Cityview, a Los Angeles-based multifamily investment and management firm, has made moves to expand its presence across the Southwest, particularly in Arizona, Colorado, and Texas. The firm has opened a Dallas office and hired Quinn Konitshek as its director of acquisitions.
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Cityview, a premier multifamily investment management and development firm, today announced the hire of Quinn Konitshek, the firm’s new Director of Acquisitions.
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Devang Shah, Principal at Genesis Builders, was instrumental in building the firm from the ground up and continues to lead its operations, sales, marketing, and strategic direction. With more than 25 years of real estate experience, Devang brings a unique combination of strategic vision and hands-on expertise in acquisition, development, design, construction, capital raising, and asset management.
Before launching Genesis Builders, Devang served as Managing Director at Cityview, where he sourced and financed the acquisition of more than 2,000 value-add apartments and led the development of over 1,500 residential units in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Denver, and Portland.
Earlier in his career, he founded Marketcents Inc., an independent project management firm focused on advisory and owner representation. He also held a leadership role at KB Urban (a division of KB Home), where he oversaw the planning, design, and marketing of high-profile residential communities across Southern California, including mixed-use and luxury projects that helped shape the region’s urban landscape. Earlier, at RCLCo, as Vice-President he provided in-depth market research and feasibility analysis for large-scale residential and mixed-use developments throughout the United States, advising leading developers and investors on strategic opportunities.
Driven by a passion for thoughtful design and meaningful community impact, Devang has played a key role in delivering more than 75 residential communities throughout the Western U.S.
AmyLee Smith serves as the Marketing Manager for Genesis Builders, where she drives the strategic planning and execution of brand and sales campaigns, leverages detailed data reporting to optimize performance, and leads all social media content and community engagement. She oversees the development of creative assets and supports the coordination of events that strengthen brand presence and deepen customer connection. She is excited to work with Altadena and looks forward to building strong momentum and meaningful community relationships through this partnership.
Before joining Genesis Builders, AmyLee developed a wide ranging background across operations, marketing and event coordination for well known global brands such as Starbucks, Lululemon and SoulCycle, and Alfred Coffee. In these roles she managed and supported local Los Angeles marketing programs, community partnerships and large scale activations that helped deepen brand loyalty and neighborhood engagement.
She also brings significant real estate and property management experience from her time as Marketing Project Manager at Westhome Property Management . In that role she oversaw marketing initiatives for a portfolio of more than 4286 homes, strengthening brand consistency, elevating communications and delivering measurable growth across the company’s communities.
Rebecca Zandovskis, Senior Director of Business Development, is a proud Altadena resident, where she lives with her husband of 13 years. Deeply rooted in the neighborhood she calls home, Rebecca leads with a philosophy centered on connection, collaboration, and community impact.
Rebecca brings more than 25 years of combined experience in real estate and human resources, supported by her California Real Estate License, aPHR certification, and a strong foundation in Human Resources Law. Throughout her career, she has distinguished herself as a trusted leader and community advocate, serving as Community Manager for more than 14 new-build and value-add residential communities across the greater Los Angeles area.
Motivated by a commitment to helping neighborhoods flourish, Rebecca joined Genesis Builders to ensure her Altadena community can rebuild quickly and affordably—without sacrificing quality, craftsmanship, or the unique character that makes the area so special.
Christy is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in the apartment residential industry. As a dedicated Regional Property Manager, she has successfully piloted the complexities of the field across multiple states, demonstrating expertise in various facets of property management.
Throughout her career, Christy has been instrumental in overseeing new development projects, supervising property rehabs, optimizing portfolios, and spearheading successful lease-ups. Her strategic leadership and hands-on approach have consistently driven operational excellence and maximized property performance.
Her expertise lies in fostering strong tenant relationships, optimizing property performance, and implementing effective management strategies. Christy is committed to delivering exceptional service and value to property owners and residents alike, making her an asset in the industry.
With over a decade of progressive experience in property management, Anna brings a strategic, people-centered leadership style that drives operational excellence and organizational growth. She has successfully led portfolios spanning luxury high-rise assets and highly sought-after garden-style communities, delivering exceptional results across diverse markets.
