William S. Friedman has served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Tarragon since 1989. He has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors since December 2000. Before that Mr. Friedman and its predecessors was a real estate attorney and director of many public and private real estate investment and development companies. After graduating from Brandeis University, where he currently sits on the Board of Trustees, he served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic and then earned a law degree from Columbia University.
Lawrence G. Schafran Director
Lawrence G. Schafran (Independent) has been a Director of Tarragon since December 1998. He was a Trustee of National Income Realty Trust from March 1995 to November 1998. Mr. Schafran has been Managing General Partner of L.G. Schafran & Associates, a real estate investment and development firm in New York City, since 1984. He serves as Chairman of the Board (since January 1996) and Co-Chief Executive Officer (since January 2000) of Delta-Omega Technologies, Inc., a Broussard, Louisiana based specialty chemical company. He also serves as Trustee (since December 1999), Interim Chief Executive Officer and President (since August 2000) and Chairman (since October 2000) of the Banyan Strategic Realty Trust, a NASDAQ traded equity REIT. He has been a Director of PubliCARDS, Inc. since 1986, and a Director of WorldSpace, Inc. since April 2000.
Carl B. Weisbrod Director
Carl B. Weisbrod (Independent) has been a Director of Tarragon since December 1998. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from December 1998 to December 2000. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Income Realty Trust from February 1994 to November 1998, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Vinland Property Trust from February 1994 to May 1995. Mr. Weisbrod has been the President of Trinity Real Estate since July 2005. He also serves as a trustee (since 1996) of the Ford Foundation.
Lance Liebman Director
Lance Liebman (Independent) has been a Director of Tarragon since December 1998. He also served as a Trustee of National Income Realty Trust from March 1994 to November 1998. Mr. Liebman is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the Director of Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. He also serves as a Director of the American Law Institute and as Public Governor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange since 1999. He was the Dean of Columbia Law School from 1991 to 1996. From 1970 to 1991, he was Assistant Professor, Professor and Associate Dean of Harvard Law School. He has been a Director of the Greater New York Insurance Co. (both mutual and stock companies) since 1991; a Director of M&F Worldwide since 1995; and a Director of Brookfield Financial Properties, Inc. since 1996. He has been an attorney at law since 1968.
Robert P. Rothenberg Director
Robert P. Rothenberg was named President of Tarragon in June 2004 and has served as Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Tarragon since September 2000. Mr. Rothenberg has been the managing member of APA Management LLC, a real estate investment and management company, since 1994. He is also a Managing Member of Ansonia LLC, which together with Tarragon acquired close to 2600 apartments in the State of Connecticut since 1997. Mr. Rothenberg was a co-managing member of Accord Properties Associates, LLC, which managed the Ansonia portfolio in Connecticut and was acquired by Tarragon in January 2001. He previously founded and served as President of Venture Realty Group, Ltd., which invested in multifamily and industrial properties, from September 1992 through April 1996. Mr. Rothenberg graduated from the Harvard Business School in June 1984.
Raymond V.J. Schrag Director
Raymond V.J. Schrag (Independent) has been a Director of Tarragon since December 1998. He was a Trustee of Vinland Property Trust from October 1988 to May 1995, and of National Income Realty Trust from October 1988 to November 1998. Mr. Schrag has been an attorney in private practice in New York City since 1973.
Martha E. Stark Director
Martha E. Stark has served on Tarragon's board of directors since December 2005. She has served as finance commissioner for the City of New York since February 2002. She was a portfolio manager for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, a non-profit foundation, from 2000 to February 2002. She has been an attorney at law since 1986.
To contact the Tarragon Board of Directors:
Stockholders and other interested persons may communicate with any member of the Board, including the Board Chairman, the Chairman of the Company’s Nominating and Governance Committee, Audit Committee, or Executive Compensation Committee, or with the non-management directors of the Company as a group, by sending a written communication to the desired recipient at the following address:
To make a candidate recommendation to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee:
Stockholders desiring to make candidate recommendations for the Board may do so by submitting nominations to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors, in accordance with the "Policy and Submission Procedures For Stockholder Recommended Director Candidates" in care of the Corporate Secretary at the address set out above.
To submit accounting, auditing or other complaints of financial wrongdoing to the Audit Committee:
Anyone with a concern or complaint about Tarragon’s accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters may communicate such concern to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors by sending the Committee a letter in care of the Corporate Secretary at the address set out above. Any such communication may be made on a confidential or anonymous basis, but all communications should contain sufficiently specific information to permit the Audit Committee to pursue the matter.
All written communications received by the Corporate Secretary will be forwarded to the appropriate directors or committee members.
