Taubman

Robert S. Taubman
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Robert S. Taubman is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Taubman Centers, Inc. He joined the Taubman organization in 1976, was elected executive vice president in 1984, chief operating officer in 1988, president and chief executive officer in 1990 and chairman in 2001. He has headed Taubman Centers and served on its board of directors since the company's initial public offering in 1992.

Mr. Taubman is a member of the board of directors of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE:CMA) and Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BID). He serves as a director of the Real Estate Roundtable in Washington, D.C., as a trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and on the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). He is the founding chairman of ULI's Detroit Regional District Council and a member and past trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Among his many civic and charitable commitments, Mr. Taubman serves as a member of the board of directors of Beaumont Hospitals, a trustee of The Skillman Foundation, and a trustee of the Cranbrook Educational Community, where he is chairman of the audit committee. He is a member of the board of directors of SEMCOG (Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments). He is the immediate past chairman of the Michigan campaign drive for the United Negro College Fund. Mr. Taubman is also a past member of the United States Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board, which was formed in 2003 to assist the U.S. Department of Commerce in attracting international visitors to the United States.

Mr. Taubman holds a B.S. degree in economics from Boston University.

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Lisa A. Payne
Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer

Lisa A. Payne is vice chairman and chief financial officer of Taubman Centers, Inc. She also serves as a director of the company. Ms. Payne joined the company in 1997 from her position as vice president of Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division. Her 10 years of service with Goldman Sachs included broad real estate experience in the areas of acquisition and development financing, merger and acquisition advisories, as well as public and private debt and equity offerings. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs she was a vice president in Chemical Bank's real estate department.

Ms. Payne is a member of the board of directors of Masco Corporation (NYSE:MAS), a trustee of the Munder Funds and serves on The Board of Trustees for Cranbrook Schools. She is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Ms. Payne is a graduate of Elizabethtown College and holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business Administration.

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William S. Taubman
Chief Operating Officer

William S. Taubman is chief operating officer of Taubman Centers, Inc. He is responsible for development, operations and leasing. Mr. Taubman also serves as a director of the company.

Mr. Taubman joined the company in 1986 from Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. in New York, where he was a financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy of Religion and Russian Studies. He also holds a master's degree in Philosophy from Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.

Mr. Taubman serves as Chairman of International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). He is Chairman for New Detroit and serves on the board of governors for the Museum of Arts & Design in New York.

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Denise Anton
Senior Vice President, Center Operations

Denise Anton is senior vice president for center operations. She joined The Taubman Company in 1988 as director of advertising, served as vice president and then senior vice president of marketing before assuming her present position in 1997. In her current capacity, she leads center operations, marketing, specialty leasing and sponsorship.

Before joining Taubman, she spent seven years in a variety of executive positions, including executive vice president, with Anton's Men's Apparel before Hart Marx purchased the company in 1988.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich., Ms. Anton's education included studies abroad at Universite de Clermont Ferrand in France, La Universidad de Salamanca in Spain and Phillips Exeter Academy's School Year Abroad in Barcelona. She also completed a teaching internship in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

Ms. Anton serves on the Board of Governors for Cranbrook Schools, a private educational community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and on the Founders Junior Council Advisory Board for the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Esther R. Blum
Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

Esther R. Blum serves as Taubman Centers' senior vice president, controller and chief accounting officer. Prior to joining the company in 1986 she was an audit manager with the accounting firm Touche Ross & Co. She assumed her current Taubman responsibilities in 1998.

Ms. Blum, a certified public accountant, earned both her undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan. She is an emeritus member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts' Best Financial Practices Council and former co-chair of the organization's Accounting Committee.

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Steven E. Eder
Senior Vice President, Treasurer

Steven E. Eder is a 30-year veteran of The Taubman Company. In his role as senior vice president and treasurer, Mr. Eder has responsibility for the company's financing and financial analysis functions, as well as the areas of partnership relations, cash management and loan compliance.

