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Mr. McDowell is a founder of Capital Lease Funding, Inc., or CapLease, a NYSE listed REIT, where he has been continuously employed since 1994, including as chief executive officer since March 2001, and as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary from 1994 until February 2001. He has served on the board of directors of CapLease since November 2001, where he is also a member of the investment committee and the investment oversight committee. From 1991 until 1994, Mr. McDowell was corporate counsel for Sumitomo Corporation of America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of one of the world’s largest integrated trading companies. As corporate counsel, Mr. McDowell advised on a wide range of domestic and international corporate legal matters, including acquisitions, complex financing transactions, power plant development, shipping, litigation management and real estate. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. McDowell was an associate in the corporate department at the Boston law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish. Mr. McDowell received a JD with honors from Boston University School of Law in 1987 and received a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University in 1982 | 