Robert W. Baird & Co. has hired Steven Goldberg as managing director and head of its real estate investment banking team. Goldberg most recently the group head of real estate investment banking at FBR Capital Markets, and will focus on providing equity origination and advisory services to Baird’s institutional real estate clients, focusing particularly on the lodging industry. He will be based in the firm’s McLean, Virginia office where the core of Baird’s Real Estate Investment Banking and Equity Research teams are located.
“We are very pleased that Steve will be joining Baird,” said Steve Booth, co-head of equity capital markets at Baird. “Over the past two decades, he has established an impressive track record in advising real estate clients. Baird continues to be very active in the real estate sector, recently serving as a book-runner in the IPO of Summit Hotel Properties and financial advisor to Kentland Corporation. We look forward to Steve’s leadership as we continue to expand our real estate investment banking team with additional expertise.”
Associated Banc-Corp has announced eight Milwaukee area senior level staffing appointments. They include:
- Dale Grzenia has been hired as senior vice president, team leader for Associated Commercial Finance. Grzenia will oversee a team responsible for the loan commitment process for middle market asset based loans.
- Kate Johnson has been hired as senior vice president, director of sales and marketing integration. In her new role she is responsible for maximizing the bank’s ability to enhance and expand its relationships with clients. Most recently she was with M&I Wealth Management.
- Mark Kennedy joins Associated as senior vice president, business resource center director. In this capacity he is responsible for developing and overseeing all centralized support for Associated’s business banking sales and service, including underwriting, SBA lending, processing and cash management services.
- Diane Teipner has been hired as senior vice president, director of retail information management where she is responsible for ensuring that the bank’s retail division is supplied with necessary data and reporting to make informed business decisions.
- Brent Tischler joins Associated as senior vice president, director of channel optimization. He is responsible for the ongoing development of Associated’s retail channels, including in-store banking, ATM, mobile banking and emerging channels. Tischler comes to Associated from Guaranty Bank in Milwaukee, and before that did strategy consulting with financial services clients for Deloitte Consulting in Chicago.
- Marylou Schirpke joins Associated as vice president, relationship manager where she will manage and develop a portfolio of commercial business relationships. She has 17 years of commercial banking and business banking experience, and comes to Associated from M&I Bank.
- Dawn Riedel has been promoted to senior vice president, director of brand management and creative services. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing Associated’s corporate brand and the marketing communications function.
- Carrie Storm has been promoted to vice president, relationship manager in the bank’s equipment leasing division. In this capacity she provides financing solutions for various types of equipment for bank customers.
