Executive Moves Who went where this week

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On the list this week: Investors Bank, Petro Cohen Petro Matarazzo, The Kislak Company Inc. and others …

Banking

Short Hills-based Investors Bank designated Janice A. Mills to fill a new position in the bank’s Robbinsville office: vice president, business lending.

Mills has been a member of the central New Jersey banking community for more than 30 years, most recently with Santander Bank, where, as a relationship manager, she managed a middle market portfolio and new business development. Before that, she was with PNC and Summit banks.

Law

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, a business law firm based in Woodbridge, added two partners to its real estate department: Lydia C. Stefanowicz and Matthew J. Schiller.

Stefanowicz concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial lending and real estate, representing both lenders and borrowers in real estate acquisition, construction and more. She previously held partner positions at Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Shanley & Fisher P.C.

Schiller, a commercial real estate law expert, handles a wide array of commercial real estate transactional and litigation matters throughout New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. He was most recently an associate at K&L Gates, and an associate at Porzio Bromberg & Newman P.C. and Day Pitney LLP before that.

The Northfield law firm Petro Cohen Petro Matarazzo welcomed Janis A. Eisl as an associate in its workers’ compensation department.

Eisl, a Rutgers alumnus, brings with him more than four years of workers’ compensation experience, having worked most recently in Haddonfield, where he handled cases throughout New Jersey.

Rodney Villazor joined DLA Piper’s litigation practice as a partner, situated in the law firm’s Short Hills office.

An assistant U.S. attorney since 2008, Villazor spent four years in the organized crime unit for the District of New Jersey before transferring to the Northern District of California, where he worked in the special prosecutions and national security unit. Prior to his career as a prosecutor, he focused on product liability litigation and other commercial litigation matters in private practice.

Sekas Law Group LLC hired Joseph S. Conte, former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, to join the firm as counsel.

In his role as a judge, for 20 years, Conte presided over civil juries and criminal juries. He also has extensive experience in real estate, land use, planning boards and boards of adjustment, which remains a focus of his private practice of law.

Real estate

The Kislak Company Inc., a Woodbridge commercial real estate brokerage firm, hired Peter Wisniewski, Dorothy LaGreca and Sean Cust for its expanded commercial sales and leasing division.

Wisniewski has been appointed an executive vice president and will lead the division. He joined Coldwell Banker Commercial Feist & Feist Corp. as its executive vice president in 2008.

Kislak’s new senior vice president, LaGreca, had been with Coldwell Banker Commercial Feist & Feist Realty Corp. for more than 30 years. She has brokered some of the state’s top commercial real estate transactions, including more than 1 million square feet of office space for various Prudential Financial divisions in multiple transactions.

Another former Coldwell employee, Cust, was hired as an associate at Kislak. He’s a recent graduate of the Rutgers School of Business and is assisting the team in executing its assignments including the investment sale of a medical office building in Mendham.