Promotions at Cushman&Wakefield

Global real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has promoted Emília Tarró, Head of Industrial and David Johnston, Negotiator, Office Agency to Associates with effect from April 2011.

Emília’s recent appointment to Associate is an acknowledgement of her accomplishments as Head of the Hungarian Industrial Team. She has largely contributed in making Cushman & Wakefield’s industrial department its sector-leader and helped to establish a good reputation on an international level as well. Emília is responsible for the letting and sale of modern/secondary industrial/logistics buildings, development site transactions and consultancy work. C&W is co-exclusive letting agent on the whole Hungarian ProLogis portfolio and exclusive leasing agent of Valad to lease 2 of their Hungarian parks.

David has had a significant role in C&W’s Office Agency Team’s successes in the past three years in Hungary. He primarily concentrates on the Budapest office market, acting mainly for international developers, landlords and occupiers. David’s noteworthy track record at C&W includes the contribution to a number of large office transactions in advising major market leaders such as Citibank, Vodafone, RREEF, Diageo, Nike, etc.

Charles Taylor, Managing Director of C&W in Budapest said: “Emilia and David have delivered outstanding performance against a difficult economic backdrop.  We are delighted to recognise their significant achievements by promoting them to Associate and look forward to them continuing providing our clients with market-leading services for years to come”

Emília Tarró commented: “I am delighted with my promotion to Associate and I believe that together with the team we have great opportunities ahead us to grow our business further and continue to provide top quality service for our existing and future clients.”

David Johnston said: ”I am honoured to of been invited to become an Associate at C&W. Given the somewhat challenging market conditions over the last couple of years, I feel C&W’s Office Agency team has performed well and I look forward to being a part of its future as we strive to grow the business and continue to secure high profile mandates.”

Emília is a member of C&W Budapest Industrial Team since 2007. She graduated from Budapest Corvinus University at the Faculty of Business Administration in the disciplines of Business and Management. She completed her studies at the Budapest Technical University at the Faculty of Real Estate and is currently a student member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

David joined C&W Budapest in 2008. He is a graduate of Aberdeen University, Scotland where he gained an MA (Hons) in Geography and a Post Graduate degree in Land & Property Economics (MSc (Econ)). David is a qualified member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).