Cushman & Wakefield said on Tuesday that former Starwood Hotels & Resorts development director Marina Usenko is joining the property adviser's Russian hospitality & tourism department as a partner.

Cushman & Wakefield said on Tuesday that former Starwood Hotels & Resorts development director Marina Usenko is joining the property adviser's Russian hospitality & tourism department as a partner.

With 20 years’ experience in commercial real estate, Usenko spent the past two years as development director for CIS and Baltics at Starwood. In this role, she supported numerous management and franchise deals in Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Lithuania.

Before that, she headed the Russian office of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, from the division’s origin in 2005 until 2013, building one of the strongest teams in Russia and the CIS.

Marina Usenko is the latest arrival at Cushman & Wakefield Russia, which also announced earlier in the month that it had made three appointments to its warehouse & industrial department.