CoreNet Global directors named McCourt chairman of the Atlanta-based organization. He succeeds Matthew P. Cullen, general manager of General Motor Corp.'s economic development and enterprise service.

Leslie Whatley, senior vice president of global real estate and client services for JPMorganChase, is CoreNet's chairman-elect and will succeed McCourt when his term expires in May 2004.

John F. Igoe, vice president of real estate for Palm Solutions Group, a unit of Palm Inc., is CoreNet's new treasurer.

As CoreNet's leader, McCourt will preside over Corporate Real Estate 2010 and other industry initiatives. McCourt joined Dearborn, MI-based Fort Land in 1986 and managed the corporate real estate sector until 1992 when he was named vice president of global real estate services. He has been a director of Fort Land Europe since 1998.

CoreNet Global members manage $1.2 trillion in worldwide corporate assets, totaling 700 billion sf of owned and leased office, industrial and other space, the group says in a statement. CoreNet operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

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