CXP - Columbia Property Trust Names Finn Wentworth to Board of Directors

Columbia Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CXP) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Finn Wentworth as a member of the Board, effective March 2, 2020. Wentworth will serve as a non-independent, non-executive director of the Company and as a member of the Board’s Investment Committee.

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Wentworth was a Founder and Partner of Normandy Real Estate Management, LLC, a developer, operator and investment manager of office and mixed-use assets in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C., from February 2002 until Columbia’s acquisition of Normandy earlier this year. Prior to forming Normandy, Wentworth served as president, chief operating officer and a board member of YankeeNets LLC, the holding company of the New York Yankees, New Jersey Nets, and New Jersey Devils. His more than 35 years of real estate experience also includes co-founding Gale & Wentworth, a nationally recognized investment and development firm that assembled a multi-billion dollar property portfolio.

“With his decades of leadership and commercial real estate experience in our key markets, Finn Wentworth will be a great addition to our board,” said Nelson Mills, CEO of Columbia. “His knowledge, relationships, and understanding of value-add real estate will be invaluable as we continue to seek out opportunities to grow value for our shareholders.”

About Columbia Property Trust
Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP) creates value through owning, operating and developing Class-A office buildings in New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Boston. The Columbia team is deeply experienced in transactions, asset management and repositioning, leasing, development, and property management. It employs these competencies to grow value across its high-quality, well-leased portfolio of 17 properties that contain approximately seven million rentable square feet, as well as two properties under development, and also has approximately eight million square feet under management for private investors and third parties. Columbia has investment-grade ratings from both Moody’s and S&P Global Ratings. For more information, please visit www.columbia.reit.

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