British Columbia Investment Management Corporation has named Jon Salon executive vice-president and global head, private equity, effective Feb. 2. Salon brings more than 30 years of private equity investment and executive management experience to the role. 

He succeeds Jim Pittman, who led the program since 2016.

Salon joined BCI Private Equity in 2024 as senior managing director and global head of healthcare, quickly growing his role to include leadership of BCI’s venture and growth strategies and being named head of the New York office.

He joins BCI’s executive leadership team, and will lead more than 75 professionals across Victoria (B.C.), New York and London, overseeing fund, direct and co‑investment strategies. 

Salon is based in New York and will report to Gordon J. Fyfe, BCI’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer.

Since joining BCI in 2016, Pittman grew BCI Private Equity from a $7 billion portfolio into a globally recognized $36 billion-plus platform, while broadening the strategy and expanding its global footprint with offices in New York and London. 

Todd named director at QuadReal

Candice Todd has joined the board of directors of QuadReal Property Group, bringing global financial expertise, performance and investment management experience and leadership in governance activities to the role.

In her most recent job as managing director and global chief financial officer at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investments, Todd raised over US$10 billion in unsecured debt and nearly US$10 billion in secured debt across multiple sources of capital, providing liquidity for the fund's operations. She also led the effort to set up the Prime Property Fund Asia as well as the Prime Property Fund Europe.

Todd also serves on the board of National Health Advisors as a financial expert and chair of the audit committee, and as a member of the audit committee at Highwoods Properties.

Koganov joins Northview board of trustees

Northview Residential REIT (NRR-UN–T) has appointed Aviel Koganov to its board of trustees, replacing Rob Kumer as the nominee of KingSett Capital. Koganov has also been appointed to the REIT’s audit committee.

Koganov joined KingSett in 2010 and is responsible for sourcing, structuring and negotiating the acquisition and disposition of investment opportunities across Canada. He also served as chief financial officer of VersaCold Logistics, a KingSett portfolio company. 

Prior to KingSett, Koganov held progressively senior roles at Deloitte in the real estate assurance practice, working on large public and private client engagements, including evaluation of corporate transactions, financial reporting and policy advisory.

He holds an honours international bachelor of business administration from Schulich School of Business at York University and is a CPA, CA.

New leaders at CBRE NIT Vancouver

After four decades in commercial real estate, Jim Szabo and Tony Quattrin will transition the leadership of CBRE's National Investment Team in Vancouver. Both will remain with CBRE as executive chairs in 2026, supporting continuity during the transition. 

The team is now co-led by Duncan MacLean and Cynthia Jagger in partnership with Vincent Minichiello and Anthony Liang.

MacLean joined the team from CBRE's Calgary office in September and has been involved in over $17 billion of transactions in a career spanning 20 years with the company. 

Jagger, with 22 years of experience, joined in January 2025 from a boutique brokerage where she led the market in multifamily and development land sales for a decade.

Minichiello has been with NIT Vancouver for 12 years and has been involved with over $11 billion of transactions. Liang, a member of NIT Vancouver for the past eight years, will expand his existing sales role with the team.

Since 1991, the Szabo and Quattrin partnership navigated many market cycles. They averaged $3 billion in transactions annually and are four-time winners of NAIOP's Best Investment Transaction award. 

Hirings, promotions at Lennard

Lennard Commercial has announced hirings and promotions at its Canadian offices, including three new executives in Vancouver: Allon Shapiro, Aaron Ulinder and Matt Thomas.

Shapiro joins Lennard as a partner and managing broker, after 32 years with a global commercial real estate firm. He specializes in investment property and development site sales across Metro Vancouver.

Ulinder joins as a partner. The 25-year industry veteran specializes in office leasing and investment sales, advising occupiers and investors on complex mandates.

Thomas brings two decades of expertise in commercial sales and leasing into his new position as senior vice-president. Since starting his career in 2005, Thomas has gained extensive experience in the North Shore CRE industry.

David Hearn has joined the Mississauga office as vice-president, bringing his over 40 years of global real estate experience. Before Lennard, he was the regional real estate leader at EY, covering Canada and the Eastern and Central U.S. He also spent 10 years in Asia Pacific operations.

Ray Robinson was hired as senior vice-president at the Waterloo, Ont., office and brings over 41 years of experience. He spent 26 years with Cushman & Wakefield, earning recognition as a two-time national top-10 producer and being inducted into the company’s Hall of Fame. For the past 16 years, Robinson was with Avison Young in the Waterloo Region.

Reid becomes SVP at Wesbild

Wesbild has named Jonathan Reid as senior vice-president, Okanagan, to lead operations and strategic growth for Predator Ridge and other initiatives in the region.

Reid has over 25 years of experience in the resort, hospitality, recreation and development sectors across Canada and the U.S. His career spans leadership roles at some of North America’s most renowned four-season resort destinations.

Most recently, he was chief operating officer at Freed Hotels and Resorts, overseeing flagship destinations including Muskoka Bay Resort, Deerhurst Resort and Horseshoe Resort. Prior, he led operations at Horseshoe Resort and Bear Valley Resort.

If Reid’s name seems familiar from another pursuit, he is a former member of the Canadian snowboard team.

New managers at Arcadis

​Arcadis has made two recent appointments, adding Karen Cvornyek as Canada east business unit director within its architecture and urbanism practice, and Sean Keogh as life science market sector lead. 

Cvornyek will work closely with Canada west business unit director Lauren Macaulay and the broader management team, forming Arcadis’ first women-led architecture and urbanism leadership team in Canada.

Prior to joining Arcadis, she worked at KPMB, Global Affairs Canada and KiiA Architecture, where she led projects in Canada and across the globe. In 2002, Cvornyek joined B+H Architects as the firm’s first female partner, before being promoted to lead the firm’s Shanghai studio in 2003. From there, she became the president for the firm’s growing Asia practice in 2008. 

Cvornyek’s appointment follows the recent nomination of Heather Polinsky, a 26-year veteran of the company, as Arcadis’ first female CEO and chair of the executive board, effective March 1.

Keogh introduced the firm’s established global life science project network to the Canadian market. He joined Arcadis through the acquisition of DPS Group in 2022. Keogh brings more than a decade of experience delivering life science projects with clients that include Shire, MSD, CSL Behring and Lonza.