countries, with controlled assets valued at approximately $23.4
billion. Since joining the firm in 1982, Jeff Hines’ rise to the top
dovetailed with a vast expansion of its holdings, products and
services along with a dramatic increase of Hines’ capital base reinforcement of its commitment to sustainability. Additionally, he
serves on the board of JPMorgan Chase in the Houston Region.
JORDAN L. KAPLAN
Jordan Kaplan is the president and CEO
of NYSE-listed REIT Douglas Emmett Inc.
He co-founded Douglas Emmett Realty
Advisors, the predecessor to DEI. Douglas
Emmett went public in 2006 in what was
then the largest REIT IPO in history. The
company currently employs a staff of 600
and is a prominent owner/operator of
office buildings and multifamily properties in Los Angeles County and Hawaii. In
California, the company’s portfolio is located in nine submarkets,
six of them on Los Angeles’ Westside and three in the San
Fernando Valley. Its Hawaii office properties are located in the
Honolulu CBD, with multifamily properties in nearby suburban
communities. A member of the UCLA Board of Trustees, Kaplan
is a committed environmentalist and is on the board of the Los
Angeles Waterkeeper, which is devoted to cleaning the Santa
Monica Bay.
JOHN KILROY JR.
John Kilroy Jr. has led Kilroy Realty Corp.
since its 1997 IPO and also led the REIT’s
private predecessor since 1981. Kilroy Realty’s
holdings, one of the largest LEED portfolios
along the West Coast, totals more than 13. 5
million square feet of office properties. The
firm also has more than $800 million in new
office development under construction in
the Bay Area and plans to commence a $375-million mixed-use
project in Hollywood. In addition to his duties as president and
CEO, Kilroy serves on the policy advisory board for the Fisher
Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of
California, Berkeley, and the board of New Majority Los Angeles.
He is a trustee of the El Segundo Employers Association, a past
trustee of New Majority California, NAREIT, the Viewpoint School,
the Jefferson Center for Character Education and the National
Fitness Foundation. He is also a member of the San Francisco
America’s Cup Organizing Committee. A competitive sailor, Kilroy
has won multiple national and international sailing championships
and established records in several of the world’s highly contested
ocean races.
ALAN LEVENTHAL
Based in Boston, Alan Leventhal is founder, chairman and CEO
of Beacon Capital Partners. He carried over the CEO duties
from Beacon Capital’s predecessor, Beacon Properties Corp., a
publicly traded REIT that was sold to Equity Office Properties in
1997. Since 1998, Beacon Capital has acquired more than 75
million square feet of office space. The company’s current portfolio runs to approximately 27 million square feet of office
properties in New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles,
Seattle, London and Paris, as well as its hometown of Boston,
where Leventhal also chairs the investment committee at Boston
University. In 2004 he received Ernst & Young’s New England
Entrepreneur of the year award.
DONALD A. MILLER
Donald Miller has served as CEO, president and member of the board of directors
of Piedmont Office Realty Trust since
February 2007. Under his leadership,
Piedmont has become one of the five largest public office REITs in the country and,
in February 2010, became listed on the
NYSE. From 2003 to 2007, Miller was the
head of real estate activities at Wells Real
Estate Funds Inc., where he directed the firm’s acquisitions, asset
management, dispositions, property management and construction
groups. Prior to that, he headed US equity real estate operations at
Lend Lease and was responsible for regional acquisitions for Prentiss
Properties Realty Advisors. Miller is also a chartered financial analyst
who sits on the board of directors of Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, a
Spartanburg, SC-based investment company specializing in real
estate and energy, and is on the board of governors for NAREIT.
BARRY M. PORTNOY
Barry Portnoy is a founder of Commonwealth REIT and has served
as one of its managing trustees since 1986. He also serves on the
boards of Hospitality Properties Trust, Senior Housing Properties
Trust, Government Properties Income Trust, Select Income REIT,
the RMR Funds, Five Star Quality Care Inc. and TravelCenters of
America LLC. As of March 31, 2013, Commonwealth REIT owned
$7.2 billion of properties with approximately 53 million square feet
located in 31 states, Washington, DC and Australia. Prior to this
appointment, Portnoy served as chairman of the law firm of
Sullivan & Worcester LLP.
SCOTT RECHLER
Scott Rechler is CEO and chairman of RXR
Realty LLC, a multi-billion dollar private
real estate firm formed following the sale of
Reckson Associates Realty Corp. to SL
Green in 2007. He served as CEO and
chairman of the board during Reckson’s
growth throughout New York City, Long
Island, New Jersey, Westchester and
Connecticut. Rechler was the architect of
Reckson’s $300-million IPO in 1995 and
$6.5-billion sale in 2007, generating a 715% total return to shareholders. Since its formation in January 2007, Rechler has led RXR in
accumulating a portfolio with a gross value of approximately $5.5
billion, comprised of 106 properties encompassing over 18 million
square feet. He is vice chairman of the board of directors for the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey and a member of the Real
Estate Roundtable’s board of directors, as well as co-chair of that
group’s political action committee.
STEVEN ROTH
Steve Roth has been chairman of
Vornado Realty Trust since 1981. One
of the largest owners and managers
of commercial real estate in the US,
Vornado has a portfolio of over 100
million square feet of office and retail
properties, primarily located in the
New York City and Metro Washington
DC regions. Roth is co-founder and a
managing partner of Interstate
Properties and chairman and CEO of
