Executive Managing Director and Operating Committee Member for HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.). He is also Vice Chairman of The Board of HFF, Inc. After spending the first 36 years of his career in the Boston market, and one year in HFF’s Chicago office, he is currently dividing his time between the Boston and New York offices developing a significant presence in each market. He is a director of Gilbane Inc. As one of ten members on the firm’s Operating Committee, Mr. Fowler is responsible for the overall direction of HFF’s 17 offices nationwide with specific responsibility of overseeing the Boston and New York operations. In addition, he works on major commercial financing, equity and sales transactions. Mr. Fowler has successfully completed close to 700 real estate transactions valued at over $18 billion over the last 20 years with the company, for all property types. Mr. Fowler began his career in the real estate finance business in 1968. He spent four years in the Real Estate Department of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1972 he joined a New England-based mortgage banking and development company, and in 1974, formed Fowler, Goedecke & Co., a predecessor to Fowler Goedecke Ellis & O’Connor, Inc., which was merged into HFF in 1998.