Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Cornerstone Ventures, Inc.

Terry G. Roussel is one of the founding stockholders of the Cornerstone-related entities that commenced operations in 1989. Mr. Roussel is the President, Chief Executive Officer, a Director and the majority shareholder of Cornerstone Ventures. Under Mr. Roussel’s direction, Cornerstone and its affiliates formed nine separate real estate investment funds and joint ventures, including three public entities formed since 2005. In 1993, Cornerstone and its affiliates became managing joint venture partner with Koll Capital Markets Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Koll Management Services, Inc. (now owned by CB Richard Ellis). As managing partner of the above-described funds and joint ventures, Cornerstone and its affiliates were responsible for the acquisition, operation, leasing, and disposition of all jointly owned properties between Cornerstone and Koll.

Prior to forming Cornerstone Mr. Roussel started the Special Investments Group, a new division within Bank of America’s Capital Markets Group which provided real estate investment opportunities to the bank’s wealthiest private banking clients.

Mr. Roussel graduated with honors from California State University at Fullerton in 1976 with a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. Subsequent to graduation, Mr. Roussel joined the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. as an auditor and later transferred to the tax department of Arthur Young & Co., the predecessor firm to Ernst & Young. Mr. Roussel became a Certified Public Accountant in 1979.