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As a Senior Vice President of Investments, Mr. Freeman is primarily responsible for sourcing investment opportunities and is part of the group that oversees the analysis of investments located in the East Coast and Mid-West Target Markets consisting primarily of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley. Mr. Freeman has over twenty years of real estate investment experience and prior to joining Cohen, previously served as the Senior Regional Director and the Senior Investment Officer for the Eastern Region of First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc., a publicly traded REIT (NYSE: FR), where he was responsible for all of the company's acquisition, development, redevelopment, repositioning, disposition, leasing, operation and asset management activities throughout the East Coast. Over the course of his career, Howard has completed over $2 billion in single-asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, land and vertical developments, sale-leaseback transactions, joint ventures and operating company investments. Early in his career, Howard worked with Coopers & Lybrand's National Real Estate Advisory Services practice where he acquired, managed, restructured and disposed of underperforming and underutilized assets while conducting valuation and due diligence for many large real estate debt and equity transactions on behalf of numerous institutional clients. Mr. Freeman resides in New Jersey, where he is an active member of the community coaching youth soccer and baseball. Mr. Freeman is an active member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Mr. Freeman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics from Cornell University in addition to a Masters in Business Administration degree in Finance from Columbia University.
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