Mr. Brooks has over 30 years of real estate investments and capital markets experience and has raised more than $12 billion of capital over the course of his career.  He was most recently the CFO of a real estate development company located in South Florida and prior to that was the CFO of Landmark Apartment Trust, a $2 billion, multi-family REIT.  Mr. Brooks also spent almost 20 years on Wall Street as an investment banker at Evercore Partners advising on numerous capital raising activities in addition to other strategic transactions, as well as acting as a portfolio manager at Cohen & Steers overseeing in excess of $10 billion of client capital invested in publicly-traded real estate securities.  Mr. Brooks received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and a Masters in Finance from Boston College and also holds the CFA designation.