Commercial Real Estate Veteran Cyndie O’Bryon Joins Grubb & Ellis Company’s Cleveland Office

CLEVELAND, OH – Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, today announced that Cyndie O’Bryon, (top right photo) SIOR, one of the market’s leading office leasing professionals, has rejoined its Cleveland office as senior vice president, Office Group.

“We’re thrilled to have Cyndie back in the Grubb & Ellis family,” said Bob Nosal, executive vice president and managing director, Cleveland. “She has amazing depth of experience both as a landlord representative and on the tenant representation side of the business, and she has tremendous knowledge of the marketplace. She is an outstanding addition to our office brokerage team.”

O’Bryon joins Grubb & Ellis from Stark Enterprises Inc., where she was vice president of office properties and was responsible for the leasing of all existing and planned office buildings in company’s portfolio.

Prior to joining Stark Enterprises in 2008, she was a vice president at Trammell Crow Company, which acquired Brandon Wiant Converse in 2006.

From 1991 to 2001, O’Bryon was vice president and director of office leasing at Ohio Savings Management. During the same period, she was a principal of O’Bryon Larkman and Associates, a boutique commercial real estate brokerage and management firm she founded in 1991.

O’Bryon began her career in 1981 at Adler Galvin Rogers, which was acquired by Grubb & Ellis. During her 10-year tenure there, she rose to the level of senior vice president.

Contact: Erin Mays, 312.698.6735, erin.mays@grubb-ellis.com