People: Forest City Enterprises Inc (FCEa.N)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Charles Ratner	71	2011	Chairman of the Board
David LaRue	51	2011	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Robert O'Brien	55	2011	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Andrew Passen	64	2011	Executive Vice President - Human Resources
Brian Ratner	55	2001	Executive Vice President, Director
Bruce Ratner	68	2007	Executive Vice President, Director
Ronald Ratner	65	1988	Executive Vice President, Director
James Ratner	68	2012	Executive Vice President
Charles Obert	47	2011	Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller
Geralyn Presti	57	2008	Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Linda Kane	55	2011	Senior Vice President, Treasurer
Scott Cowen	66		Lead Independent Director
Deborah Salzberg	59	1995	Director
Arthur Anton	54	2010	Independent Director
Kenneth Bacon	58	2012	Independent Director
Michael Esposito	72	1995	Independent Director
Deborah Harmon	52	2008	Independent Director
Stan Ross	76	1999	Independent Director
Louis Stokes	87	1999	Independent Director
Jeff Linton			IR Contact Officer

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Biographies

Name	Description
Charles Ratner	Mr. Charles A. Ratner is Chairman of the Board of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since June 10, 2011. Previously, Mr. Ratner served as president and chief executive officer of the Company from 1995 through June 2011, and served as president and chief operating officer from 1993 to 1995. He is also an officer and/or director of various subsidiaries of Forest City. Mr. Ratner is currently a board member of two additional publicly-traded companies, including American Greetings Corporation, a greeting card company, since 2000, and RPM, Inc., a specialty coatings and sealants company, since 2005. He is active with numerous community, charitable and professional organizations, including United Way, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the Musical Arts Association, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Cleveland Foundation and University Hospitals of Cleveland.
David LaRue	Mr. David J. LaRue is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc. He is director since June 2011. Mr. LaRue has been President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2011. He is also an officer of various subsidiaries of the Company. Prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. LaRue served as executive vice president and chief operating officer from March 2010 through June 2011. Mr. LaRue served as president and chief operating officer of Forest City Commercial Group, Inc., strategic business unit, from 2003 to March 2010, and as executive vice president of Forest City Rental Properties, Inc. from 1997 through 2003. Prior to joining Forest City in 1986, Mr. LaRue was an internal auditor and financial analyst with The Sherwin-Williams Company. Mr. LaRue has been a board member of CubeSmart (formerly known as U-Store-It Trust), a publicly-traded real estate investment trust focused on self-storage facilities, since 2004, and is a member of CubeSmart’s governance committee. He is also a trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers; a trustee, member of the executive committee and board president of the Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts; a trustee and member of the finance committee of the Lawrence School; and a member of the board of trustees of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission.
Robert O'Brien	Mr. Robert G. O'Brien is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since April 2008. He previously served as Vice President, Finance and Investment from February 2008 to April 2008 and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Investment, of Forest City Rental Properties Corporation, a subsidiary of the Company, from October 2000 to January 2008.
Andrew Passen
Brian Ratner	Mr. Brian J. Ratner is Executive Vice President, Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc. Mr. Ratner has been a Forest City director since 1993. Mr. Ratner has been Executive Vice President since 2001 and is an officer and/or director of various subsidiaries of the Company. He also serves as president of Forest City Texas, Inc. and leads operations in Dallas, a core market for the Company. Mr. Ratner is active with numerous community, charitable, educational and professional organizations, including the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and Case Western Reserve University.
Bruce Ratner	Mr. Bruce C. Ratner is Executive Vice President, Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc. Mr. Ratner has been Executive Vice President since November 2006 and is chairman and chief executive officer of Forest City Ratner Companies, the New York City subsidiary of Forest City. Mr. Ratner is also an officer and/or director of various other subsidiaries of Forest City. Prior to joining Forest City, Mr. Ratner served as New York City’s commissioner of consumer affairs during the administration of Mayor Ed Koch. Earlier in his career, he was director of the Model Cities Program and head of New York City’s Consumer Protection Division during the administration of Mayor John Lindsay. He also served for four years as a faculty member at the New York University Law School. Mr. Ratner is a board member of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Weill Cornell Medical College.
Ronald Ratner	Mr. Ronald A. Ratner is Executive Vice President, Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc. He has been a Forest City director since 1985. Mr. Ratner has been Executive Vice President since March 1988 and is an officer and/or director of various subsidiaries of the Company. Mr. Ratner is active with numerous community, educational, charitable and professional organizations, including the Urban Land Institute, The Ohio State University, Brandeis University, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, the National Multi Housing Council, the International Advisory Board of the Harvard Real Estate Initiative, and Harvard Design Magazine’s Practitioners’ Advisory Board.
James Ratner	Mr. James A. Ratner is Executive Vice President of Forest City Enterprises Inc. He served as Non-Independent Director of the Company, until June 13, 2012. Mr. Ratner has been a Forest City director since 1984. He has been an Executive Vice President since March 1988 and is an officer and/or director of various subsidiaries. Mr. Ratner is active with numerous community, charitable and business organizations, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Urban Land Institute, the Playhouse Square Foundation and the Cleveland Foundation.
Charles Obert	Mr. Charles D. Obert is Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller of Forest City Enterprises Inc. He has been Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President since September 2011 and Vice President and Corporate Controller since December 2007. He previously served as Vice President and Assistant Controller from August 2004 to December 2007.
Geralyn Presti	Ms. Geralyn M. Presti is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Forest City Enterprises Inc. Ms. Presti has been Senior Vice President and General Counsel since July 2002 and Secretary since April 2008. She previously served as Assistant Secretary from July 2002 to April 2008, Deputy General Counsel from January 2000 to June 2002, and Associate General Counsel from December 1996 to January 2000.
Linda Kane	Ms. Linda M. Kane is Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Forest City Enterprises Inc. She has been Treasurer since September 2011 and Senior Vice President since June 2002. She previously served as Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer from December 2007 to September 2011, Corporate Controller from March 1995 to December 2007 and Vice President from March 1995 to June 2002.