Known for developing high-performing teams and fostering a culture of accountability and engagement, Anna combines strategic insight with operational precision to enhance asset value and elevate the resident experience. Her expertise extends across performance optimization, capital planning, and client relations, where she has built trusted partnerships that support long-term success.
Anna is deeply committed to creating communities that embody quality, innovation, and service excellence—ensuring that each property under her leadership achieves peak performance and enduring value.
Justice Bryan is a results-driven Regional Property Manager with extensive experience enhancing multifamily operations across varied markets and asset types.
He has successfully directed lease-ups, stabilized properties, and implemented large-scale capital improvement programs. Justice drives operational excellence, financial optimization, and sustained portfolio growth.
As a Multifamily Marketing Director and an executive leader, Marge has driven business growth, lease generation, and high occupancy rates for high-value lease-up projects by building cost-effective and progressive marketing strategies.
Being a property management veteran for 9 years, Marge possesses extensive experience in programming and marketing properties with a collective unit count of over 8000 units spanning 39 properties nationwide. Her bottom-up approach to strategy has optimized property occupancy by augmenting marketing functions and consumer engagement. Skilled at analyzing marketing trends, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing operational upgrades, she has had success supporting overall occupancy growth.
Similarly, her focus on digital marketing operations to capitalize on enhanced market coverage, cost-effectiveness, and the return-on-investment rates has amplified market awareness by 55% by creating an active brand voice in local communities and on digital platforms.
Christina Bartlett, Director of Operations for Westhome, brings over 11 years of experience in multifamily management and operations. Prior to coming to Westhome, Christina was an Asset Manager with a 3rd party management company, providing executive level support and oversight for clients along with being instrumental in property acquisitions. With Westhome, Christina is responsible for planning and implementing best practices to support on-site teams through employee training and development along with promoting Weshome’s company culture and values.
As Westhome’s Director of Culture & Development, Emilia Leon leads initiatives that inspire a dynamic, people-first workplace. She designs engaging training programs, creates innovative onboarding resources, and fosters a culture of collaboration rooted in Westhome’s core values.
With a passion for empowering teams and enhancing employee experiences, Emilia has helped shape Westhome’s approach to professional development, ensuring every team member feels supported and set up for success. Her work reflects a deep commitment to building cohesive teams and cultivating an environment where both employees and residents thrive.
Based in New York City, Deichmann pursues strategic acquisition opportunities across the Eastern U.S. Deichmann has more than fifteen years of commercial real estate experience in acquisitions, portfolio management and asset management across the capital stack at various risk profiles.
Previously, she served as Managing Director, Head of Opportunistic Equity and Structured Products Asset Management, for Affinius Capital (formerly known as Square Mile Capital), where she was responsible for overseeing a $15 billion portfolio of existing opportunistic investments and structured products. Prior to that, Deichmann worked at Allianz Real Estate of America on its acquisition team, investing over $18 billion across housing, office, and logistics strategies.
Deichmann is a member of the New York University (NYU) Stern Real Estate Advisory Council serving as an Executive-in-Residence and a member of the Urban Land Institute. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from NYU Stern School of Business and Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from NYU College of Arts and Sciences.
Based in New York City, Donner pursues new global strategic opportunities, builds and maintains relationships with investors and partners and leads the firm’s fund development and capital strategy.
Previously, Donner was CEO of America PIMCO Prime Real Estate LLC (formerly Allianz Real Estate of America LLC), where he provided strategic leadership over the commercial mortgage loan business and equity investments of Allianz’s global subsidiaries in North America. During his time as CEO, the firm’s real estate investments grew from $7 billion to $22 billion.
Prior to that, he was a Senior Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer at Aareal Capital Corporation, where he managed a portfolio of $5 billion. He has also served as Managing Director at Hypo Real Estate in New York, London and Munich, Head of Project Finance at Vivico Real Estate in Frankfurt, Germany and as a Vice President at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt.
