ITEM 9. TRUSTEES, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL
PERSONS' COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(a) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT
The names of the persons that serve as Trustees and executive officers (1)
of the Trust and the Operating Partnership and their respective ages and
positions are set forth below. Each of the trustees has served since 1998. The
term of each independent trustee is one year.
Name Age Position
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James H. Bownas 52 Trustee
Peter M. Dickson 50 Trustee
Gregory K. McGrath(2) 39 Chief Executive Officer - Trust and Operating
Partnership
Robert S. Geiger(3) 49 Chief Operating Officer - Trust and Operating
Partnership
Robert L. Astorino 53 President - Operating Partnership
Mark L. Wilson 53 Chief Financial Officer - Trust and Operating
Partnership
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Baron Advisors, Inc. ("Baron Advisers"), the Managing Shareholder of the
Trust, was incorporated in July 1997 as a Delaware corporation. The management
of Baron Advisors has substantial prior experience in and knowledge of the
residential apartment property and single-family housing market and its
financing and experience in the management of investment programs and in
directing their operations. The Chief Executive Officer, sole director and sole
shareholder of Baron Advisors is Gregory K. McGrath and its Chief Operating
Officer is Robert S. Geiger. The Managing Shareholder will be compensated for
its services pursuant to a Trust Management Agreement. Officers and employees of
the Managing Shareholder who perform services on behalf of the Trust will not be
paid any additional compensation by the Trust. Such officers and employees
generally will serve in the same capacity for the Trust and will be compensated
by the Trust in amounts determined by the Managing Shareholder, in the case of
employees, and by the Executive Compensation Committee of the Trust.
Gregory K. McGrath is the Chief Executive Officer, sole director and sole
shareholder of Baron Advisors, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of the Trust and
the Operating Partnership. Mr. McGrath has over 10 years experience in all
aspects of the real estate industry, including site selection and acquisition,
arrangement and closing of mortgage financing, and property acquisition and
management. Between January 1993 and June 1994, Mr. McGrath served as Senior
Vice President of Realty Capital, Inc., a Florida
(1) The Trust has entered into a Trust Management Agreement with Baron
Advisers, Inc., the Managing Shareholder of the Trust(the "Managing
Shareholder") under which the Managing Shareholder is obligated to provide
management, administrative and investment advisory services to the Trust
from the commencement of the Cash Offering. The services to be rendered
include, among other things, communicating with and reporting to Investors,
administering accounts, providing to the Trust office space, equipment and
facilities and other services necessary for the Trust's operation, and
representing the Trust in its relations with custodians, depositories,
accountants, attorneys, brokers and dealers, corporate fiduciaries,
insurers, banks and others, as required. The Managing Shareholder is also
responsible for determining which real estate investments and non-real
estate investments (including the temporary investment of the Trust's
available funds prior to their commitment to particular real estate
investments) the Trust will make and for making divestment decisions,
subject to the provisions of the Declaration of Trust.
(2) Mr. McGrath is Chief Executive Officer, sole shareholder and sole director
of the Managing Shareholder. He is also the Chief Executive Officer, sole
shareholder and director of Baron Capital Properties, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, which is the Corporate Trustee of the Trust.
(3) Mr. Geiger serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Managing
Shareholder.
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corporation which sponsored real estate limited partnerships. Mr. McGrath is
also the President, sole director and sole shareholder of Baron Real Estate
Services, Inc. ("Baron"), an Ohio corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio,
which he co-founded in 1989. Mr. McGrath is also the President, sole director
and sole shareholder of Brentwood Management, LLP, an Ohio limited liability
company which provides property management services. Mr. McGrath is also a
principal of The Baron Organization, Inc., a Delaware corporation which manages
an approximately $100 million real estate portfolio. In addition to the
affiliations described above, Mr. McGrath is also a principal in a number of
other related business entities which are involved in various aspects of the
real estate business.
Robert S. Geiger is a practicing attorney. From 1994 to August 1998, he was
managing director of the law firm of Geiger Kasdin Heller Kuperstein Chames &
Weil, P.A., a Miami, Florida law firm with a general practice. From 1986 to
1994, he was managing director of Levine & Geiger, a Miami, Florida law firm.
