Newmark announces the firm has hired Justin Rappel as a Senior Managing Director, based in El Segundo, California. Rappel will team with Executive Managing Director Andrew Briner, Co-Head, U.S. Capital Markets Kevin Shannon, Vice Chairman Ken White, Associate Director Aaron Banks and Senior Analyst Dillan Argue.
In his role, Rappel will focus on institutional industrial investment sales and joint venture equity placement. He brings more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience spanning brokerage, acquisitions, development and asset management.
“Justin’s appointment reflects Newmark’s continued commitment to attracting top talent and investing in our business,” said Nick DiPaolo, Executive Vice President, Regional Managing Director, Southwest Market Leader at Newmark. “His experience sourcing, capitalizing and executing complex industrial opportunities will further strengthen our ability to serve institutional investors and capital partners throughout the region, while adding even greater depth to an already high-performing industrial capital markets offering.”
“Justin’s diverse background across brokerage, acquisitions and development gives him a unique perspective that will be valuable to our clients and business,” said Briner. “He understands industrial real estate from multiple angles and brings the institutional experience, market knowledge and execution capabilities that align with our firm and how we operate.”
Prior to joining Newmark, Rappel served as Director of Acquisitions at Pacific Industrial, where he helped advance a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from large-scale speculative developments to build-to-suit facilities and infrastructure-oriented industrial investments.
“Having spent much of my career on the ownership and development side of the business, I’m excited to bring that perspective to Newmark’s exceptional industrial capital markets team,” said Rappel. “I look forward to working alongside Andrew, Kevin and the broader team to deliver meaningful results for our clients.”
About Newmark
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leading commercial real estate advisor and service provider to large institutional investors and other owners, global corporations and other occupiers, and lenders. Built with purpose and driven by excellence, Newmark’s comprehensive platform is uniquely tailored to provide superior outcomes to clients. For the twelve months ended June 30, 2026, Newmark generated revenues of more than $3.6 billion. As of June 30, 2026, Newmark and its business partners together operated from over 195 offices with more than 10,000 professionals across four continents. Learn more at nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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