Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 28, 2001
RON D. KAPLAN is Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of
Federal Realty Investment Trust. In this capacity he is responsible for
the trust's investment policies, strategic planning, capital raising and
capital market transactions in addition to the maintenance of its
relationships with institutional shareholders, lending institutions and
the financial community. From its inception in 1994, Mr. Kaplan was
charged with managing Street Retail, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
Federal Realty specializing in the acquisition and development of Main
Street retail properties. Prior to joining Federal Realty, Mr. Kaplan
worked as an independent real estate advisor in conjunction with the
merger and acquisition of a publicly listed real estate company.
Previously, Mr. Kaplan was a Vice President of Salomon Brothers' real
estate department in Los Angeles, where he structured debt and equity
transactions for residential, retail, office, industrial and hotel
property portfolios. Prior to 1987, Mr. Kaplan was based in Salomon
Brothers' New York office where he specialized in capital markets
transactions for public real estate companies. Mr. Kaplan graduated with
honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is
an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Urban Land
Institute. Profile
Investment Trust?
Mr. Kaplan: Federal Realty has been in business as a public real estate
investment trust since 1962. We
