Kurt Strasmann, the longtime head of Santa Ana-based Grubb & Ellis Co.’s brokerage operations in Orange County, has moved to one of its biggest competitors.
Strasmann this week resigned from Grubb and joined Newport Beach-based Voit Real Estate Services.
He was named the managing director of Voit’s Anaheim Metro office, which is in Orange, and started immediately.
Voit counts eight offices, including three in OC and five in Southern California. The regionally focused company’s immediate plans are to open a brokerage office in the Inland Empire.
Strasmann, who also ran Grubb’s Inland Empire brokerage operations, will be tasked with handling that expansion.
Greg Coxon, president of Grubb’s transaction services in the Western U.S., is taking over Strasmann’s role on an interim basis.
A search for a replacement is under way, Coxon said. The company hopes to fill the position quickly, but is more interested in getting the best available person for the job, he said.
Grubb, which has brokerage offices in Newport Beach and in Anaheim, has long been OC’s second-largest commercial brokerage, behind CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.
Voit’s OC operations have been the area’s third-largest brokerage in the past few years.
For more on this story, see the Aug. 17 edition of the Business Journal.
