Mr. Behler, born March 20, 1952, is the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and President of Paramount Group Real Estate Advisor LLC (“PGREA” or the “Firm”), and has served as the Chairman, CEO and President of PGREA’s parent, Paramount Group, Inc., a Maryland corporation listed on the NYSE since 2014, or its predecessor companies (together with PGREA, “Paramount”), since October 1991. Since joining Paramount, Mr. Behler has overseen all of the acquisitions and dispositions that produced Paramount’s current portfolio of assets. In 1973, Mr. Behler joined Thyssen Handelsunion AG and spent the early part of his career in Thyssen entities, where he held numerous Thyssen positions in the Middle East, including President of Thyssen Saudia, Ltd. In 1985, Mr. Behler came to the United States as President of Thyssen Rheinstahl in Atlanta, Georgia. In his positions with the Thyssen entities, Mr. Behler was responsible for, among other duties, the acquisition, financing, development and disposition of more than ten million square feet of commercial real estate in various countries.

Mr. Behler’s board and association memberships presently include serving as a member of The Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, D.C.; a member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York; a member of the American Council on Germany’s Business Advisory Committee; and a member of the Board of Directors of Citymeals-on-Wheels. Mr. Behler is also a former member of the Urban Land Institute, the Executive Committee of the Greenprint Foundation and the Board of Directors of the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance, and a former Chairman of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE). 

Mr. Behler studied law at the University of Cologne and graduated from Georgia State University with a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Wilbur Paes has been our Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer since February 2021. Before being appointed Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mr. Paes served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer since March 2016; and prior to that, Mr. Paes served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since 2014. Prior to joining our executive management team in 2014, Mr. Paes was a Senior Vice President at Vornado Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT, where he spent over 11 years and held a myriad of positions in accounting and finance. Prior to that, Mr. Paes worked for the international public accounting firms of KPMG LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP, where he served some of the firms’ largest real estate clients.

Mr. Paes graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Information Systems. He is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the State of New York, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Peter Brindley currently has been our Executive Vice President, Head of Real Estate since February 2021. Before being appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Real Estate, Mr. Brindley served as Executive Vice President, Leasing since December 2017. Before being appointed Executive Vice President, Leasing, Mr. Brindley was Senior Vice President, Leasing of our New York portfolio since September 2015. Mr. Brindley joined our company in December 2010 as Vice President of Leasing. Prior to joining our Company, he served as a Senior Director at Tishman Speyer in their New York office. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer in 2004, Mr. Brindley worked at CB Richard Ellis in the brokerage services group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Avenue of the Americas Association, where he serves as Treasurer. He is also a member of the Real Estate Board of New York. Mr. Brindley graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science in Business and received his Master of Science degree in Real Estate Finance & Investment from New York University.

Gage Johnson has been our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since 2014. Mr. Johnson joined our company in May 2009 as General Counsel, and since 2021 has chaired our Sustainability Committee. Previously, since 2005, Mr. Johnson was General Counsel of Citi Property Investors, the global real estate investment management arm of Citigroup, where he was a Managing Director responsible for virtually all legal aspects of real estate investments throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in all property sectors. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Johnson was an Executive Director in the Law Department at Morgan Stanley Real Estate, the investment firm’s real estate unit. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Johnson served in various roles at Lend Lease Real Estate, part of a publicly traded property group specializing in project management and construction, real estate investment and development, most recently as General Counsel. Prior to joining Lend Lease Real Estate, Mr. Johnson was an attorney with the law firm of Paul Hastings LLP in Washington, D.C. He was formerly the Vice Chairman, Treasurer, and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Mr. Johnson graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs and from the University of Virginia School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.

Ermelinda Berberi has been our Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer since April 2017. Before being appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Ms. Berberi was Senior Vice President, Finance since April 2016. Prior to joining us in 2016, Ms. Berberi spent over 12 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP in various positions, most recently as an audit Senior Manager in the northeast real estate audit practice, where she served some of the firm’s largest publicly traded REITs. Ms. Berberi graduated from Montclair State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and received her Master of Business Administration degree from Rutgers University. She is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the State of New Jersey, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Behler, born March 20, 1952, is the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and President of Paramount Group Real Estate Advisor LLC (“PGREA” or the “Firm”), and has served as the Chairman, CEO and President of PGREA’s parent, Paramount Group, Inc., a Maryland corporation listed on the NYSE since 2014, or its predecessor companies (together with PGREA, “Paramount”), since October 1991. Since joining Paramount, Mr. Behler has overseen all of the acquisitions and dispositions that produced Paramount’s current portfolio of assets. In 1973, Mr. Behler joined Thyssen Handelsunion AG and spent the early part of his career in Thyssen entities, where he held numerous Thyssen positions in the Middle East, including President of Thyssen Saudia, Ltd. In 1985, Mr. Behler came to the United States as President of Thyssen Rheinstahl in Atlanta, Georgia. In his positions with the Thyssen entities, Mr. Behler was responsible for, among other duties, the acquisition, financing, development and disposition of more than ten million square feet of commercial real estate in various countries.

