Gary Womack Returns to Grubb & Ellis as Vice President, Industrial Group

ONTARIO, Calif. (Sept. 14, 2009) – Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, today announced that Gary Womack has rejoined the company as vice president, Industrial Group. Womack will specialize in industrial sales and leasing throughout San Bernardino County and Riverside County.

"Gary has been a part of the Inland Empire commercial real estate market for nearly 30 years," said Mano Leventakis,(top right photo)  executive vice president and managing director of Grubb & Ellis' Inland Empire operations. “We’re pleased that he is again part of our team.”

Womack began his commercial real estate career in 1980 with Johnson Shelton Commercial Real Estate Services. He worked at Grubb & Ellis from 1983 to 1992, during which time he ranked as one of the company’s top brokers in 1985, 1987, 1990 and 1991.

He spent the next 10 years as an owner and principle of California Asset Management, which provided asset management services to clients within the Inland Empire. Prior to returning to Grubb & Ellis, Womack was a vice president at DAUM, where he provided corporate and local real estate representation to companies in the industrial sector.

Womack holds a bachelor’s degree from California State Polytechnic University. He is a member of the American Industrial Real Estate Association and is a licensed California real estate broker.

Contact:  Julia McCartney, 714.975.2230, julia.mccartney@grubb-ellis.com