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ANNE COLUMBIA • acolumbia@columbiagrouprealty.com
Anne has over 35 years of strategic, management, financial, and commercial real estate experience, providing real estate advice to technology, energy, and life science companies. For the past 30+ years Anne has been President of Columbia Group Realty Advisors, where she has completed hundreds of real estate transactions worth more than $2 billion for clients in Boston and around the world. Prior to Columbia Group, Anne worked on the leasing team at Tishman Speyer Properties in New York City and on the investment team of AEW, one of the largest pension real estate firms in the United States.
Anne’s professional accomplishments have been widely recognized by her peers and she has received the following awards over the years:
• Industrial and Manufacturing Deal of the Year Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 2021
• Thames Valley, United Kingdom – Real Estate Executive of the Year 2015
• Suburban Office Deal of the Year Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 2013
• Life Science Deal of the Year Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 2005
• Distinguished Achievement in Investment Sales Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 1999
Anne was the acting head of corporate real estate at TripAdvisor from 2013 to 2016. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MALD from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a BA from Smith College. Anne has held leadership roles in women’s health and advocacy organizations as the Board Chair for Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts and a Member of the Visiting Committee at Dana Farber Women’s Cancers Center. She is a fundraiser at a leadership level for Dana Farber, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights. In 2016 Anne was an official member of Massachusetts Governor Baker’s business mission to Israel.