Subject: Executive Changes (EXEC)

JLL has broadened the scope of its Valuation Advisory unit with the addition of an environmental and property condition service. It's hired Jeff Manas as managing director and national practice leader of the service. Manas reports to Tony Lenamon, head ...

Bill Lee, who had founded Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Lee had started his career in commercial real estate after a brief stint in a sales ...

Wharton Equity Partners has hired Ronald Uretta as chief operating officer. Uretta, who reports to Peter C. Lewis, the New York investment manager's co-founder and chairman, joins from law firm Cassin & Cassin, where he was chief operating officer. He ...

Angel Oak Commercial Lending, an Atlanta specialty finance company, is shooting to substantially bolster its lending volume this year, after sitting on the sidelines for most of 2020. To achieve its lending objective, it's added two seasoned professionals, Bob Forsythe ...

Red Oak Financial has opened an office in Irvine, Calif., and hired three as part of its effort to expand nationwide. The Grand Rapids, Mich., alternative lender, which specializes in writing loans of $1 million to $15 million against a ...

Steve Leathers, a former managing director in JLL's health-care capital markets group, has launched a real estate investment management firm that is targeting medical-office buildings throughout the United States. His company is aiming to make $100 million of investments in ...

Parkview Financial has opened an office in Atlanta, its first in the eastern United States. It's named John Buchhalter, who joined the company last year as construction loan manager, to head the new office. A physicist and materials engineer by ...

Beacon Capital Partners has named Steve Purpura president of its life-sciences platform, through which the Boston investment manager develops and manages properties that cater to businesses in the life-sciences sector. Purpura joined from CBRE, where he was vice chairman of ...

Starwood Capital Group has hired Khalif Edwards as a managing director in its global capital raising and investor-relations group. Edwards joined the Miami investment manager from Cityview, a Los Angeles investment manager where he was a managing director and head ...

Tom Shafer has joined Capital Real Estate Group, an Atlanta commercial real estate brokerage and consulting company, where he will build its investment-sales and capital markets group. Shafer previously was a vice chairman of CBRE's Atlanta capital markets office. He ...