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Jim Ratner

Jim Ratner
Board of Advisors, Kozar, LLC.
Managing Director, Stockbridge Real Estate Funds

Mr. Ratner is the Managing Director at Stockbridge Capital.  He has 17 years of real estate industry experience and joined Stockbridge in 2006.  From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Ratner was Senior Vice President (later Executive Vice President) and Chief Financial Officer  at American Financial Realty Trust, a publicly-traded REIT focused on properties leased to banks and other financial institutions.  From 1991 through 2003, Mr. Ratner served in various positions at PaineWebber and its predecessor, including as a Managing Director in PaineWebber’s Real Estate Investment Banking Group.  In this role, he was instrumental in the formation of Stockbridge’s first commingled opportunity fund.  Mr. Ratner has a B.A. and a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences and Wharton School, respectively, and a J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.  He is registered as a non-practicing attorney in the State of New York.