Robert McCadden

Bob is a senior executive with extensive finance and accounting, capital markets and governance experience.

Bob currently serves on the board of a healthcare REIT, where he is the lead independent director, chair of the audit and nominating and governance committees and a member of the compensation committee. The REIT owns a portfolio of approximately 75 medical office buildings, hospitals and other health care-related properties.

Bob previously served on the board of a multifamily REIT, where he was the audit committee chair, chair of the special committee and a member of the compensation and nominating and governance committees. The REIT owns and operates a portfolio of over 35,000 multifamily apartment units in non-gateway U.S. markets.

From 2004 to 2019, Bob was EVP and CFO of a retail REIT where he served as the principal financial and accounting officer. Bob was responsible for internal and external financial reporting, enterprise risk management, corporate finance and treasury, financial planning and analysis, asset management, performance management, corporate tax, information technology, lease administration and internal audit. Bob led strategic reviews of the enterprise on a regular basis with other members of senior management, the board of directors and external advisors. He engaged with outside shareholders, fund managers, investment analysts and capital sources and completed over $2 billion of financing transactions, including public offerings, bank financings and securitized borrowings.

Prior to 2004, Bob was a partner at several large international accounting firms, where he provided audit, compliance, risk and strategic advisory services to numerous public and private companies. While in public accounting, Bob had a special focus on the real estate, financial services and healthcare sectors. He was involved in numerous REIT IPOs, capital markets and strategic transactions.

Bob served on the New York Stock Exchange’s Listed Company Advisory Board from 2015 through 2019. The LCAB is a forum for the discussion and advocacy of global capital markets issues pertinent to public companies.

Bob was a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) though 2019; a former member of NAREIT’s Best Financial Practices Council and the program director for REITWise 2013®: NAREIT's Law, Accounting & Finance Conference. Bob also presented various topics at other NAREIT events including Reinventing the Budgeting/Forecasting Process (2011), Corporate Governance and Ethics (2012), and Using Derivatives in a Post Dodd-Frank World (2013).

Bob is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA). Bob also serves on Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Accounting Department Advisory Board, Executive Committee. Bob was the recipient of 2020 Corporate Accounting Achievement Award from the Fox School.

Bob earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Temple University. He completed post-graduate continuing education courses at the Andersen Executive Development Program at INSEAD ("Institut Européen d ‘Administration des Affaires") in Fontainebleau, France and participated in the Andersen Partner Development Program, Noordwijk, Netherlands. Bob is a Certified Public Accountant with active licenses in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.