{"id":3884,"date":"2023-01-20T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/compass-norcal-gets-new-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:48:47","slug":"compass-norcal-gets-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/compass-norcal-gets-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass NorCal gets new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Compass has a new leader for its lucrative Northern California market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kevin-patsel-b936283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kevin Patsel<\/a> was recently named the regional vice president for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/compass-looks-to-sublease-its-nyc-corporate-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compass\u2019<\/a> Northern California operation. The role had been vacant since the retirement of Anita Head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patsel\u2019s appoint was effective as of the first of the year and he will report to Wendy Forsythe, the president of Compass California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to welcome Kevin into this critical leadership role for Compass California,\u201d Forsythe said in a statement. \u201cHis industry experience, business savvy, and ability to help our staff and agent entrepreneurs grow makes him the ideal choice. I\u2019m confident the team will continue to flourish with Kevin\u2019s direction and vision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this role, Patsel, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, will oversee more than 5,000 agents and the sales management team across the region from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/corcoran-global-living-agents-make-the-jump-to-berkshire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tahoe<\/a> to Monterey, including Wine Country, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this promotion, Patsel, who joined Compass in 2018, had served as managing director for Northern California at Compass, as well as being the firm\u2019s first sales manager in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy focus will be to continue to enhance the culture of our agent community and make Compass one of the best places to work for our employees,\u201d Patsel said in a statement. \u201cThis new role is an extension of what I\u2019ve been doing at Compass and what I love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining Compass, Patsel served as sales manager in Marin for <strong>Vanguard <\/strong>Properties and in that same capacity earlier for <strong>Coldwell Banker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compass&#8217;s Northern Californian operation gets a new director as Kevin Patsel is promoted to fill vacancy left by Anita Head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34740,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1760],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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