CenterPoint's senior management team averages more than 22 years in the real estate industry with more than 12 years
of public company experience. While CenterPoint is a private company, it still adheres to
"Best Practice" corporate governance standards including
highly defined processes and procedures.
Mr. Paul Fisher
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Fisher is the President and Chief Executive Officer, and a founder of CenterPoint Properties Trust,
a Chicago-based company focused on investment in industrial property and related rail, road and port infrastructure.
CenterPoint, initially publicly traded in 1993 (NYSE:CNT), was privatized in 2006 by CalEast Global Logistics,
LLC, a joint venture between the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS),
and GI Partners. Midwest Realty News named Mr. Fisher to its Hall of Fame in 2011.
Mr. Fisher previously served as Chief Financial Officer of CenterPoint and in that capacity
was honored by Institutional Investor in 2005 as one of "America's Best CFOs."
Prior to joining the company in 1991, he held executive positions with real estate firms and investment
banks in Chicago and New York. Mr. Fisher began his career practicing law after earning his Doctor
of Law degree in 1980 from the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated in 1977 from the
University of Notre Dame, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with highest honors and was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 2011, Mr. Fisher served as a member of the Regional Tax Policy Task Force
advising the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. In the past, he has served on the advisory boards
of the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the DePaul
University Real Estate Center. He was a director of Eagle Hospital Trust, Inc.
(NYSE:EHP) between 2004 and the company's sale in 2007.