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Peter Bren - Chairman and President
(co-founder)
Mr. Bren serves as chairman of the board and president of KBS Realty Advisors and its affiliate, KBS Capital Advisors, both nationally recognized real estate investment advisory firms with transactional volume greater than $21 billion. In April 2011, KBS was ranked the largest office investor in the nation according to Commercial Property Executive. KBS operates numerous institutional and sovereign wealth funds, as well as five non-traded REITs. Mr. Bren oversees all KBS operations including the acquisition and management of individual investments and portfolios of income-producing real estate assets. He directs all facets of the company's business activities and is a member of the KBS Investment Committee, which evaluates and authorizes new investment opportunities for the firm. Mr. Bren is also responsible for investor relationships.
Mr. Bren is president of KBS REIT*, KBS REIT II* and KBS REIT III* - all public, non-listed real estate investment trusts. KBS REIT III started its selling period in January 2011. Additionally, Mr. Bren is involved with the management of two additional REITs - KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT*, which targets opportunistic debt, and KBS Legacy Partners Apartment REIT*, targeting the multifamily sector.
Mr. Bren has been involved exclusively in real estate development, management, acquisition, disposition, and financing for 40 years. Prior to his current position as chairman and president of KBS Realty Advisors, he served as the president of The Bren Company, was a former senior partner of Lincoln Property Company, and was president of Lincoln Property Company, Europe. Mr. Bren is a founding member of The Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mr. Bren is also a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, DC, which deals with key national policy issues affecting real estate and the overall economy.
Charles J. Schreiber, Jr. - Chief Executive Officer
(co-founder)
Mr. Schreiber serves as chief executive officer of KBS Realty Advisors and its affiliate, KBS Capital Advisors, both nationally recognized real estate investment advisory firms with transactional volume greater than $21 billion. In April 2011, KBS was ranked the largest office investor in the nation according to Commercial Property Executive. KBS operates numerous institutional and sovereign wealth funds, as well as five non-traded REITs. Mr. Schreiber oversees all KBS operations including the acquisition and management of individual investments and portfolios of income-producing real estate assets. He directs all facets of the company's business activities and is a member of the KBS Investment Committee, which evaluates and authorizes new investment opportunities for the firm. Mr. Schreiber is also responsible for investor relationships.
Mr. Schreiber is chairman of KBS REIT*, KBS REIT II* and KBS REIT III* - all public, non-listed real estate investment trusts. Additionally, Mr. Schreiber is involved with the management of KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT*, which targets opportunistic debt, and KBS Legacy Partners Apartment REIT*, targeting the multifamily sector.
Mr. Schreiber has been involved exclusively in real estate development, management, acquisition, disposition and financing for more than 39 years. Prior to forming KBS in 1992, he served as the executive vice president of Koll Investment Management Services and executive vice president of acquisitions/dispositions for The Koll Company. During the 1980s, he was founder and president of Pacific Development Company.
Mr. Schreiber graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in finance with emphasis in real estate. During his four years at USC, he did graduate work in the Real Estate Department of the USC Graduate School of Business. He is currently an executive board member for the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate at the Marshall School of Business/School of Policy, Planning and Development. Mr. Schreiber is also a member of the Executive Committee on Private Non-Listed REITs for the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT).
James Chiboucas - Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer
As vice chairman and chief legal officer of KBS Realty Advisors and its affiliate, KBS Capital Advisors, Jim Chiboucas is responsible for the negotiation and documentation of real estate investments across the United States. This includes the management of the local counsel in each of the jurisdictions involved with acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Chiboucas also manages the legal counsel retained to provide legal services for the company and for the operations of commercial office and industrial properties throughout the country. In addition, Mr. Chiboucas is a member of the Investment Committee which evaluates and authorizes new investment opportunities for the firm.
Mr. Chiboucas has 33 years of legal experience in the real estate industry including real estate investment, finance, acquisitions, dispositions, development and management. He has assisted with KBS Realty Advisors since its inception in 1992, and previously with Koll Real Estate Group and The Koll Company since 1988. Before joining KBS, Mr. Chiboucas was a partner of Paone, Callahan, McHolm & Winton and vice president of Signal Landmark, a national real estate development company, where he was responsible for all of Signal Landmark's legal real estate transactional matters across the United States.
Mr. Chiboucas graduated summa cum laude and Phi Kappa Phi from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in business, and later with a Juris Doctorate in Law.
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