Company: VRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000924901-25-000035
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Company: Veris Residential, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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erman was President and Founder of First Equity Realty, LLC, a real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition of under-performing real estate assets from financial institutions. Earlier, from 1987 to 1991, Mr. Dickerman was an investment banker in the Real Estate / Partnership Finance Group at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for the origination, analysis, structuring, acquisition, asset management, disposition and marketing of real estate and other limited partnerships.

Mr. Dickerman is a member of the real estate industry trade organizations PREA, INREV, and the Zell Lurie RE Institute, and served on the board of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate from 2018 to 2019. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of secondary investments and liquidity at real estate conferences and universities throughout the United States.

Mr. Dickerman earned a B.A. from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

BOARD SERVICE

Veris Residential, Inc. (May 2023 – Present); Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (2018 – 2019).

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A. Akiva Katz

DIRECTOR | AGE 47

OCCUPATION

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Bow Street LLC (“Bow Street”)

EXPERIENCE

A. Akiva Katz was appointed to Veris Residential’s Board of Directors in 2020. He is the Chair of the Strategic Review Committee as well as a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee. Mr. Katz brings a shareholder perspective to the Board as well as extensive real estate investing experience and a deep knowledge of financial markets derived from his work at major global investment firms.

Mr. Katz is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bow Street LLC, a global institutional alternative asset management firm that has been a significant shareholder of Veris Residential since 2019. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamental method of investing and seeks to identify asymmetric opportunities across asset classes in both public and private markets where it can add value by working collaboratively with companies and management teams.

Prior to founding Bow Street, Mr. Katz was a Managing Director at Brahman Capital, a value-oriented long/short investment firm. Earlier, he held roles at Rho Capital Management and the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Katz is currently a member of the board of directors of TransAtl