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Richard S. Foote, CFA

Managing Director

Mr. Foote joined Berkshire Capital in 1994 and has developed the firm’s real estate industry practice, having had extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions of real estate investment management and services firms. Mr. Foote has also advised owners of institutional equity and fixed income managers, high net worth managers, mutual fund managers and capital markets firms in mergers and acquisitions. He currently co-heads the firm’s alternative asset management practice.

From 2005 to 2010 Mr. Foote was a co‐founder and the president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Highbury Financial Inc., a publicly traded investment management holding company. Mr. Foote’s career has primarily focused on corporate finance work for financial institutions and real estate. Prior to joining Berkshire Capital, he was a co-founder and partner of Knightsbridge Capital Partners, a partnership engaged in investment banking and merchant banking activities. Previously, he was a Vice President of PaineWebber Incorporated, where he spent six years in the Investment Banking Division, primarily working with financial institutions in mergers, acquisitions and issuance of equity and debt securities.

Mr. Foote was graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1985 with an AB in Economics. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Pension Real Estate Association and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.