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ICSC Trustees


Andrew M. Alexander
President and Chief Executive Officer
Weingarten Realty Investors
Houston, TX
United States		Mr. Alexander graduated from the University of Texas (Austin) with highest honors majoring in real estate. Drew joined WRI in 1978 as a Leasing Executive in the Retail Division. He held various positions and was named President of WRI in 1997 and was appointed the Company’s Chief Executive Officer in 2001. Mr. Alexander is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations. He serves as a Director of Weingarten Realty Investors, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc., The Texas　Medical Center and The Greater Houston Partnership. Civic interests include serving on the Boards of Rebuilding Together Houston, United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast and the Houston Food Bank. Further, he is a member of several committees at Congregation Emanu El and the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston. He has previously served on a number of Boards including Houston Achievement Place and The Gladney Center. He also serves on the Board of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust, our trade association and is a Trustee and past Chairman of The International Council of Shopping Centers. Weingarten Realty Investors is a Houston Texas based REIT with over 390 properties in 22 states.

Ronald A. Altoon
FAIA, LEED AP,
CDP Partner
Altoon + Porter Architects LLP
Los Angeles, CA
United States		Ronald A. Altoon, FAIA, CDP is Founding Design Partner of Altoon + Porter Architects, LLP, a master planning, urban design, and architectural design firm specializing in retail and mixed-use projects world wide. A former President of The American Institute of Architects, Altoon has been active in ICSC serving as speaker and moderator at ICSC University and numerous global events, on the CDP Certification Examination Advisory Committee, the Education Foundation Board of Trustees, and the International Design & Development Awards Committee.

He has authored two books for ICSC, International Shopping Center Architecture and 21st Century Retail Centers: Context, Culture & Community, and has been a leader for ICSC in embracing Sustainable Design retail and mixed-use projects.

Having been the Architect for over 125,000,000 square feet of retail and mixed-use projects worldwide, including 17 projects to receive ICSC Design Awards, Altoon's international commissions provide a wealth of global experience and a unique perspective of the retail real estate industry.

Altoon holds Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees, and received an ICSC Trustees Distinguished Service Award in 2003.

Kenneth F. Bernstein
President
Acadia Realty Trust
White Plains, NY
United States		Kenneth F. Bernstein is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Acadia Realty Trust, which he co-founded in 1998. Acadia Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust specializing in the acquisition, redevelopment and management of open air retail properties. Acadia owns, or has ownership interest in, and operates over 100 properties totaling approximately 10 million square feet.

Under Mr. Bernstein's leadership for the 10 year period ending December 31, 2009 Acadia achieved annual shareholder returns of 18%. Additionally Acadia has successfully executed its growth initiatives through a series of strategic acquisition funds, AKR Funds I, II, and III, enabling the organization to acquire over $3 billion of real estate across the United States.

Prior to his appointment as CEO in January of 2001, Mr. Bernstein served as President of Acadia with responsibility for all investments and day-to-day operations of the Company. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of RD Capital until its merger with Mark Centers Trust in 1998, creating Acadia Realty Trust. From 1986 until 1990, Mr. Bernstein was an associate with the New York law firm of Battle Fowler, LLP.

Mr. Bernstein received his BA from the University of Vermont and his JD from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Bernstein is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), where he is co-chair of the Open Air Center Committee. He also is an active member of National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the Real Estate Roundtable, where he is currently Chairman of the Tax Policy Committee. Mr. Bernstein is also a member of the Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was the founding chairman of the Real Estate Network and currently sits on the Board of Advisors. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of BRT Realty (NYSE:BRT).

Jamie Bersani
Executive Vice President/Retail Real Estate
Limited Brands, Inc.
Columbus, OH
United States		James L. "Jamie" Bersani currently serves as EVP of Limited Brands Retail Real Estate, a role he has occupied since April, 2006. He is responsible for leading the strategic and proactive execution of all retail real estate transactions, as well as nurturing relationships with landlords in order to position and reposition Limited Brands in various shopping venues. Limited Brands currently occupies approximately 14 million square feet, comprised of 3,000 stores. Current brands include Victoria's Secret, Pink, La Senza, Bath & Body Works, C.O. Bigelow, White Barn Candle, and Henri Bendel.

Bersani joined Limited Brands in 1986 as a Real Estate Director, was promoted to Vice President of Real Estate in 1995, and promoted to SVP of Real Estate in 2000.

Prior to joining Limited Brands, Bersani worked in tax law and accounting with Coopers & Lybrand from 1984-1986, and Ernst & Whinney from 1980-1981. He is a licensed attorney and CPA in New York State.

Bersani is a three-time graduate of Syracuse University, earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees from its School of Management (1980, 1984), as well as his J.D. degree from its College of Law (1984). He resides in New Albany, Ohio with his wife Ashley and sons Ryder and Rafael.

Ralph Biernbaum
Palm Beach, FL
United States		Retired. Mr. Biernbaum is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

J. Lorne Braithwaite
President
Park Avenue Holdings
Toronto, Ontario
Canada		Park Avenue Holdings is a private investor holding company. Mr. Braithwaite was President and CEO of Cambridge Shopping Centers (now Ivanhoe Cambridge) developer and manager of large enclosed regional shopping malls in Canada from 1978 to 2002. Mr. Braithwaite is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and a past President of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies (CIPREC).

Matthew Bucksbaum
Chairman Emeritus
General Growth Properties, Inc.
Chicago, IL
United States		General Growth Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange (GGP). During the past four decades Mr. Bucksbaum has been a principal in the formation of two REITs, as well as the purchase of shopping centers totaling more than $10 billion. Mr. Bucksbaum is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

John L. Bucksbaum, SCSM
President and CEO
General Growth Companies, Inc.
Chicago, IL
United States		John Bucksbaum is President and CEO of General Growth Companies, Inc., a privately owned shopping center owner and developer.  He previously served as chairman and CEO of General Growth Properties, Inc., a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) with over 200 regional shopping malls and 200 million square feet of retail space including 24,000 retail stores nationwide.

Bucksbaum received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado in 1978. Professional affiliations include the following: past Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC); past Chairman of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at The Wharton School; Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI); Trustee of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT); a member of the National Realty Roundtable and the University of California Berkeley’s Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Policy Advisory Board. In addition Bucksbaum serves on the boards of the University of Chicago Hospitals, The Field Museum, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team, USA Cycling Team, World T.E.A.M. Sports and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and the Advisory Board of the Chicago Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

John and his wife, Jackie, are the parents of Max and Eli Bucksbaum.

James R. Bullock, CSM
President
Glengate Investments
Inc.
Campbeville, Ontario
Canada		Glengate Investments is a family holding company with interests in real estate. Mr. Bullock is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Rick J. Caruso
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Caruso Affiliated
Los Angeles, California		Rick J. Caruso is the Chief Executive Officer of Caruso Affiliated, the Los Angeles-based real estate development company he founded in 1990. Caruso Affiliated owns and manages a portfolio of upscale outdoor retail/entertainment properties that attract over 40-million people annually and are designed to reflect the unique character of the communities they serve. Properties include The Grove, The Commons at Calabasas and The Promenade at Westlake, as well as The Americana at Brand. As CEO, Mr. Caruso works closely with his team of seasoned professionals to continue the company’s leadership and innovation. His focus is on meeting the company’s mission to exceed the expectation of his guests and tenants.

Mr. Caruso is a past President of the Los Angeles Police Commission and the youngest commissioner in the history of the City of Los Angeles as the President of the Department of Water and Power. His philanthropic commitments include service on the boards of Para Los Niňos, St. John’s Health Center Foundation, The California Medical Center and The National Institute of Transplantation.  

After graduating from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science degree with honors, Caruso obtained his juris doctor degree in 1983 from Pepperdine University School of Law where he was a Brock Scholar. He was “of counsel” with a national law firm in corporate finance until 1987, when he began to devote his energies full time to real estate development. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California, the Board of Councilors of Pepperdine School of Law, the Board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission. He resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife Tina and their three sons and a daughter.

Karen B. Case
President- Commercial Real Estate
The PrivateBank
Chicago, Illinois		Karen Case joined The PrivateBank as Executive Managing Director and President-Commercial Real Estate in October 2007.  Reporting to the CEO, she is responsible for the business unit that develops and manages banking relationships with dynamic and growing commercial real estate developers, owners and operators.  Previously, Ms. Case served as executive vice president in LaSalle Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Department where she managed the bank’s Illinois middle market commercial real estate business. Prior to joining LaSalle in 1992, Ms. Case established and managed the Midwest real estate lending operations for New York-based Marine Midland Bank.  At The First National Bank of Chicago, she was responsible for managing banking relationships with Midwest-based real estate development and syndication firms.

