Subject: Executive Changes (EXEC)

Columbia Property Trust, a non-traded REIT gearing up for its liquidity event, has appointed James Fleming as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Fleming was most recently an executive with Shottenstein Group, a shopping center owner-operator, and before that ...

Jeffrey Thomas, a specialist in the net-leased property brokerage sector, has put up his own shingle, launching the Thomas Co., which will help clients buy and sell properties that are net leased to their tenants. Thomas, who has handled some ...

Indianapolis Business Journal Michael G. Browning is stepping down as chief executive of Browning Investments Inc., an Indianapolis development company, effective Aug. 1. He will be replaced by John F. Hirschman, a local attorney who served as Browning's director of ...

Jeffrey Fastov, a 30-year industry veteran, has joined Square Mile Capital Management as senior principal and will head up a lending venture that the investment manager has formed with USAA Real Estate, which last year acquired a stake in the ...

Edward A. Fish III has joined Transwestern as senior vice president in its investment services group's Atlanta office. Fish, a 30-year industry veteran, joined from Resource Real Estate Partners. And before that he was managing director of investments at Inland ...

BankUnited has named Robert Hummel executive vice president and manager of its lending unit in Florida. Hummel has worked at the Miami Lakes, Fla., bank since 2009. Comments? E-mail Josh Mrozinski or call him at (267) 247-0112, Ext. 213.

Greystone has appointed Robert Russell head of CMBS production and managing director of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac originations. Russell, who will be in Greystone's Manhattan office, was previously the chief production officer at Pillar Multifamily, a financing unit of ...

CBRE has hired investment banker James Scott as senior managing director in its capital markets group. Scott, who will join the company on Sept. 9, most recently worked with Bank of America Merrill Lynch's real estate investment-banking group. Comments? E-mail ...

Christina Zausner, a former senior examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has joined the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, or CREFC, in the newly-created position of vice president of industry and policy analysis. She is charged with ...

Cushman & Wakefield has hired Brian Nagle as executive vice president and Jerrod Wigal as director at its capital-markets group in Chicago. Nagle and Wigal, both of whom most recently worked at Colliers International, will focus on office-property investment sales ...