Steve Pugh has stepped down as chief operating officer at Rappaport after nearly two decades, ushering in a handful of C-suite changes at one of Greater Washington’s largest commercial real estate firms.
Pugh, who signed on at the McLean-based firm in 2006, is returning to his immediate past employer, the National Automobile Dealers Association, in a new role as the nonprofit’s chief financial officer.
His departure set the stage for Steve Carboni, a senior vice president at Rappaport since 2014, to step in earlier this month as the firm’s new COO, and for Christian Kingston, a nearly-decade-old veteran of Rappaport who served as the company’s senior director of leasing and brokerage since July 2021, to be promoted to vice president and head of leasing.
