MANAGEMENT Who's News PERSONNEL.

Alan Rogers (photo), chairman and chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman. One of the leading residential real estate brokerage firms in New York, was presented with the Honorary Professor Award by the Academy for Continuing Education, Real Estate Division (A.C.E.), for his continued efforts on behalf of broker education. Esther Muller, president of A.C.E., presented the award to Rogers on June 14 at an educational session that focused on current trends in the new millennium.

As chairman and chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman, Mr. Rogers possesses extensive knowledge about all aspects of the real estate industry. Following the award ceremony, Mr. Rogers addressed current market issues, such as pricing, and highlighted the significance of new residential development projects. He presented an educational video, which explained different types of new developments and the way in which Douglas Elliman works with developers to successfully market and sell these properties.

Ernst & Young. LLP presented Andrew C. Florance, CEO of CoStar Group, with its Entrepreneur of the Year Award June 29 at their annual awards gala. Florance won the award in the e-content category for the Greater Washington Metropolitan region. Costar Group is one of the leading providers of information services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry.

The Ernst & Young honor follows another award presented to Florance at Realcomm2000 for his impact on the commercial real estate industry. Over 2,000 commercial real estate professionals attended this national real estate technology trade show in Dallas where Florance was also a featured keynote speaker.

The Ernst & Young awards ceremony for the Greater Washington area took place at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, Va. Realcomm was held at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas.

Benjamin McGrath, a real estate investment banker, will join Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc. as an executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Mr. McGrath, 41, has been a managing director of the Real Estate & Lodging Investment Banking Group at Chase Securities Inc. A former co-head of Chases's Global Real Estate Group and head of Real Estate Investment Banking at Chase from 1993-98, Mr. McGrath was most recently a senior client manager responsible for product delivery to a wide range of chase's clients as well as president of Chase Real Estate Advisors, Inc.

He is the current chairman of the New York University Real Estate Roundtable. A graduate of Cornell University, Mr. McGrath received his M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Douglas Kamm (photo), a 20-year veteran of new York's parking garage industry, has just joined GGMC Parking, LLC, a 30-garage Manhattan-based family-owned parking operator for the last 40 years, as its new general manager.

Kamm, who has an extensive background in human resources and business administration, previously oversaw employment, training, development, and labor relations with four unions for Garage Management Corporation (GMC), a New York-based operation that was recently acquired by a national parking conglomerate. Prior to his 14-year tenure with GMC, Kamm was director of personnel for Edison Parking Corporation in Newark, N.J., where he managed human resources for 1,400 employees. Kamm's first positions in corporate management were as corporate employment manager for Gulf + Western Industries, industrial relations representative for Miller Brewing Company, and assistant personnel manager for Amstar Corporation. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial and labor relations form Cornell university.

The Marketing Directors, Inc. has named Elia Borelli a project coordinator, announced Adrienne Albert, president of the firm. In her new position, Borelli will play a key role in the development and coordination of marketing and sales strategies and tools for several residential developments.

Borelli previously worked for The Marketing Directors from early 1996 through early 1999 as a salesperson for several communities, including Trump Place in Manhattan. She started her career as a sales representative for R. Fiore Real Estate in Hoboken. A graduate of Villanova University in Philadelphia, Borelli holds real estate sales licenses from both New York and New Jersey.

Sir Frank Lampl, currently chairman of Bovis Lend Lease, will become the new president of the company. In this role he will continue to focus on strategic planning, expansion in Continental Europe, maintaining and enhancing specific client relationships, preserving the company's client-focused culture and the PFI/BOT part of the company's Integrated Real Estate business.

Luther Cochrane, currently chief executive of Bovis Lend Lease, will become chairman. In addition, he will concentrate on the development of the Integrated Real Estate business, particularly in the USA. He will also be working on ways of bringing together Bovis Lend Lease and other Lend Lease Group businesses such as Lend Lease Real Estate Investments and Lend Lease Development.

