Barbara Cambon, Institutional Real Estate Advisor; Jonathan Grunzweig, Former Skadden Arps Partner Join Colony Capital as Principals.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 2, 1999-- Colony Capital, Inc., a private, international real estate investment firm, announced today it had named two executives as Principals at the firm: Barbara Cambon, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Institutional Property Consultants (IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. ) and Jonathan H. Grunzweig, previously a partner with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . "Barbara is widely viewed as one of the brightest and most experienced individuals in the world of Institutional Real Estate investment," said Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Colony Capital. "Barbara's extensive experience in providing strategic direction to institutional investors, coupled with her understanding of the principled investing world, render her uniquely qualified to help the firm in it's global expansion. Barbara's talents will be a great complement to our existing reservoir of intellectual resources. "Jon has been instrumental in advising Colony in many of its investments, including Harveys Casino Resorts and Franchise Finance Corporation of America," Mr. Barrack continued. "As our lead attorney on these and other transactions, Jon has demonstrated not only a consistent ability to consummate transactions but a clear understanding of valuations, which he will employ in helping us identify new investments in real estate-related companies." "Colony Capital has demonstrated a global vision for investing in real estate," Ms. Cambon said. "The firm has a strong record of anticipating trends and investing actively to capitalize on opportunities. From a career standpoint, I cannot think of a more exciting and challenging move. I'm gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. by their confidence in me." "This is a wonderful opportunity to align myself with the leading real estate private equity firm," Mr. Grunzweig said. "I consider my new partners at Colony not only brilliant investors but good friends. I expect a smooth transition from the legal to the business side as we enter a new stage of our working relationship." Ms. Cambon, 45, has been actively involved in pension real estate consulting for 19 years and started her consulting practice in 1983. At IPC, she oversaw the strategic development, implementation and monitoring of all client investment activities. Ms. Cambon developed the IPC database and directed the development of the IPC Portfolio Index, a nationally recognized benchmark for institutional real estate portfolio investment performance. Ms. Cambon holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in Real Estate and Finance from Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. and BS in Education from the University of Delaware [3] The student body at the University of Delaware is largely an undergraduate population. Delaware students have a great deal of access to work and internship opportunities. . She is a member and former Chairman of the Board of the Pension Real Estate Association; past Director of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries; member of the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, as well as the Homer Hoyt Institute. She holds a CRE designation from The Counselors of Real Estate. Mr. Grunzweig, 36, was a partner specializing in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions at Skadden Arps in Los Angeles, where he has spent the past 11 years. Mr. Grunzweig graduated with honors from Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. in 1988. He received his BA from Cornell University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. . IPC is a nationally recognized authority on institutional real estate investment management. The firm has successfully developed and implemented real estate strategies for clients, including many of the largest pension funds in the United States. IPC's client base consists of corporate, public, and other U.S. and non-U.S. taxable and tax-exempt investors with over $25 billion invested in real estate. Colony Capital is a private, international real estate-related investment firm. Since its formation in 1991, Colony has been one of America's most active and innovative real estate investors, investing in excess of US$5 billion in more than 50 distinct property, corporate and portfolio transactions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Singapore, its regional headquarters for the Asian Pacific region, Tokyo, New York, Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , Kohala Coast, Hawaii, and Paris, France. |
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