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Grubb & Ellis Executive Team

Grubb & Ellis' management team has the experience and expertise necessary to direct the company’s day-to-day operations and growth strategy while continually looking for innovative ways to meet the needs of clients and investors.

Gary Hunt

Gary Hunt
Director and Interim Chief Executive Officer

Hunt is responsible for the day-to-day management of Grubb & Ellis Company as its interim chief executive officer; he also serves as a member of the board of directors. Hunt is the managing partner of California Strategies LLC and previously served as an executive vice president and member of the board of directors of The Irvine Company, a 140-year-old privately held real estate investment company best known for the communities it has planned and developed on the Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California. Hunt is also a member of the boards of Glenair Inc., The Beckman Foundation and William Lyon Homes.

Andrea R. Biller

Andrea R. Biller
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Biller assumed her current role as the chief attorney for Grubb & Ellis Company following the merger with NNN Realty Advisors, where she filled an identical role since joining the company in March 2003. She previously served as special counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporate Finance and as a private attorney specializing in corporate and securities law. Biller is admitted to practice law in California, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Richard W. Pehlke

Richard W. Pehlke
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Pehlke joined Grubb & Ellis Company as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2007, bringing more than 30 years of experience in senior financial positions at global companies in the telecommunications, financial services and food and consumer products industries. His professional experience includes roles as chief financial officer, executive vice president and director of Hudson Highland Group, chief financial officer and executive vice president of ONE, Inc., and vice president and treasurer of Ameritech Corporation. He also has served on the boards of several public and private companies throughout the world.

Jack Van Berkel

Jack Van Berkel
Executive Vice President
Chief Operating Officer and President, Transaction Services

Van Berkel oversees operations and business integration for Grubb & Ellis, having joined NNN Realty Advisors in August 2007 to assist with the merger of the two companies. He is responsible for the strategic direction of all Grubb & Ellis’ human resources, marketing and communications, research and other day-to-day operational activities. He has 25 years of experience, including more than four years at CB Richard Ellis as senior vice president, human resources as well as in senior global human resources, operations and sales positions with First Data Corporation, Gateway Corporation and Western Digital.

Jeffrey T. Hanson

Jeffrey T. Hanson
Executive Vice President
President and Chief Investment Officer, Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, LLC

Hanson joined Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors in July 2006 as its chief investment officer and served in an identical capacity with NNN Realty Advisors upon its formation later that year. He is responsible for the acquisition and disposition of real property for the various investment programs sponsored by Grubb & Ellis and its subsidiaries, and was elevated to president of Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors following the merger between Grubb & Ellis and its parent company, NNN Realty Advisors. Hanson has a long history with Grubb & Ellis, having served as a senior vice president of the company’s Institutional Investment Group and as one of the firm’s most successful investment brokers for ten years.

Jay P. Leupp

Jay P. Leupp
Executive Vice President
President, Grubb & Ellis Alesco Global Advisors, LLC

Leupp is an executive vice president of Grubb & Ellis Company and president of its subsidiary, Grubb & Ellis Alesco Global Advisors. Founded by Leupp in 2006, Grubb & Ellis Alesco Global Advisors will launch and manage a family of U.S. and global opened and closed-end real estate mutual funds, separate accounts and hedge funds. He formerly served as managing director of real estate equity research at RBC Capital Markets, the same role he previously filled at Robertson Stephens. Leupp was vice president of the Staubach Company and development manager at Trammell Crow Residential before entering the securities industry.

Stanley J. Olander Jr.

Stanley J. Olander Jr.
President, Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc.

Olander is the chairman, chief executive officer and president of Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc. He was the founder of Cornerstone Realty Income Trust, Inc., a non-traded public real estate investment trust that owned more than 23,000 apartment units and was ultimately listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of approximately $1.5 billion. Olander has been responsible for the acquisition and financing of approximately 40,000 apartment units during his distinguished career.

Kevin K. Hull

Kevin K. Hull
President and Chief Executive Officer, Grubb & Ellis Securities, Inc.

Hull is the president and chief executive officer of Grubb & Ellis Securities, Inc., the managing broker-dealer of the various investment programs sponsored by Grubb & Ellis Company and its subsidiaries, a position he has held since 2005. He began his career in the securities industry in 1988 at the NASD (now FINRA) and was in private practice at two international law firms for six years prior to joining Grubb & Ellis Securities, Inc. Hull holds securities registrations as a general securities principal and financial and operations principal. He is admitted to practice law in California, New York and Massachusetts.

Dylan Taylor

Dylan Taylor
President, Global Client Services

Taylor joined Grubb & Ellis in 2005 as executive vice president, regional managing director, corporate services. He assumed his current role at the beginning of 2008. Prior to joining the company, Taylor spent more than five years as senior vice president, corporate solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle and nearly seven years at SAIA Burgess, a global supplier of electronics based in Switzerland. During his tenure, he became the youngest member of senior management in SAIA Burgess’ history.