Ms. Case is an active member of The Chicago Network, Chicago Real Estate Executive Women, Commercial Real Estate Women Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives’ Club of Chicago, Leadership Greater Chicago, Real Estate Finance Forum (co-founder and past President) and Urban Land Institute. Ms. Case currently serves on the board of directors of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In addition, Ms. Case is a board member of Community Investment Corporation (CIC), Chicagoland’s leading multifamily rehab lender, providing a reliable source of financing for the acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable rental housing. For more than 10 years, Ms. Case was a board member of Girl Scouts of Chicago , and served as its president for two terms. Crain’s Chicago Business profiled Ms. Case in its 2008 report of “Women to Watch.”  In 2003, Illinois State Treasurer Judy Barr Topinka awarded Ms. Case with the Woman Making a Difference distinction.  In 2001, Ms. Case was a recipient of the Thanks Badge, the highest honor bestowed by Girl Scouts of the USA .  In 1999, she was recognized on WTTW-TV 11’s SCGK Honors for her civic contributions on behalf of Girl Scouts of Chicago. In 1995, Ms. Case was selected as an Honoree of the Midwest Women’s Center Tribute to Chicago Women, and was awarded the Honor Pin by Girl Scouts of the USA .

Ms. Case earned her MBA from The University of Chicago and a BS in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, where she has served on the Alumni Board of Governors, and for nearly a decade, served as chairperson of the 4,000-member Chicago alumni club. She also attended The University of London and The American College in Paris. A native of New York, Ms. Case lives in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood with her husband, Jay. They have three children.

Alfredo J. Cohen
Director
Constructora Sambil
Miranda, Venezuela		Alfredo Cohen is Director of the Sambil Group, a family-owned company founded in 1958. The Sambil Group carries out the construction, management and operation of shopping centers, hotels, residential and office buildings. The company is now expanding its operations into the Caribbean and Latin America region, with initial projects to be developed in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The Sambil Caracas shopping center is one of the largest malls in Latin America, and it has the largest traffic count in the entire region with approximately 30 million visitors per year. The company has shopping centers in Valencia, Maracaibo, San Cristobal, Margarita, Barquisimeto and Paraguana, making Sambil the largest construction group in Venezuela.

Alfredo Cohen is a pioneer in the shopping center industry in Venezuela since he has created a Corporate Marketing Manager position in every Sambil center nationwide. As a result, profound value-added programs have been created for the general public and the surrounding communities. Alfredo Cohen also promoted the introduction of Sambil Banesco, the first corporate credit card in the history of shopping centers in Venezuela, which was supplemented by the roll out of the Prepaid Visa Sambil credit card in 2009. In addition, Alfredo Cohen serves as editor for the Sambil magazine. This publication was launched in 1998, with a circulation of 25,000 copies distributed nationwide and over 90 editions to date. This magazine is regarded as unique in style among all corporate publications in Venezuela, and it has attained a considerable prestige through its continuous circulation for thirteen years.

He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and Founding President of CAVECECO (Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce). Alfredo Cohen was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from UNIMET (Metropolitan University) of Caracas.

Holly Cohen
Senior Vice President of Real Estate
J. Crew
New York, NY
United States		Holly serves as the SVP of RE, Planning & Construction for J. Crew. In her position at J. Crew, Holly is responsible for the company's real estate and construction department which currently maintains a portfolio of over 300 stores nationwide. Holly joined J. Crew 6 yrs ago, shortly after the arrival of legendary CEO Millard Drexler from the Gap, Inc., and has been part of the turnaround team that not only has revitalized the iconic J. Crew brand, but enabled the company to go public in a highly successful IPO in June of 2006. Prior to joining J. Crew, Holly headed up the New York real estate office for Gap, Inc. where she began her career in retail real estate. During her 10 year tenure with Gap, Inc., real estate, Holly participated in the initial rollout of Old Navy and the rapid expansion of the Gap, GapKids, Gap Body and Banana Republic brands. Holly, a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, began her career in the garment center working in a variety of capacities in the wholesale industry including marketing, operations and sales. Holly then transitioned into retail operations wherein she launched and headed up a national chain of wholesale/retail accessory stores and thereafter joined Gap, Inc., as a District Manager for the Gap division in Manhattan.

During her tenure at J. Crew, several new retail concepts have been launched including crewcuts, Madewell, J. Crew Collection, J. Crew Men's stores and the newest concept, J. Crew Wedding which will open its first store in NYC at the end of May.

Thomas J. Connolly, SCLS
Divisional Vice President
Walgreen Co.
Deerfield, IL
United States		Thomas J. Connolly is Vice President, Facilities Development of Walgreen Co. He joined Walgreens in 1985 as Real Estate Representative and held the positions of Senior Real Estate Manager, Director of Real Estate, and Divisional Vice President of Real Estate prior to his promotion to his current position earlier this year. In his current capacity at Walgreens, he is responsible for Real Estate, Asset Management, Design and Engineering, Construction, and Facilities Management.

Mr. Connolly serves as a member of the ICSC Government Relations Environmental Subcommittee, is a past member of the CLS Committee, and has served as the Tennessee State Retail Chairman. He has also been involved on an ongoing basis with the Gulf States Alliance program.

Mr. Connolly is a member of the Metropolitan Planning Commission and The Urban Land Institute.

Mr. Connolly received a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982. He currently resides with his family in Chicago, IL

Vincent A. Corno
Senior Vice President - Real Estate
Saks Fifth Avenue
Beachwood, OH
United States		Vincent Corno is Senior Vice President - Real Estate for Saks Incorporated, the iconic $2.6 billion retailer operating 52 Saks Fifth Avenue full line luxury department stores and 55 Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH outlet stores throughout the United States. Mr. Corno oversees the company's domestic real estate portfolio including new stores, expansions and closures. He is an eighteen-year industry veteran and previously served in various capacities of increasing responsibility with Forest City Enterprises, a $9.5 billion, Cleveland-based real estate development company, and with The May Department Stores Company, the former $15 billion, 487-store, St. Louis-based retail department store chain that is now part of Macy's, Inc.

Mr. Corno earned his undergraduate and juris doctor degrees at St. Louis University, is a licensed attorney and holds a certified public accountant certificate.

Michael Edwards
Chairman
Muttropolis
Solana Beach, California
United States		Mike Edwards is a 27-year retail veteran who has led brand transformations and business turnarounds for some of the leading names in the industry. He joined Borders Group in September 2009 as Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer, and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Borders, Inc. and President of Borders Group, Inc. in June 2010. Prior to coming to Borders, Mike served as President and CEO of lucy activewear, where he led the reinvention of the sportswear retailer, taking it from just 10 stores and no e-commerce capability to over 60 stores and a successful web business. Mike also served as Executive Vice President, Operations at Jo-Ann Stores Inc., where he helped steer the retailer from near bankruptcy to a highly profitable company with $2 billion in annual sales, and President and CEO at UIB Capital-owned Ellington Leather. Earlier in his career he held management positions at West Marine and CompUSA. 　 He began his career with merchandising positions at The May Department Store Company and Target Corporation.   Mike has a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Mary Lou Fiala
Co-Chairman
LOFT Unlimited
Jacksonville, FL
United States		Ms. Fiala is the Co-Chairman of LOFT Unlimited, a personal financial and business consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida. Ms. Fiala served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Regency Centers Corporation, a real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and operation of grocery anchored shopping centers from 1998 to February 2009, when she was named Vice Chairman and COO. In her role as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Fiala was responsible for the operational management of Regency's retail centers nationwide. Prior to working with Regency, Ms. Fiala served as Managing Director of Security Capital Global Strategic Group Incorporated, where she was responsible for the development of operating systems for the firm's retail-related initiatives. Previously, she also served as Senior Vice President and Director of Stores for Macy's East/Federated Department Stores, where she was responsible for 19 Macy's stores in five states, generating more than $1 billion in sales volume. Before her tenure at Macy's, Ms. Fiala was Senior Vice President of Henri Bendel and Senior Vice President and Regional Director of stores for Federated's Burdine's Division. Ms. Fiala earned a bachelor's degree in science from Miami University. She is a current member of the Board of Directors for Regency Centers Corporation, a member of the board for Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. and a board member of Stir Crazy, Inc. Ms. Fiala also served as the 2008 – 2009 Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Karen Flavelle
President and Chief Executive Officer
Purdy’s Chocolates
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada		Purdy’s Chocolates, founded in 1907, is the largest retailer of premium chocolates in Western Canada and second largest in Canada. Purdy’s is a chain of 59 stores, with a 57,000 square foot chocolate factory, and a 70,000 square foot warehouse and offices, all located in Vancouver, BC. Karen came to Purdy’s in 1994, to take up the position of Executive Vice-President. After a smooth transition with her father, Karen became President, bought the business and has been sole owner since 1997.

