Frank Cohen

Biography: September 2005 Frank Cohen is a Managing Director of The Blackstone Group. Since joining Blackstone in 1996, Mr. Cohen has been involved in approximately $3 billion of real estate transactions encompassing all property types throughout the United States. Most recently, he was responsible for many of Blackstone's office acquisitions, including Boca Corporate Center in Boca Raton, the Park Place office campus in Irvine, Bell Atlantic Tower in Philadelphia and Dominion Tower in Pittsburgh. In addition, he was responsible for the recent formation of several joint venture investments, including a mixed-use lifestyle project in Bethesda, MD and a student housing project in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Cohen was in the acquisitions group at Heitman Financial, where he was involved in numerous real estate transactions. Mr. Cohen received a BA from Northwestern University, where he graduated from the Honors Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, with a double major in political science.