Officers & Directors

Mr. Pinover serves as Senior Counsel with DLA Piper in New York City since May 2016 and is co-chair of its New York Real Estate practice. He also serves on the firm’s global real estate steering committee. Previously, Mr. Pinover was Of Counsel and Co-Chair of the Real Estate Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (“Willkie”) and practiced law with Willkie from May 1992 until April 2016. Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Pinover practiced law at Kaye Scholer LLP from 1973 to 1992. Mr. Pinover is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate and ICSC. Mr. Pinover is the President of the Board of Directors of Steep Rock Association, a land trust in Connecticut, and has served on its Board of Directors since June 2008. Mr. Pinover also has served as a member of the Board of Directors of New Alternatives for Children, a New York-based social service organization, since September 2006. Mr. Pinover received his Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and his Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law and graduated both cum laude.

Mr. Frater serves as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at VEREIT. He previously served as Chairman, as well as Chief Executive Officer, of Berkadia, an industry-leading commercial real estate company that is owned 50% by Berkshire Hathaway and 50% by Leucadia National Corporation, that provides comprehensive capital solutions and investment sales advisory and research services for multifamily and commercial properties. Before Berkadia, Mr. Frater was Executive Vice President at PNC Financial Services, where he led the real estate division. He was also a Founding Partner and Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc., the largest global investment manager, where he led the real estate practice. Mr. Frater is active in industry affairs, serving on the Board of Directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), as Vice Chair of the MBA GSE Multifamily Task Force and Chair of the MBA Affordable Rental Task Force as well as a member of the MBA Audit Committee. He also serves on the Real Estate Advisory Board and the Board of Overseers at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has an MBA degree from the Columbia Business School and a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College.

From November 2012 to October 2014, Ms. Richardson was a senior advisor to Providence Equity Partners LLC (“Providence Equity”), a global asset management firm with over $40.0 billion in assets under management. From April 2003 to November 2012, she was a Partner and Managing Director at Providence Equity, and oversaw the firm’s New York office. While at Providence Equity, Ms. Richardson’s responsibilities included leading the initiation and execution of deals, and optimizing operating results and strategic positioning of portfolio companies throughout Providence Equity’s ownership period. Prior to Providence Equity, Ms. Richardson served as Global Head of JP Morgan’s Telecom, Media and Technology Group, and was previously a Managing Director in Merrill Lynch & Co.’s investment banking group. Ms. Richardson previously served on the Board of Directors of Arconic, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer in the aerospace and automobile industries, from November 2016 to February 2018 and on the Board of Directors of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., a publicly traded insurance and financial services company, from January 2014 to April 2020. Ms. Richardson received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.