Ms. Amanda L. Houghton has been an Executive Vice President of Asset Management of Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. since December 2011. From January 2011 to December 2011, Ms. Houghton served as Senior Vice President of Asset Management and Finance at Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. From January 2010 to January 2011, Ms. Houghton served as Vice President of Asset Management and Finance at Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. Ms. Houghton has a varied background with experience in asset and joint venture management, acquisitions, dispositions and corporate cash modeling and valuation. From August 2006 to December 2009, Ms. Houghton served as the Manager of Joint Ventures for Glenborough LLC in San Mateo, California, where she actively managed over two million square feet of retail/office properties and 400 acres of development land. Prior to joining Glenborough, from August 2005 to August 2006, Ms. Houghton provided acquisitions, asset management and disposition support in her position as Senior Analyst at ING Clarion in Boston, Massachusetts. Between July 2004 and August 2005, she served as a Senior Project Analyst for Weyerhaeuser Realty Investors in Irvine, California. Prior to Weyerhaeuser, Ms. Houghton participated in mergers and acquisitions structuring and valuation at RSM EquiCo in Costa Mesa, California and business and intangible asset valuation at Bernstein, Conklin & Balcombe in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Houghton received a B.B.A degree in Finance and a B.A. degree in Public Policy from Southern Methodist University. Ms. Houghton holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, was appointed to the NAIOP Medical and Life Sciences Forum and is a member of the CFA Institute and Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW).