Swig and Cappelli Announce Construction Unit Hires

Both developers add to their internal construction divisions. Also, Skanska USA Building promotes regional executives and several local associations fill leadership posts.

NEW HIRES

Paul Slaney has been named COO and general counsel of George A. Fuller Co., the general contracting subsidiary of Cappelli Enterprises, a real estate developer in Valhalla, N.Y.

Stephen Nuckel has been appointed vice president of the residential division of Falcon Pacific Construction, an affiliate of Swig Equities, a real estate development, investment, and management firm based in New York. Also, Swig has promoted Greg Kirschenbaum to director of residential operations.

Sheldon Cohen has been named senior managing director in charge of the downtown Manhattan office of CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate services firm based in Los Angeles.

Robert Rubin and Sarah Biser have joined the New York offices of Seyfarth Shaw, a Chicago-based law firm. Rubin joined as counsel and Biser joined as a partner, both working in the construction practice group.

Mary Friend has been hired as senior interior designer at KSS Architects, an architectural firm based in Princeton, N.J. In addition, Stephen Doyle has returned as an intern architect, and Fei Wang and Danielle Matuch were hired as intern architects.

Patrick Toner has been named vice president in the Princeton, N.J., office of Structure Tone Organization, a construction services firm based in New York.

PROMOTIONS

Philip Southerland Jr. and Joey Hatch have been promoted to corporate executive vice president by Skanska USA Building, a construction, general contracting, and design-build firm based in Parsippany, N.J. Southerland oversees the life sciences business and Hatch oversees the healthcare unit. Also, Skanska tapped Michael Leondi to be area general manager of New Jersey operations.

Nayan Trivedi has been promoted to the position of senior associate at Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a consulting engineering firm based in New York. The firm also promoted William Howell, Alexandra Novak, and Andrea Soligon to associate.

Mark Hopper and Angela Cahill have been named partners at Schoenhardt Architecture + Interior Design, an architectural and consulting firm based in Tariffville, Conn.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Martha Walther has been appointed acting president of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and Tunnels, replacing Michael Ascher, who retired last fall. Walther also continues serving as vice president of operations.

David Scott, a structural engineer and principal in the New York office of Arup, a consulting and engineering firm based in London, has been selected to chair the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international nonprofit organization.

Victoria Arbitrio, an associate at Gilsanz Murray Steficek, a structural engineering design firm based in New York, has been named president of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations.

Martin Daly, director of the District Council of Carpenters' Labor Technical College, has been appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the Commission on Construction Opportunity, which the city established last spring to promote participation by minorities, women, veterans, and recent high school graduates in the construction industry.

The New York Building Congress, an umbrella association of building industry groups, has elected Dominick Servedio, chairman and CEO of STV Group, as its 2006 chairman. In addition, the association elected six new vice chairs: Mary-Jean Eastman, principal at Perkins Eastman Architects; Edward Malloy, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York; Salvatore Mancini, president and CEO of Skanska USA Civil; Peter Marchetto, CEO of Bovis Lend Lease; William Smith, president of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas; and Susan Hayes, president and CEO of Cauldwell Wingate Company. Also, Maureen Henegan, CEO of Henegan Construction, is the new treasurer and Robert Selsam, senior vice president of Boston Properties, is the new secretary.

Darcy Stacom has been named the 2005 top-producing broker at CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate services firm based in Los Angeles. The New York City Investment Properties Institutional Group, which Stacom heads as executive vice president, handled $7.1 billion worth of office and residential sales last year.