Coleen Ceriello

Coleen A. Ceriello has been named director of the Real Estate Office of the Diocese of Brooklyn after an extensive business and professional career that began with the Brooklyn Union Gas Company in 1980 and continued with its successor, the KeySpan Corporation.

Ceriello was senior vice president of shared services at KeySpan before assuming her new post. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from the College of Mount St. Vincent and Fordham University respectively and is a member of the board of directors of HeartShare Human Services of New York.

The Real Estate Office is a consultant to parishes on the management and leasing of properties.

Msgr. John J. Bracken, Vicar General for Temporalities, announced the appointment, which became effective Oct. 29.