meet the team

First Vice President Investments
Senior Director, Land & Redevelopment Advisors
E: Lonnie.McDermott@MarcusMillichap.com
O: 818.212.2745

Lonnie McDermott has consistently been a Top Producer since joining the firm in 2009. Previously he was the forward planning and entitlements manager at a premier Los Angeles development company where his responsibilities included successfully navigating through the City of Los Angeles Planning Department, Building & Safety, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Department of Transportation, Urban Forestry Division, to name a few while processing Department of Real Estate (DRE) documents, By-Laws, Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&R’s), Condominium and Small Lot Tract Maps, and Budgets.

Lonnie has 20+ years of experience in residential and commercial real estate with $800M+ in sales. Utilizing his unique experience and knowledge resulting from many years working in development, coupled with his continued success in brokerage, Lonnie is regarded as a highly sought-after land and multi-family specialist. Lonnie currently lives in Valencia with his wife Erin and two young sons Connor & Austin.

Marketing Coordinator
E: Matt.Brown@MarcusMillichap.com
O: 818.212.2797

Matt Brown is the Marketing Coordinator at MDGLA. He began his career at Marcus & Millichap as a freelancer and was eventually brought on full time in October of 2019. Matt’s experience in real estate advertising and design started in 2015 when he worked for RODE Advertising in New York. Matt eventually left the Marketing Coordinator position at Marcus & Millichap and took on the roll exclusively for MDGLA.

A Los Angeles native, Matt left L.A. in 2008 to attend college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. There he received a B.F.A in Communication Design with a focus in Advertising Art Direction. Having designed and art directed multiple types of businesses, from pharmaceuticals to airplane brands and now real estate, Matt has a wide range of abilities.

Senior Vice President / Division Manager
Southern California Division
E: Adam.Christopherson@MarcusMillichap.com

Adam Christofferson is the senior vice president and division manager for Marcus & Millichap.  As a Division Manager, he oversees offices in Southern California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho as well as managing a Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation finance team of over fifty loan originators in eight offices.

Adam began his career with Marcus & Millichap in 1997 as a sales assistant, and in 1998 he became a sales agent focusing on the Southern California retail market. Two years later, Adam was a top retail agent in the Encino office, and in 2001 he was appointed sales manager where he led the office to a record-breaking year.  In 2002, Adam was named regional manager of the Denver and Salt Lake City offices where he spearheaded a major expansion. Adam was then named first vice president in 2007 and the regional manager of the Encino office in 2010, which became the firm’s top grossing revenue office. In 2012 he earned the much-coveted designation of the firm’s regional manager of the year. Adam also served as Western U.S. director of special asset services from 2011 to 2013. In 2013, he was honored by the Real Estate Forum magazine as one of the “45 under 40” most influential commercial real estate leaders in the nation. In 2014, he spearheaded the opening of the firm’s offices in Fresno, Bakersfield and Ventura.

First Vice President
Encino, Bakersfield, Fresno, Ventura
E: Jim.Markel@MarcusMillichap.com

Jim Markel is the first vice president of Marcus & Millichap’s Encino, Bakersfield, Fresno and Ventura offices. He joined Marcus & Millichap’s Encino office as an agent in June 1999, specializing in the sale of multifamily assets. During his tenure as an agent, Mr. Markel earned the Encino office’s 2000 Rookie of the Year award, two National Achievement Awards and four Sales Recognition Awards.

In early 2004, Mr. Markel left Marcus & Millichap to run his own boutique brokerage company in conjunction with a successful national syndication company. Between 2004 and 2014 he brokered or acted as principal in over one-half billion in real estate transactions across 10 states and in multiple product types. Mr. Markel rejoined Marcus & Millichap as sales manager of the Encino office in February 2013 and was appointed regional manager in  August 2016.

Operations Manager
E: Jesica.Ocheltree@MarcusMillichap.com

Jesica began her career at Marcus & Millichap in June 2006 in the Encino office as a Brokerage Services  Administrator. She became a Certified Agent Support Trainer in January 2008 and was promoted to Operations Manager in 2012.

Jesica enjoys interacting with the diverse agent personalities and works hard to maintain Encino’s status as one of the most productive offices in the company. Jesica is a native Californian, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley.