Frank Cohen is a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone, a leading global investment firm. He moved to New York City to join Blackstone in 1996. In his capacity as a Senior Managing Director, he is the Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and the Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. During his career with the firm, he has been involved in well over $100 billion of real estate transactions, including the $39 billion privatization of Equity Office Properties, which represents both the largest real estate transaction and real estate financing of all time. Other notable transactions include the privatizations of CarrAmerica Realty and Trizec Properties, as well as the creation and later sale of Indcor Industrial Properties for $8.1 billion. Mr. Cohen received a BA from Northwestern University, where he graduated from the Honors Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, with a double major in political science. He serves as a director for several Blackstone affiliated companies, including Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and Equity Office. He was formerly a director of Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP). He is also active in several industry and civic organizations, as a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, on the NAREIT Advisory Board of Governors, on the Board of the Regional Plan Association and on the Board of Visitors of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio and an avid baseball fan, Mr. Cohen is a part owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team. He currently resides in Short Hills, New Jersey with his wife, Julie, and three children.

John F. Barrett is one of Ohio’s most determined supporters of economic development, healthcare, education, and the fine arts. He is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Western & Southern Financial Group, a Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 company and parent of a diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned and managed totaling more than $81 billion. Under his leadership, Western & Southern has grown from a $5 billion Midwestern life insurance company into a highly respected national financial services enterprise and one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. A recognized leader in the business community and financial services industry, Barrett serves on the board of directors for Western & Southern Financial Group and Cintas Corporation, and formerly served on the following boards: The Andersons, Inc. (1992-2008), Cincinnati Bell Inc. (1992-1998), Convergys Corporation (1998-2016), Fifth Third Bancorp (1988-2009) and Touchstone Investment Trusts (2000-2008). He is a director and past chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers, a member of The Business Roundtable, and a trustee for Americans for the Arts. All are in Washington D.C. He also serves as a member of the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Barrett is past president of the Association of Ohio Life Insurance Companies and a member and past chairman of the Ohio Business Roundtable. He is a member and former chairman of the Cincinnati Business Committee. He serves on the executive committee of the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) and is active with REDI Cincinnati. He is an honorary trustee of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation. He is also co-chairman of the Greater Cincinnati Scholarship Association, which supplies last-chance funding for deserving college students. As an active alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, Barrett continues to serve in a variety of capacities for the university. He is an advisory board member of the Barrett Cancer Center, and former chairman of the Medical Center Fund of Cincinnati. Through his involvement with CincinnatiMD Resource Center and the Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, Barrett was instrumental in bringing hundreds of doctors to Greater Cincinnati. Cincinnati ranks No. 1 among large cities (population 1 million+) and No. 4 overall among the top 100 U.S. cities for quality of healthcare and healthy lifestyle (Healthgrades National Health Index, 2019). In 2005, Barrett led Ohio’s first statewide tax reform in over 75 years as then-chairman of the Ohio Business Roundtable. As a result, Ohio’s business tax competitiveness reached third nationally, and Cincinnati ranked among the lowest-cost major U.S. cities in which to do business. Prior to that, on behalf of the Cincinnati Business Committee, he arranged the private financing portion for the expansion of Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center. Barrett’s entrepreneurial vision and spirit inspired the Entrepreneur’s Organization of Cincinnati to formally recognize entrepreneurial excellence in Cincinnati annually beginning in 2012 with the John F. Barrett Entrepreneur Vision Award. He is currently spearheading a $105 million fund-raising campaign to help the University of Cincinnati’s Barrett Cancer Center pursue the National Cancer Institute designation. Barrett holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Eileen Ward Barrett, have three adult children and five grandchildren.