Prior to Purdy’s Chocolates, Karen completed a B.Comm at Queen’s University, lived in Japan and Asia for 2 years, and then started her career in packaged goods marketing with General Mills in Toronto. After 5 years there, Karen went to London, England to work in Marketing Consulting for a year. Returning back to Canada, Karen embarked on a restaurant marketing career with Swiss Chalet – a $250,000,000 chain of 140 family style restaurants, based in Toronto.

Karen’s present Board positions are with the Retail Council of Canada and International Council of Shopping Centre’s Board of Governors. Karen’s past Board positions include: BC Business Council Board of Governors, BC Business Laureate Hall of Fame Board of Governors, Canadian Association of Family Enterprises (Personal Advisory Group Chair), Confectionary Manufacturing Association of Canada, International Council of Shopping Centres (Provincial Retail Chair), Retail Merchants Association of BC, Young Presidents’ Organization (BC Forum Chair, WIN Regional Chair, WIN GCC Chair). Karen and Purdy’s have won numerous business awards: Influential Women in Business Award, Centennial Recognition Award – International Council of Shopping Centres, Business Hall of Fame – Vancouver Board of Trade, #1 – Golden Plate Readers’ Choice Award, BC Hall of Fame for Excellence in Food Processing (Lifetime Achievement Award), One of the Biggest BC Businesses Owned by Women (#2/100), four-time winner of “One of Top 50 Companies to Work for in Canada”, awarded licensee status for boxed chocolates for 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Karen is married with 3 teenage children.

F. Kemper Freeman, Jr.

Chairman & CEO

Bellevue Square Managers, Inc.
Bellevue, WA
United States

As principal owner and hands-on leader of the development team, Mr. Freeman has earned a national reputation as a civic leader and businessman with integrity and a win-win philosophy. He has been engaged in real estate development in Bellevue since the 1960s. Mr. Freeman is also active in political affairs and issues on a local, regional, and national level.

He was elected to three terms in the state legislature and also served as chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) in 1994–95.

Seth D. Geldzahler
Vice President- Real Estate
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.
Union, New Jersey		Seth Geldzahler is the Vice President – Real Estate at Bed Bath & Beyond, based in Union, New Jersey and has been with Bed Bath & Beyond since 1996. In this capacity, he is responsible for all real estate related issues with respect to over 1,100 store locations and a national and international real estate growth program that is adding nearly 50 new stores a year, including stores for Bed Bath & Beyond, Christmas Tree Shops, buybuy BABY and Harmon Face Values stores.

Prior to joining Bed Bath & Beyond, Mr. Geldzahler practiced real estate law in New Jersey and Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Rutgers Law School – Newark. He resides in Bridgewater, New Jersey with his family.

Carl L. Goertemoeller
Senior Vice President
Macy's Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
United States		Carl L. Goertemoeller is Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Macy's, Inc. a position he has held since February of 2009. He is responsible for development and implementation of Macy's corporate-wide real estate program.

Goertemoeller joined Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores) in January 2000, as Operating Vice President-Real Estate, responsible for all national real estate matters for the Bloomingdale's division. Additionally, from 2005 until early 2008, he assumed responsibility for the Macy's Northwest division in Seattle, Washington, wwhandling all real estate in the Pacific Northwest.

Goertemoeller began his career at General Electric Company before initially joining Federated in 1982, where he held a variety of financial and market analysis positions. Goertemoeller left Federated in 1986 to join Simon Property Group in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he held positions of increasing responsibility over a fifteen year career, most recently serving as Vice President of Development, responsible for overseeing and directing expansion and redevelopment projects at a variety of Simon regional shopping malls across the country.

Goertemoeller has served in a variety of service and community capacities, including a member of the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Center in Indianapolis, the Greater Cincinnati United Way Neighborhoods and Community Council and as Chairman of Macy's United Way Corporate Campaign in 2004.

Goertemoeller, who is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and received his MBA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

He has three children and resides in Cincinnati with his wife, Becky.

Michael J. Graziano
Managing Director
Goldman, Sachs & co.
New York, NY
United States		Michael Graziano is co-head of the Real Estate Department and serves as a strategic advisor to a number of private and public traded real estate companies with regard to mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and general corporate finance matters. Mike joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 and has spent over 17 years focused on the Real Estate business. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2000 and Partner in 2006.

Mike is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), the Real Estate Roundtable, and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

He earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Gordon T."Skip" Greeby, Jr., P.E.
President
The Greeby Companies, Inc.
Lake Bluff, IL
United States		Gordon T. "Skip" Greeby, Jr., P.E., is President of The Greeby Companies, Inc. in Lake Bluff, IL. Mr. Greeby has directed his company's efforts since 1978 relevant to development management, project management and tenant finish consultation services. Of particular note is his work for institutional and private developers, providing Owner's representative services for the due diligence, team assembly, design, and construction of over 300,000,000 sq. ft. of retail, high-rise office, corporate headquarters and industrial development throughout the US. With offices in Chicago, Boston, Orlando, and Dallas, all such services are provided through a national network of highly experienced construction professionals located in 35 cities throughout the country. Mr. Greeby serves on the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) CenterBuild Program Committee as past Conference Chairman, serves on the ICSC International Design and Development Awards Committee, is Co-Chair of the ICSC CDP (Certified Development, Design, and Construction Professional) Governing Committee to develop a new professional designation for the retail industry, is an instructor at the ICSC University of Shopping Centers, and is the recipient of ICSC's Board of Trustees Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of CoreNet Global where he holds a Master of Corporate Real Estate designation, and serves as Course Director for the Executive Development Program's 3-day Project Management seminar. Mr. Greeby has a BS from the US Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Science from Stanford University in Soil Mechanics, and a second Master of Science from Stanford University in Construction Management. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Illinois.

Anthony Grossi
Principal
Grossi Northbound Real Estate Advisory
New York, NY
United States		A senior executive with broad-based expertise in retail and office property operations, asset management, leasing and corporate financial management, Tony Grossi was responsible for the chief operating functions for Macerich and Cadillac Fairview; two of North America's largest real estate companies.

With over 25 years of industry leadership, Tony has performed every role within the retail and office sectors including, finance, development, leasing, property management and retail shop owner. As well, he has applied his experience in other geographies outside of Canada and the U.S. including Brazil, Great Britain and South Africa. As the principal of Grossi Northbound Real Estate Advisory, Tony provides consultancy services and direction to landlords and retailers in strategic applications.

Tony holds a bachelor of arts in mathematics and economics as well as earning an MBA with a focus in finance both from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Lee T. Hanley
Chief Operating Officer
Vestar Development Company
Phoenix, AZ
United States		Mr. Hanley is a founding Principal of Phoenix based Vestar Development Co., and has been its CEO since 1989. Vestar is one of the largest privately held commercial development companies, developing, owning, and managing over 20 million square feet of shopping centers in Arizona and southern California, He is currently responsible for strategic planning, capital market affiliations, and executive oversight of Vestar Development Co. and Vestar Property Management.

Previously Hanley held positions at Estes Development Co., CB Commercial and Xerox Corporation. He is a graduate of The University of Arizona with a degree in Accounting and served as an Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, including duty in Vietnam.

Lee is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, serves on the board of Translational Genomics Institute and is a Trustee of Barrow Neurological Foundation. He is active in Greater Phoenix Leadership, The International Council of Shopping Centers, Valley of the Sun United Way and several civic and cultural organizations in the Phoenix area.

David B. Henry
President, Vice Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Kimco Realty Corporation
New Hyde Park, NY
United States		David B. Henry is President, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Kimco Realty Corporation, a NYSE REIT which is the nation’s largest owner of neighborhood and community shopping centers. As of December 31, 2010, the company owned interests in 951 shopping centers comprising 138 million square feet of leasable space across 44 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and South America.

Before joining Kimco Realty, Mr. Henry was Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer at GE Capital Real Estate. Mr. Henry spent 23 years with the company and was responsible for pension advisory activities and investment policies and strategies in the U. S. and international markets. Mr. Henry was also chairman of the Investment Committee and a member of the Credit Committee.

Prior to joining GE Capital, Mr. Henry was Vice President for six years with Republic Mortgage Investors, a REIT based in Coral Gables, Florida.   Mr. Henry graduated from Bucknell University in 1971 with a B.S. in Business Administration, and received an M.B.A. in 1973 from the University of Miami. He currently serves on the boards of HCP (NYSE), Fairfield County Bank, and TRI, Inc. Mr. Henry was recently elected to serve as the 2011 - 2012 Chairman of ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers).

