Development Firms Appoint New Officers

Capital, Tarragon, Antares, and Sapir all announce new senior executive moves. Also, Slattery Skanska taps a new president.

NEW HIRES

Charles Stark has been named president and CEO of SYSTRA USA in Bloomfield, N.J., which is a division of Paris-based SYSTRA, a planning, engineering, design, and construction firm specializing in transportation systems and facilities.

David Friedman has joined Capital Properties, a New York-based owner and developer of commercial and residential real estate, as executive vice president.

W.C. Jack Miller has joined JRS Architect, an architectural design firm based in Mineola, N.Y., as vice president of business development.

Gary Pia has joined Kamco Supply Corp. of New England, a building materials distributor based in Wallingford, Conn., as director of marketing and communications.

Stephen Wolfson has been appointed senior vice president at Tarragon Corp., a New York-based developer of high-density residential communities.

H. Rok Lee has joined Heitmann & Associates, a building enclosure consultant based in St. Louis, as manager of the company's eastern regional office located in New York.

Bruce Macleod has joined Antares Investment Partners, a developer headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., as chief operating officer.

Alexander Palumbo, formerly of Muñoz Engineering and Land Surveying, has been named senior executive deputy commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration.

PROMOTIONS

Richard Cavallaro has been appointed president of Slattery Skanska, replacing Joseph LoCurto. Cavallaro has also been appointed executive vice president of Queens-based Skanska USA Civil, Slattery's parent division.

Gregory Clark, Patricia Scanlon, and Alan Bjornsen have been promoted to partner at Cerami & Associates, an acoustical and audiovisual consulting firm based in New York.

David Askinazi has been promoted to assistant branch manager of the Rochester, N.Y., office of Dewberry, a civil, structural, and construction engineering and inspection firm based in Fairfax, Va.

Dennis Cornick has been promoted to national sales manager and senior vice president at the Lawrenceville, N.J., offices of Gilbane Building, a construction and real estate development company based in Providence, R.I.

Howard Fiddle and Brian Gell both have been named vice chairman at the New York offices of CB Richard Ellis Group, a commercial real estate services firm based in Los Angeles.

Alex Sapir has been appointed president of the Sapir Organization, a New York-based real estate holding and development company.

Gregg Piazza and Sissy Nikolaou have been promoted to associate at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, a geotechnical and foundation engineering and design firm based in New York.

Christopher Roof has been named director of architecture and engineering for the Hartford, Conn., offices of BL Cos., a design firm based in Meriden, Conn.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Carl Van Horn has been appointed by New Jersey Gov. John Corzine as chair of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Van Horn is a professor of public policy and director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Richard Tomasetti, chairman and co-founder of Thornton-Tomasetti Group, has been elected chairman of the New York Building Foundation, the charitable arm of the New York Building Congress.