Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 1999
ROBERT E. PATTERSON has served as President and a Trustee of Cabot Trust
since its formation in October, 1997. Mr. Patterson served as executive
vice president, director of acquisitions and a member of the Investment
Committee of CC&F Realty Advisors and Cabot Partners from 1987 to 1997.
Mr. Patterson began his real estate career in 1972 as a lawyer with the
firm of Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett. In 1978, he became the first
executive director of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency and
remained in that position until 1983 when he joined the Beal Companies,
a Boston-based real estate development, management and investment firm
as senior vice president. He joined CC&F Realty Advisors in 1987 to head
its acquisitions group and was a founding partner of Cabot Partners upon
its formation as an independent entity in 1990. Mr. Patterson is a
graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is a Trustee of
the Putnam Group of Mutual Funds, a Trustee of the Sea Education
Association, and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Joslin
Diabetes Center. He is a member of numerous industry associations
including the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the
Urban Land Institute, and National Association of Real Estate Investment
Managers Profile
Cabot Industrial Trust.
Mr. Patterson: Cabot Industrial Trust comes out of the long history of
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