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McWhinney
added two
senior vice presidents to its
team:
Mark Witkiewicz
and
Dan Cohen.
Witkiewicz was named senior
vice president of commercial
development and Cohen is
senior vice president of com-
munity, development and
acquisitions. The two bring
more than 40 years of cumula-
tive experience to the real estate
investment, management and
development company.
Witkiewicz provides strategic
direction to the commercial
development team for commer-
cial office, medical, industrial
and retail opportunities. Prior
to joining McWhinney, Witkie-
wicz served as managing direc-
tor and chief operating officer
for Corporex Colorado, where
his responsibilities included
asset management, real estate
development, construction and
management of the Colorado
operation. While at Corporex,
he assembled and closed more
than $226 million in real estate
development opportunities,
including several recent trans-
formational projects, such as
the ART, a hotel in downtown
Denver, and the Hyatt Hotel
& Conference Center at Fitzsi-
mons Village in Aurora. Previ-
ously, Witkiewicz was the vice
president of development for
Silverman Development Co.,
overseeing daily operations and
leading the company’s develop-
ment team.
Cohen is responsible for
expanding the company’s port-
folio of urban infill and mixed-
use developments through
land acquisition, public-private
partnerships, planning and
entitlements. Prior to joining
McWhinney, Cohen was the
founder and principal of Urban
Investment Group LLC, where
he led, partnered and advised
on urban infill, transit-oriented
and mixed-use development
projects in Colorado as well
as throughout the U.S. Previ-
ously, he was the vice president
of planning and development
for Catellus Development, the
mixed-use development divi-
sion of Prologis, a Fortune 500
real estate investment trust,
where he led the company’s
national land acquisition
efforts, specializing in public-
private partnerships, as well as
planning and entitlements for a
nationwide portfolio of mixed-
use, retail and office assets.
While at Catellus, he played
important roles in large nation-
ally renowned projects such as
Mission Bay in San Francisco
and Mueller in Austin, Texas.
s
Lia Szasz,
a law clerk with
Otis, Bed-
ingfield &
Peters LLC,
was awarded
Best Overall
performance
at the Colora-
do Appellate
Advocacy
Competition
at the Univer-
sity of Colo-
rado School of Law.
She earned the honor for
having the best combined per-
formance in the written brief-
ing and oral argument parts
of the competition. Szasz has
served as a law clerk with the
firm for the past two years and
will earn her Juris Doctor this
month and join the firm as an
associate after taking the Febru-
ary bar exam.
s
Brian Dunbar,
executive
director for Colorado State Uni-
versity’s Institute for the Built
Environment, recently was
elected to the national Advi-
sory Council of the U.S. Green
Building Council.
Dunbar will serve a three-
year term in
the USGBC
Advisory
Council’s
education
seat along-
side leaders
in architec-
ture, urban
planning,
engineering,
real estate,
facility management and con-
struction. As ambassadors for
the global sustainability move-
ment, the 20-member Advisory
Council provides visionary
industry leadership, connects
with key stakeholder groups,
and identifies emerging techni-
cal and engagement opportuni-
ties.
The USGBC selected Dun-
bar as one of the nation’s first
LEED Fellows in 2012, and
he remains one of only two
such Fellows in Colorado. The
CSU professor emeritus, who
holds two degrees in archi-
tecture from the University of
Michigan, created the graduate
emphasis in sustainable build-
ing and multiple courses on
sustainability at Colorado State.
He also taught interior design
and construction management
coursework and co-founded the
Institute for the Built Environ-
ment in 1994.
At CSU, he is an advisory
council member for the School
of Global Environmental Sus-
tainability and a member of the
CSU President's Sustainability
Committee. The Institute for
the Built Environment is in
CSU’s College of Health and
Human Sciences.
s
Elisabeth Cortese, Cassia
Furman
and
Paula Williams
were name senior associates
at law firm
McGeady Becher,
which recently changed
its name from
McGeady
Sisneros.
s
Steve Suneson
of law firm
Coan, Payton & Payne LLC
was appointed to the board of
directors of
the
American
Chamber of
Commerce
in Canada-
Western
Chapter,
based in Cal-
gary, Alberta.
The Ameri-
can Chamber
of Commerce
in Canada is a private, non-
profit, membership organiza-
tion that promotes the two-way
flow of trade, goods, services
and investment between Canada
and the United States. AmCham
Canada West annually organizes
approximately 15 events that
cover a wide range of network-
ing needs.
In addition to his U.S. corpo-
rate law practice, Suneson has
substantial cross-border and
international experience assisting
Canadian companies and indi-
viduals in the U.S. in a practical
and cost-efficient manner.
s
Fennemore Craig
expanded
its Denver office with the addi-
tion of two associates,
Ben Leon-
ard
and
Matthew Broderick.
Leonard was editor-in-chief
of the UCLA Journal of Law
and Technology and president
of the Tax and Estate Planning
LawAssociation. He earned his
Juris Doctor from the University
of California Los Angeles and a
bachelor’s degree, magna cum
laude, fromMarquette Univer-
sity. He is licensed to practice in
Colorado. Leonard focuses his
practice in real estate.
Broderick practices in the
areas of professional negligence,
medical malpractice, insurance
coverage and bad faith, products
liability and government entity
defense.
Prior to joining the law firm,
Broderick was an attorney for
Senter, Goldfarb & Rice, served
as in-house law clerk to Xcel
Energy and successfully advo-
cated his clients' positions at
bench trials and before a jury.
He earned his Juris Doctor from
the University of Denver, Sturm
College of Law and a bachelor’s
degree from the University
of California Santa Barbara.
Broderick is licensed to prac-
tice in Colorado and before the
U.S. District Court, District of
Colorado.
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Lia Szasz
Brian Dunbar
Steve Suneson
