Schnitzer Investment Adds Jim Eddy to BOD

PORTLAND-The former president of Spieker Properties’ Pacific Northwest region has been named to the board of Schnitzer Investment Corp., the locally based owner of nearly nine million sf of buildings. Jim Eddy will be third non-family board member the real estate investment company had added in the past nine months. The board was expanded each time to make room, and now totals 11 members.

Eddy, who was not available for comment, was a founding officer of Spieker Properties, the publicly traded real estate operation acquired by Equity Office Properties Trust in July 2001. He was also a founding partner the predecessor company, Spieker Partners, in 1987. Eddy started in the business in 1979 with Trammell Crow Co.

The other two non-family members, added to the board last June, are Richard A. Cantlin and Rey Ramsey. Cantlin is a real estate lawyer and partner in the Portland office of Perkins Coie. Ramsey, the one-time director of the Oregon Dept. of Housing, is the CEO of Washington, D.C.-based One Economy Corp. and co-author of “Managingnonprofits.org” (John Wiley & Sons). Prior to One Economy Corp, Ramsey was president and CEO of The Enterprise Foundation, a D.C.-based organization focused not on housing, child care, work force development and economic development.