Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based NAI Hiffman and Hiffman National, the firm’s property management and advisory services division, apppointed Paul Grusecki as managing director – head of advisory services.
Grusecki will be based in Hiffman’s headquarters in Oakbrook Terrace and lead the firm’s Advisory Services group, whose integrated platform serves owner, occupier and lender clients in markets across the country.
Grusecki joins Hiffman after more than 14 years at Chicago-based CIBC Bank USA, where he was most recently managing director, head of commercial real estate special loans and other real estate owned (REO). Grusecki has overseen $3 billion in distressed commercial real estate transactions over his career and sold $1 billion in office properties and mortgages in the past six quarters.
In this role, Grusecki will be tasked with expanding Hiffman’s project services, workplace solutions, lender services and lease administration offerings, which along with the firm’s management and brokerage capabilities, provide clients with a comprehensive suite of real estate solutions. He will also expand relationships with major lenders and loan servicers to provide strategic counsel, real-estate-owned (REO) management and brokerage services, and receivership services to troubled debt portfolios.
Grusecki holds a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Among other pursuits, he is a two-term sponsorship chair of the Misericordia Young Professionals Council.
