Howard B. Hodgson Jr., 51, Partner, has 28 years of experience in the real estate services industry and has been employed by Cabot for 16 years. Mr. Hodgson heads the Asset Management Group and serves on the Investment Committee. While with the Cabot REIT, Mr. Hodgson served as Senior Vice President, Director of Real Estate Operations. In this capacity he was responsible for asset management, property management (which was over 90 percent internalized for the Company by Mr. Hodgson), leasing, and third-party investment management. Prior to this, Mr. Hodgson served as a Senior Vice President, Director of Asset Management and member of the Investment Committee of Cabot Partners from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Hodgson began his real estate career in 1979 with the Boston based real estate firm of R.M. Bradley & Co., Inc., becoming a Vice President and head of its institutional property management group prior to joining Cabot, as a Senior Vice President and head of its property management group. Mr. Hodgson is a graduate of Northeastern University. He is a Director of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a Trustee of Cambridge Financial Group, Inc., and a Director of Cambridge Appleton Trust, N.A. He is a Trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum and a corporate Trustee of the Trustees of Reservations, a Massachusetts Conservation Organization.