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support to its multifamily portfolio. In the role, Levy will leverage his previous multifamily fund finance experience with Lexington Realty Capital and Capitol Hartford LLC to drive the analytical work for Hampshire’s investment funds and direct multifamily investments, including asset and portfolio underwriting and cash flow projections, as well as performing market research according to fund strategy and asset type.
Working with the development team, Dean Pezzino joins Hampshire as a cost accountant, the news release said. In the role, he will serve as
the custodian of the activities surrounding the contracting and accounting process for the company’s ground-up construction and major renovation projects throughout all phases of development.
Prior to joining Hampshire, Pezzino served as lead for development finance at WeWork.
PEAPACK NAMES NEW DIRECTOR, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
Peapack-Gladstone Bank has promoted Matthew Remo to senior vice president and director of strategy and development.
According to the lender and its parent company,
In a news release, the lender cited Remo’s significant contributions across areas such as capital and strategic planning, credit reviews, equipment finance, regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, digital initiatives and new product governance. He has also played a significant role in the bank’s Paycheck Protection Program lending efforts.
The University of Connecticut graduate joined Peapack-Gladstone after 10 years with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the news release said. As senior examiner of large banking organizations, he specialized in capital and strategic planning, wealth management, asset-liability management and stress testing.
Prior to that, he was a supervisory manager of regional and community banks, where he managed safety and soundness examination teams and leading technology design
and implementation efforts across the Second District of the Federal Reserve Bank.
JZA+D ADDS TWO
PROJECT DESIGNERS
Design firm JZA+D has hired Yadie Meko and Stewart Tillyer as project designers as it looks to expand its portfolio of hospitality, multifamily, retail, workplace and academic projects.
The Princeton-based practice
said Meko and Tillyer, who both
bring technical and technological expertise, will help it sustain business development efforts and enhance service to current clients.
“Yadie and Stewart come from entirely different backgrounds, but both are creative, hardworking and talented,” said Joshua Zinder, managing partner of JZA+D. “After just a short time since starting with us, the firm is already better off for their contributions, which complement our multidisciplinary approach to highly sustainable and contemporary designs.”
Zinder, who announced the hires alongside JZA+D Partner Mark A. Sullivan, added: “We’re proud that they have found a professional
home here, and we hope they will benefit from JZA+D’s commitment to dedicated mentorship.”
Meko earned her bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and was a board
member of ARCHtank, the undergraduate student architecture
REALESTATENJTM 27 AVISON YOUNG
HIRES VETERAN
INDUSTRIAL BROKER
Avison Young has bolstered its team of New Jersey industrial brokers with the addition of Jimo Liu as vice president.
Based in the firm’s Morristown office, Liu brings more
than a decade
of commercial
real estate
experience, with
a primary focus
on brokerage
and advisory
services for new
and existing
industrial clients throughout the New Jersey market. He most recently spent nearly a decade with HHE Investment Inc., first as a director and then vice president, managing the firm’s real estate investments in the U.S.
“We are pleased to welcome Jimo to Avison Young New Jersey,” said Jeff Heller, an Avison Young principal and managing director of its New Jersey offices. “His years of experience and proven industry leadership make
him an ideal fit for our team and his
Yadie Meko
association, JZA+D said. She is a member of the International Association for the Exchange
of Students
for Technical Experience
and studied at
Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, earning a master of science in architecture.
For his part, Tillyer earned a bachelor’s in architecture from the Syracuse University School of Architecture, where he participated in a study abroad program
that took him
to London,
England, and
Florence,
Italy, the news
release said.
The firm cited
his advanced
computer skills
and said that, prior to being hired, he gathered work experience that includes design development for outpatient clinics in the Bronx.
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Stewart Tillyer
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Peapack- Gladstone Financial Corp., the veteran executive is responsible
for developing and formalizing the company’s
business strategy, identifying
critical objectives and priorities
and expanding data analytics and management information systems to measure and report progress. He is also responsible for ensuring that the scope of enterprise risk management activities — including capital, liquidity and credit — aligns with the bank’s defined business strategies.
Remo, who joined the bank in 2019 as vice president, senior enterprise risk officer, also continues to
lead new markets and products governance and serves on many of its committees. He was promoted last October to vice president, director of strategy development.