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Real Estate Weekly, Feb 21, 2001

Vanderbilt Financial Services, a residential mortgage brokerage company based in Manhattan, announced the appointments of Marc Kahn as senior director and Theresa Crecco as senior loan consultant.

Kahn joins Vanderbilt after ten years as a senior mortgage broker at Skyscraper Consultants, Inc. He spent the previous six years as a real estate consultant with The Stem Organization and Siegel Short Associates. Before his ten-year tenure as a partner at Rosenstein & Kahn, Esqs., Kahn developed co-op conversion plans as an associate at Karelsen, Karelsen, Lawrence & Nathan. He graduated from Yale University in 1970 with a B.A. in history and from Boston University School of Law.

Crecco joins Vanderbilt from PNC Mortgage, where she served as a loan officer. Prior to PNC, she worked as consultant for Deutsche Bank Securities and Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital. Prior to this, Crecco was an independent mortgage broker. She is a member of Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

Sonnenblick-Goldman Company has appointed Yukihiro Kiriake vice president in its Tokyo office. He will be responsible for procuring capital for commercial real estate properties for the firm's clients, either through debt financing, equity raising, or sales. Kiriake will work both domestically in the Japanese market and internationally relating to Japanese client interests.

Sonnenblick-Goldman also announced four promotions at its New York office.

Vice presidents Peter Berk and Mark Ehlinger were promoted to directors. Berk is a primary member of the firm's capital markets group and is responsible for initiating and maintaining the firm's relationships with both the portfolio and securitized lending markets. Ehlinger joined Sonnenblick-Goldman in 1994 and has been a key member of project teams that have completed more than two dozen sales and financing transactions with a total value of more than $1.5 billion.

Elif A. Bali and Victor Wang were promoted to vice presidents. Bali is a member of the company's lodging and leisure group and Wang specializes in office and retail properties.

Paul J. Massey, Jr., chief executive officer, and Robert A. Knakal, chairman of Massey Knakal Realty Services, announced that John F. Ciraulo has been named president of the firm.

Ciraulo began his real estate career in 1990 as a leasing broker and, in August 1993, he joined Massey Knakal to expand the company's territorial system into the Murray Hill and Flatiron sections of Manhattan.

Due to the success he has experienced and the leadership abilities he has demonstrated, Ciraulo was named president of Massey Knakal in December of 2000. Among Ciraulo's notable clients are The Bank of New York, The Resolution Trust Corporation, Orda Management, CS First Boston, Nike Corporation, Little Sisters of The Assumption, NHM Parking, and Joseph Moinian.

Tom Quaranta, senior vice president and northeast regional manager for Parsons Brinckerhoff Construction Services, Inc., has been elected president of the Construction Management Association of America.

Quaranta has been actively involved with CMAA since 1988, serving as a director since 1995 and as past president of the Metro N.Y./N.J. chapter. He is editor of the group's publication, An Owner's Guide to CM, and has lectured on construction management and project management at Columbia University and Lehigh University.

Herb Agin, chief executive officer of Sutton & Edwards Inc., has been reelected to his third consecutive term as chairman of the board of directors of TCN Worldwide.

Agin attended Hunter College and Brooklyn Law School and entered the commercial real estate industry in 1972 by joining Sutton & Towne, Inc. Agin was promoted to director of industrial properties at Sutton & Towne and subsequently served as vice president and manager of the Long Island regional office. In 1982, Agin formed Sutton & Edwards Inc. In 1992, Agin secured the Long Island affiliate position within TCN Worldwide. After contributing to the growth of the organization as regional vice president and a member of the board, he was elected chairman in 1998. Earlier this year Agin, along with three other members of TCN Worldwide, formed the TCN Metro.

Polshek Partnership Architects has hired James L. Sawyer for the newly-created position of director.

Sawyer joined Polshek Partnership after ten years with Richard Meier & Partners and is trained in architecture at Cornell University, with a masters in business administration from New York University and a certificate in international business jointly conferred by the New York University, the London Business School, and l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris. Sawyer will assist the partners with project management, personnel, financial, contracts, and risk management and technical research.

Caretsky & Associates, LLP, a New York-based mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm, announced that Tim Krawetz has joined its team as senior associate. Krawetz will serve as head for the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning department.