Jeffrey L. Johnson has served as our Chief Executive Officer since January
2013. Mr. Johnson served as Managing Principal of Lakeshore Holdings, LLC, a
private equity real estate firm that he founded, from 2007 through December
2012. Mr. Johnson has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of our Advisor
since January 2013. From December 2009 to June 2011, he also served as founder
and Managing Principal of Reunion Office Holdings, LLC, a private equity real
estate firm, and from January 2009 to November 2009, he served as Chief Investment
Officer and Managing Director of Transwestern Investment Company, a private
equity real estate firm now known as Pearlmark Real Estate Partners. From 2003
until Equity Office Properties Trust was acquired by the Blackstone Group in
February 2007, Mr. Johnson served as Chief Investment Officer, Executive Vice
President and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Equity Office Properties
Trust. Equity Office Properties Trust was a publicly traded REIT and at that
time was the largest publicly traded owner and manager of office properties
in the United States. While at Equity Office Properties Trust, Mr. Johnson restructured
the investment group and implemented an investment strategy that resulted in
over $12.5 billion in transaction volume, providing capital for a $2.6 billion
stock repurchase. From 1990 to 1999, Mr. Johnson was a senior executive at Equity
Office Properties Trust and its predecessor entities, most recently serving
as Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Johnson was instrumental in completing Equity
Office Property Trust’s initial public offering in July 1997, setting
investment strategies and completing over $9 billion of real estate operating
company transactions and property acquisitions. From 1990 to 1996, he was a
senior acquisitions officer where he was responsible for acquiring over $1.2
billion of office properties. From 2000 through 2003, Mr. Johnson served as
a Managing Director, founding Partner and Co-Head of U.S. Investments for Lehman
Brothers Holdings, Inc.’s real estate private equity group, where he was
one of six founding members that raised a $1.6 billion first-time fund, built
an international investment group and executed a process that resulted in $580
million of equity investments, in over $6.9 billion of real estate, during the
fund’s first 30 months.
During his career, Mr. Johnson has overseen acquisition and disposition activity
in various real estate and real estate-related investments, including core office
properties, development projects, joint ventures, international investments,
mezzanine loans and multi-asset class portfolio transactions. He has also been
instrumental in numerous significant public and private capital markets and
mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Johnson serves on the Northwestern
University Kellogg Real Estate Advisory Board. Mr. Johnson is also a member
of each of the Urban Land Institute and the Chicago Commonwealth Club. Mr. Johnson
received his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Northwestern
University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and his Bachelor’s
Degree from Denison University.
J. Michael Lynch has served as our President since July 2013. Mr. Lynch has
over 30 years of real estate development and investment experience. Prior to
joining us, Mr. Lynch served as Chief Investment Officer of Arden Realty, Inc.,
a GE Capital Real Estate Company, from May 2007 to June 2013. While with Arden
Realty, Mr. Lynch oversaw capital market activities for a $4.5 billion office
and industrial portfolio and led a team responsible for approximately $2 billion
in acquisition and disposition activity. From May 2004 to March 2007, he served
as Senior Vice President of Investments for Equity Office Properties Trust.
While at Equity Office Properties Trust, Mr. Lynch managed office investment
activity in major cities in the Western U.S. and development activity throughout
the U.S. and completed transactions valued at over $1.5 billion of core and
core-plus properties.
Mr. Lynch serves as an Advisory Board member for American Homes 4 Rent. Mr.
Lynch received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics, cum laude, from
Mount Saint Mary’s College and his Master’s Degree in Architecture
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. M. Kirk Scott has served as our Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer since April 2009 and served as our Vice President and
Controller from April 2008 to September 2011. Since joining us in April 2008,
Mr. Scott has overseen and developed investor and lender relations, finance,
financial reporting, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, internal audit, securities
and tax compliance, lender relations and other related areas of responsibilities.
Prior to joining us in 2008, Mr. Scott was Controller of Denver-based NexCore
Group, a fully-integrated real estate development and operating company primarily
focused within the medical office sector that has developed or acquired over
4.7 million square feet of facilities. Within his capacity as Controller, Mr.
Scott directed and oversaw the accounting, financial reporting and compliance,
budgeting, forecasting and investor relation functions for the NexCore Group.
From 2002 until 2006, Mr. Scott was Assistant Controller at Dividend Capital
Group LLC and DCT Industrial Trust Inc. (NYSE: DCT) during that company’s
growth from inception to more than $2 billion in assets under management where
he was responsible for establishing the organization’s accounting and
financial reporting function including compliance with the rules and regulations
of the Commission, FINRA, the Internal Revenue Service and various state blue
sky laws. Prior thereto, Mr. Scott was an auditor with KPMG focused on various
real estate assignments. Mr. Scott holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting,
cum laude, from the University of Wyoming.
Joshua J. Widoff has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary since October 2010, and served as Senior Vice President, Secretary
and General Counsel from September 2007 to October 2010. He also served as the
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Industrial Income
Trust from November 2013 until November 2015, and as its Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary from May 2009 to December 2013. Mr. Widoff has
served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Industrial
Property Trust since September 2012 and as the Executive Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary of Logistics Property Trust since November 2014. Mr. Widoff
is also the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of DC Industrial
Liquidating Trust, a Maryland trust. He has also served as a Managing Director
of Black Creek Group LLC, a Denver-based private equity real estate firm, since
September 2007, and as Executive Vice President of Dividend Capital Group LLC
since October 2010. Prior to joining us in September 2007, Mr. Widoff was a
partner from October 2002 to July 2007 at the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber
Schreck, P.C., where he was active in the management of the firm, serving as
chairman of both the firm’s Associate and Recruiting Committees and overseeing
an integrated team of attorneys and paralegals servicing clients primarily in
the commercial real estate business. During more than a dozen years of private
practice, he managed transactions involving the acquisition, development, leasing,
financing and disposition of various real estate assets, including vacant land,
apartment and office buildings, hotels, casinos, industrial/warehouse facilities
and shopping centers. He also participated in asset and stock acquisition transactions,
convertible debt financings, private offerings and complex joint venture negotiations.
Mr. Widoff served as general business counsel on a variety of contract and operational
issues to a wide range of clients in diverse businesses. Mr. Widoff currently
serves as a Vice-Chair and Commissioner for the Denver Urban Renewal Authority.
Mr. Widoff received his Bachelor’s Degree from Trinity University in Texas
and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.
Gregory M. Moran has served as Executive Vice President since July 2013. Mr.
Moran also has served as a Vice President of Investments of Dividend Capital
Group LLC and Dividend Capital Total Advisors Group LLC since August 2005. Mr.
Moran has been an active participant in the institutional real estate community
since 1998. From December 2001 through July 2005, Mr. Moran was a Portfolio
Manager in the Real Estate Investment Group for the Public Employees’
Retirement Association of Colorado where he was directly involved in the ongoing
management of a global real estate investment portfolio with over $2 billion
of invested equity. Mr. Moran was responsible for sourcing and underwriting
new investment opportunities, ongoing asset management of existing portfolio
investments and relationship management for over a dozen joint venture partners
and advisors of the fund. From September 1998 through December 2001, Mr. Moran
worked in the Capital Markets Group at Sonnenblick Goldman Company, most recently
as a Vice President. During this time, Mr. Moran was responsible for raising
and structuring debt and equity investments in commercial real estate projects
on behalf of public and private real estate investment companies. Mr. Moran
received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Master’s
Degree in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin —
McCombs School of Business. He is also a CFA Charterholder, and a member of
the CFA Institute, Urban Land Institute and Pension Real Estate Association.
