As Chief Financial Officer, Mark Garside has overall responsibility for capital markets, investor relations, finance, accounting, tax and portfolio analytics. Mark has worked with EDENS for 21 years, and before being named CFO, he was Managing Director in Capital Markets. While leading this division, he supervised investments, debt and equity financing transactions, public financing transactions, joint venture and partnership structuring and business development. With 25 years of commercial real estate experience in corporate finance, capital markets, investments and law, Garside has participated in more than $20 billion of private and public capital markets transactions, including company and portfolio sales and acquisitions, initial public offerings, follow-on common offerings, joint ventures, secured financings and unsecured financings. Prior to joining EDENS, Mark was a Vice President with Wachovia Securities Real Estate Investment Banking group; an investment banker with Lehman Brothers; and a commercial real estate attorney with Parker Poe law firm. He currently is Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Hammond School and serves on the Board of the Boyd Foundation, both in Columbia, SC. Mark received a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Virginia, as well as a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor with honors from the University of North Carolina.