Subject: Executive Changes-CMBS (EXEC)

William F. Aldinger III has been named president and chief executive officer of Capmark Financial Group Inc., formerly known as GMAC Commercial Holding Corp.Aldinger, who had retired last year as chairman and chief executive of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., ...

CWCapital has opened a Chicago office and tapped a six-person team to oversee it.The team was hired from Nomura Credit and Capital and is led by Patrick McNulty, who was named senior vice president and regional manager of the Needham, ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportReliant Professional Services Corp., a year-old real estate consultancy, has hired Larry Hicks as chief credit officer. At Reliant, which is based in Atlanta, Hicks is charged with overseeing the underwriting and credit processes for ...

Alec Burger, managing director of GE Real Estate's United Kingdom region, has been named senior vice president of the firm's North American debt unit, replacing Dan Smith, who left the firm last month to head up a conduit-lending operation at ...

Craig Henrich, a former partner of Rreef Real Estate Mezzanine Funds, has joined CWCapital and will oversee an effort to raise equity from instutional investors for a vehicle that would fund mezzanine loans, B-notes and other high-yielding whole loans.

RBS Greenwich Capital has named Chris Lau and Kin Lee as managing directors and co-heads of CMBS secondary trading, effectively replacing Brian Schwartz, who resigned two weeks ago. Lau has been with the Greenwich, Conn., investment bank's CMBS desk since ...

The head of secondary CMBS trading at RBS Greenwich Capital has resigned to pursue other interests, perhaps a move to the buy side. The investment bank has not named a replacement.

Michael McCullough, the former director of the office of multifamily development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has joined CWCapital as senior vice president focusing on originating multifamily mortgages under HUD and Fannie Mae programs.As senior vice ...

Grubb & Ellis Co. has hired David Arena, a senior Jones Lang LaSalle executive, as president of its New York region.The Chicago brokerage firm said Arena's mandate would be to increase the firm's presence in New York. Arena was most ...

Marc D. Schnitzer, president of CharterMac, has been named chief executive of the real estate finance company.Schnitzer replaces Stuart J. Boesky, who retired from the firm last November. Stephen M. Ross, CharterMac's chairman, had been serving as interim chief executive ...