Subject: General (EXECG)

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Warren Ashenmil, who most recently managed the CMBS and commercial real estate portfolio of Tricadia Capital, has formed his own hedge fund, Jerica Capital. The 20-year industry veteran has been involved in the CMBS ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Michael Berman, who joined Walker & Dunlop after that company's purchase of CWCapital earlier this year, is expected to take on a more active role in policymaking. Berman, who's been in the multifamily business ...

Jim Conway, the former co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital, has joined A10 Capital as chief credit and risk officer. Conway, a 35-year industry veteran, had been with Goldman since 1998 and oversaw the lending unit's credit committee ...

Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. has added two seasoned agency-lending professionals from Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital to its West Coast lending offices. The two, Patrick McAllister and Laurie Morfin, report to Jim Hensley, principal and agency production manager for Pru's multifamily ...

Wall Street Journal Sam Zell has taken over as interim chief executive at Equity International. Zell, co-founder of the firm as well as its chairman, succeeds Gary Garrabrant, who also was a co-founder. Thomas McDonald, chief strategic officer, is also ...

Investment manager Hudson Realty Capital has hired an executive from French banking company Natixis to help expand its lending platform. Geoffrey Smith, who was a managing director in Natixis' North American operations, has taken that same title at Hudson's Manhattan ...

B. Francis Saul III has resigned as president of Saul Centers Inc. after 23 years with the company. Saul, a descendant of the company's founder, has also resigned his board seat and plans to start a company, based in Bethesda, ...

Investment-banking firm Rockwood Real Estate Advisors has launched investment sales and mortgage banking operations on the West Coast that are co-led by a former executive at Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank of northern California. Sean Fulp, a former ...

Farzana Mitchell has been named chief financial officer of CBL & Associates Properties Inc. Mitchell succeeds John Foy, who will remain in the near term as its executive vice chairman. Mitchell joined the Chattanooga, Tenn., REIT in 2000 as senior ...

A10 Capital has hired Bruce Dashevsky, a seasoned mortgage originator, to head up its business development efforts in the New York tri-state area. The hiring marks the Boise, Idaho, lender's entry into the New York market. The company provides small- ...