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Patti M. Dodge and Kevin M. Cloyd have been promoted to executive vice presidents of New Century Financial Corp., Irvine, Calif.Ms. Dodge, 43, will be responsible for strategic planning and all financial functions and will continue in her role as senior vice president and chief financial officer of New Century Mortgage Corp. Mr. Cloyd, 33, will be responsible for whole-loan sales, securitizations, warehouse line management, and pipeline and hedging management. He will also continue as president of NC Capital Corp. New Century can be found online at http://www.ncen.com.

Stephen Budorick, Paul Layne, and Douglas Winshall have been promoted to executive vice presidents at Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust.Mr. Budorick, based in Chicago, has held overall management responsibilities since 1998 for Trizec's 15 million-square-foot portfolio of properties in the company's Central Region. Mr. Layne, based in Houston, has overseen the REIT's 16 million-square-foot portfolio in the Western Region, chiefly in Texas and California. Mr. Winshall, based in New York, has exercised responsibility over Trizec's 15 million-square-foot portfolio in the Eastern Region, which includes New York and metropolitan Washington, D.C. The REIT said the trio, previously senior vice presidents, will retain their current regional responsibilities. Trizec can be found on the Web at http://www.trz.com.

Cyrus Brinn has been promoted to chief executive officer of GHR Systems Inc., Wayne, Pa., and David Morrison has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of GHR's Mortgage Automation Solutions division.Mr. Brinn joined GHR in 1998 as executive vice president and has served as the company's president and chief operating officer since June 1999. He will share the title of CEO with Allan Redstone, a cofounder of GHR. "Since 1984, Brinn has been pioneering the design and development of numerous automated lending systems including mortgage loan origination, secondary marketing, closing, servicing, asset management, investor reporting and securitization," the company said. Mr. Morrison started with GHR in 2000 as senior vice president of client services. GHR Systems, a provider of lending automation technology, can be found on the Web at http://www.ghrsystems.com.

The Bond Market Association has named Marjorie Gross its new senior vice president and regulatory counsel.She previously worked at J.P. Morgan Chase, where she served as the head of the legal group in the company's Debt Capital Markets-Americas unit and was also a managing director and associate general counsel, TBMA said. In her new position, Ms. Gross is slated to "take a leadership role" in several association projects, including ongoing initiatives in two mortgage securities-related areas: fixed-income research and structured finance practices. Ms. Gross replaces John Ramsay, who left the association last year to become deputy general counsel at Citigroup Global Markets. TBMA can be found on the Web at http://www.bondmarkets.com.

Robert Green has been promoted to executive vice president of residential lending at BankUnited FSB, Coral Gables, Fla.Before joining BankUnited, Mr. Green was a vice president and branch manager with Greenpoint Mortgage. He served as president of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers in 1998 and 1999. The company can be found on the Web at http://www.buexpress.com.

David Barkley, director of e-commerce relations at Freddie Mac, has been re-elected to chair the Governance Committee of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization.Lisa Bolelli, vice president of program management of First American Corp., has been re-elected a vice-chair of the panel, and Adam Hall, manager of information technology and Web development at IndyMac Bank, has been elected the other vice chair, MISMO reported. The committee also elected or re-elected the following members: Craig Foote of Fidelity Information Services, Mike Bixby of Info1/LandAmerica, Todd Luhtanen of Dynatek, Ed Ransden of CitiMortgage, and Ty Jenkins of DocuTech Corp. MISMO, which was established by the Mortgage Bankers Association, develops electronic commerce standards for the mortgage industry. Its Governance Committee, which oversees the organization's administration and policy development, consists of representatives of 16 MISMO subscriber organizations from a cross-section of the residential real estate finance industry. The members serve two-year terms, with half the seats up for election each year.

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. has expanded its U.S. mortgage strategy team by hiring Victoria Averbukh as a director responsible for researching and analyzing collateralized mortgage obligations.Ms. Averbukh previously worked at Citigroup, where she was a mortgage strategist focused on the CMO market. Deutsche Bank can be found online at http://www.deutsche-bank.com.

John M. Robbins, the chairman and chief executive of American Residential Investment Trust Inc., San Diego, has submitted his resignation from the board of Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co., also based in San Diego.The reason given was to avoid any conflict of interest arising from the entry of ARIT's American Mortgage Network subsidiary into the subprime origination business. Mr. Robbins had been a director of Accredited since 1996. "It is our intent to have the board at its full complement of seven directors in the near future," said James A. Konrath, Accredited chairman and chief executive.

Michael J. Mazzei has been named managing director and head of U.S. real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities at Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays PLC.Mr. Mazzei was most recently managing director and co-head of the real estate investment banking group at Lehman Brothers, where he also served for 10 years as the head of the company's fixed-income CMBS business, Barclays said. Grant Kvalheim, global head of investment banking and credit products at Barclays, said Mr. Mazzei will be charged with creating a team of about 50 professionals in a variety of disciplines. "The CMBS market averages some $78 billion in annual issuance, and it therefore represents an important new product area for Barclays Capital and for our clients," Mr. Kvalheim said. The company can be found online at http://www.barcap.com.

Howard M. Sipzner, chief financial officer and treasurer of Equity One Inc., North Miami Beach, Fla., has been appointed executive vice president of the real estate investment trust.The shopping center REIT said Mr. Sipzner will continue as CFO, but that David W. Briggs has been named vice president and treasurer. Mr. Briggs will also continue as chief accounting officer of the REIT. Mr. Sipzner, 42, has been with Equity One since 1999 following a 15-year career with Chase Securities, Chemical Banking Corp., and Merrill Lynch, the REIT said. Mr. Briggs, 43, spent 15 years with Westfield America and Ernst & Young LLP, joining Equity One in 2002.