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Paul Marples Managing Director of CoStar’s European operations previously served as Managing Director of Property Investment Exchange Ltd. (Propex) a provider of Web-based transaction platforms and data exchanges in the U.K. commercial property market. Propex was acquired by CoStar in the first quarter of 2007. Mr. Marples began his career in the commercial property industry in 1984 as a Chartered Surveyor for Weatherall Green and Smith (Atisreal) in London and Spain. From 1984 to 1996 Mr. Marples rose from Chartered Surveyor to Partner (London) to Managing Director (Spain) of Weatherall Green and Smith. In 1996 he established Brown Cooper Marples (BCM) a London-based investment brokerage firm where he served as Managing Director before helping launch Propex beginning in 2001 through the consolidation of a number of property-related Internet-based businesses. Mr. Marples earned a M.A. in geography from Oxford University. | 