Industry Professionals Lavea Thomas and Diana Keary Join Realty Capital Securities
American Realty Capital ("ARC"), an investment advisory firm, announced today that Lavea Thomas and Diana Keary have joined the company's broker dealer subsidiary, Realty Capital Securities ("RCS") to lead a number of the business unit's strategic initiatives.
"I am delighted to announce today that we have significantly augmented the intellectual capital of our organization by adding Lavea Thomas and Diana Keary to our senior management team," said Michael Weil, Chief Executive Officer for Realty Capital Securities. "Over the past four years, we have focused on creating the preeminent open architecture distribution platform for non-traded public securities. We currently sponsor eight public companies representing more than $11 billion of equity securities registered in the market. Lavea and Diana's leadership skills, experience and industry perspectives will continue our quest to improve the industry, whether through the imposition of 'best practices,' by offering broad-based educational programs, or by continually upgrading the quality of our team. Our ability to attract experienced and well regarded professionals like Ms. Thomas and Ms. Keary is further testimony to our success."
Ms. Thomas spent the last seven years of her career in financial services building strategic relationships in the direct investment industry. She held senior account management roles throughout her career and has been directly responsible for the establishment, development and expansion of relationships with hundreds of independent broker dealers. Most recently, Ms. Thomas was with Grubb & Ellis Capital Corporation ("GECC"), the current dealer manager for Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II. While with GECC Ms. Thomas managed the national accounts effort and was responsible for the firm's strategic relationships with its selling group members. As Senior Vice President and Director of National Accounts for RCS, Ms. Thomas will oversee the firm's National Accounts team.
Ms. Keary also joins RCS from GECC where she managed strategic positioning, marketing and communications. Over her 20-year career in the financial services industry Ms. Keary held senior marketing positions with AXA Equitable, MetLife Investors and WM Group, where she designed and executed strategic marketing programs for financial product manufacturers and distributors. As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for RCS, Ms. Keary will have direct responsibility for the overall communication strategy and development of sales materials for products distributed by RCS.
American Realty Capital is a full-service real estate advisory firm that sponsors real estate investment programs. Since its inception in 2006, and through June 30, 2011, affiliates of ARC have originated, structured and closed transactions investing over $1.5 billion in equity in over 560 properties (representing approximately $2.3 billion in assets). As of June 30, 2011, ARC and its affiliates had approximately $2.3 billion of properties under management. ARC's affiliates act as advisors to nine publicly offered direct investment programs, eight of which are non-traded and six of which are currently selling securities to the public. RCS has more than 100 licensed professionals across its sales, operations and compliance areas. In just over three and one-half years, RCS has raised in excess of $3.4 billion for ten public and seven private real estate investment trust and business development company offerings.
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Contacts:
American Realty Capital
Michael Weil, 212-415-6500
mweil@arlcap.com
or
DeFazio
Communications, LLC
Tony DeFazio, 484-532-7783
tony@defaziocommunications.com