Local real estate investment and development firm James Campbell Co. has found a new chief executive after a national search.

The master developer of Kapolei announced Monday that it has hired Donald E. Huffner Jr. to be president and CEO following the resignation of Timothy Brauer in January.

Huffner, who will start Aug. 1, most recently headed a real estate investment and development firm in Florida.

Longtime local hotel industry executive David Carey, Campbell’s board chairman, called Huffner an ideal candidate.

“We are pleased he accepted the position and are excited for him to join the company,” Carey said in a statement. “While we are based in Hawaii, JCC has grown into a nationally diversified real estate company, and I am confident that Don will help to manage and develop our company and its investments even further.”

The company, formed in 2007 to succeed the Estate of James Campbell trust, is a major Hawaii landowner and has real estate investments in 11 other states plus Washington, D.C.

Stephen Hansen, a Campbell board member, has been serving as interim president and CEO since Brauer resigned.

Huffner was most recently president and CEO of Collier Enterprises, a Naples, Fla.-based company engaged in residential and commercial real estate development along with agriculture. Huffner’s experience also includes high-level executive positions at AIG Global Real Estate, Equity Office Properties and CB Richard Ellis on the mainland.

“It’s an honor to have been selected to lead a national real estate company whose history and values are firmly rooted in the state of Hawaii,” he said in a statement. “I look forward to relocating to Oahu and becoming an engaged member of the community.”