Scott Cowen	Dr. Scott S. Cowen is Lead Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc. Dr. Cowen has been the president of and professor at Tulane University since July 1998. Leading Tulane University, as well as the City of New Orleans, through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he also developed unique and exceptional skills in crisis management. In recognition of his leadership skills, he received the Carnegie Award for Academic Leadership and was named one of the “Ten Best College Presidents” in America by Time magazine in 2009. Prior to 1998, Dr. Cowen was dean at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where he was also a professor for 23 years. Dr. Cowen is a board member of two additional publicly-traded companies, including Newell Rubbermaid, Inc., a consumer products corporation, since 1999 and American Greetings Corporation, a greeting card company, since 1989. In 2010, he was appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions.
Deborah Salzberg	Ms. Deborah Ratner Salzberg is Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since 1995. Ms. Ratner Salzberg has been president of Forest City Washington, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company since 2002, and leads the Company's operations in the Washington D.C., metropolitan area, one of the Company’s core markets. She is also an officer and/or director of various subsidiaries of Forest City. Ms. Ratner Salzberg is active with numerous District of Columbia community, charitable and professional organizations, including the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, the District of Columbia Building Industry Association and the Meyer Foundation, National Building Museum. She also serves on the boards of Kenyon College and George Washington University.
Arthur Anton	Mr. Arthur F. Anton is Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since October 1, 2010. Since 2003, Mr. Anton has been the chief executive officer of Swagelok, a privately-held domestic and international developer and provider of fluid system solutions with annual revenues of approximately $1.3 billion. Prior to his current position, Mr. Anton served Swagelok as the president and chief operating officer from 2001 to 2003, executive vice president from 2000 to 2001, and chief financial officer from 1998 to 2000. Prior to joining Swagelok, Mr. Anton was a partner at the accounting and consulting firm of Ernst & Young, where he consulted with companies in the manufacturing, energy, service and other industries. He is a board member of two additional publicly-traded companies, including Olympic Steel Inc., a metal service center, since 2009, and The Sherwin-Williams Company, a paint and building material manufacturing and distribution company, since 2006. He is also a board member of University Hospitals of Cleveland and Western Reserve Partners LLC.
Kenneth Bacon	Mr. Kenneth J. Bacon has been appointed as Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. effective December 5, 2012. Bacon began his career with Kidder Peabody and later Morgan Stanley, where his focus was mortgage finance and related products. In 1990, he joined Resolution Trust Corporation as director of policy for the Oversight Board, and was later named director of securitization, positions that allowed him to interact directly with the chairmen of the Federal Reserve and FDIC, among others. Three years later, Bacon joined the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as senior vice president, northeast region. In 1998, he was tapped to lead Fannie Mae's American Communities Fund, directing community development investing, including equity, mezzanine debt, and loan participations. In 2000, he became senior vice president (with promotion in 2005 to executive vice president) of the organization's multifamily division. Under Bacon's leadership, Fannie Mae's multifamily division grew from approximately $56 billion in assets to a $190 billion mortgage portfolio, making it the U.S. multifamily creditor, with guarantees for one-fifth of all multifamily mortgages in the country. He retired from Fannie Mae in 2012, and recently co-founded RailField Partners, a financial advisory and asset management firm based in Washington, D.C. A Comcast Corporation board member since 2002, and currently presiding director, Bacon serves on the Governance and Directors Nominating Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council and a director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing. Bacon earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, where he received a prestigious Marshall Fellowship. He also has a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Michael Esposito	Mr. Michael P. Esposito, Jr., is Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since 1995. Mr. Esposito has been the non-executive chairman of Syncora Holdings Ltd., a publicly-traded guarantee insurance company, since 2006, and non-executive chairman of Primus Guaranty Ltd., a publicly-traded seller of credit protection, since 2002. In 1995, Mr. Esposito retired from The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. as the executive vice president, chief control, compliance and administrative officer after serving 34 years with the company in various positions, including principal accounting officer, corporate controller and chief financial officer. In 2007, he retired as the non-executive chairman of XL Capital Ltd., an insurance company. Mr. Esposito’s prior experience also included leadership positions within the Bank Administration Institute, American Bankers Association, Conference Board, and the advisory council to the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Deborah Harmon	Ms. Deborah L. Harmon is Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since April 2008. Ms. Harmon has been co-founder and chief executive officer of Artemis Real Estate Partners, LLC, a real estate investment firm that manages institutional, third-party capital, since September 2009. Ms. Harmon served as president of Harmon & Co., a strategic and financial advisory services company, during 2007 and 2008. From 2001 through 2007, she was president and chief investment officer of the J.E. Robert Companies, Inc., a fully integrated real estate investment firm. Prior to joining the J.E. Roberts Companies, Ms. Harmon was a managing director at Bankers Trust Company working in both the corporate finance and real estate groups. From 1997 through March 2001, she was a member of the board of directors of Avis Group Holdings, Inc., chairing the special committee of independent directors. In June 2009, Ms. Harmon was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a commissioner for the White House Fellows program.
Stan Ross	Mr. Stan Ross is Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since December 1999. He is a certified public accountant, holds multiple positions at the University of Southern California, including chairman of the board of the Lusk Center for Real Estate and distinguished fellow of the School of Policy, Planning & Development. He is the retired vice chairman of real estate industry services for Ernst & Young, where he was a member of the firm’s management committee. Mr. Ross is a life trustee and governor of the Urban Land Institute. He was also a member of the auditing standards board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Ross serves as senior advisor to The Irvine Company, a diversified private real estate company, and on the board of the American Jewish University.
Louis Stokes	Mr. Louis Stokes is Independent Director of Forest City Enterprises Inc., since 1999. Mr. Stokes has been an attorney with Squire Sanders since 1999 and currently serves as senior counsel. In 1968 he became the first African American member of Congress from Ohio and was a tireless advocate for the people of the state and for the broader civil rights movement. During his 30-year tenure in Congress, he chaired several important committees, including the Ethics Committee and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Veteran Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies. Mr. Stokes is a distinguished visiting professor at The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Through the years, Mr. Stokes has received numerous awards and honors that recognize his national leadership and commitment to public service. Most recently, his commitment to diversity and inclusion was honored by the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity with the 2011 Spirit of Excellence Award for his dedication to expanding opportunity in the legal profession to all minorities.
Jeff Linton