Mr. Geiger's practice is concentrated in complex commercial and real property
transactions and business reorganizations. He serves as general counsel for
national, regional and local corporations engaged in a wide range of business
activities, including regulated industry matters.
James H. Bownas is a principal in Gamble Hartshorn Johnson Co. LPA, a
Columbus, Ohio law firm with a general practice. Mr. Bownas's practice is
concentrated in securities, real estate, taxation, corporate and estate
planning. Between 1989 and January 1996, Mr. Bownas served as General Counsel,
Vice President and Secretary of Lexford, Inc. ("Lexford") (formerly Cardinal
Realty Services, Inc. and before that Cardinal Industries, Inc.), a publicly
traded company headquartered in Reynoldsburg, Ohio which has sponsored numerous
real estate investment limited partnerships. At Lexford, Mr. Bownas developed
significant experience in the syndication of real estate investment limited
partnerships, negotiated the resolution of over $2 billion of creditors' claims
in connection with the bankruptcy reorganization of Cardinal Industries, Inc.,
and coordinated the transition of Cardinal Industries, Inc. from a bankruptcy
creditor to a successful publicly traded company. Since 1995, Lexford has
engaged in several arms-length transactions (none of which represented a
material portion of Lexford's assets, liabilities, revenues or expenditures)
with affiliates of the Managing Shareholder pursuant to which multi-family real
estate was sold to, purchased from and managed by and for such entities.
Peter M. Dickson has been managing director of the Guardian Management
Company Limited, a global financial services corporation based in Bermuda since
1991. In addition, since 1994 Mr. Dickson has served as a director to Grosvenor
Trust Company Limited, another Bermuda-based financial services corporation.
Between 1985 and 1990, Mr. Dickson served as the Executive Vice President of
Finance for The Wraxall Group, Bermuda. Between 1979 and 1985, Mr. Dickson held
several positions with Peat, Marwick.
Robert L. Astorino has served as President of the Operating Partnership
since May 25, 1998. From February 1998 through May 25, 1998, he served as
President - Property of Strategic Management Inc., a real estate management
company affiliated with the Mr. McGrath. From 1992 through January 1998, he
served as President of The Housing Partnership, Inc., a Louisville,
Kentucky-based real estate investment and consulting company. Between 1991 and
1992, Mr. Astorino served as Assistant Vice President, Real Estate Operations at
Great Western Bank in Beverly Hills, California, where his responsibilities
included the operation and sale of residential and commercial real estate
obtained in foreclosure.
Mark L. Wilson was elected Chief Financial Officer of the Trust and the
Operating Partnership in November 1998. Between 1989 and 1997, Mr. Wilson served
as Vice President of Baron Real Estate Services, Inc., an affiliate of Mr.
McGrath. Mr. Wilson was responsible for financial control, accounting and tax
functions for that company in addition to financial control and accounting for
all of the properties which it managed. In addition, Mr. Wilson served as
President of The Baron Companies, a registered securities broker-dealer which
served as the dealer manager of numerous private offerings of limited
partnerships affiliated with Mr. McGrath.
The Corporate Trustee of the Trust is Baron Capital Properties, Inc.
("Baron Properties"), a Delaware corporation formed in July 1997 and an
Affiliate of the Managing Shareholder. The primary duty of the Corporate Trustee
will be to operate an office in the State of Delaware as Delaware law requires
that at least one of the trustees of a Delaware business trust (such as the
Trust) have an office in Delaware. Baron Properties, as Corporate Trustee of the
Trust, will act only at the direction of the Managing Shareholder, and will not
take independent discretionary action on behalf of the Trust. The Corporate
Trustee will not be compensated for its services, but will be reimbursed only
for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in serving in such capacity which are
approved in advance by the Managing Shareholder. Such expenses are expected to
be limited to those incurred in connection with the operation of its Delaware
office. Baron Properties may be a trustee of other similar entities that may
organized by the Managing Shareholder,
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Baron Advisors, Inc., and any of their Affiliates. The Chief Executive Officer,
sole director and sole stockholder of Baron Properties is Gregory K. McGrath.
The principal office of Baron Properties is at 1105 North Market Street, Suite
1300, Wilmington, Delaware 19899.
SECTION 16(a) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REPORTING COMPLIANCE
No reports were required to be filed in the most recent fiscal year
pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
since the Trust's Common Shares are not registered under the act.