Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation has hired Steven Sikora and Steven Alvarez.
Sikora, a veteran property management specialist, has joined Cohen Brothers as senior vice president of asset management.
For the past decade, Sikora served as vice president/property management of The Witkoff Group, where he was responsible for the operation of a five-city office building portfolio. Before that, he held important management positions at Gubb & Ellis, Winthrop Management and Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
In his new post, Sikora will oversee a diverse commercial real estate portfolio that includes nearly 10 million s/f of class A office buildings as well as leading showroom and design centers in N.Y., Fla., W. Los Angeles and Houston.
A graduate of New York University, Sikora has earned a certified Property Managers (CPM) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management and a Real Estate Administration (RPA) designation from the Building Owners and Managers Institute.
Alvarez has rejoined Cohen Brothers as senior vice president of building operations.
Alvarez, who served Cohen Brothers as vice president of building services for nearly a decade beginning in the mid-1990s, was most recently a vice president, operations, for One Source Facility Services, where he directed $20 million of janitorial and facilities maintenance accounts in the metropolitan area.
A graduate of Columbia University, Alvarez actually began his career as a supervisor/trainer and then a manager of building services at the university. Tags: