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Brad Dockser is responsible for MacFarlane Partners’ urban investment activities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, which include building and maintaining business relationships with development partners as well as sourcing, negotiating and closing investments in real estate development, redevelopment and repositioning projects.Brad has 22 years of real estate experience. Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, he was partner and chief operating officer for Western Development Corporation, a leading retail and mixed-use property development firm in the Washington, D.C., area. He was primarily responsible for all aspects of its investment and development operations as well as its capital markets activities. Among the properties he acquired while with Western were The Shops at Georgetown Park, a retail center in the District’s historic Georgetown neighborhood; and Towson Commons, a mixed-use property in Towson, Md., that the firm planned to expand and redevelop.Brad previously served as managing director of Starwood Capital Group’s European operations, overseeing direct investments, joint ventures and financing activities in France, Germany and other European nations. He earlier was responsible for the firm’s Asian operations, which included making property investments in Japan and Hong Kong as well as leading the recapitalization of Sansiri Property Corporation, a major Thai property company for which he also served on both the executive committee and board of directors.Brad began his real estate career with JMB Realty, then the largest real estate firm in the United States, and later with CRI, Inc., which was the nation’s largest owner of multifamily residential properties at the time. While at CRI, he oversaw the creation and financing of Capital Apartment Properties REIT, a privately held real estate investment trust based in Washington, D.C., that focused on market-rate apartments in the eastern U.S. In the early and mid-1990s, he served as principal and chief investment officer for Nascent Capital, an international investment firm.Brad is a member of the Urban Land Institute and serves on the board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Washington; the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., Schools Committee; and the Harvard Asia Center Advisory Committee. He also was founding director of the Greater Washington Exploratory Committee, the District of Columbia’s bid committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics.Brad holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude. | 