CarrAmerica Names Management Team

Christopher Peatross has been named chief executive officer of CarrAmerica, a real estate company based in Washington, D.C., and Kurt Heister has been named chief financial officer of the company.CarrAmerica also announced the appointments of Ken Simmons as senior vice president of the Washington, D.C. Development Group; Bill Simpson as chief information officer; and Howard Weissman as controller. In addition, the following individuals were named managing directors: Jeff Pace, for Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Austin, Texas; Malcolm O'Donnell, for Southern California; Clete Casper, for Seattle and Portland, Ore.; and Phillip Thomas, for metropolitan Washington, D.C. CarrAmerica announced the appointments a few days after the July 13 close of its merger with an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, a New York-based commercial real estate investor. The companies can be found on the Web at http://www.carramerica.com and http://www.blackstone.com.