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2023 Commercial Real Estate Awards: Brokerage Executive of the Year

JOHN DEGRINIS (TIE)
Newmark

John DeGrinis, together with his team members Patrick DuRoss and Jeff Abraham, completed 55 deals, transacting on over 3.9 million square feet, valued at
more than $230 million in 2022. DeGrinis, SIOR, serves as a vice chairman in Newmark’s office in Calabasas. DeGrinis is a senior member of the top performing industrial team in North Los Angeles. The team joined Newmark in 2019 as part
of the firm’s expansion into this large territory, which consists of the San Fernando Valley, Ventura County and the Santa Clarita Valley.

DeGrinis and his fellow team members, Patrick DuRoss, SIOR, Jeff Abraham, SIOR, and Kate Borden, have a collective track record of more than 85 years in
the commercial real estate industry. He specializes in industrial leasing, sales, land development and tenant representation and consulting in North Los Angeles. Over the past 10 years, the DeGrinis team has completed transactions totaling more than 45 million square feet and $2.8 billion in consideration.

DeGrinis is an active member of SIOR and regularly meets with young professionals in the industry to mentor them in the industrial field.

BENNETT ROBINSON (TIE) CBRE

Bennett Robinson has been with CBRE for 35 years. He recently achieved the title of vice chairman, the highest title achievable in the transaction and advisory division of his firm. This title is earned by having consistent top producing years for five years in a row. Robinson is a board member of CBRE’s Industrial & Logistics Executive Committee, serving for the last three years. CBRE relies on the insight and strategies of this select group of professionals to best serve occupiers and investors of industrial space.

This leadership role provides Robinson with exclusive insights about the industry and a first glance at emerging trends in the sector which he then shares with his colleagues and teammates. He has ranked in the top 10% of production for the company for the last 30 years and executed approximately 113 million square feet of transactions totaling over $4 billion. Robinson has distinguished himself as one of the industry’s and his firm’s leading professionals in Southern California.

Robinson is a six-time member of CBRE’s Colbert Coldwell Circle, which recognizes the firm’s top 3% of brokers in the Americas.

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