SSR is pleased to announce that Benjamin Russell has joined the firm as a Senior Project Manager in the firm’s Houston office. He has nearly a decade of experience managing projects in the healthcare market. Ben’s expertise lies in new hospital construction and renovations, for projects of all sizes and phases. In his role as senior project manager Ben’s responsibilities include planning and project execution, quality assurance/quality control, and the overall delivery of MEP services.

Amy Craft joins Patten Title’s Kingwood branch as the Business Development Representative, bringing with her five years of industry experience in title services. With a commitment to fostering and expanding relationships within the real estate community, Amy is driven to excel. Her strong work ethic and family values underpin a professional standard that aims for success. Patten Title is excited to welcome Amy as she begins this new chapter in her career.

Trina a tenured management professional with over 15 years of commercial real estate experience. Her management services for various clients include startups to Fortune 500 organizations and her management experience spans across 2.3M SF of class A commercial buildings, medical offices, life science, university campus, industrial, retail, and residential properties.She is best known for her excellent customer service, clear communication, and a diplomatic approach to building operations.

David Quinn is the new Chief Financial Officer at McKim & Creed, an award-winning, employee-owned engineering and geospatial services firm. He brings almost 30 years of financial leadership and strategic expertise, having previously worked with large A/E/C firms, including the Shaw Group, Atkins North America, and Atkins Technical Consultants. David will oversee financial operations, information technology functions, and acquisition targeting, assessment, and integration.

Transwestern Real Estate Services named Steve Leathers as Senior Managing Director of Healthcare Capital Markets.

In this newly created role, Leathers will apply more than 15 years of leadership experience in capital markets advisory, investment management, and principal acquisitions to maximize outcomes for healthcare clients nationally.

Before joining Transwestern, Leathers was part of JLL’s healthcare real estate capital markets team in New York, where he specialized in providing capital markets solutions for medical office buildings, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, acute care hospitals, and other post-acute properties.

Leathers has advised various institutional owners, including public REITs, private equity, developers, healthcare providers, and private owners on assignments with an aggregate value of over $5.6 billion.  He has also held positions at investment management firms Vanbarton Group, LLC, ARC Healthcare Trust, and Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, which sponsored investment vehicles that acquired and managed healthcare properties.

IPA Capital Markets, a division of Marcus & Millichap specializing in capital markets services for major private and institutional clients, hired Harry Krieger as a managing director responsible for placing debt for institutional clients.

Based in Dallas, Krieger will be part of the firm’s Los Angeles-based IPA Capital Markets team led by executive managing director Brian Eisendrath and senior managing director Cameron Chalfant. He will collaborate with the firm’s Texas-based, market-leading IPA multifamily investment sales team led by Drew Kile and Will Balthrope to provide clients with capital markets services. 

Krieger joins the firm from CBRE, where he spent nearly 11 years originating and placing debt for institutional clients, including some of the top pension fund and private equity fund investors in the country.

IPA Capital Markets acquired Eisendrath Finance Group Inc. in January 2022 and since then, the team has financed over 150 transactions valued at more than $5 billion. The team works closely with Strategic Alliance partner, M&T Realty Capital Corporation and has strong relationships with agencies, insurance companies, debt funds, banks and private equity funds.