Donner is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable and the Urban Land Institute’s Global Exchange Council. Previously, he was a board member for the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE). He holds a graduate degree in business from the Technische Universität in Berlin.
Ms. Hunt joined Cityview in 2021 and is a Senior Associate on the Business Development & Capital Relations team. She is primarily responsible for relationship management, investor communications, and marketing collateral. Additionally, she works closely with internal functional teams on due diligence efforts and supports investor reporting and special projects. She is also a member of Cityview’s Sustainability Committee focused on communication of ESG initiatives to investors.
Ms. Hunt has over six years of real estate investment, capital formation, and investor relations experience. Prior to joining Cityview, she was an Associate with Chicago-based Magnolia Capital. During her tenure, she worked on equity capital raises for numerous real estate investment vehicles. Prior to Magnolia, Ms. Hunt was a Financial Analyst with LaSalle Investment Management where she oversaw the financial performance of assets with over $1 billion in value.
Ms. Hunt received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance, Investment, and Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jonathan Anderson is the Controller of Cityview and provides leadership and oversight over the finance, accounting, and shared services departments. Prior to joining the Cityview team, Jonathan worked at CIM Group where he held various finance and accounting roles during his tenure, most recently as head of private fund reporting and prior to that as director of SEC reporting for one of CIM Group’s publicly traded REITs. Jonathan began his career in Ernst & Young’s assurance practice where he served both public and private clients in the real estate and asset management industries. Jonathan graduated from the University of Southern California with both a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in real estate finance.
Denise Katz manages Cityview’s core and development assets across multiple investment vehicles and is responsible for maximizing the operational and financial performance of the assets. Denise has over twelve years of experience in real estate. Prior to joining Cityview, Denise was Regional Vice President at CIM Group of a $2.4 billion portfolio in the Western US and Latin American markets. During her time at CIM, she managed end-to-end transitions of development projects, acquisitions, and dispositions of office, multifamily, retail, parking, condominium, and mixed-use projects. She holds a double major Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and Psychology from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
After 8 years in the construction industry managed complex multi-use development projects, Anh Le joined Cityview in 2018 as Director of Development. Le manages ground-up developments in Northern and Southern California and leads consultant teams through entitlement, design, permitting, budgeting, contracting, construction management and project turnover. She works closely with designers, neighborhood groups and Cityview’s in-house Asset Management team to deliver best-in-class multifamily projects. Prior to Cityview, Le worked as a project engineer and project manager at Cobalt Construction. Le holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
Kyle Naye is Senior Director, Acquisitions of Cityview. As Senior Director of Acquisitions, he is responsible for managing acquisitions, including sourcing, underwriting, closing and developing comprehensive business plans for investors. Naye primarily focuses on non-California markets across the Western U.S., including Seattle, Portland, Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Austin. In his role, Naye works closely with the Cityview team to manage and expand strategic acquisitions across the firm’s vertically integrated platform.
Prior to joining Cityview, Naye was a vice president of originations at PGIM Real Estate, where he provided transactions and underwriting oversight for core-plus and high-yield debt vehicles. He also held a prior role at PGIM managing the underwriting, investment committee preparation and closing of $992 million in multifamily, retail and office assets across the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. At earlier stages of his career, Naye was a senior associate of acquisitions at Clarion Partners, senior real estate analyst at Northmarq and an officer in the United States Navy.
As Director of Development, Zory Grigoryan is responsible for the full cycle development of several of Cityview’s projects, which includes managing the due diligence, underwriting, entitlement, design engineering, construction processes and turnover to asset management. Prior to joining Cityview, Grigoryan worked for Oakmont Capital as a Project Manager overseeing the development and construction of several multifamily projects. Prior to that, he worked at Cobalt Construction as a Project Manager on the construction of numerous mixed use and multifamily projects. During his career, Grigoryan has been responsible for the development, preconstruction and construction of over 1,500 units.
Grigoryan holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Construction Management from the California State University of Northridge, where he was the top ranked graduate of his year. During his time at Cobalt Construction, Grigoryan was also selected as distinguished alumni by the CSUN department faculty and appointed as ambassador for alumni recruitment by CSUN construction management department’s board of governors committee.
