Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 21, 2009

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. – R. Steven Hamner (mpw)

R. Steven Hamner has been the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a company he co-founded, since September 2003. Mr. Hamner also served briefly as Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer in the company's earliest days. Prior to joining Medical Properties Trust, he spent three years as Managing Director of Transaction Analysis LLC, a company that provided interim accounting and consulting services to commercial real estate owners and their advisers. Mr. Hamner also spent three years as Vice President and CFO of United Investors Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT. In addition, Mr. Hamner spent a decade with accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP and its predecessors. Mr. Hamner is a certified public accountant and earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from Louisiana State University. Profile
TWST: Let's begin with a brief history of Medical Properties Trust.

Mr. Hamner: Our Chairman and CEO, Ed Aldag, gathered together three other

partners back in 2003 - myself, Emmett McLean,