Stephen PearlmanOfficials at Molinaro Koger (MK), the global hotel-exclusive real estate brokerage, advisory and capital markets firm, today announced that Stephen J. Pearlman has joined the firm as managing director, Capital Markets Group. Pearlman is based in the firm’s New York office and, along with MK’s two other senior financing experts, Pierre Ranjeva, vice president, and Randy Gray, vice president, will focus on both domestic and international capital markets. Prior to joining MK, Pearlman was senior managing director at Beacon Hospitality Partners, a global hospitality asset management, advisory and transactional practice. Previously he was a director at Houlihan Lokey, an international advisory-focused investment bank where he was a member of the Corporate Finance Department and a member of the Real Estate Lodging and Leisure Group. He is a former senior vice president and co-head of the Capital Markets Group in the Metro New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region and National Debt Capital Product Leader for Trammel Crow Company. Pearlman’s nearly 30-year real estate career also includes senior management positions with HI Group, LLC, Jones Lang LaSalle and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. He has advised institutional, corporate and individual real estate owners in the structuring and execution of asset sales, note sales, sale leasebacks, financing and other capital markets transactions. Pearlman holds an MBA from CUNY’s Bernard Baruch College and a BA from Alfred University. A licensed real estate broker and NASD broker/dealer, Pearlman is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate Master of Science in Real Estate Program and is active in a number of civic and professional organizations.