
By DANIEL F. CUFF
LEAD:
Wendy Luscombe, a real estate executive who bought the Watergate complex
in Washington for the pension fund of the National Coal Board in Britain,
will soon be buying properties for a new boss, the Carroll Group of
Companies.
Wendy Luscombe, a real estate executive who bought the Watergate complex
in Washington for the pension fund of the National Coal Board in Britain,
will soon be buying properties for a new boss, the Carroll Group of
Companies.
Ms. Luscombe, 38, has been named chief executive of Carroll's United
States property arm after eight years with the Coal Board.
During those years, Ms. Luscombe built up a $1 billion portfolio in the
United States for the Coal Board. But now, the board's investment goals
have shifted and its properties in the United States are up for sale.
''Obviously, I thought it was time to spread my wings,'' she said.
As head of the Coal Board's subsidiaries, Pan American Properties Inc. and
Buckingham Holdings Inc., Ms. Luscombe began her American acquisitions in
1979 with the purchase of the Continental Illinois Real Estate Investment
Trust, which owned 50 percent of the Watergate complex. She negotiated the
purchase of the other 50 percent in 1986.
In the earlier years before the market collapsed, ''we had almost 6,000
apartments in Texas, which we sold,'' she said. ''That was good timing and
a bit of luck, too.''
Her new employer, the Carroll Group, is a private company owned by the
British branch of the wealthy Carroll family. The family's origins are in
Ireland, and there is a United States branch with historical ties to
Maryland.
The Carroll Group is one of Europe's biggest private industrial and
property operations. It owns retail centers and business parks throughout
Britain and its most visible current project is a $250 million joint
venture with the Soviet Union to build a British-Soviet Trade Center in
Moscow. Ms. Luscombe said she had become involved in that project as well.
She said she did not know the Carrolls before joining their company, but
she and the family share an interest in horses. ''I fall off them a lot,''
she said. Actually, she trains and rides her own stable of 14 Arabian
horses. The Carrolls raise thoroughbreds on a 400-acre stud farm in
Newmarket, in southern England.
Ms. Luscombe, who is single, is a graduate of the Oxford School of
Architecture and is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors. A chartered surveyor is essentially a real estate professional,
she said.
Ms. Luscombe said the Carroll Group would probably be looking at real
estate development opportunites in the United States more so than did the
Coal Board. But, she added, ''the right type are few and far between.''
Wendy Luscombe
Trustee
Acadia Realty Trust
White Plains , NY
Sector: FINANCIAL / Property Management
56 Years Old
Wendy Luscombe, age 56, has been a Trustee of the Company since 2004. She
is Principal of WKL Associates, Inc., a real estate investment manager and
consultant founded in 1994. Ms. Luscombe has managed investment portfolios
totaling $5 billion over the last 25 years and has represented foreign investors
including UK Prudential and British Coal Pension Funds in their United States
real estate investment initiatives. For 10 years she was Chief Executive Officer
of Pan American Properties, Inc., a REIT sponsored by British Coal Pension
Funds. She was also a member of the Board of Governors of the NAREIT. Ms.
Luscombe has served on various boards of public companies in both the United
States and United Kingdom for nearly 25 years and is an audit committee
financial expert. She was formerly a Board Member, Chairman of the Investment
Committee and member of the audit committee for PXRE Group Ltd., a New York
Stock Exchange listed reinsurance company. She resigned from her positions with
PXRE Group Ltd. in August 2007 when the company merged with Argonaut Group, but
was appointed an outside director of PXRE Reinsurance Company, the United States
subsidiary of PXRE Group Ltd. She also serves as Co-Lead Director, Executive
Committee Member and Audit Committee member for the Zweig Fund and Zweig Total
Return Fund, public closed-end mutual funds. Additionally, she serves as
Chairman of the Management Oversight Committee for the Deutsche Bank
International Real Estate Opportunities Fund and as Board Member for Endeavour
Real Estate Securities and Amadeus Real Estate Securities (Ireland) both private
REIT mutual funds. She was also a Board Member for the Commission of New Towns
in the United Kingdom. She was previously a Board Member for Endeavour Real
Estate Securities a private REIT mutual fund. Ms. Luscombe is also a member of
the NACD and an NACD Certified Director and a member of NACD's teaching faculty,
a member of the International Corporate Governance Network, a Fellow of the
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators.
Director Compensation (Acadia Realty Trust) for 2007
Fees earned or paid in cash $40,250.00
Stock awards $70,427.00
Option awards (in $) $0.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nondisqualified compensation earnings $0.00
All other compensation $0.00
Total Compensation $110,677.00
Director Compensation (Argo Group International Holdings Limited) for
2006
Fees earned or paid in cash $115,000.00
Stock awards $47,861.00
Option awards (in $) $33,259.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nondisqualified compensation earnings
$15,177.00
All other compensation $0.00
Total Compensation $211,297.00
Director Compensation (Acadia Realty Trust) for 2006
Fees earned or paid in cash $39,250.00
Stock awards $14,586.00
Option awards (in $) $9,090.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nondisqualified compensation earnings $0.00
All other compensation $0.00
Total Compensation $62,926.00
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