The Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California has recently announced its new advisory board chair, Kevork “Kev” Zoryan, managing director at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing. He takes over from William A. Witte, CEO of Related California, who served as chair since 2021. Nadine Watt, CEO of Watt Capital Partners has also been appointed as vice chair.
In San Francisco-based real estate investment firm The Roxborough Group , Sam Caven has been named managing director of acquisitions. With his extensive experience in Starwood Capital Group where he oversaw $5 billion in acquisitions and $3 billion in dispositions across various property types in the Western U.S., Caven will work alongside Matt McCormick to lead the acquisitions team.
Equity Union Commercial’s Encino brokerage welcomes veteran brokers Josh Kaplan and Troy Lucero to their team under a new real estate group called Highlight Real Estate Group . Previously leading Los Angeles multifamily investment services group at their former brokerage firm where they completed apartment sales worth $335 million.
Kidder Mathews strengthens its El Segundo office with the addition of Austin Borges as vice president specializing in industrial properties within Greater Los Angeles area for clients ranging from occupiers to private investors and institutions.
Debra Gerod , partner at Gruen Associates is being honored with American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA|LA)’s Gold Medal award during their annual Design Awards Ceremony on October 30th along with other recipients recognized by AIA|LA Board Of Directors Awards .
EVPassport appoints Mike Milburn , former chief customer officer at Salesforce Inc., to its board directors bringing more than two decades worth experience specializing SaaS growth and innovation that will support EVPassport’s expansion plans.
Pasadena-based ExchangeRight reaches an impressive milestone surpassing $6 billion assets under management on behalf over 8,300 investors nationwide while maintaining monthly distributions that meet or exceed initial targets and preserving 100% of investor capital in all 33 full-cycle offerings since its founding over a decade ago with an average annual total return of 8.65%.
