Personnel News from Walker & Dunlop, Colony Capital

Walker & Dunlop Hires Multifamily Property Sales Team in Chicago

Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., hired a property sales team in Chicago. Managing Directors Todd Stofflet and Jason Stevens and Associate Director Brad Smith will market and sell multifamily assets in Chicago and throughout the Midwest for the Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales platform.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Stofflet, Stevens and Smith were with Cushman & Wakefield’s multifamily brokerage. The team has been involved in a combined $3.2 billion of property sales during their careers.

Colony Capital, Digital Colony Appoint Tefridj-Gaillard Managing Director

Colony Capital, Boca Raton, Fla., and its digital infrastructure investment arm Digital Colony, appointed Latifa Tefridj-Gaillard Managing Director and Head of Europe Capital Formation for Digital Colony.

Ms. Tefridj-Gaillard will be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships within the European investment community and focus on advancing Digital Colony’s strategy in the region.

Tefridj-Gaillard joins Digital Colony from Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as Managing Director, Head of U.K. Institutions Solution Sales since 2010. In this role, she designed and implemented investment strategies and risk-management solutions across asset classes for U.K. private and public sector pension funds, their consultants and endowments. Prior to this role she worked on the Structured Equity Solutions team within the Investment Banking Division structuring and originating hybrid financing solutions for corporate clients.