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Paul McDowell is a founder of our company. He has been continuously employed by us or our predecessor companies since 1994 including as chief executive officer since March 2001 and as senior vice president general counsel and secretary from 1994 until February 2001. He has served on our board of directors since November 2003 and served on the board of directors of our predecessor from November 2001 until March 2004. He is also a member of our investment committee and the investment oversight committee of our board of directors. Mr. McDowell also serves on the board of directors of Feldman Mall Properties a New York Stock Exchange traded mall REIT.
From 1991 until 1994 Mr. McDowell was corporate counsel for Sumitomo Corporation of America the principal U.S. subsidiary of one of the world's largest integrated trading companies. As corporate counsel Mr. McDowell advised on a wide rage of domestic and international corporate legal matters including acquisitions complex financing transactions power plant development shipping litigation management and real estate. From 1987 to 1990 Mr. McDowell was an associate in the corporate department at the Boston law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish. Mr. McDowell received a JD with honors from Boston University School of Law in 1987 and received a BA from Tulane University in 1982. | 