Fred Cooper

Biografía: Fred Cooper joined Toll Brothers, a Fortune 500 Company, in 1993 to establish its Finance and Investor Relations Departments. As the firm’s in-house investment bank, the team he leads is responsible for Toll’s capital markets and investor relations activities as well as its partnering relationships with major U.S and international financial and development institutions. Since formation, his team has raised over $15 billion from U.S, European and Asian banks, the public capital markets and institutional partners. In addition to capital raising, the group advises on complex project structuring, joint ventures, corporate mergers and acquisitions and major property acquisitions. Fred has overseen Toll Brother’s exploration of international development opportunities in Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern markets. He has been financial point for Toll’s expansion into the urban high-rise condo business through Toll Brothers City Living, which has grown into an operation of over 45 buildings and 5,500 units, and into the rental apartment business through Toll Brothers Apartment Living, which now controls $3 billion in assets in a pipeline of completed an in-development projects totaling over 14,000 units. On the Investor Relations side, in 2016 Toll Brothers ranked #6 among 1,500 companies in Fortune magazine’s investment community survey of the World’s Most Admired Companies in Quality of Products/Services Offered category behind only Apple, Walt Disney, Amazon, Alphabet and Nordstrom. The firm was also named by Fortune as the World’s Most Admired Home Building Company for 2019, the fifth year in a row it has been so honored. Fred has been named to Institutional Investor magazine’s All-American Executive Team nine times. From 1989 to 1993, Fred was Director of Corporate Finance Planning at DKM Properties Corp., the real estate arm of Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, one of the nation’s largest private companies. From 1984 to 1989, he was Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Services Corporation, New York City’s economic development bank. From 1980 to 1983 he worked in community-based affordable housing/economic development in the South Bronx and Brooklyn, New York. He holds an A.B. from Brown University, a Master of Public Policy in Finance and International Development from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University’s Graduate School of Business Administration. Fred has a personal interest in emerging market real estate, especially affordable housing. He is a founding board member of the Friends of Kenya Community Development Foundation and advisor to Reall International, which provides capital and technical assistance to affordable housing developers in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He is a volunteer consultant to an affordable housing/real estate developer in West Africa through the Stanford University Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED). He co-developed and co-teaches Wharton’s “Real Estate Development in Emerging Markets” course and has lectured on real estate finance and development since 2006 in Wharton’s International Housing Finance Program. He created a joint University of Wisconsin/Toll Brothers Global Real Estate Conference, now in its 9th year at the New York Stock Exchange. Fred is a regular lecturer in real estate development, finance and emerging market real estate at universities including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, NYU and the University of Wisconsin, where he serves on the Real Estate Policy Advisory Committee and the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate Board of Advisors. He also serves on the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board and has served on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Journal for Real Estate. Fred was born and raised in New York City.