Our Team

Executive Team

Joe McLaughlin
Founder and Managing Partner

Joe has specialized in tenant representation for over a decade. Joe has consummated transactions totaling in excess of a million square feet as the exclusive broker for a multitude of companies across a wide range of industries. Prior to founding Capstone Realty Advisors, Joe owned and op...

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Thomas Murtha
Partner

Thomas Murtha is a Capstone Realty Advisors Partner.  Since joining the firm shortly after its inception, he has been instrumental in business development, and has proven strategies to help tenants achieve the best possible outcomes with all matters pertaining to office and retail leasing....

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Agents

Gabriel Freydson
Associate

Gabriel is an Associate at Capstone Realty Advisors, Inc. Before joining the Capstone Realty team, he was a sales engineer at Vista Imaging LLC, specializing in pre-sales technical engineering, project management, as well as post-sales service and consultation for large medical offices. Gabriel'...

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Michael Jaffee
Associate Director

Michael is an Associate Director with Capstone Realty. Michael's primary responsibility is as a tenant rep agent, but he also constantly seeks to increase Capstone's marketing opportunities in the creative loft space marketplace. Since joining the firm, Michael has brought enthusia...

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Chelsea Merrifield
Associate

As an Associate at Capstone Realty Advisors, Chelsea’s primary specialties are tenant and landlord representation.  She manages a portfolio of over one-quarter of a million square feet and has negotiated lease transactions across nearly every submarket of Manhattan as a tenant rep brok...

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Dani O'Donnell
Director

After graduating from Kean University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, where he was a starting wide receiver on the school's football team, Dani joined his family's commercial boiler installation firm, learning the business from the bottom up, ultimately attaining the position...

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Kevin Phelan
Director

Kevin is an Associate Director at Capstone Realty. Phelan is responsible for growing Capstone's client base and managing the tenant representative team. Since joining the firm, Phelan has created a style that has led him to establish strong relationships with a variety of companies, incl...

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Lauren Strohmeier
Administrative Assistant

Lauren Strohmeier is currently the administrative assistant for Capstone Realty Advisors, Inc. As the administrative assistant, Lauren attends to basic office functions and assists with the firm's marketing operations. She manages the firm's social media websites, as well as designs and posts a...

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Brian Wilson
Associate Director

Brian Wilson has an extensive background in commercial real estate. He began his career with Cushman & Wakefield as a Real Estate Manager managing portfolios of various types of commercial buildings including biotech, R&D, office, and retail. This experience gives him the unique perspecti...

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Jarad Winter
Associate Director

Jarad Winter is an Associate Director and Licensed Commercial Real Estate Broker specializing in tenant representation in Manhattan. His primary focus is representing companies in the office relocation process, the negotiation of lease renewals, and the disposition of excess office space. ...

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