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Robert Steers, Chief Executive Officer of Cohen & Steers, founded the firm with Martin Cohen in 1986 as the first investment advisor dedicated to real estate securities. He serves on the Advisory Committee for the International Monetary Fund’s Staff Retirement Plan. At his alma mater of Georgetown University, Mr. Steers is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate and is a member of the Endowment Investment Committee. From 1982 to 1986, he was Chief Investment Officer of National Securities and Research Corporation, where he and Mr. Cohen organized and managed the first real estate securities mutual fund in the United States. Prior to that, Mr. Steers was an analyst and portfolio manager of Citibank’s Emerging Growth Stock Fund. Mr. Steers holds a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Washington University. He is based in New York.

A vision driven leader with a record of driving revenue growth and profitability by developing and executing highly effective strategies within defined risk parameters. Russ Holland has over 26 years of diverse financial services experience involving over $6 billion of consumer, entertainment and commercial loans originated across the United States. In 2013 Russ joined the executive leadership group of SouthCrest Bank NA in Metro Atlanta. At SouthCrest he established a credit culture built to produce high quality consumer and small business banking relationships within this growth oriented financial services company. In 2016, he led the bank's entry into the Entertainment Banking market segment. From 2006 to 2013, Russ Holland was an integral member of the executive management team at Seacoast National Bank, a $4+ billion bank operating 40 retail offices throughout Central and South Florida. At Seacoast he was responsible for the growth, risk management and performance of all lending functions including Business Banking and residential, consumer, commercial and commercial real estate lending. In 2001 Holland joined Union Bank of Florida (now part of BB&T). Here Holland played a critical role in developing the bank's lending teams in order to provide the appropriate platform to grow this South Florida community bank from under $400 million in assets to over $1 billion in assets at the time of its ultimate sale for four times book value in 2005. Holland's career is built on a strong commercial credit foundation beginning at the accounting firm KPMG in Stamford, CT. This foundation was strengthened by the credit policy and commercial credit roles held by Holland at Barnett Bank and it's successors NationsBank and Bank of America. In addition, Mr. Holland was the Chief Financial Officer for the Swerdlow Real Estate Group, a private commercial REIT where Holland helped raise capital and arrange debt to acquire and develop over $1 billion in assets.