KBS Capital Advisors’ Principals
Peter Bren - Chairman and President
As Chairman of the Board and President of KBS Capital Advisors, Peter Bren oversees all aspects of the company's business activities, including acquisition, management and disposition of assets acquired. He is a member of the Investment Committee which evaluates and authorizes new investment opportunities for the firm. Mr. Bren is also President of KBS REIT, a public, non-listed Real Estate Investment Trust that commenced its up to $2 billion initial offering in January 2006.
Mr. Bren has been involved exclusively in real estate development, management, acquisition, disposition and financing for more than 40 years as Chairman and President of KBS Realty Advisors, President of KBS REIT, the President of The Bren Company; a former Senior Partner of Lincoln Property Company and President of Lincoln Property Company, Europe. Mr. Bren is also a founding member of The Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Charles Schreiber - Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Schreiber serves as Chief Executive Officer of KBS Capital Advisors, a nationally recognized real estate investment advisor. Mr. Schreiber has supervised the acquisition of over $8.24 billion in real estate investments on behalf of institutional and separate account investors. Mr. Schreiber is also Chairman of KBS REIT, a public, non-listed Real Estate Investment Trust that commenced its up to $2 billion initial offering in January 2006.
Mr. Schreiber has been involved exclusively in real estate development, management, acquisition, disposition and financing for more than 26 years. Prior to forming KBS Realty Advisors in 1992, he served as the Executive Vice President of Koll Investment Management Services and Executive Vice President of Acquisitions/Dispositions for The Koll Company. During the mid-1970’s through the 1980’s, he was Founder and President of Pacific Development Company.
Mr. Schreiber graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance with emphasis in Real Estate. During his four years at USC, he did graduate work in the then newly-formed Real Estate Department in the USC Graduate School of Business. He is currently an Executive Board Member for the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business/School of Policy, Planning and Development.
Keith Hall - Executive Vice President
Keith Hall is a co-founder along with Peter Bren, Chuck Schreiber, and Peter McMillan of KBS Capital Advisors and Executive Vice President of both KBS REIT I and KBS REIT II. Mr. Hall is also co-founder of Willowbrook Capital Group, LLC, an asset management company located in Los Angeles, California. Prior to forming Willowbrook Capital, Mr. Hall was a Managing Director at CS First Boston, where he managed their Distribution Strategy and Business Development for the Principal Transaction Group’s real estate securities portfolio. Mr. Hall’s two primary business unit responsibilities were Mezzanine Lending and Commercial Real Estate Development.
Before joining CS First Boston in 1996, Mr. Hall served as a Director in the Real Estate Products Group at Nomura Securities, with responsibility for the company’s distribution and trading of fixed-income Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities. Mr. Hall spent the 1980s as a Senior Vice President in the High Yield Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert’s Beverly Hills office, where he was responsible for distribution and trading of the group’s high-yield real estate securities.
Peter McMillan - Executive Vice President/Treasurer
Mr. McMillan is Executive Vice President, Treasure and Secretary for the Board of Directors of the KBS REIT.
Mr. McMillan is co-founder and Managing Partner of Willowbrook Capital Group, LLC. Prior to forming Willowbrook in 2000, Mr. McMillan served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of SunAmerica Investments, Inc., which was later acquired by AIG. As Chief Investment Officer, he was responsible for over $75 billion in assets, including residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, public and private investment grade and non-investment grade corporate bonds and commercial
mortgage loans and real estate investments.
Before joining SunAmerica in 1989, he served as Assistant Vice President for Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company with responsibility for the company’s $6 billion fixed income portfolios.
Mr. McMillan received his master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Economics from Clark University. Mr. McMillan is a director of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.