Seventh Annual Spire Awards Event Featured Orange County, CA Real Estate Leaders

Linda Padilla-Smyth

Orange County, CA  – The Orange County chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women, CREW-OC, announced its annual SPIRE Awards recipients  March 14.  The event, held at the Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, honored local commercial real estate leaders for Superior Performance In Real Estate over the past year. 

Eric Paulsen

“The SPIRE Awards ceremony celebrates our industry’s achievements and honors the very best and brightest in Orange County,” says Linda Padilla-Smyth, Director of Real Estate & Property Management at Chapman University and Co-Chair of the CREW-OC SPIRE Awards Committee.

 “This annual event - now in its seventh year - draws a larger crowd each year to recognize the outstanding work being done in our own community.”

Cheryl Osborne

This year’s event featured Eric Paulsen, Managing Principal at Cushman & Wakefield as Master of Ceremonies, and  Cheryl Osborn, President & Founder of Casco Contractors, as Keynote Speaker.

Celeste Brady

The SPIRE awards are judged by Orange County professionals who are recognized and respected in the commercial real estate industry.  Judges for this year’s event included:

·         Al Warot, Associate Vice President, Michael Baker International

• Anna Pehoushek, Assistant Community Development Director, City of Orange
• Celeste Brady, Attorney, Stradling Yocca Carlson and Rauth

Darlynn Morgan

• Darlynn Morgan, Trust Attorney, Morgan Law Group
• Jeff Moore, Senior Managing Director, CBRE, Inc.
• Jinger Tapia, Principal of Design, Wale Malcomb
• Maria Kutscher, Senior Vice President, Private Client Advisor, U.S Trust
• Peter Weitzner, Editor, Orange County Business Journal
• Steve Jones, Mayor, City of Garden Grove and President, Olympia Capital Corporation
• Victor Van Zandt, CEO & President, Irvine Campus Housing Authority

    

For more information, please visit crewocspireawards.com.

Jinger Tapia

Commercial Real Estate Women of Orange County (CREW-OC) is a member organization of the national Commercial Real Estate Women Network and has been serving Orange County real estate professionals since 1988. CREW-OC is a non-profit organization established to promote and sponsor educational and professional activities for its members in the field of commercial real estate. 

Further information on the organization is available at www.crew-oc.org.

For more information on this news release, please contact:

                             Miki Akil / Jenn Quader-Brower Group

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makil@brower-group.com