Gar Herring, CDP
President & Chief Operating Officer
The MG Herring Group Inc.
Dallas , TX
United States		Gar Herring serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of The MGHerring Group and is responsible for developing regional malls and lifestyle centers across the United States. Mr. Herring's real estate background covers development, acquisition, leasing, and financial analysis. He worked for five years at Donahue Schriber, developing and acquiring neighborhood shopping centers in Southern California and Nevada. While at The Staubach Company, Mr. Herring coordinated the purchase and sale of single-tenant net-lease properties. His experience includes duties as a Loan Officer at Guaranty Bank in Dallas, Texas, that included working with such prominent homebuilders as Kaufman & Broad, Del Webb, US Home and Lennar. In addition, he worked as a leasing agent with The DeBartolo Corporation.

Mr. Herring earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Tulane University and received an M.B.A. from the University of Texas. He serves on ICSC's Certified Development, Design & Construction Professional (CDP) Council. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), serving on the Commercial and Retail Council (CRC).

M. G. (Buddy) Herring, Jr.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
The MGHerring Group
Dallas, TX
United States		M. G. "Buddy" Herring, Jr., a past chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers is chairman and chief executive officer of The MGHerring Group, a privately held real estate development, leasing and management company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. He has been developing and managing shopping centers for almost four decades, having developed more than 30 major shopping centers comprising more than 25 million square feet of retail space in the United States and Mexico. After developing Uptown Village at Cedar Hill in the southwest portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the late 2000s, Herring developed in the northern side of the Metroplex, one of the largest retail projects in the United States known as The Village at Allen, a mixed-use center that in conjunction with Herring’s Village of Fairview across the street comprises more than two million square feet of retail in 400 acres featuring complementary retail, restaurants, entertainment, a sport facility, offices and a hotel. Following his studies at Louisiana State University, Herring began his career in retailing in 1963. In 1968, he joined The Rouse Company as a mall manager in Houston, Texas, and in 1970, he moved to Chicago, Ill. as a project director for Homart Development Co. where he rose through the ranks to become vice president overseeing the leasing activities of 22 regional malls comprising 21 million square feet of gross leasable area. In 1975, Herring joined Paul Broadhead & Associates, then based in Meridian, Miss. as president and a general partner with responsibility for the operations and development of the company. Under his leadership, the company grew from a staff of 10 to more than 600 eventually becoming one of the most prominent shopping center developers in the United States. He built a management team that excelled in all facets of the shopping center industry, winning over 150 awards for management and marketing. Herring moved the company’s headquarters to Dallas, Texas in 1982 and two years later, he purchased Broadhead’s interest and changed the name of the company to The Herring Group. He formed a joint venture in 1985 with Marathon U.S. Realties, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific. In 1989, he sold the company and formed The MGHerring Group where he continued developing shopping centers in the United States and in Monterrey and Leon, Mexico. Herring’s company was instrumental in bringing JCPenney to Mexico and undertook real estate activities for Sears de Mexico through the mid-1990s. Herring devoted most of his professional life volunteering for the International Council of Shopping Centers. He served as chairman of ICSC’s national convention now renamed RECon, ICSC Arkansas/Mississippi state director from 1976 to 1978 and today he serves as ex-officio member of the ICSC Board of Trustees, having the distinction of being the longest serving living active trustee of the organization. He joined the ICSC board in 1979; served his three-year term, during which he was appointed to serve as vice president of ICSC’s Southern Division from 1980 to 1982. Upon completion of his term, the general membership elected Herring as worldwide chairman of the organization for one year and then he served on ICSC’s executive committee for an additional five years. In 1990, he became a lifetime ex-officio trustee of the organization and has served on many high-profile committees of ICSC’s board including as a founding member of the ICSC Worldwide Commission, chairman of the nominating committee and a member of the long range planning committee, executive compensation committee and the investment and employee retirement committee. Herring lives with his wife Edna Herring in Dallas. Edna is the most senior of Herring’s company and is vice president of administration and secretary-treasurer of the company. Her career spanned over 40 years. Buddy Herring has two children. His son, Gar Herring, SCDP, is now president and chief operating officer of Herring’s company (also an ICSC trustee and Southern Division vice president) and his daughter, Heather Herring Stanton, is corporate communications and marketing director of Herring’s company and is also an active ICSC volunteer (member of ICSC Foundation board of directors). Buddy and Edna Herring have four grandchildren.

David E. Hocker, CSM
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
David Hocker and Associates
Owensboro, KY
United States		David Hocker, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of David Hocker & Associates, Inc. (DHA), Owensboro, KY, has been associated with commercial real estate development since 1962. He opened his first shopping center, Wesleyan Park Plaza, in Owensboro, in 1964. Since that time, Hocker has developed more than 40 shopping centers containing over 14 million square feet of retail space located in 13 states.

Mr. Hocker was chosen the winner of the Liberty Bell Award in 1986 - an award given for the past 20 years by the Daviess County Bar Association to recognize community leadership. In 1988, he received the "Helping Hand Award" from the National March of Dimes Foundation in recognition of his remarkable contributions to the community in the area of higher education. Mr. Hocker received the Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Real Estate Industry by INC Magazine in 1989. He served as ICSC Chairman for a one-year term in 1989.

Mr. Hocker has three children and is a long-time resident of Owensboro, KY.

Daniel Hurwitz
President & Chief Executive Officer
DDR
Beachwood, OH
United States		Daniel B. Hurwitz is the President & Chief Executive Officer of DDR, a position he assumed on January 1, 2010. He had served as President & Chief Operating Officer of the Company from May 2007 through December 2009, as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer from May 2005 to May 2007, and as Executive Vice President from June 1999 through April 2005. Mr. Hurwitz joined the Company’s Board of Directors in June 2009, and previously served on the board from May 2002 to May 2004.   Mr. Hurwitz is responsible for developing, refining and executing DDR’s corporate strategy, policies, goals and objectives. This role is accountable for company performance and reports to the Board of Directors. Also, he is a member of the Company’s executive, management and investment committees.   Prior to joining DDR, Mr. Hurwitz served as Senior Vice President and Director of Real Estate and Corporate Development for Boscov’s Department Store, Inc. Prior to Boscov’s, Mr. Hurwitz served as Development Director for the Shopco Group, a New York City-based developer and acquirer of regional and super regional shopping malls.   Mr. Hurwitz is a graduate of Colgate University and the Wharton School of Business Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a frequent speaker at real estate industry functions, including the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Urban Land Institute (ULI), and The University of Wisconsin-Madison James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.   Professionally, Mr. Hurwitz is a director of EDT Retail Management Limited, the manager of EDT Retail Trust (ASX: EDT), a member of the DDR/Sonae Sierra Brasil board of directors, a member of ICSC, a member of the ICSC Board of Trustees Executive Committee and a member of the ICSC Political Action Committee. He is also a member of ULI and serves as Vice Chairman of the CRC Blue Council.   Additionally, Mr. Hurwitz is a member of the Colgate University Board of Trustees, a member of the Board of Trustees of Hawken School, Vice Chairman of the Board for Summer on the Cuyahoga, a member of the Leadership Board for the Neurological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.   He has also served as a member of the Board of Regents for the University System of Ohio, the Board of Directors of the Colgate University Alumni Corporation and Colgate University Maroon Council, the U-Store-It Trust, Boscov’s Department Store, Inc., The Network, Applewood Centers and the Cleveland Children’s Museum.

Adam W. Ifshin
President
DLC Management Corporation
Tarrytown, NY
United States		Adam Ifshin is President and CEO of DLC Management Corp., which he co-founded in 1991. Through his leadership, DLC has become one of the nation's largest owners and operators of retail shopping centers and one of the most active acquirers of centers with value added potential. Mr. Ifshin is also the founder and President of Delphi Commercial Properties, Inc., a specialty real estate brokerage firm; the co-founder and President of DLC Investment Securities Corp., the exclusive placement agent for all DLC Management Corp. real estate investments; and co-founder of DLC UrbanCore and DLC Development, new platforms to develop retail real estate in under-served, infill, and multi-ethnic markets nationwide.

Mr. Ifshin is Chairman of the ICSC Government Relations Economic Sub-Committee, and was the Chair of the ICSC 2008 National Deal Making Conference in New York. He is an active lobbyist for the shopping center industry, and has testified in front of both the United States Senate and House of Representatives on behalf of ICSC and The Real Estate Roundtable on the Taxation of Carried Interests. Mr. Ifshin is a full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is Chair of the Commercial & Retail Development Council (Blue) of ULI.

