California People and Company News, Week of April 17, 2026

• CBRE has promoted Justin Schultz to Vice Chair, the firm’s highest professional title reserved for top producers who demonstrate sustained excellence, leadership and exceptional client service. Schultz leads a team specializing in advisory services for global organizations with complex real estate portfolios. Building on the trust and relationships established through his retail work, he has expanded his advisory role across clients’ broader portfolios, including industrial and office assets. 

• Chris Maling has joined Cushman & Wakefield as Executive Director, Capital Markets Investment Sales. Based in Los Angeles, Maling will lead a specialized team focusing on the acquisition and disposition of retail assets, including shopping centers and single‑tenant net lease properties throughout Southern California and across the United States. With nearly four decades of experience in commercial real estate, Maling joins Cushman & Wakefield from Avison Young.  

RETS Associates, one of the nation’s most specialized executive and permanent search firms focused exclusively on the commercial real estate industry, announced that Sandra Kawahito has joined the firm as a Director in Los Angeles. Kawahito brings nearly a decade of executive search experience within the real estate industry, where she has led full-cycle recruitment assignments across investments, asset management, acquisitions, development, construction, finance, and operations. She has supported a wide range of clients—from institutional investors to operating platforms—in identifying and securing top-tier talent at the executive level. Before joining RETS Associates, Kawahito gained valuable search industry experience at such firms as RealAssets Executive Search and WP Osborne Executive Search. During her career, she’s played an integral role in executing senior-level searches for real estate companies and investment platforms. Her expertise spans the full recruitment lifecycle, including talent sourcing, candidate evaluation, interview management, offer negotiation, and closing. 

• Logos Faith Development, a Los Angeles-based, mission-driven real estate development firm specializing in transforming underutilized church land into community-centered affordable housing, has introduced Bishop Kevin Mannoia, a longstanding Senior Advisor who has brought increased focus to their mission of empowering churches through real estate development, representing a deep commitment to serving the community and maximizing impact. In this role as Senior Advisor, Bishop Mannoia supports both partner acquisition and investor relations. Alongside Logos, he currently serves as Ministry Development Consultant for Kingdom One, a church resource organization providing strategic guidance and operational best practices to churches and Christian Organizations, and Pastoral Coach for the Free Methodist Church. 

• Douglas Emmett, Inc. has elected Andy Cohen to its board of directors. Mr. Cohen is global co-chair of Gensler, the world’s largest architecture, design and planning firm with 60 offices and 6,500 professionals across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He has spent his entire 43-year career at Gensler, serving as co-CEO from 2005 to 2024 before stepping into the global co-chair role for Gensler as well as co-Chair of its board of directors. 

• TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, has expanded its senior team to include Nicole Diggs as managing director in asset management, as well as Parker Larson and Russell Cooper as partner. Diggs’ track record includes managing a portfolio spanning more than five million square feet and valued at more than $2.5 billion at PGIM, as well as experience at PCCP and development at Wareham Development. Before TMG, Larson held leadership positions at Trammell Crow Company and Southern Land Company. Cooper most recently was with Spear Street Capital and before that held roles with Shorenstein, Eastdil and Hines.   

• EAH Housing, one of the largest and most respected nonprofit housing organizations in the western U.S., has appointed Jed D’Abravanel as its first in-house general counsel. He brings more than a decade of experience in affordable housing law, community economic development and complex real estate transactions. D’Abravanel will establish and lead an in-house legal function for the first time in EAH Housing history.  

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