Columbia Property Trust, Inc. announced that it has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Normandy Real Estate Management, LLC. Effective with the closing of the Normandy transaction, Jeff Gronning, who founded Normandy with fellow partners Finn Wentworth and David Welsh, has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Columbia. Additionally, several other former partners of Normandy have been named to leadership positions with Columbia. Gavin Evans has been named Executive Vice President, Acquisitions, and Paul Teti will serve as Senior Vice President, Leasing and Asset Management. Other appointments of senior employees from Normandy include Steve Trapp, Senior Vice President, Construction and Development; and Steve Smith, Senior Vice President, Property Management. Columbia also anticipates that its Board of Directors will elect Wentworth to the Board as a non-executive director at the Board’s next meeting, in February.