Mr. Ifshin received a BA, cum laude, from Williams College, with honors in economics and history, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the board of directors of the Byram Hills Educational Foundation and Hudson Valley Holding Company. He lives in Westchester with his family.

John M. Ingram
Vice Chairman
Mills Corporation
Woburn, MA
United States		Mr. Ingram is also Chairman of the Mills Corporation’s Executive Committee. He has spent a large part of his career as a senior officer in retail. Since 1993, he has operated his own consulting firm specializing in the enhancement of retail sales asset values and in bankruptcy. Mr. Ingram is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Stephen R. Karp
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer
New England Development
Newton, MA
United States		New England Development is a developer of shopping centers and commercial property. Mr. Karp is a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and the Urban Land Institute. He also serves as a trustee of Belmont Hill School, Children’s Hospital and Union College. He is Chairman of the Children's Hospital Trust. Mr. Karp is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

David J. LaRue
President & Chief Executive Officer
Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Cleveland, OH
United States		David J. LaRue is president and chief operating officer of Forest City Commercial Group, Forest City’s largest strategic business unit.

LaRue is responsible for the execution of operating and development plans within the Commercial Group, which owns, develops, acquires and manages retail, office, hotel and mixed-use projects throughout the United States.

LaRue has been with Forest City since 1986. He has served as executive vice president of Forest City Rental Properties focusing on Commercial Property operations and as financial manager of Tower City Center development project in Cleveland. He has been in his current position since 2003. Before joining Forest City, he was a financial analyst for Sherwin-Williams Company for three years.

He serves as a board member for U-Store-It Trust, a publicly traded REIT (Symbol: YSI) and has done so since the company’s initial public offering in October of 2004. He also serves as the chairman of the audit committee of U-Store-It. In addition, he is a board and executive committee member for the Cleveland School of the Arts, a Cleveland public school focused on providing additional educational support based in all areas of Art. This support has resulted in a 98% graduation rate for these public school children. He serves as a board member for the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and the Greater Cleveland Partnership initiative focused on talent retention in Northeast Ohio.

Charles B. Lebovitz
Chairmen of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, CBL & AssociatesProperties Inc.
Chattanooga, TN
United States		CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) listed on the New York Stock Exchange are owners, managers of a portfolio consisting of 159 shopping center properties, including 55 regional enclosed malls, containing 58.6 million square feet located in 25 states. Mr. Lebovitz is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

David P. Lindsey
Vice President
Nordstrom, Inc.
Seattle, WA
United States		David P. Lindsey, FAIA, is Vice President of Store Planning for Nordstrom, Inc., one of the nations leading fashion-specialty retailers with over 150 stores and facilities nationwide. Lindsey has overseen the design and construction of all company facilities since 1973. Projects include all new stores, renovations and retail concepts, corporate offices, call centers, computer facilities, and distribution centers. He has overseen (fostered) the development of more than twenty-million square feet of retail stores with a value in excess of four-billion dollars during his career.

A significant portion of his time is spent in the real estate arena where he is involved with evaluation and site selection for Nordstrom stores. This includes market and site review, developer negotiation, city and agency reviews, along with other appropriate activities that might be involved. He assists in the development and is signatory to all capital projects involving real estate, design, and construction for Nordstrom.

As an active ICSC member, Lindsey has chaired panels at the spring leasing convention, chaired and been a panelist at many ICSC Centerbuild conferences. He was one of the original Centerbuild conference advisory panel members, where he served for many years in the 90's.

He has guest lectured at the University of Washington, The University of Kansas, and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and was past member of the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning advisory board. Representing Nordstrom Lindsey has received numerous awards including the Peter Glen, Retailer of the Year award in 2006.

A fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Urban Land Institute, David Lindsey is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Rebecca L. Maccardini, SCMD
President Rebecca Maccardini Resources
Ann Arbor, MI
United States		RMResources was formed for the purpose of providing focused consulting for real estate, specializing in such diverse areas as center redevelopment and repositioning strategies, marketing and operation evaluation, communication effectiveness and corporate imaging. Ms. Maccardini, with a background in regional and super regional malls plus strip centers, provides clients with a broad-based understanding of consumer trends and customer motivation. She shares her expertise in new development, expansions, and re-developments, as well as on-going management and marketing for both corporations and individual properties. Ms. Maccardini is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Sandeep L. Mathrani
Chief Executive Officer
General Growth Properties
Chicago, Illinois		Sandeep Mathrani is the Chief Executive Officer of General Growth Properties, the country’s second largest shopping mall owner/developer and real estate investment trust (REIT). Prior to GGP, Mr. Mathrani was president of retail for Vornado Realty Trust where he oversaw Vornado’s U.S. retail real estate and its India operations. Vornado Realty Trust is one of the largest REITs in the country, with a total capitalization of more than $31 billion. Mr. Mathrani is a real estate industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to Vornado, he spent eight years with Forest City Ratner, where he was executive vice president, responsible for that company’s retail development and related leasing in the New York City metropolitan area.

Mr. Mathrani holds a Master of Engineering, Master of Management Science, and Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

James E. Maurin
Chairman
Stirling Properties
Covington, LA
United States		Mr. Maurin is one of the founders of Stirling Properties and currently serves as its Chairman. In addition, Mr. Maurin served as the 2004-2005 Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He is currently a member of ICSC's Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee, Audit Committee, Political Action Committee, Executive Compensation Committee, and Chairman of its Government Relations Advisory Committee. He previously served as Vice President of its Southern Division and ICSC State Director for Louisiana. He has also received the designation of Senior Certified Shopping Center Manager (SCSM) from ICSC.

Mr. Maurin is also a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), The World President's Organization (WPO), Blueprint Louisiana, Tulane University Business School Council, the LSU Foundation, the Northshore Area Foundation, the LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF), and the LSU College of Business Dean's Advisory Council. He is also a Trustee of Blueprint Louisiana and a member of its Executive Committee. Mr. Maurin is a past Chairman of WPO's Louisiana Chapter. At LSU, he serves as President Elect of TAF's Board and a member of its Executive Committee. He3 is also Chairman of the board of Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans.

Mr. Maurin graduated in Aerospace Engineering from LSU in 1970. He received an MBA from Tulane University in 1972 and began his business career as a CPA with the international accounting firm of Ernest & Ernest.

Martin A. Mayer
President and Chief Executive Officer
Stirling Properties
Covington, Louisiana		Marty Mayer serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Stirling Properties. He also serves on the board of Stirling Properties and is a Principal in the firm.

Mr. Mayer is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He has previously served as the ICSC Louisiana State Director and the Louisiana State Operations Director. He is currently a member of the ICSC Open Air Center Committee and served as Co-Chairman of that committee from 2008 to 2010.

Mr. Mayer recently completed a term as Chairman of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO, Inc.), an economic development alliance serving the 10 parishes of Greater New Orleans. He is currently on the Executive Committee of GNO and also serves on its Super Region Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Louisiana Committee of 100, is also a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) and served as Chairman of its Small Scale Development - Silver Council from 2007 to 2009 and has also has served on the Executive Committee of the ULI Louisiana District Council. In addition, Mr. Mayer served as Chairman of the St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce in 2006. He is on the Executive Committee of the Northshore Business Council and serves on its Public Policy Committee. He is also a past Commissioner of the St. Tammany Economic Development District. Mr. Mayer was selected to be one of the 50 representatives statewide to join Governor Bobby Jindal’s Ethics Transition Advisory Council and was appointed by the Governor to the Board of Commerce and Industry for the State of Louisiana. He also serves as a member of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Rathbone Society.

Mr. Mayer received his BSME and an MBA in Finance from Tulane University.

James C. McClune, CSM
Southern Pines, NC
United States		Retired. Mr. McClune is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Kenneth A. McIntyre Jr.
Managing Director
MetLife Group Inc.
Morristown, NJ
United States		Ken McIntyre is Managing Director and head of Real Estate Capital Markets at MetLife. The Capital Markets Group originated over $2 billion of real estate investments in 2008, contributing to MetLife's $35 billion commercial mortgage portfolio and $10 billion equity portfolio. Prior to forming the Real Estate Capital Markets Group in June 2004, he was responsible for pricing all commercial mortgage originations and served as a member of the investment committee for commercial mortgages.

Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. McIntyre was the head of Real Estate Syndications for KeyBank. Before KeyBank, he was a managing director in GE Capital Real Estate's Capital Markets Group and was a Director at UBS where he was involved in underwriting real estate debt and equity for public and private markets. Mr. McIntyre has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Mr. McIntyre graduated from Florida A&M University with a degree in Economics and a concentration in Banking and Finance.