Chris Brown is responsible for capital raising and investor relations at Cityview. Chris has over seven years of real estate investment and capital raising experience. Prior to joining Cityview, he was a member of the Fund Advisory team at JLL working on equity capital raises for private real estate investment vehicles. Prior to JLL, Chris worked on the Portfolio Management team at Clarion Partners and the Asset Management team at LaSalle Investment Management. Chris graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor’s Degrees in Finance and Real Estate. He is a general securities representative.
Con Howe leads Cityview’s partnerships to finance, assemble and entitle land for development in the greater Los Angeles area. With over 40 years of experience in planning, entitlements and development, he assists all Cityview funds with acquisitions and development strategies. Prior to coming to Cityview, he was the Director of Planning for the City of Los Angeles responsible for the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance and zoning to encourage infill housing. Previously he was the Executive Director of the New York City Planning Department. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale and his master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Shane Robinson is responsible for managing all aspects of Cityview’s stabilized, value add and new development assets. With more than 23 years of experience managing multifamily assets, he is a seasoned real estate professional experienced in a range of investment strategies that drive growth and efficiency for investors.
Prior to this role, Shane held pivotal positions at various organizations in the real estate industry. As Vice President of Property Management at Westhome, Robinson played a vital role in implementing the operational infrastructure that facilitated market expansion.
During his tenure at Sunrise Management, his leadership established and solidified the company’s operational foothold in new markets, contributing to the growth and success of the firm. His early asset management career was at GHP Management, where he specialized in lease-ups and effectively managed a substantial core portfolio of over 5,000 units.
Devang Shah is co-head of Cityview’s acquisitions activities. He has 27 years of experience in real estate investment, development, design, construction and asset management. Previously, Devang was the principal of Marketcents Inc., an independent project management firm, serving as an owner’s representative to investment firms, builders and developers. Prior to that, he worked was Vice-President at RCLCo, LLC, a national independent real estate consulting firm.
Adam Perry oversees all aspects of the commercial real estate development process from acquisition due diligence and entitlement processing through design budgeting, contracting, construction management, closeout and turnover. Prior to joining Cityview, Adam worked at CIM group as an Associate Vice President of Development overseeing ground up retail, office and mixed-use developments.
Adam holds a BA Degree in Political Science and History from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Jennifer Halvas is a member of the firm’s investor relations team, where she is responsible for maintaining relationships with the investor community and helping to develop investment strategies and initiatives. Over the years, she has been instrumental in securing capital needs for several Cityview funds across a broad base of institutional investors, foundations and endowments, family offices and high-net-worth investors. A 14-year veteran of the firm, Jennifer is also a partner at Cityview and a member of its investment committee.
She was previously at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she represented a variety of clients in real estate, project development and finance transactions. Jennifer holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Southern California and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School.
As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Damian Gancman oversees Cityview’s asset management, property management and accounting strategy. A 20-year veteran of the firm, Damian is also a partner at Cityview and a member of its investment committee.
He has helped create a multitude of strategic initiatives to support Cityview’s rapid growth, including the launch of Cityview’s property management division, the creation of its opportunity zone fund platform and the build out of its finance and capital markets teams.
In addition to his role at Cityview, Damian serves on the University of Southern California (USC) Lusk Center for Real Estate Executive Committee and is a guest lecturer for the USC Master of Real Estate Development program.
Sean Burton co-founded Cityview in 2003. Prior to joining Cityview, Sean was vice president of corporate business development and strategy at Warner Bros. Before that, he was an attorney in the real estate and corporate groups at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and also served in the White House during the Clinton Administration. In 2022, Burton was appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the federal nominee on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors, which oversees Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports.
From 2013 to 2021, Sean oversaw the $20B modernization of LAX as President of the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners. He also served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, as the co-chair of the Los Angeles Coalition, a coalition of business leaders for the economy and jobs in LA, and will chair the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 2027. Sean holds a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and a JD from New York University School of Law.