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Bob Sulentic has been President & Chief Executive Officer of CBRE Group, Inc. since December 2012. CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2018 revenues of $21.3 billion and more than 90,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE is ranked #146 on the Fortune 500, and has been named a Fortune Most Admired Company for seven consecutive years, including in 2019 when it was ranked #1 in the real estate sector. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Sulentic served as President of CBRE, with responsibility for all business segments. In addition, he served as the company's Chief Financial Officer in 2009, during the depth of the global financial crisis. Earlier, Mr. Sulentic served as Group President for CBRE’s EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Development Services businesses. Mr. Sulentic began his real estate career with Trammell Crow Company in 1984 as an Industrial Leasing Agent in Houston, Texas. Throughout the next 23 years he served in various leadership positions, including Project Partner, Divisional Partner, Managing Director and CFO. Mr. Sulentic was elected President and CEO of Trammell Crow Company in October 2000, and he became Chairman of the Board in April 2002. He served in those roles when Trammell Crow Company merged with CBRE in late 2006. Mr. Sulentic is a member of the CBRE Group, Inc. Board of Directors and its Global Operating Committee. He also served as the independent Chairman of the Board of Staples, Inc. until its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in September 2017. Mr. Sulentic received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. Mr. Sulentic founded and chairs a private foundation that supports various charitable endeavors by providing direct grants to third-party organizations as well as executing its own initiatives.

Currently serving as a Non-Executive Director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (NYSE: CLI), a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on office and multi-family assets in New Jersey. Formerly Chief Executive Officer of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp (NYSE: NRE), a publicly traded REIT, listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a focus on European properties, a member of NRE’s investment committee and board of directors. Managing Director at Colony Capital Inc and member of the European Steering Committee between 2017 and 2019. Joined NorthStar Asset Management Group (NYSE: NSAM) in 2014 to establish the company’s European investment platform, rapidly growing it to $2.6bn in Assets Under Management across 9 countries and 5 asset classes. The platform was spun-off in 2015 to create NRE, an independently listed REIT traded on the New York Stock Exchange. NRE was sold in September of 2019, realising a 16% IRR and 1.5x equity multiple for shareholders since its inception. Prior to joining NSAM, I acted for PanCap Investment Partners, a European real estate investment and advisory firm, working closely with a number of leading investment firms including Goldman Sachs' Real Estate Principal Investments Area (REPIA). I was a Senior Executive Director at Goldman Sachs between 2007 and 2009 and served in various positions at Citigroup Inc. (formerly Salomon Brothers) prior to that.