He is a Board Member of the Real Estate Executive Council (REEC) and an active member of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), Urban Land Institute (ULI), Real Estate Lenders Association (RELA) and a founding member of the Real Estate Networking Trust (R*E*N*T).

John R. Morrison
President & CEO
Primaris Retail REIT
Toronto, Ontario
Canada		John R. Morrison is President and Chief Executive Officer of Primaris Retail REIT. Mr. Morrison has been actively involved with Primaris since its launch in 2003. Mr. Morrison has over 30 years experience in the commercial real estate industry, primarily in the shopping centre asset class. Prior to his role with Primaris, Mr. Morrison was President, Real Estate Management at Oxford Properties Group, where he was responsible for the performance of Oxford’s $10 billion domestic portfolio. Mr. Morrison held a number of senior executive positions during his career with Oxford. Mr. Morrison has been a voting Trustee of the ICSC since 2008 . He is also former Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute Toronto District Council.

Kathleen Nelson
President
KMN Associates
Cedarhurst, NY
United States		Kathleen Nelson is President and Founder of KMN Associates, LLC, a commercial real estate and investment advisory firm she formed after her career at TIAA-CREF. Nelson served as Senior Managing Director/Group Leader for TIAA-CREF's Mortgage & Real Estate Division, responsible for managing TIAA's $50-billion mortgage portfolio. Nelson was involved in the financing of TIAA's most prominent real estate investments, including most of the major shopping centers and mixed-use projects in the U.S. She chaired TIAA's Mortgage & Real Estate Special Review as well as its Mortgage & Real Estate Operational Review Committees. Nelson worked closely with all of the major shopping center developers/owners, including Simon, GGP, Taubman, Forest City, CBL, Westfield, Mace-Rich, Bellevue Square, Segerstrom and many of the predecessor developers/owners. Nelson was also responsible for developing and maintaining TIAA's unique relationship with the Department Store community. She also has strong relationships with major real estate investors, with whom she has co-invested, sold and/or acquired properties. Nelson continues to serve ICSC in many capacities, including the Executive board, Nominating board, Audit board, Investment & Employee Retirement board, Architectural & Design Award Committees and ICSC Foundation Board. Nelson was also part of the successful ICSC lobbying group whose efforts resulted in the passage of TRIA in 2002.

Scott Nelson
SVP Real Estate
Target Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
United States		Scott Nelson is Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Target. He leads the real estate team which is responsible to deliver new and remodel stores and non-store facilities to support Target's growth.

In 1994 Scott joined Target as Regional Real Estate Manager. He was promoted to Director Real Estate in 1996 and to Vice President Real Estate in 2000. He was promoted to his current position in 2007.

He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and International Council of Shopping Centers. He also serves on the Board of the Heart of America, a Washington DC based non-profit.

Scott graduated with B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Bruce D. Pomeroy
President
Evergreen Devco, Inc.
Glendale, CA
United States		Bruce D. Pomeroy is a founding principal and President of Evergreen. Mr. Pomeroy has more than 34 years of real estate development experience, focused on single tenant, community and power center development in the western U.S.

With offices in Glendale, California and Phoenix, Arizona, Evergreen regularly averages more than 100 projects under development. In addition to shopping centers, the company has created extensive systems for national tenant rollouts, completing more than 250 freestanding stores for Walgreens, and as a lead developer, completing new stores for Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market. Mr. Pomeroy is also a principal of Evergreen Communities, LLC, which is active in land planning and development.

Mr. Pomeroy and the Evergreen team contribute to the activities of the Evergreen Development Foundation, which supports children in the communities in which they are involved. Mr. Pomeroy received his degree in Economics from Pomona College. He is married, has two daughters and lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

Donald G. Provost
Principal
Alberta Development Partners
Englewood, CO
United States		Donald G. Provost is the founding principal of Alberta Development Partners, LLC. Mr. Provost has more than 18 years of real estate experience with his efforts focused on retail, mixed-use land development and master-planned communities. Under his leadership, Alberta Development Partners has completed in excess of 220 projects with a completed value of over $1.5 billion. In combination with the projects currently underway, Alberta has developed more than twelve million square feet of retail and residential space. Alberta's recent grand opening of The Streets at SouthGlenn created South Denver's newest, mixed-use destination that provides shopping, dining and entertainment as well as luxury apartment living and Class A office space in a completely outdoor setting. The company has a number of retail, mixed-use and residential projects under development throughout Colorado, Texas and Canada including Stampede Trail in Calgary, Alberta and Northlands in Broomfield, CO.

Mr. Provost is actively involved in the International Council of Shopping Centers where he serves as Western Division Vice President, Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee, as well as the Urban Land Institute and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.

Alejandro Ramirez
Chief Executive Officer
Cinepolis
Morelia, Mexico		Alejandro Ramírez is Chief Executive Officer of Cinepolis, the largest film exhibition company in Latin America, which operates over 2500 movie screens in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Central America and India. He serves on the board of Citelis, a sister company that develops shopping malls and residential areas throughout Mexico.

Prior to Cinepolis, he served as Mexico’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and as Chief of Staff of the Social Cabinet of the Government of Mexico. He worked for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme in the areas of poverty and human development. He co-authored the book “Poverty, Human Development and Indigenous People in Latin America”. He is Chairman of the Morelia International Film Festival and President of the Cinepolis Foundation, which finances cataract surgeries in Mexico’s rural sector, and Vice-President of Mexicanos Primero, an initiative to raise the quality of public education in Mexico.

He holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Gary D. Rappaport
SCSM/SCMD/SCLS/SCDP
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Rappaport Companies
McLean, VA
United States		  Gary D. Rappaport, SCSM, SCMD, SCLS, SCDP is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Rappaport Companies, a retail real estate company he founded in 1984. The Rappaport Companies provides leasing, tenant representation, management and development services for more than 13 million square feet. The Rappaport Companies’ portfolio includes more than 45 shopping centers and ground floor retail in some 100 mixed-use properties, both residential and office, located primarily throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Rappaport is Principal Partner for approximately 3.5 million square feet of the shopping centers managed by The Rappaport Companies.   A former Chairman and Trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers, Mr. Rappaport is the only Chairman to date to hold all four ICSC designations, SCSM, SCMD, SCLS and SCDP. He serves on ICSC’s Executive, Nominating, Government Relations, Long Range Planning and PAC committees and continues to lobby at the state and federal government levels on many issues important to the shopping center industry. Mr. Rappaport also serves on the Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership Board and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.   Mr. Rappaport is committed to sharing his knowledge and experience as an entrepreneur and has authored "Investing in Retail Properties," which explains how to structure real estate partnerships for sharing capital appreciation and cash flow. The information contained in the book is the basis for classes he teaches for ICSC’s University of Shopping Centers and Executive Learning Series and as an annual guest instructor at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University.

John H. Reininga Jr., CSM
President
Reininga Corporation
San Francisco, CA
United States		Mr. Reininga is responsible for the performance of the company and its projects. Projects include development and redevelopment of neighborhood, power and regional centers, as well as mixed-use projects. Duties include identifying and planning new projects, and selecting architects, engineers, contractors, tenants, equity partners and lenders. Mr. Reininga is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Malcolm R. Riley
General Partner
Malcolm Riley & Associates
Riley/Hofer Properties
Los Angeles, CA
United States		Developer, Management, acquisitions of shopping Centers. Active in California and Western States. Mr. Riley is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers

John T. Riordan
Past Vice Chairman
Past President and Chief Executive Officer
International Council of Shopping Centers
New York, NY
United States		In 2001, John stepped down from a 15 year term as President and CEO of ICSC. At the same time he was chosen as the Thomas G. Eastman Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate. In 2003, ICSC announced the renaming of its professional development school as the John T. Riordan ICSC School for Professional Development. Riordan has served on the advisory boards of the MIT/Center for Real Estate, the Center for Real Estate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Business School of Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has served as director of General Growth Properties and Ivanhoe Cambridge. In 2003, John was elected an ICSC Trustee for life.

