Colorado Real Estate Journal - January 21, 2015
Gary Molinaro joined brokerage firm API Sheldon-Gold Realty Inc. Molinaro specializes in full-service commercial real estate brokerage and consulting services to landlords, sellers, tenants and buyers. He has been in the commercial real estate business for 20 years. Prior to joining API SheldonGold, Molinaro worked with his father’s business, which was involved in apartment conversions in the 1990s in central Denver, converting 150 units a year to condos. As well, Molinaro managed his father’s portfolio of strip centers, industrial buildings and office space, working with tenants in negotiations of leases, and also was the developer and project manager on multiple projects. Harrison Archer joined Cushman & Wakefield as an associate broker. Archer is an office property specialist for the commercial real estate services firm focusing on tenant representation in the southeast suburban, central business district, Cherry Creek, Aurora and Lakewood submarkets. He graduated from the University of Denver. Katy Wilson also joined the firm as a marketing specialist. Wilson will focus on marketing strategy and graphic design support for office properties in the Denver metro area with the Stout/Bradley leasing team. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Doane College-Lincoln Grand Island and Master. Stelio Elenis and Kristina Kesselring were promoted to senior manager at certified public accounting and advisory firm BKD LLP. Elenis has more than eight years of experience providing tax preparation, consulting and planning services to a variety of clients. He is a 2005 graduate of John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance; a 2006 graduate of the University of Denver with a master’s degree in taxation; and a 2010 graduate of DU with a master’s in finance. Kesselring has more than 16 years of public accounting experience. She provides tax preparation and tax compliance services to a variety of clients. Kesselring is a 1997 graduate of Colorado State University Pueblo with a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an accounting emphasis. Cory M. Rutz joined Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC as an associate. Rutz earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado Law School. She also earned a master’s degree of urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado Denver in addition to her Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Tulane University. She will be a member of both the real estate and land use practice groups at the commercial law firm. Before starting law school, she worked as a resin engineer for a global supplier of paints, coatings and other chemicals. Joseph Larkin, CCIM, SIOR, is one of 16 industry professionals to graduate from the CCIM Institute’s 2014 Jay W. Levine Leadership Development Academy. Larkin of First Realty Inc. has more than 30 years of transaction and industry experience and has been practicing in the investment and commercial real estate industries since 1977. He also is a senior instructor for the CCIM Institute. Jon D. Hendrickson and Aaron D. Johnson joined the Denver office of Cushman & Wakefield as senior directors. Collectively, Hendrickson, former vice president of investments with Marcus & Millichap Institutional Property Advisors, and Johnson, former vice president of investments for Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners, have brokered and/or purchased more than $1 billion in investment sales transactions and will add more than 20 years of local market industry experience to the firm’s Denver office. The team will specialize in office, retail and industrial properties. Hendrickson has more than 10 years of experience in the region and specializes in the sale of quality, multitenant investments. He graduated from the University of Iowa with bachelor degrees in finance and marketing. Johnson also has more than 10 years of industry experience. He has experience in acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, financing and development along the Front Range. He earned a bachelor’s of administration in finance as well as a real estate certificate from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Denver chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women elected Courtney Ryan as its 2015 president. Ryan is the director of business development for PCL Construction. Stina Kyser, general counsel for Urban Villages Inc./BioLogical Capital LLC, was elected president-elect for 2015, to be president 2016. Jennifer Luce, executive vice president, FirstBank, was elected chief financial officer. Julie Gifford, shareholder, Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC, was elected director of membership. Kim Duty, senior vice president, National Multifamily Housing Council, was elected director of community relations. Amy (Beauchamp) Quinn, project engineer, Rand Construction Corp., was elected as director of foundation and professional education and Beth Johnson, attorney, Moye White LLP, was elected as CREW network scholarship selection committee representative. Fidelity National Title Co. added Angela Mallory to its Fort Collins escrow team. Mallory began her title and closing career in 2000 and has handled a wide variety of real estate transactions, including refinances, farm and ranch, new construction, residential re-sales and commercial. Drew Hyde was named market manager and senior vice president for U.S. Bank’s commercial real estate division in Colorado. Over the past five years, U.S. Bank’s Colorado commercial real estate office has grown its loan portfolio to more than $1.5 billion through establishing new clients and growing its existing relationships. Recently completed projects financed by U.S. Bank include 16M and the Renaissance Downtown Denver. The group’s focus is on construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, bridge and term loans to developers, real estate funds and private institutional owners as well as revolving credit facilities, construction loans and project financing to real estate investment trusts. Hyde has 15 years of experience in commercial real estate and finance and joined U.S. Bank in 2002. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. Ralph Lowen and Scott Becker joined Walker & Dunlop Inc.’s Federal Housing Administration finance group. Lowen was named senior vice president and Becker was named vice president. The pair will focus on originating market-rate and affordable multifamily loans in addition to health care loans out of the commercial real estate finance company’s Denver office. Prior to joining the firm, Lowen served as principal of FHA Loan Originations at Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. During his tenure there, he originated and structured a total of $600 million in FHA loan volume for more than 10,000 multifamily units. Becker previously served as an account manager at Prudential Huntoon Paige Associates LLC, where he managed $724 million in FHA-insured loan volume.