JLL turns to former Stanford-Quarterford Todd Husak to apply the success he’s had in the field to his new position as senior managing director in the brokerage firm’s Silicon Valley office. The real estate veteran comes to JLL with a specialization in agency leasing and tenant representation.
In a statement, Husak said he was thrilled to join JLL “as new activity has returned to the Silicon Valley and Peninsula areas.”
Husak was the quarterback for the Stanford football team from 1996 to 2000 and led the Cardinal to the Pac-10 Conference title during the 1999 season and to the team’s first Rose Bowl since 1972. After college, Husak was picked up in the sixth round of the NFL Drafted in 2000 and played professionally for five years.
After retiring from professional football, he spent a year and a half as an assistant coach with the Cardinals before joining CBRE’s Palo Alto office, where he worked for more than 16 years and rose to the rank of general manager.
Husak’s responsibilities at JLL include working with the current agency team to increase market share, maximize the value of his clients’ assets in the region, and continue to expand JLL’s reach in the Bay Area.
➤Cushman & Wakefield has created a new role for Ron Chislom, who will serve as the company’s first North American Senior Vice President of Life Sciences Client Services. Chisholm will be based in San Francisco and will oversee a C&W Services portfolio of life science properties across North America with a focus on providing strategic insights. He will work closely with Cushman & Wakefield’s Life Science Advisory Board to work on global growth opportunities.
“Life sciences is clearly a very important area of growth for the company,” said Swinburne, the company’s COO, who described the reorganization as “CWS’ first consolidated end-to-end industry.”
Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Chislom served as Executive Vice President at JLL for nearly three years, where he served as Global Life Sciences Account Executive. Prior to his career in commercial real estate, he worked at Roche/Genentech for 14 years.
➤Cushman & Wakefield also joins Mark Anderson as vice chairman in the San Francisco office. Anderson previously worked at Cushman & Wakefield for nearly 20 years before spending two years at Avison Young.
Anderson will focus on representing landlords and tenants in multiple markets. In his previous job at the brokerage firm, he had also been promoted to vice chairman.
➤Jeff Smith, President of Sack Properties, and David Feinberg, Chief Investment Officer, have been appointed to manage the company under a new name called Sack Capital Partners.
“Smith and Feinberg each have more than 25 years of multifamily experience and have invested more than $2.5 billion in multifamily transactions totaling more than 10,000 units,” said Kirby Sack, owner of Sack since 2007.
Smith joined what was then known as Sack Properties in 2001. He became boss
In 2007 he was appointed Treasurer and in 2017 he was appointed President. Feinberg joined the company in 2017
became chief investment officer in 2020.
➤Alta Housing, a community-based affordable housing organization, has hired Stephanie Shipe as Vice President of Property Management. Shipe has over 25 years of experience managing affordable housing, most recently serving as director of portfolio management for the City of Alameda Housing Department.
“She is committed to Alta’s resident retention policy and works with residents and resident services to ensure residents are able to remain in their homes,” CEO Randy Tsuda said in a statement.
In her new position, Shipe will manage more than 1,000 units and a team of 35 professionals.