Michael Roberts
The Roberts Companies
Saint Louis, MO
United States		Michael Roberts received his J. D. degree from St. Louis University School of Law in 1974, the year he and his brother, Steven, founded The Roberts Companies. Roberts Brothers Properties, formed in 1982, purchased ten acres in the urban core of St. Louis City today known as The Roberts Village. Roberts Plaza, LLC formed in 1999, when Mr. Roberts purchased a struggling strip shopping center and freestanding grocery store adjacent to St. Louis' fashionable central west-end. Mr. Roberts is the author of Action Has No Season, Secrets and Strategies to Gaining Wealth and Authority. (www.michaelvroberts.com) Book reviews have characterized his work as, "a must read for leaders and entrepreneurs"; "his book proves that Mike Roberts is a capitalist for his time…he is building a legacy for his family and all aspiring African-Americans who want to participate in the American Dream." Mr. Roberts has served on the Board of Directors of the three publicly held companies, is a nationally renowned speaker, and has been the subject of feature stories in: Black Enterprise Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Success Magazine, St. Louis Commerce Magazine (cover story), Business Week, and The St. Louis Business Journal. He has been a member of ICSC since April 2004.

Michael Rodel
Chief Operating Officer
Rebosis Property Fund
Johannesburg, South Africa		Mike has over 20 years experience in the property industry in South Africa and India, focussing primarily on the development, property and asset management of regional shopping centres. His hands-on approach has significantly impacted upon the success of several of South Africa’s premier shopping centres, including Sandton City, Eastgate, Gateway Theatre of Shopping and Canal Walk. International exposure was achieved through the establishment of Old Mutual’s property management JV in India, including the opening of R City, Mumbai. Significant corporate experience in a listed environment was gained through his most recent appointment as CEO of Hyprop Investments Ltd, South Africa’s premier retail focussed listed property fund.

Mike as recently taken up the position of COO of The Billion Group, with the objective of implementing the listing of the Rebosis property fund of R 3.6bn ($ 500m), including 3 shopping centres, with flagship regional shopping centre Hemingways in East London. Also managing the development of new projects for the group including Bay West in Port Elizabeth and Forest Hill in Pretoria, both planned mixed use precincts anchored by new super-regional shopping centres.

Mike commenced employment as a systems analyst working for Gold Fields South Africa, before joining his father at Rodel Associates Incorporated where he developed his passion for shopping centres with his first full assignment as Project Manager for the development of Cleary Park in Port Elizabeth, which opened in 1989.

Matt Rubel
Chief Executive Officer and President
Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
Topeka, KS
United States		Matt earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in 1979. He earned an MBA from the University of Miami (FL) in 1980. He brought his strategic leadership skills and extensive marketing, merchandising and business knowledge to Payless ShoeSource in June 2005 as Chief Executive Officer & President.
Matt and his wife, Melissa, reside in Mission Hills, Kans., with their three sons. Matt is active in several industry and civic organizations, including the Jay H. Baker Initiative at the Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania; Young Presidents' Organization; President's Council - University of Miami, Florida; Treasurer of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America; and a member of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Matt was elected to the Furniture Brands International Board of Directors in October, 2006. In February 2007 Matt was elected to the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Board of Governing Trustees. In December 2006, Payless ShoeSource, Inc. was named Marketer of the Year by Footwear News.

Mark A. Schurgin
President
The Festival Companies
Los Angeles, California		Mark A. Schurgin is the President and co-founder of The Festival Companies, a Los Angeles based privately owned shopping center development, investment and real estate advisory firm. Under his leadership the firm has developed and acquired over 25,000,000 square feet of retail properties in 23 states. The Festival Companies real estate advisory division provides real estate advisory, management and development services to institutional clients and private investors.

Mark Schurgin has been involved in the shopping center industry for over 25 years. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado. Mark is an active guest speaker for the ICSC, ULI and Community Redevelopment Agency organization. He is an active member of the ICSC and ULI. In 2008 The Schurgin Family Foundation established the Schurgin Family Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship with the ICSC Foundation.

Peter Schwartz
Senior Executive Vice President General Counsel
Westfield Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
United States		Peter Schwartz is Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Westfield, LLC, an affiliate of The Westfield Group. The Westfield Group is the largest listed retail property company in the world by market capitalization and owns interests in 119 regional and super-regional malls in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition to overseeing all legal affairs in the U.S., Mr. Schwartz is responsible for managing our commercial relationships with the anchor tenants at our U.S. properties.

Pua Seck Guan
CEO
Perennial Real Estate
Singapore		Mr Pua Seck Guan is the CEO of DLF International in Singapore. His last assignment was as the CEO of Capita Mall Trust Management Limited and Capita Land Retail Limited - one of the largest listed real estate companies in Asia. Before joining CapitaLand, Mr Pua held senior positions with LendLease Asia Holding Pte Ltd and Singapore listed Hotel Properties Ltd.

Mr Pua sits on the Consultative Committee to National University of Singapore's, School of Design and Environment, Department of Real Estate. He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US and a Bachelor of Science in Building (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

The Honorable
Mel Sembler
Chairman
The Sembler Company
St. Petersburg, FL
United States		Mel Sembler is Chairman of the Board of The Sembler Company, a second-generation, family-run, private company celebrating over 40 years of shopping center development. He is the former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and also former Ambassador to Australia and Nauru. He currently serves on the boards of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Moffitt Cancer Center, American-Australian Education Leadership Foundation, and is a member of the Florida Council of 100. Sembler and his wife Betty have three sons and eleven grandchildren. Ambassador Sembler is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Shahram Shamsaee
Founder
MSquared Shopping Centre Management, L.L.C.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates		Shahram Shamsaee was most recently the Senior Vice-President of MAF Shopping Malls, leading a team of 650 employees in 5 markets, oversees an existing operating shopping malls portfolio of 5 million sq ft and responsible of all future shopping centers within the MEANA Region.

Before joining the Majid Al Futtaim Group, Shamsaee was the General Manager at Al Moosa Real Estate, where his responsibilities included heading the residential, commercial and retail portfolios.

Shamsaee is a graduate of the prestigious AMP at Harvard Business School. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Toledo, OH, USA. A former executive member of the MECSC and ICSC member since 1997.

Peter Sharpe
Toronto, Ontario
Canada		Peter Sharpe, a member of ICSC for 21 years, was the organization’s 50th chairman. Prior to retirement, Peter Sharpe was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, a company wholly owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Peter was responsible for Cadillac Fairview’s growth strategy in support of the Teachers’ long-term investment focus. Peter has held various positions of ever increasing responsibility within Cadillac Fairview since 1984. Besides Canada, Cadillac Fairview and its affiliates own and manage properties in the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., and China. It has a stake in a dozen U.S. shopping centers - seven in Washington State, three in California, and one each in Georgia and Oregon. The company is a major partner with The Macerich Co. in most of its U.S. retail properties. The firm’s overseas partnerships include a 46 percent interest in Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliários, Brazil’s largest owner, manager and developer of retail real estate, and a stake in Canary Wharf Group which owns the bustling, 97-acre office, residential, and retail area east of London’s financial district.

Suk Singh
Senior Vice President, Development
Darden Restaurants
Orlando, Florida		Suk Singh was named Senior Vice President of Development for Darden Restaurants in September 2006 and became Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer in January 2011. A member of Darden’s Operating Team, he is responsible for market research, real estate, design and construction, and asset management for Darden and its operating companies. Darden is the world’s largest full-service restaurant operating company with annual sales of more than $7 billion. The company owns and operates 1,800 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52 restaurants in North America, employs approximately 180,000 people and serves 400 million meals annually.

Suk joined Darden in May 2004 as Senior Vice President of Development for Olive Garden and later assumed responsibility for design and construction for all Darden concepts. Suk has extensive experience in real estate, development, construction and asset management. Prior to joining Darden, he served as Vice President of Development and Franchising for North America for Burger King Corporation. There, he directed a team of 30 managers and four directors to manage and develop all franchised and company restaurants in the U.S. and Canada and spearheaded an increased focus on developing the best sites in specific trade areas. Prior to that, Suk was Vice President of Real Estate and Construction for Pearle Vision, where he was responsible for strategic real estate development and held several positions with Grand Metropolitan in London.

Suk received a bachelor’s degree in Urban Estate Management from the University of Glamorgan in Wales and is also a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Richard S. Sokolov
President and Chief Operating Officer
The Simon Company
Indianapolis, IN
United States		Richard Sokolov is President and Chief Operating Officer of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, Inc., an S&P 500 company and the largest U.S. publicly traded real estate company. Mr. Sokolov is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Yaromir Steiner
CEO
Steiner + Associates
Columbus, OH
United States		Yaromir Steiner is CEO of Columbus-based Steiner + Associates, Inc., development and property management firm. Mr. Steiner formed Steiner + Associates in 1993. Over the past 13 years, the company has developed, or is in the process of developing, more than four million square feet of New Urban Retail projects. Deploying long-term vision, experience and creativity, Mr. Steiner and his team of more than 350 employees in six states, have elevated the tax base and exposure of urban and suburban communities alike by stimulating economic reinvestment and creating one-of-a-kind retail environments. Born in Istanbul, Turkey and a former member of the French 11th Airborne Division, Mr. Steiner holds a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and a post graduate degree in Business Administration from the University in Toulouse in France. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Council for New Urbanism. He resides in New Albany (Columbus), Ohio, and has been a member of ICSC since August 1989.

