Bill Vanderstraaten

Biography: Bill Vanderstraanten Chief Partners, LP Background Bill Vanderstraanten founded Chief Partners, LP in the summer of 2007 in partnership with Trevor Rees-Jones. Chief is a commercial real estate investment company that searches for “best of class” operating partners, and teams with their partners to invest in value-add or development opportunities in land, retail, and office, industrial and multi-family. Chief’s target equity investment size is 3-8 million on a per deal basis. Chief Partners expects to invest over 150 million of equity over the next three years, and has placed over 90 million to date. Prior founding Chief, Bill was one of the original partners of Thackeray Partners, a real estate private equity firm founded by Tony Dona, Mary Hager and Chris Cozby in 2005. Thackeray has placed over 230 million of equity in Fund I and is currently investing Fund II, which will total over 290 million of equity. Thackeray is a fully discretionary fund, and invests both directly and through operator relationships. Previous to Thackeray, Bill opened the Dallas Market office for CarrAmerica in 1997. CarrAmerica was a large national office REIT which was subsequently purchased in 2005 by Blackstone. Carr completed over 12 build to suit development projects totaling over 2 million feet for clients who include Nokia, Capital One, Network Associates, Cendant and Washington Mutual. In addition, Carr completed over 300 million in office building acquisitions in the Dallas area. Prior to joining CarrAmerica, Bill was involved with pre-development, development and acquisition activities for Harwood International, an office building Owner and Developer