Subject: Executive Changes (EXEC)

Todd Schuster, the founder and former chief executive of what is now CW Financial Services, is joining Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp. as co-chief executive, effective June 1. The move is part of an effort by Ares Commercial, a Chicago ...

Three former property acquisition professionals at investment manager Canyon Capital Realty Advisors have launched their own Los Angeles investment-management firm that's looking to acquire office, retail, multifamily and hotel properties in the West and Southwest. Joseph Kessel, Eliot Bencuya and ...

Ari Schwartzbard, a former director at Aareal Capital Corp., has been named director of credit at Cantor Commercial Real Estate. As a result of his hiring, Michael Kaplan, who has been with Cantor Commercial since 2010, has been named head ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Michael John Spoor, a 36-year veteran of the commercial lending business, passed away last week at the age of 64, after battling cancer. Spoor most recently operated MJ Spoor & Co., a Houston mortgage ...

Wall Street Journal David Berliner has been appointed chief operating officer of Forest City Enterprises, where he had been serving as the real estate company's general counsel. He has been with Forest City since 1989.