathews. He brings more than 30 years of experience in real estate and construction management, having worked as a project engineer at Peter Kiewit Sons' and overseeing major projects including water treatment plants, pumping stations, rate flow control stations and power plants.

Crystal Castille-Cromedy has been named the chief diversity officer and senior vice president of talent at Hines. She is based in the firm's global headquarters in Houston.

In her expanded role, Castille-Cromedy will lead the firm's talent and diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, strategy to achieve equitable diversity representation across the company's employee base. She will report directly to Chief People Officer Stephanie Biernbaum.

Castille-Cromedy joined Hines in 2020 as vice president of talent, leadership and DEI, where she created and evolved internal programs including mentorship initiatives and resource groups, in addition to playing a role in new business pursuits and leading a team of 25. She previously served as vice president of human resources and head of the HR executive office at BP, and holds an MBA in human resource management from the University of Phoenix.

"At Hines, we have integrated our talent and DEI strategies to achieve our vision of a more diverse, equitable and inclusive company and industry," Castille-Cromedy said in a corporate statement announcing her move. "By modeling authenticity and pursuing excellence, our team is proving that the company thrives when people bring their whole selves to work."

Heather Nevin has been promoted to regional chief operating officer for the mid-Atlantic region at Transwestern Real Estate Services.

In her expanded role, Nevin will collaborate with senior leadership to drive the region's strategic vision, organizational objectives, regional operations and business lines. She is based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

Nevin previously served as executive vice president of asset services at Transwestern, where she oversaw the service line for the mid-Atlantic region and helped facilitate the acquisitions of MGA and WLS Realty. Before joining Transwestern in 2017, she was a regional leader at Gensler, a management consultant at McKinsey and a tax attorney at Covington & Burling. Nevin holds a degree in interior design from the Parsons School of Design in New York and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago.

Brian Ackerman has joined Colliers in Arizona as an executive vice president in the company's capital markets brokerage sector.

In his new role, Ackerman will continue to focus on investment advisory services in the office, industrial, flex, healthcare, land and sale-leaseback practice areas. He is a member of NAIOP and holds the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation from the CCIM Institute.

Ackerman brings more than two decades of experience in the greater Phoenix commercial real estate sector and has completed roughly $3 billion in transactions throughout his career, including the sale of nearly 20 million square feet of space on behalf of institutional and private equity investors. Ackerman most recently served as a managing director at JLL, and before that was a director at Cushman & Wakefield, and at both firms he handled agency leasing, tenant representation, debt financing, property management and construction management.

Angela Abraham has been promoted to executive vice president of operations and asset management at Student Quarters in Atlanta.

In her expanded role, Abraham will lead the firm's operations and asset management divisions, tasked with maximizing nationwide value and overseeing leasing, marketing, operations, capital projects and portfolio profitability with an emphasis on overall revenue growth.

Before joining Student Quarters, Abraham led the asset management division at Asia Capital Real Estate, a private equity firm focused on value-add and workforce housing. She previously worked at high-rise multifamily developer Novare Group and spent four years in investment banking and financial restructuring at Houlihan Lokey and Alvarez & Marsal. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cushman & Wakefield has hired office leasing veteran Mark Anderson as a vice chairman in its San Francisco office.

In his new role, Anderson will continue to focus on landlord representation and multi-market tenant representation, including local and national headquarters leases.

Anderson began his commercial real estate career at Cushman & Wakefield in 2001 and remained with the firm for nearly two decades. While there, Anderson was repeatedly ranked a top producer in San Francisco and nationally. He returns to the firm following a two-year stint at Avison Young, where he was a principal. Throughout his career, Anderson has brokered more than 8 million square feet of office lease transactions, largely in San Francisco.

Lee & Associates South Florida hired industrial real estate specialists Greg Milopoulos as a principal and Christian Baena as a vice president.

The duo brings more than 20 years of development, investment sales, landlord and tenant representation experience in the region. Both brokers come to Lee & Associates from Newmark, where their team represented industrial owners and tenants.

Based in Lee & Associates’ Deerfield Beach office, Milopoulos will head up the firm’s Broward County industrial activities. He has leased over 1 million square feet in Florida throughout his career and completed over $90 million in acquisitions and dispositions. Prior to entering the brokerage industry in 2010, Milopoulos was involved in real estate development as a licensed general contractor.

Baena is based in the firm’s Miami office. Before Newmark, Baena worked with the industrial team at FIP Commercial and has completed over $20 million in acquisitions and dispositions throughout his career.