Mr. Behler’s board and association memberships presently include serving as a member of The Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, D.C.; a member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York; a member of the American Council on Germany’s Business Advisory Committee; and a member of the Board of Directors of Citymeals-on-Wheels. Mr. Behler is also a former member of the Urban Land Institute, the Executive Committee of the Greenprint Foundation and the Board of Directors of the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance, and a former Chairman of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE). 

Mr. Behler studied law at the University of Cologne and graduated from Georgia State University with a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Mr. Armbrust has been a member of our Board since 2014. Mr. Armbrust was the Managing Director of CURA Vermögensverwaltung, a real estate management firm, from 1992 through 2019 and, since January 1, 2020, he serves as chairman of its supervisory board. From 1985 to 1992, Mr. Armbrust was Vice President Tax, Accounting, Reporting and M&A of Gruner & Jahr Publishing Group, Hamburg. Prior to that, Mr. Armbrust held various other finance positions since 1977. Mr. Armbrust served as a member of the supervisory board of Otto Versand, an international retailer until February 29, 2020. He serves as chairman of the supervisory board of ECE Group, an international shopping center manager and developer. Mr. Armbrust studied national economics and received his Masters of Economics from the University of Mainz. Mr. Armbrust was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, his extensive experience in the real estate industry, his background in finance and his extensive knowledge of the Company.

Dr. Bussmann has been a member of our Board since March 2016. Dr. Bussmann has been a trustee of the Mannheim Trust in New York since 1998, responsible for the investment and management of its assets in real estate, private equity and financial investments in public equity and fixed income. He also serves as director or manager of a number of the Mannheim Trust portfolio companies, including Mannheim Holdings LLC and Mannheim Real Estate LLC and their subsidiaries. He was a board member of the private Cellwar Holding AG in Switzerland and, since its reorganization, is President of Rhodanie Investment AG. From 1998 to 2005, he was co-trustee of the Marico Trust in New York, and from 1995 to 1998 he was manager of Margna SA/Margna Holding SA, a Luxembourg company that invested in European blue chip stocks. Prior to holding these positions, from 1980 until 1994, Dr. Bussmann spent 15 years in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries in Germany and the United States, at Knoll AG, Abbott Laboratories, BASF AG and BASF Corporation. Dr. Bussmann received his Dr. juris utriusque degree from Heidelberg University and in 1977 was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Dr. Bussmann was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, his extensive background in finance and his senior leadership background.

Ms. Klein has been a member of our Board since March 2016. Ms. Klein has been a founding partner of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm which invests in early stage technology companies that make businesses work better, since 2013. Prior to launching Bloomberg Beta, Ms. Klein led new initiatives at Bloomberg L.P. from 2010 to 2013. Before joining Bloomberg L.P., from 2000 to 2010, Ms. Klein served in various roles at SoftBank, a global company which provides information technology and telecommunication services. Previously, she also held various investing and operating roles at several investment companies and co-founded a children’s education business. Ms. Klein has also served on the board of directors of Regency Centers Corporation since 2019. Ms. Klein graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and as a Joseph Wharton Scholar with a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Klein was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, her extensive experience in technology-related industries, and her senior leadership background.

Ms. Otto-Bernstein has been a member of our Board since 2014. Ms. Otto-Bernstein is an award winning, Emmy-nominated writer and film maker, who began her career as a journalist. Currently, she is the President of Film Manufacturers Inc., an international production company specializing in the development, production and co-production of high quality fiction and non-fiction motion pictures, as well as selected works for stage and print, a position which she has held since 1992. Ms. Otto-Bernstein is also a principal owner of ECE Group, an international shopping center manager and developer, and a member of the board of directors of CURA Vermögensverwaltung, a real estate management firm. Ms. Otto-Bernstein is the chair of the Dean’s Council of the Columbia University School of the Arts and was awarded the Columbia University Alumni Medal of Achievement in 2009. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera and of the International Council of the Guggenheim Museum and served for ten years on the board of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Ms. Otto-Bernstein received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in philosophy and political science and a Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia University. Ms. Otto-Bernstein was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, her significant ownership interest in the Company and experience in the real estate industry.

