Biographies
William J. Carden
Mr. Carden is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President and Acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company. In addition to his responsibilities for the Company, Mr. Carden is president and one of the founders of CGS Real Estate Co. Mr. Carden also serves as Chairman of the Board of American Spectrum Real Estate Services, Inc., a full service real estate broker. He received an accounting degree from Long Beach State.
Timothy R. Brown
Mr. Brown is a director of the Company and has been a Partner in the law firm of Thompson Knight L.L.P. since 1999. Prior to that he was a founder and Partner of Brown, Parker & Leahy L.L.P. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law. Mr. Brown is Chairman of the Company's compensation committee and a member of the nominating committee.
William W. Geary, Jr.
Mr. Geary is a director of the Company and has served as the President of Carlsberg Management Company, a real estate development company, since February 1986. Mr. Geary received his M.B.A. and B.S. degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Geary holds the designations of Charter Financial Analyst, Certified Property Manager ("CPM"), Specialist in Real Estate Securities (SRS) and the Certified Commercial-Investment Member ("CCIM"). He is a Member of Los Angeles Society of Security Analysts. Mr. Geary is a member of the Company's audit, compensation and nominating committees.
Presley E. Werlein, III
Mr. Werlein is a shareholder in Werlein & Harris, P.C., a certified public accounting firm in Houston, Texas. He serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Noise Reduction Technologies, Inc., a holding company that owns Executive Wall Concepts, Inc., which is a specialty subcontractor specializing in acoustical fabric panels. Mr. Werlein previously served as President of Archoustics South, Inc., a distributor of Logison sound masking systems. Mr. Werlein is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
John N. Galardi
John N. Galardi is a director of the Company. Mr Galardi has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Galardi Group, Inc., a privately-held franchising company encompassing more than 350 restaurants, most prominent among them is the Wienerschnitzel chain, since 1964. Mr. Galardi has been a director of CGS Real Estate Company, Inc. ("CGS") since 1989. He currently serves as a member of the Board of BCT International, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Renovar Energy Corporation in Midland, Texas. He previously served on the Board of Advisors of National Bank of Southern California and Marine National Bank. Mr. Galardi attended Southwest Baptist University in Missouri.
G. Anthony Eppolito
Mr. Eppolito was appointed Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary in January 2006. Mr. Eppolito has been with the Company since inception and has served as Controller for the Company since November 2004. He served as Assistant Controller from March 2002 thru October 2004. Mr. Eppolito holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and is Certified Public Accountant.
Richard M. Holland
Mr. Holland was appointed Vice President in January 2006. Mr. Holland has served as Director of Leasing for the Company since October 2002. Mr. Holland's experience includes in excess of twenty years of leasing experience with a wide variety of tenants and has a broad knowledge of office, industrial and retail properties. Mr. Holland holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Houston in Clear Lake, Texas and has held a Texas Real Estate Broker's license since 1981.