{"id":1004140770,"date":"2016-03-31T05:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004140770"},"modified":"2020-04-23T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:14:24","slug":"american-real-estate-recruits-veteran-as-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/american-real-estate-recruits-veteran-as-coo\/","title":{"rendered":"American Real Estate Recruits Veteran as COO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004140771\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004140771\" data-attachment-id=\"1004140771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/american-real-estate-recruits-veteran-as-coo\/james-walker\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"473,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"James Walker, chief operating officer, American Real Estate Partners\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;James Walker, chief operating officer, American Real Estate Partners&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg?w=473\" class=\"wp-image-1004140771 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg\" alt=\"James Walker, chief operating officer, American Real Estate Partners\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg 473w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/James-Walker-e1459412000780.jpg?resize=300,268 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004140771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Walker, COO, American Real Estate Partners<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Herndon, Va.<\/strong>\u2014D.C.-area private real estate investment company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrepartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Real Estate Partners<\/a> announced it has appointed James Walker as COO. In his new position, Walker will oversee the company\u2019s operations and strategy, and contribute to shaping financing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/investment\/\" target=\"_blank\">investment plans<\/a>. He will report directly to President Brian Katz and CEO Doug Fleit.<\/p>\n<p>Walker brings 25 years of real estate experience to the job. Prior to joining American Real Estate Partners, he served as senior transactional executive for Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI), where he held leading roles, including head of debt capital markets and head of Mid-Atlantic and MidWest acquisitions. Before his time with PREI, he worked as an attorney in New York with the office of Arent Fox. The industry veteran graduated from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and also holds a J.D. from New York\u2019s Fordham University Law. Walker is also a member of the Urban Land Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim is a highly-respected, sophisticated real estate professional, who, with his institutional investment and legal background, brings an incredible amount of depth to our company. He has a long, successful history of employing institutional management best practices in all facets of real estate investment, development and operations,\u201d Katz said in prepared remarks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of American Real Estate Partners<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new position, James Walker will oversee the company\u2019s operations and strategy, as well as contribute to shaping financing and investment plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":1004140771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21742,21744,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004140770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-midatlantic","category-latest","category-people","category-washington-dc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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