People & Companies News for Week Ending May 30, 2025

News| May 29, 2025| Monte Stewart

• Jamie Read has been promoted to vice-president of people and culture at Townline Homes. She previous served as director of people and culture.

• Gavin Swartzman will join Christie’s International Real Estate as the firm’s new president and CEO in June. Swartzman spent the past 11 years as CEO of Peerage Realty Partners, a leading Toronto-based holdings company that owns and operates brokerage firms in Canada and the U.S. Peerage’s companies include Christie’s affiliates.

• Deep Sky CEO Damien Steel has resigned. Steel announced his decision on LinkedIn, stating that he was leaving the carbon-removal project developer for personal reasons. Alex Petre has been promoted to CEO from her former role of chief operating officer. Deep Sky is develop its first direct-air carbon-capture facility in Innisfail, Alta.
• Phil Brown has joined XXIII Capital as chief operating officer. Brown brings about two decades of Canadian and U.S. commercial real estate industry experience to the firm.

• Decisive Dividend Corporation has appointed Chris Goodchild as chief operating officer. Goodchild moved to the company from Magna International, where he most recently served as general manager. Decisive Dividend focuses on acquisitions of manufacturing companies and their real estate assets.

• Iain Stewart will retire from his position as president and CEO of Genesis Land Development on June 30. He will be succeeded by Parveshindera Sidhu. Stewart was appointed president and CEO in 2018. He joined the Calgary-based company’s board in 2013 and will continue to sit on it. Sidhu has been with Genesis since 2005, taking on increasingly senior roles. He most recently served as president and chief operating officer.

• John Bosco-Agbasi has been appointed Fengate Real Estate managing director. He will oversee Toronto-based Fengate’s commercial and residential property portfolios. Bosco-Agbasi moved to Fengate from Carttera, where he served as director of asset management.

• Gautam Kumar has joined Colliers as the firm’s vice-president of debt advisory in Edmonton. Kumar has about 15 years of commercial real estate financing experience.

• RBC Capital Markets has promoted Yasmin Nassar to managing director and COO of global research. She has been with the company for two decades.

• Amanda Feduc has been named managing director of Colliers’ North York district office in Toronto. She has returned to the company, where she began her commercial real estate career in 2011 before moving to CBRE. In her latest role at CBRE, she served as managing director for Southern Ontario.

• Altus Group has elevated Heather Globush to associate director. She has served as a senior project manager for the past three years.

• Evan French has joined Marcon as director of development after three years at Wesgroup, where he was a senior development manager. Before joining Wesgroup, he was a planner with Sherman Brown.

• Realstar has appointed Randy Hoffman as its new CEO. Hoffman moves to Realstar from Oxford Properties, where he most recently served as the head of its U.S. business. He spent about two decades at Oxford, starting as an investment analyst and advancing to increasingly senior executive positions. Realstar invest in multi-residential, hospitality and alternative assets.

• Avison Young Principal Jeff Flemington has raised more than $63,000, exceeding his original goal, in a cycling fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society. He is cycling more than 4,000 kilometres across the largely unpaved Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) in support of the Canadian Cancer Society. The five-week solo journey, dubbed Project 55 in honour of Flemington’s age, continue until July 3, covering 4,340 kilometres between New Mexico and Alberta—90% of which is unpaved. The effort pays tribute to Flemington’s colleagues, Sarah Campbell and Kiana Kasaei, and their personal battles with cancer. His initial goal was to raise $55,000 to support research into brain cancer and breast cancer, the respective diagnoses that have affected Kasaei and Campbell. The fundraising project has secured a 50% matching program through Toronto’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. People wishing to contribute funds can donate through the Project 55 website.

• Anthem Properties has promoted Jacqueline Lau to marketing director. She served as the company’s senior marketing manager for the past six years. In another move, Anthem promoted Charmaine Liang to senior manager of investment. She previously served an investment manager and real estate acquisitions analyst with the firm.

• Hyvve Canada has appointed Saira Somani as the company’s fractional CFO. She previously served as director of finance and controller at Kenota Health. Before moving to Kenota, she spent about a decade with TD in assistant vice-president and senior manager roles.

• Heather Murphy has joined Kingsett Capital as director of real estate asset management. She moved to Kingsett from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, where she held analyst positions.

• Starlight Investments will serve as the presenting sponsor for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation’s Journey to Conquer Cancer for the fourth consecutive year. The event, scheduled for Sunday, June 15 at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, invites participants to walk or run distances of 1 km, 3 km, or 5 km to raise funds for cancer research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Starlight has been a dedicated partner of this initiative for over a decade, contributing more than $250,000 through employee participation, fundraising, and sponsorships.

• Unceded: Voices of the Land, a groundbreaking Indigenous-led contemporary architecture exhibition, will be showcased at Edmonton City Centre until June 21. Originally created for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Unceded is the first exhibition of its kind to be presented on the world stage, celebrating Indigenous architecture through the perspectives of 18 Indigenous architects and designers from across North America. More details are available at Unceded.org.