WEST MILFORD — A township resident recently was hired as chief financial officer of a northeast real estate firm, the company announced.
In a press release, Houlihan Lawrence, the leading real estate brokerage serving New York City’s northern suburbs, announce the appointment of two regional vice presidents, a new chief financial officer, and two regional managers to its executive team.
New CFO hire Terry Kearney, a former Big Four accounting group employee and financial consultant, who lives in West Milford, is now overseeing the brokerage’s strategic financial planning.
According to the release, Kearney brings years of industry expertise specializing in financial planning, analysis, budgeting and forecasting, having worked most recently as a full-time consultant for BH & G Rand Realty.
Prior to this she worked for more than 25 years with Realogy Holdings Corporation serving in a number of roles including regional director of finance for NRT Eastern Seaboard and vice president, director of finance, for Burgdorff ERA. Before entering the real estate industry, she began her career on the audit staff at Ernst & Young.
Deborah Doern and Jeff Kelly — both brokerage managers from the firm's Larchmont and Darien offices, respectively - were promoted to serve as Regional Vice Presidents on the brokerage management team, representing the firm’s 30 offices and 1,300 agents throughout Connecticut, Westchester County, and Hudson Valley, NY.
“Jeff and Debbie are widely respected in the real estate industry as top-notch sales executives who know how to build, lead and develop winning teams of agents.
In their new roles they will manage our world-class team of brokerage managers," stated Houlihan Lawrence President Chris Meyers.
A 35-year real estate veteran, Doern joined Houlihan Lawrence in 2007 as a Rye/Harrison, NY brokerage manager before transferring to the Larchmont, NY office, also as brokerage manager, in 2011, where the office has been consistently been ranked number1 under her leadership.
Doern started her career at her family’s real estate appraisal firm in 1996 before transitioning to the sales side of the business, originally becoming a consistent top producer in the Sound Shore region. She also previously ran offices in Larchmont and New Rochelle for another brokerage.
Kelly, a third-generation native of Darien, CT and brokerage manager of Houlihan’s Darien office, was the longtime head of Kelly Associates Real Estate - Houlihan Lawrence’s first independently-owned broker affiliate, acquired in 2015. Under his leadership, Kelly Associates expanded to Rowayton and acquired New Canaan brokerage Brotherhood & Higley. Prior to entering the real estate industry in 2005, Kelly served as a New York City attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
The executive appointments also include the promotions of Barry Graziano and David Haffenreffer to Regional Managers.
In addition to managing the Armonk and Croton offices, Barry will become an official advisor to the Briarcliff Manor and Chappaqua offices. David Haffenreffer, who currently oversees Houlihan Lawrence's two market leading Greenwich offices, will additionally advise the Rye and Larchmont offices.
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