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Charles Ratner	2,252,080
David LaRue	4,530,440
Robert O'Brien	3,943,810
Andrew Passen	--
Brian Ratner	1,895,120
Bruce Ratner	--
Ronald Ratner	1,940,240
James Ratner	1,939,730
Charles Obert	--
Geralyn Presti	--
Linda Kane	--
Scott Cowen	--
Deborah Salzberg	--
Arthur Anton	--
Kenneth Bacon	--
Michael Esposito	--
Deborah Harmon	--
Stan Ross	--
Louis Stokes	--
Jeff Linton	--

As Of 30 Jan 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Charles Ratner	260,800	6,999,930
David LaRue	29,184	62,896
Robert O'Brien	43,200	99,743
Andrew Passen	0	0
Brian Ratner	0	0
Bruce Ratner	0	0
Ronald Ratner	160,200	4,278,716
James Ratner	160,200	4,272,686
Charles Obert	0	0
Geralyn Presti	0	0
Linda Kane	0	0
Scott Cowen	0	0
Deborah Salzberg	0	0
Arthur Anton	0	0
Kenneth Bacon	0	0
Michael Esposito	0	0
Deborah Harmon	0	0
Stan Ross	0	0
Louis Stokes	0	0
Jeff Linton	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
KANE LINDA M	1,631	$7.80
OBERT CHARLES D	650	$17.22
PRESTI GERALYN M	1,188	$17.22
O BRIEN ROBERT G	10,595	$17.22
PASSEN ANDREW J	1,563	$17.22
MILLER ABRAHAM	5,000	$17.26
RATNER CHARLES A	50,000	$17.38
PASSEN ANDREW J	371	$17.90
O BRIEN ROBERT G	15,261	$17.90
PRESTI GERALYN M	347	$17.90
OBERT CHARLES D	544	$17.90
LARUE DAVID J	6,495	$17.90
O BRIEN ROBERT G	16,436	$17.90
PRESTI GERALYN M	494	$17.90
OBERT CHARLES D	573	$17.90
PASSEN ANDREW J	518	$17.90
LARUE DAVID J	7,734	$17.90
RATNER BRIAN J	8,544	$0.00
ROSS STAN	2,840	$0.00
ANTON ARTHUR F	2,840	$0.00
BACON KENNETH J	2,840	$0.00
ESPOSITO MICHAEL P JR	5,681	$0.00
RATNER-SALZBERG DEBORAH	6,866	$0.00
O BRIEN ROBERT G	48,295	$0.00
STOKES LOUIS	5,681	$0.00

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