Subject: Executive Changes (EXEC)

Jonathan Mazur, who oversaw New York research at Cushman & Wakefield, has joined Newmark Grubb Knight Frank as its director of capital-markets research. In his new post, Mazur will generate research to support Newmark Grubb Knight's investment-sales operation and its ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report H/2 Capital Partners has hired a team of former Berkadia Commercial Mortgage executives as part of its effort to expand its loan-servicing and asset-management capabilities. The team, led by Michael Carp, who previously was ...

Adam Metz, a long-time real estate executive who steered General Growth Properties Inc. through its bankruptcy reorganization, has joined the Carlyle Group as managing director and head of international real estate. Metz most recently was senior adviser to TPG Capital's ...

Vickie Tillman, a veteran of Standard & Poor's, has been named president of Morningstar Credit Ratings. She replaces Haywood Kelley, who became interim president of the Horsham, Pa., rating agency last November after its founder and former president, Robert Dobilas, ...

USAA Real Estate Co. has named Jim Hime chief financial officer. Hime joins from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he was chief financial officer of its real estate and infrastructure department. He replaced Pat Irwin, who has been named chief ...

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has hired seasoned real estate executives Aaron Swerdlin and Kenneth Cox for its self-storage group, which provides investment-sales, debt placement, valuation and appraisal and transaction management services. Swerdlin, a 20-year industry veteran, who most recently was ...

Frank Garcia, a former managing director at Rreef Funds, has joined Prudential Real Estate Investors as managing director and portfolio manager for the investment manager's flagship core fund, Prisa I. Garcia joins a team led by Cathy Marcus, senior portfolio ...

CSM Corp. has hired Andy Deckas as president of its commercial properties group. Deckas, who was also named executive vice president of CSM, is charged with overseeing the commercial property unit's day-to-day operations. He also will help develop a strategy ...

Beech Street Capital, perhaps the fastest-growing agency lender in the country, has struck a deal to be acquired by Capital One Financial Corp. The company, formed in 2009 by Grace Huebscher, a former Fannie Mae executive, last year wrote $4 ...

James P. Hensley, who was a principal with Prudential Mortgage Capital Co., has joined Red Mortgage Capital as senior managing director. In his new post, Hensley, a 25-year industry veteran, will oversee Red Mortgage's multifamily originations platform and help guide ...