Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 2, 2003

Louis Conforti – Prime Group Realty Trust (pge)

LOUIS G. CONFORTI serves as Co-President and Chief Financial Officer of Prime Group Realty Trust since May 2000. Mr. Conforti served as Executive Vice President and Director of Capital Markets from August 1999 through May 2000. Mr. Conforti served as Senior Vice President and Director of Capital Markets for the company from June 1998 through August 1999. From July 1997 to July 1998, Mr. Conforti served as Executive Director of Realty Estate Investment Banking for CIBC Oppenheimer Corp. in New York. Immediately prior to CIBC Oppenheimer, Mr. Conforti was a Vice President concentrating in real estate investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated located in Baltimore, Maryland. During his career, Mr. Conforti has been responsible for the completion of several billion dollars of real estate transactions, including public equity and convertible preferred equity issuance, private placement of preferred equity, commercial mortgage-backed securitization, and financial advisory for real estate investment trusts and private real estate companies. Mr. Conforti is a member of the National Association of Real estate Investment Trusts and the Urban Land Institute. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch of Prime

Group Realty Trust and an overview of things as they are now?

Mr. Conforti: Prime Group Realty Trust is a fully