Wendy Luscombe Biography and Net Worth

Wendy Luscombe has been a Trustee of Acadia Realty Trust since May 2004. Since 1994 Ms. Luscombe has worked independently including being master advisor to the Prudential, PLC of the U.K. on its US real estate strategy, while asset managing its retail properties. For five years Ms. Luscombe was based in London and was Chief Executive Officer of Taylor Woodrow Construction's urban renewal subsidiary, responsible for its London Dockland developments. She also worked on the Russian and Australian projects of a private developer. Prior to that, for ten years, Ms. Luscombe was Chief Executive Officer of Pan American Properties, Inc., a New York based public REIT sponsored by the British Coal Pension Funds. During the same period she was also Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Buckingham Holdings, Inc., the U.S. private equity investor of the British Coal Pension Funds. Ms. Luscombe was responsible for the acquisition, management and disposition of all the assets of these two entities, including the unsolicited takeover of two publicly traded REITs. The portfolios of these entities totaled approximately $1 billion. Ms. Luscombe has sat on the boards of both public and private companies in both the U.S. and Europe, including the Zweig Fund and Zweig Total Return Fund where she was Co-Lead Director for eight years and Deutsche Bank's International Real Estate Opportunity Funds (1A and B) where she was Chair of the Management Oversight Committee until 2014. Additionally, she was appointed by the State Comptroller to serve on the Real Estate Advisory Committee for the New York State Common Retirement Fund and sat on the board of PXRE Reinsurance Company where she served as Chair of the Investment Committee for 13 years. Ms. Luscombe is also a member of the NACD and served as a member of NACD's teaching faculty, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Her government and not for profit board service includes the Board of Governors of NAREIT and the Commission for the New Towns, a U.K. Government entity. She received her degree in Estate Management from Oxford Brookes University.