Mr. Bond is President and Chief Executive Officer of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC. Mr. Bond has served as an independent director of the company since April 2007 and served as a director of several of the company’s CPA® REIT programs from 2005 to 2007. He has over 25 years of experience in several sectors, including finance, development, investment and asset management across a range of property types, as well as direct experience in Asia. Mr. Bond has been the managing member of Maidstone Investment Co., LLC since 2002, a private investment vehicle investing in real estate limited partnerships. Previously he served in several capacities for Credit Suisse First Boston from 1992 to 2002, where he was co-founder of CSFB’s Real Estate Equity Group, which managed approximately $3 billion of real estate assets. Prior to CSFB, he served as an associate to the real estate and finance departments of Tishman Realty & Construction Co. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. Mr. Bond received an M.B.A. from Harvard University.