Mr. Patterson has been a member of our Board since 2018. Mr. Patterson has, since 2010, been President of MRP Holdings LLC and serves as a real estate consultant and financial advisor. He is also an Advisory Director of Investcorp, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Rockefeller Capital Management. From August 2010 until January 2015, Mr. Patterson served as Chief Executive Officer of Boomerang Systems, Inc. In August 2015, Boomerang Systems, Inc. filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Until January of 2009 Mr. Patterson was a Managing Director and the Head of Real Estate Global Principal Investments at Merrill Lynch where he oversaw the real estate principal investing activities of the firm. Mr. Patterson joined Merrill Lynch in April 2005 as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and in 2006 also became the Co-Head of Global Commercial Real Estate which encompassed real estate investment banking, principal investing and mortgage debt. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he served as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking at Citigroup from 1996 until 2005. Mr. Patterson currently serves on the board of directors for UDR, Inc. and Digital Realty Trust, Inc., is the Chairman of the Board of Americold Realty Trust, Inc., and is a former director of GGP, Inc. Throughout his career, Mr. Patterson has been involved in a variety of financing and investing activities spanning virtually all types of real estate in most major global property markets. Mr. Patterson has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the College of William and Mary, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Our Board selected Mr. Patterson to serve as director because it believes he possesses, among other things, valuable financial and real estate industry expertise, including extensive experience working with public companies in the real estate industry, as well as experience on public company boards, and his senior leadership background.

Mr. Saito was the Senior Executive Managing Director and Global Head at Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., the largest publicly traded real estate developer in Japan from 2008 to 2017. Being promoted to a board member in 2011, Mr. Saito had been directly involved in all of the global acquisitions and developments, substantially growing the portfolio to what it is today, including 55 and 50 Hudson Yards in New York as well as the BBC Television Centre in London. After joining Mitsui Fudosan in 1976, he served as CEO of Mitsui Fudosan America from 1998-2002 and Chairman of Mitsui Fudosan America’s Halekulani Corporation and Mitsui Fudosan UK from 2008-2017, before retiring in 2020. Since 2019, Mr. Saito serves as outside director and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Tokyo Gas Company Ltd. and as Chairman of the Nomination Committee since 2021. He has also been serving as outside director of Globeship Corporation since July 2019. Previously, Mr. Saito was ULI Japan Council‘s Chairman from 2010-2012, and Trustee in Japan from 2010-2016. From 2010-2016, he was a member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and Vice Chairman of China Committee. Mr. Saito also was a member of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) from 2010-2017. He has been a member of our Advisory Board since 2020. Mr. Saito graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor‘s degree in commerce and management in 1976. Mr. Saito was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, his real estate industry experience, his diverse background, knowledge of other industries and his senior leadership experience.

Since 2014, Ms. Sutter, has been the Chief Executive Officer of Paula Sutter LLC, a consumer brand consultancy, which she founded in October 2014. From October 2014 to December 2017, Ms. Sutter served as the Chief Executive Officer of TSG Fashion Group at TSG Consumer Partners, LLC, a private equity firm. From 1999 to October 2013, Ms. Sutter served as the President of Diane von Furstenberg Studio, L.P., a fashion company. From January 1993 to December 1998, Ms. Sutter served as a Vice President of The Donna Karan Company, LLC, a fashion company. Ms. Sutter also serves as a member of the board of directors of ThredUp Inc. (NASDAQ: TDUP) since 2014, and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: IPAX), where she has been Executive Chairwoman since 2021, as well as a number of privately held companies. Ms. Sutter holds a Liberal Arts degree in Literature from Villanova University.

Mr. Wright has been a member of our Board since 2020. Since January 2019, he has been the Chief Investment Officer at Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a publicly traded REIT specializing in data centers, with responsibility for spearheading the company’s investment and other capital allocation activities. Prior to joining Digital Realty, from 2005 to December 2018, Mr. Wright was Co-Head of Americas Real Estate and Managing Director of the Real Estate, Gaming & Lodging Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. During his tenure at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he provided strategic and financial advice to clients across a broad spectrum of real estate, infrastructure and related sectors, including the Company during its initial public offering. Before his time at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mr. Wright served as a Managing Director in the Real Estate & Lodging Group at Citigroup where he was responsible for originating and executing strategic advisory and capital raising assignments, as well as general client coverage. During his 25-year investment banking career, he successfully completed over $200 billion of M&A transactions, asset sales, joint ventures, public and private debt and equity offerings, and bank loans for clients. Many of these transactions have been the largest, most noteworthy transactions in the REIT sector. For example, Mr. Wright led teams that acted as the sole sell-side advisor on the largest REIT merger in history and that served as an active bookrunner on the two largest REIT initial public offerings to date, one of which was the Company's. He also worked at Trammell Crow Company in Washington, DC where he was a member of the finance team responsible for acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, as well as construction and permanent debt financings across multiple product types. Mr. Wright received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan. Mr. Wright was selected to serve on our Board based on, among other things, his extensive experience in the real estate industry and his valuable financial industry expertise, including extensive experience working with public companies.