People in Motion
CRESAPARTNERS ADDS
WESTGATE AS SVP
Los Angeles—Sean Westgate
joined CresaPartners as a senior
vice president. With 12 years of
experience as a commercial real
estate professional, Westgate pre-
viously held positions as a vice
president at Jones Lang LaSalle/
Staubach and as an assistant di-
rector at Studley. Westgate’s ex-
pertise is in market vacancies,
tenant activity, new developments
in progress and hidden opportu-
nities that arise.
ALLEN MATKINS ADDS
HOY TO LITIGATION GROUP
San Diego—Allen Matkins Leck
Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
has expanded its litigation practice group with the addition of
Valentine Hoy. He brings experience representing businesses,
private investors, real estate developers, licensed professionals
and builders before courts, ju-ries and arbitrators throughout
California in a broad range of
cases. Hoy joins Allen Matkins
as a former partner of Luce For-
ward Hamilton & Scripps, where
he practiced for 24 years.
PLUMMER JOINS GRUBB &
ELLIS AS AN SVP
Los Angeles—Richard Plummer
has joined Grubb & Ellis Co. as
senior vice president. Plummer
will be part of the firm’s insti-
tutional capital markets group,
which provides real estate in-
vestment and advisory services.
Plummer, a 31-year veteran of
commercial real estate, joins
G&E from Cushman & Wakefield
Inc., where for 21 years he was a
member of the capital markets
group. He has completed more
than 100 transactions valued in
excess of $5 billion.
AIR COMMERCIAL ADDS
EARNHART AS PRES.
Los Angeles—Douglas Earnhart,
senior vice president in the On-
tario office of Lee & Associates.
has been elected 2009 president
of the AIR Commercial Real
Estate Association. Earnhart,
a 25-year veteran of commer-
cial real estate, succeeds Bart
COMPANY NOTES
Marcus & Millichap Names Stein
Regional Manager of LA Office
Los Angeles—Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has
named Stephen Stein regional manager of the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Stein joined Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix office in 1990 as an investment
specialist. He ranked among the firm’s Top 10 agents in 1991 and in 1994,
and became a senior associate in 1993. He received the senior investment
associate distinction in 1996 and was promoted to regional manager in
the firm’s Long Beach office in August of that year. In April 1999, Stein
became the regional manager of the Los Angeles office, and in April 2000,
was elected a first vice president of the firm. In June 2003, Stein rejoined
the sales force in Los Angeles. He was promoted to vice president investments in January 2008.
Reinhard of CB Richard Ellis
Inc. Joining Earnhart as new
officers of AIR and comprising its executive committee are
Charles F. Noble, Lee & Associates; Joseph Vargas, Cushman &
Wakefield Inc.; David Harding,
CBRE, and Corey Spound, Jones
Lang LaSalle Americas. Earnhart has been an AIR member
since 1989.
LOWE ADDS DIRECTOR OF
WORKOUT SERVICES
Los Angeles—Lowe Enterprises
has named Alex Virtue as a di-
rector of Lowe’s workout serv-
ices group. Virtue, a nine-year
veteran of Merrill Lynch & Co.,
will work with Lowe executives to
formulate and execute workout
strategies for troubled real estate
assets and loan/REO portfolios.
Lowe has worked on more than
$3 billion of distressed real es-
tate over the past 37 years. Previ-
ously, Virtue served as a director
with Merrill Lynch’s real estate
investment banking group,
working in both New York City
and Los Angeles.—SOCAL
Westgate
Hoy
Plummer
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