Robert G. O'Brien
Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer

Robert G. O'Brien serves as CFO, Forest City Enterprises, Inc., and executive vice president, Strategy and Investment Management, Forest City Rental Properties Corporation.

O'Brien is responsible for the review of new investments, public capital markets and strategic planning. His primary focus is to oversee the Investment Committee, which reviews the Company's new investment opportunities. He is also responsible for coordinating the Company's public capital market transactions and directing the Company's four-year strategic planning process. O'Brien has served in this position since 2000.

From 1994 to 2000, he was president of Forest City Finance Corporation, with responsibility for identifying financing sources, procuring capital and monitoring all outstanding mortgage loans for Forest City. Before that, he was vice president of project finance.

Before joining Forest City in 1988, O'Brien was vice president with Oxford Development in Bethesda, Md., and Indianapolis.

O'Brien is a member of the Urban Land Institute, Mortgage Bankers Association and International Council of Shopping Centers. He serves on the board of Cleveland Public Art, Saint Martin de Porres High School and Cleveland Development Advisors.He is also a member of the Class of 2003 of Leadership Cleveland.

O'Brien received a bachelor's degree in economics from Kalamazoo College and an MBA in finance from Indiana University.