Management Shuffle at Local Studley Offices

Two of the top executives at Julien J. Studley Inc. in Southern California will reduce their management duties and others will step into larger roles as the commercial real estate brokerage realigns its management structure.

Howard Sadowsky, the firm’s West Los Angeles-based vice chairman, said he will step aside from his management post by the end of this year to devote all of his time to brokering deals.

Bruce Schuman, branch manager of the West Los Angeles office, said his management role will be reduced and he will spend more time negotiating deals as others at the firm take on expanded executive responsibilities.

Studley President Jacque Ducharme will oversee Southern California as well as the Northern California region that Ducharme has been managing from the firm’s San Francisco office, Schuman said.

The changes at Studley continue a shift toward a broader-based management structure, said Schuman, an 18-year veteran of the firm, who has worked with Sadowsky in managing the brokerage’s Southern California operations in recent years.

Sadowsky, who established a downtown Los Angeles office for New York-based Studley in 1971, said he will retain the title of vice chairman but will gradually relinquish all of his management duties in favor of negotiating leases and sales of office buildings.

“I’m a little bit of a deal junkie,” said Sadowsky, who has split his time between brokerage and management throughout his 30 years in Southern California.

Sadowsky made the decision to leave management he said, partly because he recently turned 60, and because he was weary of the pressures of managing the firm’s three offices in downtown Los Angeles, West Los Angeles and Irvine.