XMi Commercial Real Estate has added Laura Somerville as director of marketing and social media.

Somerville will work to expand the downtown-based company’s client engagement and visibility.    

“[Somerville] brings energy, focus, creativity and exciting new ideas to our marketing and social media efforts,” Stan Snipes, XMi Commercial Real Estate president and principal broker, said in a release.

Before joining XMi, Somerville was an account assistant at DVL Public Relations & Advertising, where she worked with clients such as Jack Daniel’s and Johnston & Murphy to monitor media coverage and assist with event management for the annual Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue and the USO “Toast to the Troops” programs.  

Somerville, who sits on the boards of the Special Olympics of Tennessee and the Nashville Junior Chamber, was recently honored as one of Nashville's 2012 Top Thirty under 30 by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.