BENJAMIN S. BUTCHER

Since Ben Butcher founded STAG Capital Partners' predecessor firm in 2003, the company has deployed approximately $1.9 billion of capital, representing the acquisition of 307 properties totaling some 52.4 million square feet in 186 individual transactions. The CEO, president and chairman of the board has overseen the growth of the firm and its affiliates. His list of titles includes member of its board of managers and management committees from 2003 to 2011. From 1999 to 2003, Butcher was engaged as a private equity investor in real estate and technology. His resume also includes a stint as a director at Credit Suisse First Boston's Principal Transactions Group and as a director with Nomura Asset Capital's CMBS Group. Butcher will be a speaker on RealShare Net Lease's REIT Power Panel, with fellow Icon Nick Schorsch.

W. KYLE GORE

Kyle Gore is a managing director and principal of CGA Capital Corp., which was previously a subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc. During his 23-year real estate career, he has led the structuring and closing of more than $12 billion in net lease-related financing transactions. A frequent speaker at net lease industry events, he has also been a managing director in RBS Greenwich Capital's Real Estate Finance Group. CGA and its affiliates originate, structure, fund and securitize commercial mortgages for net-lease properties and assist public and private institutional investors in the acquisition and disposition of asset-backed and mortgage-related products. He joined RBS Greenwich Capital after spending over 16 years with the broker-dealer subsidiary of Legg Mason. He has handled the net lease-backed financings for retail, office, distribution, industrial, governmental, manufacturing and special purpose properties located throughout the United States. Gore will moderate the Capital Markets Update session during RealShare Net Lease.

BARCLAY G. JONES III

Barclay Jones has been the executive vice president of investments for iStar Financial Inc. since 2000. Jones is responsible for jointly overseeing the publicly traded company's corporate loan and tenant lease investment activity. Previously, he was a principal with ACRE Partners LLC, a privately held firm that provides public and private companies with highly structured, value-added financing solutions for their facilities. From 1982-1998, Jones held various executive positions with W. P. Carey & Co., where he was responsible for originating more than $2 billion of sale-leaseback financing and over $1 billion in mortgage placements. He is a director of Spirit Airlines Inc. Since 2007, he has also been a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning at Cornell University. Jones will be among the speakers on RealShare Net Lease's Capital Markets Update.

NICHOLAS S. SCHORSCH

Once dubbed the “Banker's Landlord” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Schorsch founded American Realty Capital, a full-service real estate advisory firm, in 2006. The company operates four separate business units: ARC Trust, a non-traded public REIT; ARC Income Properties, privately placed notes; ARC Growth Fund, an opportunistic investment partnership that acquires vacant bank branches; and ARC Exchange, a company that structures real estate exchanges. Previously, Schorsch founded and had been chief executive officer and president of American Financial Realty Trust. AFR's strategy was to acquire, finance, and manage office buildings, operations centers, bank branches and other critical real estate assets net leased to tenants in the financial services industry. While at the helm of AFR, Schorsch acquired 1500 properties with a value of $5.7 billion and liquidated over 350 properties with a total sale value of $1.73 billion, resulting in a gain of $273 million. He is a former board member of NAREIT. Schorsch will be speaker on RealShare Net Lease's REIT Power Panel, with fellow Icon Ben Butcher.

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