Newmark has restructured its West Coast capital markets platform by integrating its Oregon capital markets team with the firm’s San Francisco capital markets operations. The combined group will operate under the strategic oversight of Steven Golubchik, who serves as Executive Vice Chairman and President of Western Region Capital Markets for the firm.
Under the new structure, Senior Managing Director James Childress and Director Kellen Kollmorgen will work alongside Golubchik to steer Newmark’s capital markets business in Oregon. The firm describes the integration as a formal alignment between its Oregon and Bay Area teams, designed to provide clients with a single, streamlined point of contact that can address activity in both markets.
Newmark indicates that one objective of the reorganization is to ensure that capital sources based in California have direct and efficient access to transactions originating in Oregon. By linking the Oregon and San Francisco capital markets teams more closely, the firm aims to better connect investors with deal flow across the two regions, particularly where mandates or investment strategies span multiple West Coast markets.
Childress and Kollmorgen bring extensive experience in the Pacific Northwest, where they have collectively executed more than $2 billion in institutional commercial real estate transactions over a combined 20-year period. Their track record has focused on office and industrial assets, positioning them to advise on a range of income-producing and logistics-oriented properties across the region.
Within the firm’s internal narrative, the timing of the integration is characterized as an appropriate moment to deepen alignment between Oregon and the Bay Area. Childress emphasizes that greater coordination with the San Francisco-based team is intended to enhance how Newmark serves institutional and private clients that are active across both geographies.
Kollmorgen adds that bringing the two platforms together into a single integrated practice is intended to maximize value creation for clients. Rather than operating as separate regional silos, the unified team structure is meant to support a more coordinated approach to marketing assets, sourcing buyers and capital, and advising on capital markets strategies within the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
While specific transaction mandates, pipeline details, and financial metrics are not disclosed, the integration underscores Newmark’s focus on regional scale and connectivity in its capital markets advisory business. For owners, investors, and lenders active in office and industrial assets in Oregon and the Bay Area, the firm’s combined team is positioned as a consolidated resource for accessing institutional capital and market intelligence across these interconnected West Coast markets.
