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Gary Stevens is the partner in charge of real estate investment activities at Landmark Partners Inc., a private equity secondary market specialty firm based in Simsbury, Connecticut. Since pioneering the market for secondary fund interests in 1990, Landmark has formed 20 private equity and real estate funds with $5.5 billion of capital. Prior to joining Landmark, Mr. Stevens was a managing director of The Carlyle Group, where, beginning in 1996, he built and led the firm’s real estate fund activities. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Stevens was chief operating officer of the J. E. Robert Companies (JER). After he joined JER in 1991 to direct portfolio acquisitions and manage the firm’s Principal Investment Group, JER became one of the largest purchasers of distressed U.S. commercial real estate assets, acquiring and managing $9.9 billion in assets through 66 portfolio transactions during his five-year tenure. He began his career with eight years at Aronoff and David, a boutique real estate law firm in Washington, DC, where he was a partner, and six years at The Artery Organization, a Washington, DC, real estate development, construction, and management firm, where he was a principal and executive vice president. | 