Subject: Executive Changes-CMBS (EXEC)

Apollo Real Estate Advisors has named Steven M. Wolf, a partner, to oversee its Value Enhancement Funds, a series of investment vehicles that was acquired from Lend Lease Corp. in 2004.Wolf replaces James P. Ryan, who has resigned. He has ...

Tom Wagner, a former managing director at GE Real Estate who handled direct equity investments, has joined Blackacre Institutional Capital Management as a managing director. Wagner will focus on identifying potential investments at Blackacre, the real estate investment arm of private-equity ...

Barry Moore, a former senior executive of Capmark Finance, has joined Anglo Irish Bank as executive vice president and general manager of the lender's North American operations.Moore, who has been in the lending business for some 28 years, will be ...

Maynard "Chuck" Ahner, chief technology officer for Midland Loan Services, was unsuccesful in his bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.Ahner, a Republican and a member of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, received nearly 35 percent of ...

Otto Petty, former senior mortgage underwriter for Wachovia Securities, has joined Anglo Irish Bank as originator in the lenders' Chicago office.Petty joins Paul Doyle, a senior vice president who earlier this month was put in charge of the lender's recently ...

Peter C. Castro has joined Hypo Real Estate Capital Corp. as director for mezzanine lending. Castro joins the New York lending operation from Societe Generale, where he was vice president in the firm's CMBS group. He had joined SocGen when ...

Thomas J. Saylak, who joined Merrill Lynch two years ago as global head of commercial real estate, has left the investment bank.According to a report in Investment Dealers' Digest, Saylak left at least in part because the investment bank did ...

RBC Capital Markets, which earlier this year hired Dan Smith to head up a mortgage-lending operation, has hired three additional executives to its real estate group.Smith had joined the lender after 10 years with GE Real Estate, where he most ...

JP Morgan Chase has hired Steve Jensen to run commercial mortgage originations in the Southeast.Jensen, who reports to P. Sheridan Schechner, head of nationwide originations at the lender, joins from Bank of America, where he held a similar position. He ...

James Clayton, lead instructor for the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties, has been named director of research for the Pension Real Estate Association. He replaces Jack Nowakowski, who joined PREA in 2002, but has since joined the Commercial ...