Steven B. Tanger
President & Chief Executive Officer
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc.
New York, NY
United States		Steven B. Tanger is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. His grandfather, Moe Tanger, founded Tanger-Creighton, Inc. in 1918. Steven joined Tanger-Creighton in 1970, immediately after completing college. While at Tanger-Creighton, he rose to the position of Executive Vice-President and Director. Mr. Tanger also served on the Board of Directors for National Student Marketing, Inc. from 1972-1980. After the sale of the Company in 1980, he founded S.B. Tanger & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in real estate syndication and venture capital. For more than 28 years, Steven and Stanley have expanded Tanger Outlet Centers to 33 centers in 22 states totaling approximately 10.2 million square feet. The Company now has over 450 employees. In 1994, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers was awarded the Value Retail News "Award of Excellence" for Outlet Development, signifying the Company's position as the industry's leading developer.

Mr. Tanger is the member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Roundtable, formerly a Director of Southampton Hospital, Treasurer and Governor of the Harmonie Club of New York, a member of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), and a member of the Board of Governors for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) New York Chapter. In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Tanger received the Excalibur Award from the American Cancer Society. In 1996, he was presented with the Lifetime Excalibur Award for his effort in the fight against breast cancer.

William Taubman
COO
Taubman Centers, Inc.
Bloomfield Hills, MI
United States		William S. Taubman is chief operating officer of Taubman Centers, Inc. He is responsible for development, operations and leasing, and also serves as a director of the company. He joined the company in 1986 from Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. in NY, where he was a financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy of Religion and Russian Studies. He also holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. A member of ULI, and NAREIT, Mr. Taubman is a member of the board of trustees for New Detroit and serves on the board of governors for the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. He has been a member of ICSC since February 1992. Taubman Centers (NYSE: TCO), a real estate investment trust, owns, develops and operates regional shopping centers nationally. Taubman Centers is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

René Tremblay
President and CEO
Ivanhoe Cambridge
Montreal, QC
Canada		René Tremblay was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Cambridge on February 1, 2001, when Ivanhoe Inc. and Cambridge Shopping Centres Ltd. merged. He had been Ivanhoe's President and Chief Operating Officer since March 1995.

Mr. Tremblay was born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, in the Lac Saint-Jean region, and obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from Université Laval in Quebec City. He has a long and solid track record in real estate, especially in the shopping centre sector.

Early in his career, Mr. Tremblay held various positions with Simpsons-Sears, the Campeau Corporation and Westcliff Group. He then worked for SITQ Immobilier where, from 1985 to 1993, he was successively Manager, Leasing and Development; Vice-President, Shopping Centres and Development; and Senior Vice-President, Operations. Before joining Ivanhoe, he was Senior Vice-President, Investments, at Cadim International, from 1993 to 1995.

In his capacity as President and CEO of Ivanhoe Cambridge, Mr. Tremblay is a member of the firm's board of directors. He also sits on the board of Simon Ivanhoe, a European subsidiary. In addition, in May 2007, he was elected Chair of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) for a one-year term. Mr. Tremblay is a Past Trustee of the ICSC as well as the Past Vice-President of the Canadian Division.

Kenneth L. Tucker
Tucker Development Corporation
Highland Park, IL
United States		Semi-retired. Mr. Tucker serves as a consultant to Tucker Development Corporation which is a leader in the development and redevelopment of shopping centers. Mr. Tucker is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Steven G. Vittorio
Managing Director
Prudential Real Estate Investors
Parsippany, NJ
United States		Steve Vittorio is a Managing Director, Capital Markets, with Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI) an investment division of Prudential Financial. PREI manages over $40 billion of equity and mezzanine debt real estate investments on behalf of approximately 350 institutional clients. Mr. Vittorio is PREI's retail specialist responsible for shopping center and mixed-use investments throughout the U.S. In that role he sources retail developer relationships for programmatic co-investments and manages PREI's existing developer relationships. He works closely with PREI's acquisition and asset management professionals to invest in retail real estate opportunities and enhance the value of PREI's investment portfolio. He is also a member of PREI's Latin American Investment Committee and is involved with international retail investment initiatives. Mr. Vittorio has twenty-four years of experience with shopping center investments and is a member of ICSC and ULI. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce and has a MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

Robert L. Ward
Principal
Westcor Development Partners (WDP)
Phoenix, AZ
United States		Mr. Ward is the former President & CEO of Westcor Partners which merged with the Macerich REIT July, 2002. WDP is a development company and will partner with Macerich in retail development. Mr. Ward is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Marcus Wild
Chief Executive Officer
SES Spar European Shopping Centers
Salzburg, Austria		Marcus Wild is CEO of SES Spar European Shopping Centers, the strategic Real Estate and Shopping Centre business of the SPAR Austria group. Wild has broad retail experience with Metro (head of the leasing department, MHB Germany) and Spar (for ten years CEO of the most popular Austrian hypermarket chain “Interspar”), a strong background in real estate and shopping centre development for almost 15 years. He has been responsible for the development of outstanding retail environments and shopping centers in Austria, Italy and CEE. Wild has a feeling for architecture and brings enthusiasm to every project. Marcus Wild, CEO of SES Spar European Shopping Centers, possess both the owner, developer and investor’s view, as well as the side of the retailer.

Marcus Wild has always been involved with the National Council of Shopping Centers in Austria and took the post of Vice-President during several years. Currently, he is still member of the Advisory Board. In January 2009 the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) London announced Marcus Wild to be new Chair of the ICSC European Advisory Board, starting his tenure in April 2009 ongoing till today. In this position he is the official representative of the European shopping center industry. Wild’s compromise with the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the most reputable organization of the shopping centres industry, is not recent. Marcus Wild has been member of the advisory board for years and has been actively participating in ICSC initiatives in the past such as: conference speaker, assisting in the organization of conferences and in the launching of new programs (e.g. Next Generation), writing articles for ICSC publications (magazines, books…), presenting his group projects to the Awards Programs.

Donald Wood
President & CEO
Federal Realty Investment Trust
Rockville, MD
United States		Don Wood is President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Realty Investment Trust and serves as a member of the Trust's Board of Trustees. Mr. Wood joined Federal Realty in 1998 as Chief Financial Officer. In 1999, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and in 2000 was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Wood also serves as chair of the Trust's Investment Committee.

Prior to his affiliation with the Trust, Mr. Wood served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Caesars World, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation. In this position, he was responsible for all aspects of finance throughout the company including strategic planning and forecasting, process reengineering, capital allocation and financial analysis. Mr. Wood joined ITT in 1990 serving in a number of financial positions including Vice President and Deputy Controller. During his tenure at ITT, Mr. Wood was directly involved in the split up of that company in 1995 and in numerous acquisitions and divestitures over the years, including Caesars World. Prior to ITT, Mr. Wood was employed as Vice President of Finance for Trump Taj Mahal Associates. Mr. Wood began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he served numerous real estate clients, including the Trump Organization, and was instrumental in developing and expanding the firm's profit improvement practice.

Mr. Wood received a Bachelor of Science degree from Montclair State College where he graduated with honors. He received his CPA from the state of New Jersey and is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and serves on the board of governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Mr. Wood also serves as the Chair of the Corporate Leadership Council and the chair of the Metro D.C. Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He is a member of the U.S. Capital Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization. Also, in June 2005, Mr. Wood was named a winner by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2005 Awards in Greater Washington in the Real Estate category.

Neil R. Wood
Newmarket
Ontario, Canada		Retired. Mr. Wood is a Past Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

David Zoba
Senior Vice President Real Estate
Gap Inc.
San Francisco, CA
United States		David Zoba is Senior Vice President of Corporate Real Estate for Gap Inc., the $15 billion retailer operating as Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Outlet divisions. In this role, Zoba works closely with Gap Inc.'s brand presidents in developing and delivering on the company's strategies to optimize its global real estate fleet.

Zoba joined The Limited in the mid-1990s to lead real estate law, and then expanded his responsibility significantly to other areas during his seven years with the company. He subsequently worked for Galyan's Trading Company, Inc., where as EVP he helped create and launch a specialty sporting goods retailer that later became part of Dick's Sporting Goods. Most recently, Zoba was principal and chief operating officer for Steiner + Associates, one of the country's most respected mixed-use retail developers.

Zoba earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and attended the London School of Economics for graduate studies. Zoba has a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School.

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