Nick Hilton (left) and Brendan McBride
By Joshua Burd
Cushman & Wakefield has welcomed brokers Nick Hilton and Brendan McBride, adding two industry veterans to the global portfolio solutions team based in its New Jersey office.
Hilton, an executive managing director, joins the company from CBRE and brings more than two decades of experience and over $2 billion in completed transaction value, according to a news release. He previously served as an executive vice president with the former Mack-Cali Realty Corp., where he oversaw leasing efforts across a 15 million-square-foot portfolio and led the company’s in-house leasing team.
McBride, formerly of JLL, comes to his role as executive director with more than 20 years of industry experience, having advised organizations across a wide range of assignments, Cushman said. That includes office headquarters, complex industrial and warehouse relocations, building sales, sale-leasebacks and large-scale portfolio strategies.
Both are based in New Jersey and join the 12-person global portfolio solutions team led by Executive Vice Chairman Ben Brenner. In their new roles, Hilton will continue to lead key client relationships while helping drive the strategic management and growth of the brokerage unit, while McBride will serve as a key driver of new client engagements while continuing to support and grow his longstanding relationships.
“Nick and Brendan represent a thoughtful investment in talent that strengthens our ability to serve clients at the highest level,” said Peter Bronsnick, executive regional director at Cushman. “We are laser-focused on advancing our mission to deliver a technology-enabled, fully integrated real estate platform that is centered around our position as one of the world’s pre-eminent commercial real estate advisors.”
The global portfolio solutions team has also recently hired Ryan Haggerty and Brody Strickland as transaction managers and Adriana Balidemaj as a brokerage specialist.
“Nick and Brendan are very accomplished, senior professionals whose background and mindset align perfectly with our high-performance culture,” Brenner said. “The global portfolio solutions team unites experts across industrial, data center, office and retail, delivering the experience and perspective needed to solve complex corporate real estate challenges.”
