Christopher A. Kollme to Join Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc. as Executive Vice President - Finance and Strategy Beginning June 1, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 04:30 pm EDT
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Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. announced that Christopher A. Kollme, former Managing Director & Head of Real Estate Investment Banking for SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, will join the Company's executive team as Executive Vice President - Finance and Strategy beginning June 1, 2017. At SunTrust, Mr. Kollme managed the origination of advisory and capital raising transactions on behalf of the bank's public and private real estate clients. Mr. Kollme's approximately 20-year career has also included tenures with Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.'s Real Estate Investment Banking group as Managing Director & Group Head and Duke Realty as Vice President of Acquisitions.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is an owner, manager, developer, redeveloper, and operator of Class A office properties located primarily in major United States Sunbelt markets. The Company conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Piedmont Operating Partnership, L.P. (Piedmont OP). It owns and operates about 51 in-service office properties comprised of approximately 17 million square feet of primarily Class A office space which are 87.1% leased. It has one redevelopment asset comprising about 127,000 square feet in Orlando, Florida. The Companyâs portfolio of properties is primarily located in various metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Dallas, Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C., Boston, Orlando, Minneapolis, and New York, and others.