Fred Cooper
Senior Vice President – Strategic Partnerships
Toll Brothers

Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) is a $10 billion Fortune 500 (#394) Company that has built over 150,000 homes since its founding in 1967. Toll is ranked the 5th largest U.S. home builder by revenues and is among the largest multifamily rental apartment developers and among the largest land and community developers in the U.S. Toll is also one of the nation’s largest urban high-rise/high-density condo and rental tower developers with 50+ buildings and over 7,000 units completed.

Projects include urban and suburban for-sale, rental, student, urban high-rise, condo, 55+, single-family build-to-rent, and master planned communities, and numerous land development, urban redevelopment, and mixed-use projects ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion. Toll is Investment Grade rated by all three major credit ratings covering the homebuilding sector.

Fred Cooper is Senior Vice President – Strategic Partnerships. He focuses on developing and expanding new and existing domestic and international relationships for equity and debt, as well as establishing institutional-level relationship opportunities to help drive the growth of our various platforms, including homebuilding, rental apartment, urban condo, land acquisition & development, build-to-rent, and other businesses. He also works to identify and engage with lenders and investors with whom Toll Brothers can collaborate to reposition or repurpose challenged property and loan portfolios held by those groups.

Fred joined Toll Brothers in 1993 to establish and lead its Finance and Investor Relations departments, serving for several decades as Senior Vice President – Finance and Investor Relations.  As Toll Brothers’ in-house investment bank, the group is responsible for our capital markets, investor relations and financial planning activities, as well as our partnering relationships with major U.S. and international institutions, Since formation, the group has raised over $30 billion from banks, the public capital markets, and institutional partners. In addition to capital raising, the group advises on complex project structuring, joint ventures, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and major property acquisitions.

Fred has been financial point for the creation of Toll Brothers City Living, which has now built over 5,000 urban condos in 45 buildings, Toll Brothers Apartment Living, which has developed over $3 billion of urban and suburban rental assets nationally, and several other start-up initiatives.

Fred received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Public Policy degree focused on finance and international development from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Fred is an active mentor and lecturer at a variety of graduate-level real estate programs, including the Wharton International Housing Finance Program.  He is President of the U.S. Friends of the Kenya Community Development Foundation and an advisor to REALL International, which provides capital and technical assistance to affordable housing developers in emerging markets globally. As a volunteer consultant, including through the Stanford University SEED Program, he works with African entrepreneurs in the real estate development sector. He serves on the Harvard Alumni Real Estate Board, and the University of Wisconsin Graaskamp Center Real Estate Advisory Board and is a member of the ULI Global Exchange Council.