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Raymond Garfield Jr.

Principal, Garfield Traub Development

Ray Garfield has over 35 years of experience in the development, finance and asset management of real estate facilities.  With an extensive Wall Street background, Ray focuses primarily on working with investment banking partners, performing bond and underwriting counsel to engineer creative financing structures and securing capital for essential public and public/private developments.  

Prior to forming Garfield Traub, Ray served as Chairman and CEO and as a Senior Executive of a number of major private or publicly-held national development, real estate services, and financial services companies, including Vista Properties, Inc., Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., Salomon Brothers, and Merrill Lynch Commercial Real Estate.  Over the course of his tenure with these companies, he was responsible for development or disposition of more than 9000 acres of urban properties totaling over $1 billion and the sale or financing of major properties totaling over $6 billion nationwide.

Ray received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and served as a Naval Aviator.  As a Disabled American Veteran, Ray's firm is designated as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business. 

Ray has been a member of leading professional real estate organizations including the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) and the National Council of Public Private Partnerships (NCPPP).  He served as a board member of two public companies, Vista Properties, Inc. and Harvard Industries.  He has been a featured speaker and panelist at real estate conferences throughout the nation, including The Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), and the National Association of Public Private Partnerships (NCPPP).