CBRE added Ryan Kasten as the Market Leader and Senior Managing Director for Austin, San Antonio and El Paso, Texas. Kasten will be based in the firm’s Austin office.

In his role, Kasten will oversee the market’s business operations and drive their growth strategies for all Advisory Service lines, including leasing, sales, debt and structured finance, valuation and property management.

With nearly 20 years in commercial real estate, Kasten most recently served as Partner and Managing Director for Partners Real Estate overseeing the firm’s brokerage services for Austin and San Antonio. Prior to that, he spent eight years in Cushman & Wakefield’s Austin office, most recently as Managing Principal for the firm’s Austin and San Antonio markets where he increased the company’s revenue and market share along all service lines.

Earlier in his tenure at Cushman & Wakefield, he was the firm’s Executive Director of Tenant Rep, representing prominent office users in over five million sq. ft. of transactions across Texas and globally.