Subject: General (EXECG)

Scott Arden has joined investment-advisory boutique Hodes Weill & Associates as principal. Arden most recently was managing director at another placement agent, Triton Pacific Capital, where he handled capital raising. He previously was with capital-advisory firm MVision Private Equity Advisers ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Jim Thompson has left Orix USA Corp., which he had founded 22 years ago, to form Preston Hollow Capital to pursue high-yielding investments in various asset classes, particularly corporate and municipal bonds. Thompson had ...

Michael Dillon and Bruce Harris have joined Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's capital markets group in Chicago from rival brokerage Marcus & Millichap's national retail group, where they were senior directors. Dillon, named executive managing director at NGKF, and Harris, named ...

Robert A. Wrzosek, who previously had formed a lending venture between Walker & Dunlop and Credit Suisse, has been named president of Centerline Holding Co.'s mortgage-lending business. Wrzosek, who is based in New York, most recently was a director in ...

A team led by Mark Thomson and Zachary Pierce, directors of Marcus & Millichap's national multi-housing group, have joined HFF as co-heads of its newly opened Philadelphia office. Their team has completed the sale of more than 3,000 units over ...

A trio of mortgage producers from Cohen Financial has joined Walker & Dunlop Inc. to run the lender's newly opened office in Phoenix. The trio is led by Brandon Harrington, who will head the office, and includes Matthew Steffen and ...

David S. Kay, chief investment and chief financial officer of Capital Automotive Real Estate Services Inc., has been named president of American Realty Capital Properties Inc., effective Feb. 20. Kay had co-founded Capital Automotive in 1997 and oversaw the company's ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report John H. Pelusi, who last week announced his resignation as chief executive and vice chairman of HFF Inc., isn't going anywhere. He's remaining with the firm and "stepping away from positions and titles," he ...

Charles B. Leitner III, the former global head of Rreef Funds, has been named president of Berkshire Group, a Boston investment manager and developer that focuses on the apartment sector. Leitner most recently was chairman and chief executive of ULI ...

Long-time CMBS trader Kurt Kaline has joined Southwest Securities Inc. He joined the Dallas investment bank's New York office as senior vice president and CMBS trader from Brean Capital, which he had joined in 2012. He has been trading CMBS ...