LM Commercial Real Estate, part of the Lagestee-Mulder family of companies, announces the expansion of the Brokerage division with the addition of Jim Degnan as Director of Real Estate Services, Mary Shutack as Marketing Manager, Victoria Blay as Commercial Broker and the promotion of Lisa Lockerby to Commercial Broker.
According to Tad Lagestee, President and Managing Broker of LM Commercial Real Estate, “the expansion of the team not only enhances our presence in the Chicago area market but more importantly, underlines our commitment to supporting our clients. Expanding the team with experienced professionals enables us to react quickly to client needs and take a comprehensive approach to marketing their properties.”
Jim Degnan brings 38 years of real estate experience to Lagestee-Mulder. Most recently he served as Vice President, Lender Solutions Group at NAI Hiffman’s Asset Management division in Oakbrook Terrace where he was responsible for developing new business and overseeing service delivery to lenders and special servicers with distressed assets and REO’s. Prior to that, he spent 15 years with Colliers International as Director of Brokerage where he directed and oversaw the activities of the industrial and suburban office brokerage divisions and helped grow the division by 59% from 22 brokers to 55. Jim began started in Commercial Real Estate as an industrial broker with CBRE where his career spanned 19 years. In his new position at LM Commercial Real Estate, Jim is charged with recruiting, training and mentoring brokers, expanding business development efforts and ensuring the highest level of service and advocacy for LM’s clients.
Mary H. Shutack joins the LM team with over ten years’ experience in marketing communications, new business development and public relations. Mary spent four years as the Marketing Communications Manager for Earthsafe Systems, Inc., a Chicago-based engineering firm where she was responsible for digital marketing, client/prospect database management and expansion with a special emphasis on business development. Additionally, as the Marketing/Media Specialist for over six years with public relations firm, P.S. Communications, Inc., Mary coordinated media outreach and messaging and helped expand their client’s brand and market presence in the Chicagoland area.
Lisa Lockerby has been a dedicated LM team member serving as the Marketing Manager for the past year where she executed LM marketing strategy, developed programs and tools to expand awareness of client listings and launched the social media efforts. She brings extensive targeted marketing promotion and client service knowledge to the brokerage team with her experience creating highly specialized campaigns to market properties. Prior to joining LM, Lisa worked for a variety of small businesses in the western suburbs in a marketing and business development capacity, including Oak Brook Racquet & Fitness Club, Standard Market and Brush Hill Realtors where she was involved in coordinating all marketing and social media efforts.
Victoria Blay, a native of Oak Lawn and a new broker with LM, is enthusiastic about joining the team and will specialize in office and multi-tenant residential buildings in the south suburbs. She has over ten years’ experience in sales and customer support working in a variety of positions at Landstar Logistics in Oak Lawn, IL. Victoria earned a Bachelor’s degree from DePaul University and a two secondary degrees from Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.
