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Fred Cooper

Fred Cooper

SVP Finane, International Development & Investor Relations, Toll Brothers

Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) is a $10+ billion revenue, investment-grade rated Fortune 500 Company, founded in 1967 and NYSE-listed since 1986. Toll Brothers is ranked the 4th largest U.S. home builder by revenues, and is also among the largest multifamily rental apartment developers, and land and community developers in the U.S. In addition, Toll is one of the nation’s largest urban high-rise/high-density condo and rental tower developers with 50+ buildings and 7,000+ units completed. Toll has been named World's Most Admired Home Building Company 8 times by Fortune magazine.

 

Toll operates in 24 states and over 60 markets in the U.S. Projects include urban and suburban for-sale single-family and townhome, rental, student, urban high-rise, condo, 55+, single-family build-to-rent, and master planned communities, and numerous land development, urban redevelopment, and mixed-use projects ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion.

 

Fred Cooper is Senior Vice President - Strategic Partnerships. He focuses on developing and expanding new and existing domestic and international relationships for equity and debt, as well as establishing institutional-level relationship opportunities to help drive the growth of Toll’s various platforms. In addition, he works to identify and engage with lenders, owners, and investors with whom Toll Brothers can collaborate to reposition or repurpose challenged sites, property and loan portfolios.

 

Fred joined Toll Brothers in 1993 to launch, lead and grow its Finance and Investor Relations Departments. As Senior Vice President - Finance, International Development, & Investor Relations for over 30 years, he has led teams that raised more than $30 billion in corporate and project finance capital from the public, institutional and bank markets and from domestic and international institutions to fuel the firm’s growth from a regional homebuilder with $200 million in revenues to a national residential developer with over $10.5 billion in revenues.

Fred has been financial point for creation of Toll Brothers City Living, which has built over 6,000 urban condos in 50 buildings, Toll Brothers Apartment Living, which has developed over $4 billion of urban and suburban rental assets nationally, and several other start up initiatives. Fred has also led exploration of international development and partnering opportunities with investors and developers in Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. He has raised significant joint venture capital from international partners investing in over $1 billion of major U.S. development projects.

Fred is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Master of Public Policy degree in Finance and International Development from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining Toll Brothers, he was Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Development at the New York City Economic Development Corp., (formerly NYC Financial Services Corp.) - New York City’s economic development bank - and Director of Corporate Finance and Planning at DKM Properties, the real estate arm of a Forbes Private 50 Family Office. Previously, he also held positions at several New York City community-based economic development and affordable housing organizations in Brooklyn, and the South Bronx.

Fred serves on the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board, and the University of Wisconsin Graaskamp Center Real Estate Advisory Board,  and is a member of the ULI Global Exchange Council. He is an active mentor and lecturer at a variety of graduate-level real estate programs, including the Wharton International Housing Finance Program, and works with a number of for-profit and non-profit organizations focused on affordable housing in the U.S. and emerging markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

 

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