"Previously, Brett Hunsaker, who was senior managing director running the agency's leasing business, departed and now Carol Bell, managing director of asset services is getting married and relocating to Connecticut," which led the company to re-evaluate how it could best serve its clients, Ferguson tells GlobeSt.com. "We came up with an integrated combination of leadership on agency leasing and asset services."

[IMGCAP(2)]As part of those changes, Lanier, who had supervised the Atlanta office's brokerage responsibilities, will now oversee both the integrated agency leasing and asset services, or property management, business. Lanier has been with CBRE since it merged with Trammell Crow Co. last year and has 18 years of experience representing building owners and managing.

Olsen has joined the team to run the tenant representation business in Atlanta after relocating from Charlotte, NC, where he was the market leader for the Staubach Co. for the last two years. Olsen, who was also previously with Trammell Crow, says the city's size in comparison to Charlotte made the move a tremendous opportunity for him.