Douglas Linde Named Boston Properties CFO

BOSTON-Boston Properties has announced the appointment of Douglas T. Linde as the company’s chief financial officer. Currently senior vice president for financial and capital markets, the 37-year-old Linde will replace David G. Gaw, who will leave the firm at the end of the month.

“During David Gaw’s 18 years with the company, the last 3.5 years as CFO, he has overseen the development of a first-class finance and accounting operation and the transition from a privately held to publicly owned real estate company,” Boston Properties president Edward T. Linde, Douglas’s father, said in making the announcement.

Boston Properties co-founder Mortimer B. Zuckerman praised the new CFO for his “extensive financial knowledge and transaction skills,” adding that, “expanding his responsibilities fits extremely well into the company’s long-range management plans.”