Peter Baccile

President and CEO • First Industrial Realty Trust

Peter Baccile is President and CEO of First Industrial Realty Trust. He joined First Industrial as President in September of 2016 and assumed the CEO position in December of 2016. He brings more than 30 years of  management,  real  estate  and  financial  expertise  to  the  role. He  also serves  as a member  of  the  Company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Baccile joins First Industrial from UBS Securities, LLC where he served as Joint Global Head of the Real Estate, Lodging and Leisure Group within the firm’s investment banking division since June 2012. Prior  to  that,  Mr.  Baccile  served  in  various  senior  leadership  roles  during  his  26ÔÇÉyear  tenure  at  J.P.  Morgan. Most recently, he was Vice Chairman of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. He also served as CoÔÇÉHead of the General Industries Investment Banking Coverage Group which encompassed Real Estate, Lodging, Gaming,  Diversified  Industrials,  Paper  Packing  and  Building  Products,  and  Transportation  investment  banking. Before that he served as Global Head of J.P. Morgan’s Real Estate, Lodging and Gaming Investment  Banking  group  for  10  years.  During  his  career,  Mr.  Baccile has  been responsible for key  customer relationships and more than $250 billion of capital markets and strategic transactions.

Mr. Baccile is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and The Real  Estate  Roundtable  where  he  was  past  Chairman  of  the  Real  Estate  Capital  Policy  advisory  committee. He is a past trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is also a member of the board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California (Berkeley). He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at  Duke  University  where  he  was  a  Fuqua  Scholar  and  earned  his  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  from  Cornell University.

Bruce Cohen

CEO • Wrightwood Financial

As Chief Executive Officer of Wrightwood Financial, Bruce is responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s operations. Prior to forming Wrightwood Financial, Bruce was a Senior Partner in the real estate group of Ares Management, a leading global alternative asset management company. He also served as President and COO of Ares Commercial Real Estate where he oversaw more than $1 billion of investment activity. Bruce joined Ares in 2011 upon completing the sale of Wrightwood Capital’s operating platform to Ares. During his tenure, he retained oversight of the Wrightwood Capital portfolio, as well as its third party funds, and continues in this capacity in his role at Wrightwood Financial. From its inception in 2004 until 2011, Wrightwood Capital was responsible for more than $4 billion of investment activity.

Bruce earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Tufts University. He currently serves on the boards of Wrightwood Capital, Erdman, a preeminent design-build firm focused on healthcare, and Cortland Partners a multi-family real estate investment and management firm. He is also a member of the real estate advisory boards of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as the Board of College Possible, an organization focused on making college education possible for low income students.