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John Cushman III Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield Inc. John Cushman assumed the chairmanship of Cushman & Wakefield Inc.,the world’s largest private commercial real estate firm, in 2001, when he and brother Louis merged their boutique brokerage firm, Cushman Realty Corp., into the larger company. Frequently named the top office leasing broker in the country, Cushman began his career in 1963 working for Cushman & Wakefield in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles to open the company’s Southern California office in 1967 before launching Cushman Realty in 1978. In the middle of the 1980s,he negotiated the largest office lease in the world, for the headquarters of Merrill Lynch & Co.,involving an initial occupancy of 4 million square feet in New mittee for the department of contemporary art for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is a director of jobs for Massachusetts. In addition, he became a member of the board of directors for WGBH and Boston World Partnerships this year and is a trustee for life of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also a CPN Executive of the Year Honoree and Innovator of the Year Honoree this year. York City’s World Financial Center. Over the years, he also completed headquarters relocations for many of the country’s largest corporations and institutions. Cushman recently completed a two-year term as national president of The Boy Scouts of America, and he serves as a member of the Boy Scouts national executive board. He is also a member of the board of the California Region I Homeland Security Advisory Council. In 2004, Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently appointed him to the city’s Economy & Jobs Committee. Cushman is a director of the National Park Foundation, a trustee for the Urban Land Institute and a director of The Real Estate Roundtable. He also serves as director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a trustee emeritus of Colgate University, a board member for the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate advisory council and an honorary member of the board of fellows of Claremont University Center. He received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2002. 1996, supervising all development activities, including site acquisition, zoning, market analysis, financial feasibility, government approvals, marketing, leasing and property management. He is a director for Creighton University, Fabcon L.L.C. and Graco Inc. and a member of the board of governors of the Minneapolis/St. Paul NBC network affiliate’s 11 Who Care and the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business’ advisory council. In addition, he is affiliated with the Chief Executives Organization, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Minnesota Business Partnership, the National Association of Industrial & Office Properties,The Real Estate Roundtable, the Urban Land Institute and the World Presidents’ Organization. He is also a CPN Sustainability Executive of the Year Honoree this year. Bruce Mosler President & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield Inc. Bruce Mosler oversees the world’s largest independent real estate services firm and serves on its board of directors. He has led Cushman & Wakefield’s rapid growth, including the acquisition of the leading real estate services firms in Canada and Russia; oversaw the expansion of the firm’s global capital markets group; and secured IFIL Investments S.p.A. as the firm’s majority shareholder. The firm operates from 227 offices across 59 countries,and its 2007 revenues topped $2.1 billion. This year, Mosler received the Real Estate Board of New York’s Louis Smadbeck Broker Recognition Award.He serves as a trustee for the Urban Land Institute and sits on the Real Estate Board of New York’s board of governors. He is vice chairman of The Intrepid Sea,Air and Space Museum and is a member of the boards of the Urban Land Institute, New York Historical Society,Partnership for New York City and Duke University’s Trinity College. Mosler is a multiple-time winner of CPN’s Executive of the Year awards and their predecessors, including the Brokerage Executive of the Year award and the Property Services Executive of the Year award. Mark Rauenhorst Chairman & CEO, Opus Group Mark Rauenhorst became president of Opus Group in April 1999, CEO a year later and chairman in April 2007.The $2.2 billion design-build firm has developed 238 million square feet of office, industrial, multi-family, retail, government and institutional property in its 55-year history, and it has another 35 million square feet planned or under development. Rauenhorst joined Opus in 1982 and became president & CEO of Opus Northwest L.L.C. in “The markets are illiquid and global economies are strained, but in times like these, we must stay focused on the fundamentals of our business and industry.” Ron Pressman Ron Pressman President & CEO, GE Real Estate Ron Pressman is a 28-year veteran of General Electric Co. and is in his second stint leading GE Real Estate, one of the world’s largest and most diversified commercial real estate finance and investment firms, with a presence in 35 countries and a portfolio of more than $85 billion worth of assets.He last led it from 1997 to 2000. Pressman most recently served as president & CEO of GE Asset Management, a global investment business that manages $197 17 www.cpnonline.com • December 2008 • COMMERCIAL PROPERTY NEWS http://www.cpnonline.com

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