Mission Hires New Managing Director

Mission Capital Advisors, LLC, a commercial, residential and consumer loan sale advisor with offices in New York, Florida and Texas, has hired Jason Cohen as a managing director in the firm's New York office. In his new role, Mr. Cohen will originate loan sales, trade loans and create loan sale financing platforms. For the past five years he was a managing director with the Ackman Ziff Real Estate Group, where his volume of deals completed exceeded $3 billion and he originated and placed senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, and equity for all types of real estate. "Jason joins us at a time when there is a significant amount of commercial and residential loan portfolios on the market, with an expected increase throughout 2009 and beyond," said David Tobin, principal at Mission Capital Advisors.