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Mr. Kaplan has been director of Highwoods since November 2000. He is the chairman of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Kaplan is a certified public accountant and retired in 2000 as a partner from Ernst & Young LLP where he was the national director of that firm's REIT Advisory Services group. Mr. Kaplan has served on the board of governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and has been actively involved in REIT legislative and regulatory matters for over 20 years.
Mr. Kaplan is a director of Endeavor Real Estate Securities, a private REIT, Maguire Properties, Inc., a publicly traded office REIT based in California, and Feldman Mall Properties, Inc. a publicly traded mall REIT based in Arizona. | 