dallas zoo
lisa new, CEO
Lisa New has been named the first female CEO in the Dallas Zoo's 135-year history. She is expected to start on January 15, 2024. She joins the Dallas Zoo after 10 years as president and CEO of the Knoxville Zoo. New began her career in her entry-level position at the Knoxville Zoo, grew to the zoo's conservation science team, and ultimately became the zoo's president and CEO over the past decade.
education: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Master's, Bachelor's)
cushman & wakefield
Chris Hipps Representative Director and President
Chris Hipps, a longtime CBRE executive, has been hired to lead the firm's advisory business throughout Texas. He will work in Dallas and his first official day on the job will be January 2, 2024. At CBRE, Mr. Hipps served as Senior Managing Director of Advisory and Transaction Services and Investor Services for the North Texas region. Prior to joining CBRE, he spent nearly 25 years at Cadillac Fairview and its successor companies Prentice Properties and Brandywine Realty Trust.
education: Southern Methodist University (BBA)
jeremy edmiston, Executive Director, US Lead Build to Rent/Single House Rental Business
Jeremy Edmiston has been promoted to executive director. In this new role for build-to-rent and single-family rentals, Edmiston will work with the firm's capital markets and debt teams to deliver integrated BTR/SFR end-to-end solutions to Cushman & Wakefield's clients. Offers. Edmiston and his team oversee a 9,500-unit property management portfolio and his pipeline of more than 2,500 homes.
education: Hardin Simmons University
Southwest Transplant Alliance
Fiben's Add Corantine, legal advisor
Mr. Fibens Ado Koranteng has joined Southwest Transplant Alliance's leadership as General Counsel. Throughout his career, he has focused on business and health care law, both in private practice and as in-house counsel in Missouri and Texas. Mr. Koranten previously served as a board member and committee member for several bar associations in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a leader in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
education: University of Missouri School of Law (J.D.), William Woods University (B.S.)
Newmark
Garrison Effard President
Garrison Effard has been named managing director of Newmark's Dallas office. In 2023 alone, Efurd has advised over 3.5 million square feet of his companies and successfully negotiated over $500 million in transactions since joining the company. He will continue to help manage office and industrial tenant advisory activities throughout Texas and the United States.
education: University of Arkansas (BS)
unexpected product
Tatiana Chamorro, Vice President of Marketing & Digital and Co-Founding Member
Tatiana Chamorro will become Unexpected Products' first vice president of marketing and digital, leading the company's branding and e-commerce strategy. She will be working with entrepreneurs John Dallagher and Stephen McCarthy to improve the packaging of consumables. Previously, she founded the marketing agency Hite Creative and co-owned its sister company, Hite Digital. Hite Digital is a branding agency with 200 employees. Co., Ltd.. 5,000 people for the second year in a row.
education: Texas A&M University Department of Commerce (Master's, Bachelor's)
Polsinelli
Tara M. Darling, shareholder, Real estate finance practice group
The newest addition to Polsinelli's real estate finance group is Tara Darling. Her focus will be on advising clients on financing transactions across a variety of commercial real estate asset classes. Darling, who joins Polsinelli from a real estate law firm, represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in complex financing transactions. She also discussed affordable housing transactions, including Section 8 and HAP agreements, low-income housing tax credits, tax credits, including PFC and HFC transactions, and other tax credits created under local, state, and federal law. We also focus on other programs.
education: Touro College (JD), Manhattan College (BBM)
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