Ross Taylor, currently president of Bovis Lend Lease, will become chief executive with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the business, leading the effort to meet and exceed the company's long- term financial and growth goals. He will also continue to lead the company's e-business initiative.

John Anderson, managing director of Bovis Lend lease Europe, will switch to a new role, working with Luther Cochrane and Lend Lease Development to define and implement the European end of the parent group's Integrated Real Estate business, utilizing his previous experience in property development and more recent experience in the construction sector.

John Spanswick, a divisional managing director of Bovis Lend Lease Europe, will take over as managing director of Bovis Lend Lease Europe and will join the Bovis lend Lease Holdings board. John has been a director for 20 years, leading project teams both in the UK and continental Europe. Over the past six years he has been the director responsible for overseeing the construction of all Lend Lease Europe projects managed by Bovis Lend Lease, including Bluewater.

Sir Frank, Luther Cochrane and Ross Taylor will join the 13 member Senior Executive Management Board of Lend lease Corporation, chaired by its chief executive, David Higgins. Its role is to implement the group's business plan.

Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden and Charles Hamm, president/CEO of Independence community Bank, were honored by the Brooklyn Chapter of Habitat for Humanity -- New York City on Thursday, June 8th for their financial support of Habitat projects. Sandra E. Roper, Esq., chairperson of the Brooklyn Chapter, presided at the event.

Golden and Hamm were recognized at habitat's Brooklyn Build site on Hart Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant where 12 one-family row houses are under construction, with the assistance of volunteers from many churches, synagogues and corporations.

These homes will be finished in September during the Jimmy Carter Work Project when former president Jimmy Carter will help complete these and other houses in New York City that will constitute the 100,000th home built by Habitat for Humanity around the world.

Jenifer Steig (photo), 36, has been named partner of The Cheshire Group, LLC, a Manhattan-based real estate investment firm specializing in co-op related assets.

Steig assumes responsibility for directing all of Cheshire's sales and marketing operations. She also oversees asset management of a protfolio of cooperative apartments and underlying co-op loans.

Prior to joining The Cheshire Group, Steig served as an asset manager in the REO Marketing Division of Crossland Federal Savings Bank where she sold more then $1 million in residential real estate. She holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago and is a licensed real estate broker. She was named senior vice president of The Cheshire Group in 1998.

Jonathon Mikula has joined the Edison, N.J., office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., a commercial mortgage banking firm.

Mikula has previously served as managing director of the Chatham, N.J., office of Cronheim Mortgage, where he handled loan origination. During his 10-year career in commercial real estate, he arrange financings for office, industrial, retail, multifamily and hotel properties throughout the New York metropolitan area and New England.

A member of the NAIOP, ICSC and MBA, Mr. Mikula also has been a real estate finance instructor for BOMA. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has studied at NYU's Real Estate Institute.

Michael Rotchford and David Wenk, real estate investment bankers, joined Cushman & Wakefield as managing directors of the firm's financial consulting unit. As a result, the firm as further strengthened it ability to service its corporate real estate clients' financing needs.

In their new positions, Rotchford and Wenk use structured financial products, involving tax, capital and accounting strategies, to advise national and international corporations in maximizing real estate value. Both former Wall Street executives will be based at Cushman & Wakefield's World Headquarters in New York City.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Rotchford and Wenk were Managing Directors and founders, of The Saratoga Group, an investment banking boutique that specialized in structured financing for high quality corporate and real estate clients.

Ken Colao, president and CEO of York Hunter Construction, announced today the appointment of Joel Fivis to the newly created position of executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will be based in York Hunter's Manhattan headquarters office and will report directly to Colao. In addition, Colao announced the promotion of John Bove to vice president of finance and treasurer, and the addition of Paul Kelly, who will serve as chief accounting officer. Bove and Kelly will also be based in York Hunter's Manhattan office and will report to Fivis.