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Christopher B. O'Callaghan '84 has joined the real estate firm of Cushman & Wakefield in Westchester County, New York, as a senior director. Previously, he was senior vice president of Albert B. Ashforth Company, a real estate firm in Stamford, Connecticut.

O'Callaghan has been recognized as a leader in tenant and landlord representation in Westchester and Fairfield Counties for the past 20 years. He began his career at Rostenberg Doern Company, and in 1990 started his own commercial real estate brokerage firm, McCarthy O'Callaghan, based in White Plains. He ran the firm for 14 years before joining Ashforth in 2004.

A government major at St. Lawrence, O'Callaghan was a member of the football team and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He is also a member of several industry and business organizations and serves on the board of trustees of New York United Hospital Medical Center; the Business Council of Westchester County; the Westchester American Red Cross and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. O'Callaghan is also a member of Real Estate Finance Association, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Westchester (where he served as president) and Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York.

For more information: Cushman & Wakefield Web site

Posted: December 15, 2005