Subject: Executive Changes-CMBS (EXEC)

CB Richard Ellis Investors has named W. Cabell Grayson senior managing director of its global investor services group. Grayson will work out of CB's Washington, D.C., office, where he will be in charge of building and maintaining relationships with the ...

Michael Zietsman, an investment-sales broker who left Lehman Brothers' real estate group three years ago to form his own shop, has rejoined Jones Lang LaSalle as managing director of its Los Angeles office. JLL has effectively acquired Zietsman's operation, Zietsman ...

Jan Sternin, a former senior vice president of Midland Loan Services Inc., has been named senior vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association's commercial/multifamily unit. Sternin replaces Gail Davis Cardwell, who left the trade group earlier this year when she ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Kurt Kaline, a long-time CMBS trader, has joined Winthrop Realty Partners as managing director to oversee the firm's investments in a wide range of real estate debt securities. Kaline, who most recently was managing ...

American Realty Advisors has promoted Daniel Robinson to managing director of its finance/investment consulting department. Robinson will provide consulting services to pension plans around the country, serving as a qualified professional asset manager. He will lead a consulting staff that ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Michael E. Pralle, president and chief executive of GE Real Estate since 2000, yesterday left the company. The Stamford, Conn., company had $53.8 billion of assets as of the end of last year and ...

The co-founder of a predecessor of Eastdil Secured is stepping down after 17 years to pursue other interests, among them principal investing in real estate in the U.S. and abroad. He owns interests in two entities that invest in Japanese ...

Arvind K. Bajaj, the head of Middle East real estate for Credit Suisse, has joined Ptarmigan Capital as principal.At Ptarmigan, an asset management firm formed by former Morgan Stanley executive Craig S. Phillips, Bajaj will focus on developing the firm's ...

Leonard O. Mills, a seasoned econometrician who most recently ran his own analytics company, has joined Property & Portfolio Research as director of risk management and debt research.Mills fills the post vacated by George Pappadopoulos, who left the Boston research ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportDon Mackinnon, head of structured credit trading and asset finance at Nomura Securities, is no longer with the firm.Mackinnon, who joined Nomura in 2004, is said to have been pushed out because of losses associated ...