Mr. Silberman is a Vice President in the investment department of W.P. Carey and brings over ten years of direct investing and operational experience. Prior to W.P. Carey, he was based in Beijing, China where he worked on the restructuring and sale of an auto parts manufacturer, as well as on the structuring of sale leaseback transactions in mainland China. Mr. Silberman also worked at MidMark Capital, a private equity firm, and in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. A summa cum laude graduate from Columbia University, Mr. Silberman earned a B.A. in Economics and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.