Wells Hires Miller From Lend Lease

ATLANTA-Beefing up its acquisitions division at the half-way mark of a $2.5-billion purchasing goal this year, Wells Real Estate Funds hired industry veteran Donald Miller as chief real estate officer.

Miller comes to Wells from Atlanta-based Lend Lease Corp. where he ran that firm’s real estate operations and earlier directed Lend Lease’s Midwest region and hotel investment group. In his 16-year professional career, Miller worked at Texas-based Prentiss Properties Realty Advisors and Delta Air Lines’ pension investment management division.

At Wells, Miller will direct the REIT’s acquisitions, dispositions, property management, construction and leasing groups. Terms of his contract were not disclosed in a prepared statement from Wells founder and president Leo F. Wells III.