Richard A. Chicotel Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer Rich Chicotel joined Shorenstein in 1988. He is responsible for planning, monitoring and communicating financial performance for all company investments and for managing the liquidity, profitability, and capital structure of the company and its investments. Mr. Chicotel also oversees the company’s risk management function and is active in all areas of investor and lender relations. In 2007, he was named San Francisco Bay Area CFO of the Year, Private Company, by the San Francisco Business Times. Since 1996, Mr. Chicotel has served on the advisory board of Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc. Professional Experience Prior to joining Shorenstein, Mr. Chicotel was an assistant project manager in high-rise office development at Hines Interests in Los Angeles. Prior to Hines, Mr. Chicotel was employed as a financial analyst in corporate finance and mortgage finance at First Boston in New York City and San Francisco. Education Mr. Chicotel graduated from Harvard College with a B.A., from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand with a Postgraduate Diploma in International Economics, and from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A.