Prior to joining Taubman in 1980, Mr. Eder was an auditor at the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. He was named Taubman's corporate controller in 1983, group vice president financial services in 1988, and assumed his current role in 1997. He earned both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan, and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

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Chris B. Heaphy
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Chris B. Heaphy is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of The Taubman Company. His expertise includes transaction-oriented real estate and general corporate law.

Prior to joining Taubman in June 2005, Mr. Heaphy was a partner in the real estate departments of law firms Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, and Miro Weiner & Kramer, where he worked for 18 years.

Mr. Heaphy holds a bachelor of arts degree from Michigan State University’s College of Business and received his law degree from Wayne State University, where he graduated cum laude and was named to the Order of the Coif law school honor society.

He is on the board of directors for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan.

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Stephen J. Kieras
Senior Vice President, Development

Stephen J. Kieras is senior vice president, development. Mr. Kieras, a 18-year veteran of The Taubman Company's development department, heads the company's real estate development function.

Mr. Kieras graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in environmental engineering and he earned an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. After working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he developed a variety of commercial, residential and resort projects, Mr. Kieras joined the Taubman organization in 1990 as director, development. Mr. Kieras was named vice president, development in 1998 and was promoted to group vice president, development in 2001. He assumed his current position in 2004.

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Robert R. Reese
Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer

Robert R. Reese is senior vice president and chief administrative officer for The Taubman Company. He oversees the company's human resources, information technology, strategy, business improvement, corporate performance management, and business planning functions.

Prior to joining Taubman in 2004, Mr. Reese was a partner in the Chicago-based management consulting firm of RNW Consulting, where he advised Taubman on a range of corporate performance initiatives. Earlier in his career he served as a senior manager with Accenture and a vice president at Citibank. Mr. Reese holds a BA from Northwestern University, where he also earned a masters degree in management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business.

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David T. Weinert
Senior Vice President, Leasing

David Weinert is senior vice president, leasing for The Taubman Company. Mr. Weinert, a 23-year veteran of the Taubman leasing department, heads the company's leasing function.

Mr. Weinert graduated from Western Michigan University majoring in Retail Merchandising with a minor in Business Management. He also later completed the Finance for Senior Executives Program at Harvard University. After college he joined Marshall Field's in Chicago, progressing through various management and merchandising positions, and gaining valuable retailing experience.

Having next served as a commercial real estate broker in the Chicago office of Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate, Mr. Weinert joined the Taubman leasing department in 1986. In 1992 he was named vice president, heading leasing for the company's western region, based in San Francisco. He returned in 2001 to the company's Bloomfield Hills headquarters as group vice president, leasing, where he was responsible for helping manage the entire leasing activity. He assumed his current position in 2004.

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Rene Tremblay
President, Taubman Asia

René Tremblay leads Taubman Asia, the Asian arm of Taubman Centers, a leader in the shopping center industry. As President, Tremblay is responsible for driving Taubman’s shopping center expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

Appointed to his current role in October 2010, Tremblay has over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, having been involved in international investment for almost 20 years.

Formerly, he served as executive vice president, real estate and president of the real estate group of Caisse de dépot et de placement du Québec, one of the ten largest real estate portfolios in the world. Prior to that, as president and CEO of Ivanhoe Cambridge from 1995 to 2009, he oversaw the acquisition and integration of Cambridge Shopping Centres, and developed and executed a successful strategy of major international expansion in markets such as Brazil, Poland, France, Scotland, Spain and China.

Previous work experience also includes Simpson-Sears, Campeau Corp., Westcliff Group, SITQ Immobilier and Cadim International. Tremblay served as worldwide chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers from 2007 to 2008.

René Tremblay has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Université Laval in Québec City. In 2008, he received a Hermès career achievement award from Université Laval. Following the adoption of his daughter Eugénie, in China, in 1999 he worked jointly with his wife Micheline, to create "Fondation Formons Une Famille" a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote general education and assuage poverty and disease, especially for the orphans of the world.

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