Subject: Executive Changes-CMBS (EXEC)

Anuj Gupta, global securitization segment leader at GE Commercial Finance's capital markets group, has been named managing director of capital markets for GE Real Estate's North American lending division.In his new post, Gupta will oversee the unit's securitization and capital ...

Apollo Real Estate Advisors has hired Julie Bierman to the newly-created position of vice president of marketing, fund-raising and investor relations.Bierman joins the opportunistic investment firm from JPMorgan Private Bank's alternative investments team, where she handled global marketing of private ...

Mike Krull, the head of capital markets at GE Real Estate, has left the firm to join Hypo Real Estate as head of CMBS. His hiring is part of an effort by Hypo to broaden its lending capabilities.

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportBrian Schwartz, the former head of secondary CMBS trading at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets, has joined Old Hill Partners, a Darien, Conn., hedge fund specializing in the fixed-income sector.Schwartz, who had been with Greenwich for ...

Daniel Vinson, managing director in charge of securitization at GE Real Estate, has joined Eurohypo as managing director. Vinson, who had been with GE for the last nine years, will co-head Eurohypo's U.S. CMBS operation with James Howard, managing director ...

Mike Slocum, who has been regional chief executive for Wachovia Corp.'s banking operations in the greater New York area, has been named head of real estate financial services.He replaces Glenn Eubanks who retired in April.As head of real estate financial ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportPhil Evanski has left Nomura Securities, where he was a managing director overseeing the firm's trading of CMBS and agency loans, to join Newcastle Investment Corp., a real estate finance and investment company affiliated with ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportEileen Lyons, a veteran player in the secondary commercial mortgage market, has joined Hypo Real Estate Capital Corp. as a senior director in its whole-loan origination group.Lyons joins Hypo from Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, where ...

John Cutting has joined MBIA Inc. as managing director of the bond insurance firm's asset management group.At MBIA, which is based in Armonk, N.Y., Cutting will focus on ABS and will lead the unit's collateralized debt obligation group. He will ...

Bear Stearns & Co. has hired Marielle Jan de Beur as managing director and head of global CMBS research.Jan de Beur joins from Morgan Stanley, where she was head of U.S. CMBS research. At Bear, she reports to Gyan Sinha, ...