Ontario Real Estate And Development Industry Moves: July 2025

As anyone who subscribes to our weekly newsletter will know, STOREYS loves to plug the hires, promotions, and even retirements related to real estate and development in Ontario — and monthly, we also put out a rundown of everyone we highlighted in July.

Notable moves from last month include Joseph Feldman, who has been named President of Camrost Felcorp, and former TAS executives Hugh Clark and Khan Tran, who have joined the City of Toronto and Capital Developments, respectively, in executive roles.

Development:

Joseph Feldman has been named President and COO of Camrost Felcorp, and former President David Feldman will stay on as Chairman and CEO.
Khan Tran has joined Capital Developments Executive VP of Investments after seven years with TAS.
Alyssa Laframboise has been promoted to Associate Director of Development Finance at Dream.
Christine Chea has joined Osmington Gerofsky Development Corp as Director of Planning and Development after three years at Mattamy Homes.
Michael Duff has been promoted to VP of Development and Planning at Pure Industrial, and Stephen Tam has been appointed VP of Finance after four years at Dream.
Lindsay Ward has been promoted to VP at Dunsire Developments.
Calvin Younger has been named Board Chair of Ravelin Properties REIT, replacing George Armoyan, who will continue to serve as a member of the Board.
Diana Girgis has joined Lanterra Developments as VP of Sales & Marketing.

Brokerages:

Leanne Dufault has joined Colliers as AVP in its Toronto West office.
Kaleb Aberle has joined CBRE Capital Team as an Associate.
James Fields has started as Broker of Record at the newly formed Trolleybus Realty Inc.
David Blyth has joined GWL Realty Advisors as VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations.
Gabriel Irinici has been promoted to VP of Lennard Commercial Realty, Ken Karulas to Executive VP, and Chris Marit to Senior VP.
Lyndsay Hopps has joined JLL’s Industrial in the firm’s Mississauga office as Senior VP of Industrial after ten years at Avision Young.
Sean Maddeaux has joined Avison Young’s Industrial Brokerage team.

Government:

Hugh Clark has joined the City of Toronto as Executive Director for the Housing Development Office after two years with TAS.
Arya Beheshti has joined CreateTO as VP of Construction and Environment.
Lee Warren has joined the Building Ontario Fund as Managing Director of Investments.

Finance:

Andrew Nicol has been promoted to Director, Head of Global Real Estate Strategy at Scotiabank.
Eric Benner has been promoted to Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Construction of Active Equities at CPP Investments.
Gigi Wong has been appointed Chief Financial Officer at Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation.

Other:

Luigi Favaro has been appointed CEO of the Ontario Real Estate Association's Board of Directors.
Kathy Kadziela has joined C.F. Crozier & Associates Inc. as Director, Development.
Dean Willmott has joined Cadillac Fairview as Director of Office Leasing after five years at Oxford Properties.
Kerri Henderson has joined Perkins&Will as Managing Principal, Director of Advisory Services Toronto and Ottawa.
Natalie Blake has joined MPAC Vice-President, People & Transformation.
Jason Lo has joined R-LABS as Managing Director of Revenue & Growth.
Shivam Chouhan has joined Signet Group as Operations Analyst.
Stephanie Shewchuk has joined RBC Thought Leadership as Director of Housing Policy.

National:

Brenda Buchanan has been announced as CEO of RECO.
Patrick Pichette has been announced as the the Interim CEO of REALTOR.ca Canada Inc.
Jens von Bergmann has joined CMHC as the organization’s first Housing Economics & Insights Scholar in Residence for a two-year term.
REALPAC has announced its 2025-2026 Board of Directors.

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Ontario Real Estate And Development Industry Hires And Promotions: July 2025

Notable moves include Joseph Feldman, who has been named President of Camrost Felcorp, and former TAS executives Hugh Clark and Khan Tran, who have joined the City of Toronto and Capital Developments, respectively, in executive roles.

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