Veteran commercial broker Catherine Minnerly has joined commercial real estate services firm NAI Hunneman as an executive vice president and principal.

Prior to joining NAI Hunneman, Minnerly served for the past seven years as senior director at Cushman & Wakefield of Massachusetts, where she averaged between 40 and 50 sales and leasing transactions annually, representing between 1 million and 1.3 million square feet of commercial space per year.

At NAI Hunneman, Minnerly will be in charge of leasing in the Greater Boston south suburban region. She has been in the commercial real estate business for 22 years, specializing in the sale and leasing of industrial, office and R&D properties.

In each of the past six years, CoStar Group and Real Estate Forum named Minnerly a Boston power broker based on leasing transaction volume.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Minnerly worked at NAI Hunneman. In 2001, she was the top commercial broker for NAI Hunneman, and she was NAI Hunneman’s leader in transactions volume from 1996 to 2001.