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Warren H. Otto

Warren H. Otto
Chairman and Portfolio Manager

Warren Otto serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Stockbridge Funds and is the Chairman of Kozar LLC. Mr. Otto has 35 years of real estate industry experience, including in real estate asset and portfolio management and market research. From 1994 through September 2007, he worked as a Portfolio Manager at RREEF, serving as a Managing Director during the last five years of his tenure. During the last nine years of his tenure, he was the Portfolio Manager of CalWest Industrial Properties, LLC, a joint venture with California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) that was created to acquire, own, operate and sell when appropriate all types of industrial properties in the western United States. During his management of CalWest, the venture acquired and sold over $9 billion of assets and generated more excess return to CalPERS than any other core partner. Previously, Mr. Otto served as Manager of Real Estate Investments for the $15 billion Ameritech Pension Trust, where he participated in the design and implementation of a new real estate strategy. His prior experience also includes 15 years with The Landsing Corporation, a real estate investment management and syndication firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he performed a variety of services including acquisition, disposition, asset management and market research. Mr. Otto holds a degree in economics from Harvard College.