Mr. Thomas Q. Bakke serves as the Senior Vice President - National Leasing & Marketing of Equity Office Properties Trust - General Partner of EOP Operating Limited Partnership. He has been the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at Washington Real Estate Investment Trust since April 21, 2014. Mr. Bakke is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Washington REIT's real estate operations, including asset management, marketing, leasing, property management and development. He joined Washington REIT with more than 25 years in the real estate industry. He serves as Senior Vice President of National Leasing and Marketing at Equity Office Properties Trust. Prior to Washington REIT, he served as a Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield, where he was the Market Leader for the Northern Virginia office since April 2013. From February 2007 to January 2012, he served as Market Managing Director for Boston at Equity Office Properties (EOP), a national commercial real estate owner and a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group. At EOP, he played an instrumental role in the growth and development of EOP from a small opportunistic investment company of 5 million square feet to an industry leader of Class A office properties with over 150 million square feet across 35 markets in the United States prior to sale. As the Market Leader, he was responsible for all aspects of owning and operating a $4.5 billion, 12 million square foot Class A office building portfolio in Boston with concentrations in the Financial District, Back Bay, Cambridge, Waltham and Burlington. Responsibilities included: asset management, marketing, leasing, property management, construction, redevelopment, acquisitions and dispositions. Over his 20 plus years at EOP, he held a variety of other senior positions with EOP and its predecessors including Senior Vice President of National Leasing, responsible for all marketing and leasing of the company's 150 million square foot national portfolio and Senior Vice President of Field Operations with responsibilities for all leasing and property operations for EOP's national portfolio prior the company's public offering in 1997. Prior to joining EOP in 1991, he held positions with The Staubach Company and Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services (predecessor of CBRE). He spent 14 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was a former F-14 aviator, attaining more than 1000 flight hours on aircraft carriers with direct involvement in such world crisis situations as the Iranian hostage rescue effort and the Iran-Iraq war. Mr. Bakke is a Graduate of the United States Naval Academy and has an MBA in Finance, attending MIT's Sloan School of Management and Golden Gate University.