Frederick Cooper

Biography: As a Senior Fortune 500 Executive, Fred Cooper has extensive entrepreneurial leadership experience in finance, business development, and strategy in dynamic world-class real estate-related private sector, non-profit, and governmental real estate organizations. From 1993 – 2025, Fred served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Senior Vice President of Finance, International Development and Investor Relations, at Toll Brothers, (NYSE:TOL) a national $10+ billion revenue, investment-grade rated Fortune 500 Company. Founded in 1967, NYSE-listed since 1986, and ranked the 4th largest U.S. home builder by revenues, Toll is also among the largest land and community developers in the U.S. It is also one of the nation’s largest multifamily apartment developers, and a major urban high-rise/high-density condo and rental developer with 50+ buildings and 7,000+ units completed. Fred joined Toll in 1993 to launch, lead and grow its Finance & Investor Relations Departments. The teams he led have raised over $40 billion in corporate and project finance capital from the public, institutional and bank markets and from other domestic and international sources to fuel Toll's growth from a $200+ million revenue regional homebuilder to a Fortune 500 $10+ billion revenue national homebuilding/land development company. Fred established institutional-quality relationships with U.S. and international debt and equity providers to help drive growth of Toll’s various platforms: homebuilding, rental apartment, urban condo, land banking, land acquisition & development, build-to-rent, and others. As Head of Investor Relations, Fred helped build Toll into a globally recognized brand that has been named World’s Most Admired Homebuilder by Fortune magazine 8 times, and whose leaders have been named to Barron’s Global Top 25 CEOs multiple times. Fred led exploration of international development and partnering opportunities with investors and developers in Asia, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, and raised significant joint venture capital from international partners investing in over $2 billion of major U.S. development projects. Fred has been named to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-American Executive Team over a dozen times for Toll’s award-winning Finance & Investor Relations Program. He is a frequent Public Speaker, Conference Presenter, Media Interview, and University Guest Lecturer.