Robert Foley

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Robert Foley

Bob Foley served as our chief financial officer from August 2015 until September 30, 2025. Mr. Foley is a partner of TPG Real Estate and a member of our Manager’s investment committee. Mr. Foley joined TPG Real Estate and our company in August 2015 from Sixth Street Partners (formerly TPG Special Situations Partners), where between 2013 and 2015 he directed credit-based investment activity in U.S. commercial real estate. Mr. Foley is an experienced principal investor and business builder. Mr. Foley was a co-founder, chief financial officer, and later chief operating officer of Gramercy Capital Corp. (NYSE: GPT), a publicly-traded REIT with debt and net lease investments throughout the U.S. Previously, Bob was co-head of high yield commercial real estate debt investing for Goldman Sachs & Co.’s special situations group, and led the domestic commercial real estate capital markets business at Bankers Trust Company (since merged with Deutsche Bank). He began his career with Touche Ross & Co. in its San Francisco office. Mr. Foley is a past chair of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (“CREFC”) and previously chaired its governmental policy and accounting committees. He is a full member of the Urban Land Institute, the Stanford Real Estate Center, and the Real Estate Lenders Association. He earned B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a certified public accountant (inactive in California).