Charles Leitner has been named global CEO of CBRE Global Investors. Leitner will succeed Ritson Ferguson as CEO of CBRE's investment management business. Ferguson had previously announced plans to step down.

Leitner joins the firm from Berkshire Group, where he has served as president and CEO since 2013. He also served as global CEO of RREEF/Deutsche Asset Management, a global alternative asset management enterprise with $80 billion of assets under management.

He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, where he formerly served as chairman of the Greenprint Center for Building Performance.

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Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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