Subject: Executive Changes (EXEC)

Long-time investment-sales professional John Wilcox has joined Auction.com as senior vice president of commercial real estate finance. He's charged with helping develop the auction company's capability of arranging financing for buyers of assets through its site. "This will benefit buyers," ...

Mike Daugard, the former director of acquisitions and portfolio management at Washington REIT, has joined Rubenstein Partners as vice president for its Washington, D.C., office. In his new post, Daugard is charged with identifying, evaluating and executing investments in the ...

Stephen Janowiak, a former acquisitions executive with Inventrust Property Corp. and General Growth Properties Inc., has joined Hunt Investment Management as a senior vice president charged with sourcing and underwriting real estate investments. Hunt, a Chicago affiliate of Hunt Cos. ...

Aaron Hargrove and Eric Taylor, former executives in the affordable housing unit at Berkadia, have joined Greystone as managing directors. The two will provide investment-sales and loan-placement services for affordable-housing properties. They report to Jim McDevitt, president of the firm's ...

Stan Johnson Co., which specializes in brokering the sale of net-leased properties, has hired Kevin Stahl as executive managing director to launch a corporate-finance service business. The goal for the Tulsa, Okla., company is to broaden its suite of offerings ...

Christopher D. Bell, associate general counsel of housing and community development at Fannie Mae, has joined law firm Ballard Spahr as partner in its Washington, D.C., office. Bell, who had been with Fannie for more than a decade, had advised ...

Long-time CMBS pro Barry Polen is joining Hunt Mortgage Group's conduit-lending operation in December as a managing director to oversee pricing and hedging strategies. Most recently, he was with Guggenheim Securities, which he had joined as head CMBS trader in ...

  Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Isaac Pesin, co-head of Starwood Property Trust's real estate investing and servicing division, is leaving the company to pursue other interests. Pesin, along with Adam Behlman were named co-presidents of the division, which ...

Crain's Chicago Business Chicago developer Marvin Romanek has died at the age of 84. Romanek founded his firm, Romanek Properties, in the early 1980s after partnering with Eugene Golub to develop a number of prominent Chicago office buildings, including 55 ...

Loan-sales specialist Patrick Arnold has joined HFF as associate director in Atlanta. He joins the company from Mission Capital Advisors, where he was vice president. Over the past seven years was involved in some $17 billion of loan sales. He's ...