Experience Plus
More Experience
For over 30 years, Ric Clark and Tod Waterman have been responsible for executing some of the most creative and complex real estate investments and developments in global gateway cities. After regularly collaborating on a variety of projects, they have combined their extensive real estate experience into WatermanCLARK.
With this collaboration, the talented group of associates and commercial assets that were part of Waterman Interests will be merged into WatermanCLARK.
30 Years
Average Experience ofSenior Leadership
14 Years
Team Has Worked Togetheron Integrated Projects
15 MSF
Global Developmentsand Redevelopments*
50 MSF
Completed LeaseTransactions*
Comprehensive and Considered Projects
A Formula for
Creating Value
The WatermanCLARK team has forged strong relationships with market participants in every aspect of the real estate community across their respected areas of expertise. Integrity and relationship building have defined the careers of each professional at WatermanCLARK and has made the Company a valued landlord, partner and client across the real estate industry.
Vertically Integrated Investment and Operating Team
Investment
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Leasing & Asset
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Property
Operations
Construction
Management
Integrity. Access. Insight.
The WatermanCLARK team is a talented group of professionals with a proven track record for achieving superior risk-adjusted returns for investors throughout market cycles. Their collective decade-long experience working together strengthens WatermanCLARK’s distinctive competencies to help create a sustained competitive advantage for investors, tenants and partners.
Ric Clark spent the past 36 years with the Brookfield Property Group (the real estate arm of Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates) building a team and growing real estate assets under management from less than $5 billion to over $200 billion. During his tenure, he expanded investment, and operational and asset management capabilities beyond the office sector into the multifamily, industrial, hotel, retail and other sectors. He also extended Brookfield’s geographic footprint beyond North America and Brazil to Europe, Australia, India and China. As of June 2020, when Mr. Clark resigned Executive Chairman responsibilities, Brookfield owned and managed more than 600 million square feet of properties in key markets worldwide.
Philip “Tod” Waterman III founded Waterman Interests, LLC in 2007, leading the Company as CEO into a premier owner and operator of real estate assets in New York City. Prior to that, Mr. Waterman joined Reckson Associates Realty Corp (NYSE “RA”) in 1999 to open their New York City Division. He was responsible for all aspects of that business until the Company was sold to SL Green in January 2007 for approximately $6 billion. Prior to that, from 1987 to 1999, he was a Partner at Tishman Speyer Properties in various senior roles including co-head of the Company’s West Coast business, co-head of Rockefeller Center, and head of leasing and asset management for Tishman Speyer’s domestic office portfolio of over 20 million square feet.
Acquisitions & Leasing
Alan Bernstein is responsible for the financial underwriting of investment opportunities that WatermanCLARK pursues. Mr. Bernstein manages and collaborates with employees and third-party agents in all aspects of the leasing and acquisitions efforts the Company undertakes. He received his B.A. from Tufts University with highest honors and previously worked at Apollo Global Management in its Real Estate Private Equity group.
Robert Conover develops and oversees the Company’s financial, accounting, and capital market activities. He was previously the Chief Accounting Officer with The Related Companies and spent more than a decade with Tishman Speyer, where he worked closely with Mr. Waterman. Mr. Conover has over 35 years commercial real estate experience in the San Francisco, London, and New York City markets and holds a B.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University.
Director of Operations
Michael Keaveney oversees operations and construction management for WatermanCLARK’s assets.
He has been in the New York City management and construction industry for 17 years. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Keaveney held various roles in property management, construction, and critical systems with Fisher Brothers and Jones Lang LaSalle. He received his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from NYU and is also an active member of BOMA, REBNY, and IREM.
Daniel Hardecker is responsible for asset management of Company owned and managed properties.
Prior to joining WatermanCLARK, he was a Senior Real Estate Analyst for NYU Langone Medical Center and previously worked for Cushman & Wakefield. Mr. Hardecker received his BS in Accounting from University of Albany, SUNY and his MS in Accounting from Baruch College.
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Sharlene Naidu oversees all financial aspects of certain operating and development properties at WatermanCLARK as well as working on special projects. Prior to joining the Company, she worked in the real estate group at Westpac Banking Corp in Sydney, Australia as well as the global accounting firm, Crowe LLP. Ms. Naidu is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and received a BBusCom degree from the University of Western Sydney.
Diann Taylor oversees the day-to-day financial accounting operations of all assets and is responsible for the preparation of annual budgets and monthly management reports. She was previously with Tishman Speyer Properties and Colliers in their accounting departments. Ms. Taylor received a B.A. in Accounting and Business Practices from Herbert H. Lehman College. Ms. Taylor joined the Company in 2011 and has over 23 years of commercial real estate experience.
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