ATLANTA—As chairman and CEO OF Carter USA, Bob Peterson is responsible for setting the overall company strategy and providing executive oversight of all aspects of the organization. He joined Carter in 2001 as a principal owner and executive vice president and in 2002, assumed the role of chairman and CEO.

Since then, Bob has led the transformation of Carter from a full-service commercial real estate company into a highly-focused real estate investment, development, and advisory firm. In September of 2011, Carter sold its brokerage and property management divisions to Cassidy Turley.

Under his leadership, Carter has invested over $1 billion in the acquisition and development of multifamily, office, mixed-use and student housing real estate since 2004. In 2010, Bob led the Carter initiative to form a publicly listed, non-traded REIT, Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT, to acquire single-tenant, net-leased assets in the data center and healthcare sectors across the US. To date the REIT has invested in over $2 billion of assets.