Roth named global and americas director of real estate at Ernst & Young

According to Ernst & Young, 30-year real estate industry veteran Howard Roth has been named the organization's new global and americas director of real estate. Roth, who previously headed the northeast real estate practice of Ernst & Young U.S., will coordinate a network of 5,000 real estate professionals around the world from the organization's Global Real Estate Center offices in the state. Roth has worked extensively with major real estate private equity funds, domestic and offshore real estate investment trusts, large public homebuilders, and construction and hospitality companies, advising them on transactional analysis and acquisition due diligence. Roth is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the N.J., N.Y. and Conn. Society of CPAs, the Real Estate Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute.