Movers: Compass names new head of Northern California

Compass has named 20-year real estate veteran Kevin Patsel as the brokerage’s regional vice president for Northern California. In his new role, Patsel oversees more than 5,000 Compass agents and the Northern California sales management team across the Greater Bay Area that stretches from Tahoe and Wine Country to the Monterey Peninsula.

Pastel joined Compass in 2018 as the company’s first sales manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. He became managing director of Northern California before being promoted to his new role. Pastel replaces Anita Head, who is retiring.

➤Angelina Leeds has joined Colliers’ Pleasanton office as the brokerage’s newest senior vice president. Leeds brings 17 years of Bay Area real estate experience to her position with Colliers, most recently with Leeds Real Estate Group. That boutique firm was founded by her in Pleasanton in 2017.

She specializes in acquisitions, dispositions and leasing for publicly traded REITs, private corporations and family-owned portfolios. She was elected to chair the Board of
Governors for the Commercial Broker Association, the first woman to hold the
Position. Also, she founded the #CRE Ladies Group, a Bay Area-based educational and networking organization that currently has 221 members.

➤Cushman & Wakefield bolstered its Silicon Valley team with the hiring of Scott Prosser as vice chairman, and Jack DePuy as executive managing director. Both bring decades of experience in real estate and specialize in representing sellers and buyers of industrial, office and research & development properties.

“Scott is considered one of Silicon Valley’s preeminent investment brokers and he and Jack have been part of countless transactions, including many of the region’s most high-profile and sophisticated sales,” Todd Beatty, from the Silicon Valley office, said.

Prosser has 33 years of real estate experience and has sold or leased more than $22 billion in commercial properties and land during his career. He is an eight-time Broker of the Year as recognized by the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers.

DePuy has 16 years of real estate experience and has been involved in more than $8.5 billion in private and institutional sales in Northern California.

➤San Francisco-based industrial REIT Prologis announced that Scott Marshall will take the role of chief customer officer on April 1. Mike Curless, the current chief customer officer, will move to a role of senior advisor before retiring in late 2023.

Hamid Moghadam, Prologis’ CEO, credited Curless for developing the company’s build-to-suit and data center businesses. He added that Marshall “ will broaden our use of data-driven insights as we serve our customers.”

Before joining Prologis, Marshall served as CBRE’s global chief client officer and held other executive positions at the brokerage, including Americas head of industrial and logistics and Americas president of investor leasing.

Marshall will serve as a primary intermediary for Prologis customers across all business lines and geographies.

➤Chicago-based Cresa, a tenant-based real estate firm, bolstered its San Francisco office with the hire of two new advisors: Jack Doherty and Jake Carson. Both join Cresa from CM Commercial Real Estate.

Doherty, a 20-year industry veteran, has extensive knowledge of the San Francisco commercial office markets and end-to-end service delivery. Notable clients include Charles Schwab, Comcast and Renaissance Technologies.

Carson focuses exclusively on San Francisco-based tenants, assisting with ongoing office space needs. His clients include Honor, Digit and Nexa Equity.

➤Boston-based King Street Properties tapped Sonia Taneja to head its expansion into the West Coast market as managing director. Taneja is responsible for investments in the Bay Area, while also assessing opportunities in other regional markets, including San Diego and Seattle.

Taneja spent two years at Goldman Sachs before becoming vice president of acquisitions at Shorenstein.

Before joining King Street, she spent nearly six years at Spear Street Capital.

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