Massey Knakal Brooklyn office promotes Amirkhanian to dir. of sales

According to Massey Knakal, Michael Amirkhanian, has been promoted to a director of sales, exclusively covering the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and Holly Daddario has joined the firm as an executive assistant to partner managing director Shimon Shkury, exclusively covering Harlem in Northern Manhattan. Amirkhanian, who joined the firm in early 2007 as an associate, replaces Peter Schubert, who left Massey Knakal last month to pursue other opportunities. Amirkhanian worked as a Research Analyst at Transwestern Commercial/Delta Associates prior to joining Massey Knakal. A publisher of quarterly apartment market reports for the Washington, D.C. metro area, he became knowledgeable of rents, vacancies, absorption, pipeline activity, developments and statistical analysis. Before entering real estate he honed his entrepreneurial edge as managing principal of NETIMPAX, an Internet marketing and branding agency. He also built his own event management business, HYRIZE, which he successfully ran during college where he was a scholarship athlete in track and cross country. A graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Daddario earned her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, where she graduated cum laude. During college she spent a semester abroad studying at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Economics and Business School. Most recently, Daddario worked at SumiSeo in Massachusetts as a buyers assistant. She was also an Insurance assistant/client retention specialist for Wellesley Insurance Brokerage; an office assistant at the MBA Office of Student Services for Georgetown; a clerk at J. McLaughlin; and a sales associate at E.A. Davis. Additionally, she spent four summers acting as a lifeguard at Boston Sports Club.