Joseph M. Harvey, president, is chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager for all of Cohen & Steers' portfolios and a member of the firm’s investment committee. He has 22 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 1992, Mr. Harvey was a vice president with Robert A. Stanger Co. for five years, where he was an analyst specializing in real estate and related securities for the firm's research and consulting activities. Mr. Harvey has a BSE degree from Princeton University. He is based in New York.


Scott Crowe, senior vice president, is the global portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' global and international portfolios. He has 12 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Crowe was an executive director at UBS and served as global head of real estate. He also worked at UBS Warburg as a real estate analyst. Mr. Crowe has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales and completed a year in Finance Honors at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is based in New York.


Thomas N. Bohjalian, CFA, senior vice president, is a portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' U.S. Realty Income portfolios. He has 19 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Bohjalian was a vice president and REIT analyst for five years at AEW Capital Management. Mr. Bohjalian has both a BS degree and an MBA degree from Northeastern University. He is based in New York.


Jon Y. Cheigh, CPA, senior vice president, is a portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' U.S. real estate securities portfolios. He has 15 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Mr. Cheigh was a vice president and senior REIT analyst for two years at Security Capital Research & Management. Previously, he was a vice president of real estate acquisitions at InterPark and an acquisitions associate at Urban Growth Property Trust, two privately held REITs. Mr. Cheigh has a BA cum laude from Williams College and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. He is based in New York.


Chip McKinley, senior vice president, is a portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' global real estate portfolios. He has 15 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. McKinley was a portfolio manager and REIT analyst at Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors. Previously, he was with Fidelity Investments and Cayuga Fund. Mr. McKinley has a BA degree from Southern Methodist University and an MBA degree from Cornell University. He is based in New York.


Gerios J.M. Rovers is CIO and managing director of the Cohen & Steers European real estate securities business. He has more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, Mr. Rovers, with Joseph Houlihan, co-founded Houlihan Rovers, a Belgium-based global real estate securities asset manager that was acquired by Cohen & Steers. Previously, Mr. Rovers was a vice president for two and a half years at Security Capital Group in Brussels, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of portfolio strategies. Prior to that, Mr. Rovers was an associate director of GIM Algemeen Vermogensbeheer, a Dutch investment management company, where he managed global real estate securities portfolios for domestic and foreign clients. Mr. Rovers has a degree from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He is based in Brussels.


Leonard Geiger, CFA, senior vice president, is director of European real estate securities research. He has over 16 years of investment experience. Before joining the firm in 2006, Mr. Geiger was portfolio manager and director at CBRE Global Real Estate Securities in London, focusing on pan-European property securities. Previously, he worked at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch and U.S. Trust in London and New York for seven years as a senior pan-European equities portfolio manager. Prior to that, he worked for two years as an equity research analyst at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York. Mr. Geiger graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a BA from Middlebury College and holds an MBA and an MA International Affairs in European Affairs from Columbia University. He is based in London.


Luke Sullivan, senior vice president, is a portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers’ Asia Pacific real estate strategy. He has nine years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Mr. Sullivan was a vice president and research analyst at Citigroup Investment Research where he covered Australian real estate companies. Previously, he was a research assistant at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Sullivan has Bachelor’s of Law and Economics from Australian National University. He is based in Hong Kong.


William F. Scapell, CFA, senior vice president, is director of fixed income, the portfolio manager for the Cohen & Steers’ preferred securities portfolios and leads the firm’s preferred securities investment and research efforts. He has 17 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Mr. Scapell worked in the fixed income research department at Merrill Lynch, where he was their chief strategist for preferred securities for three years and a vice president in corporate finance and treasury department for two years. Previously, he was in bank supervision and monetary policy roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for five years. Mr. Scapell has a BA degree from Vassar College and an MA degree from Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs. He is based in New York.


Robert S. Becker, senior vice president, is the portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' infrastructure and utility portfolios and leads the firm's infrastructure and utility research and investment efforts. He has 15 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Mr. Becker was a portfolio manager and analyst for the Franklin Utilities Fund at Franklin Templeton Investments. Mr. Becker has a BA degree in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley. He is based in New York.


Richard E. Helm, CFA, senior vice president, is the senior portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' large cap value strategy. He has 24 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Mr. Helm was senior portfolio manager at WM Advisors for four years managing the WM Equity Income Fund. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Northwestern Trust & Investors Advisory Co., TD Asset Management, Parametric Portfolio Associates and Morgan Stanley Investment Advisory. Mr. Helm has a BS degree from University of Colorado and an MBA degree from University of Denver. He is based in Seattle.


Douglas R. Bond, executive vice president, is the portfolio manager for Cohen & Steers' Closed-End Opportunity Fund (FOF). In additon, he also leads the firm's closed-end portfolio consulting effort with Van Kampen Investments for their closed-end unit investment trust products.. Before joining Cohen & Steers in 2004, Mr. Bond worked at Merrill Lynch for 23 years. Between 1992 and 2004, he ran their closed-end fund new origination effort and was involved in all closed-end funds underwritten by Merrill Lynch. He also headed Merrill's Private Client Syndicate Group. Mr. Bond has a BA degree from Hamilton College and an MBA from New York University.


Yigal D. Jhirad, senior vice president, is the director of Cohen & Steers' quantitative research and hedging strategies. He has 22 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Jhirad was an executive director in the institutional equities division of Morgan Stanley, where he headed the firm's portfolio and derivatives strategies effort. He was responsible for developing, implementing and marketing quantitative and derivatives products to a broad array of institutional clients, including hedge funds, active and passive funds, pension funds and endowments. Mr. Jhirad has a BS degree from the Wharton School. He is based in New York.


Todd A. Voigt, CFA, senior vice president, is the portfolio manager for the Cohen & Steers Global Real Estate Long-Short Fund. He has 12 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Mr. Voigt was senior vice president at Cliffwood Partners LLC and Portfolio Manager of the Cliffwood Absolute Return Strategy (CARS) fund and Portfolio Manager of the short side of Cliffwood Value Plus Strategy fund. CARS is a real estate dedicated absolute return hedge fund invested in the United States, Canada and Asia. Mr. Voigt worked at Cliffwood Partners for over 10 years. Prior to working at Cliffwood, Mr. Voigt worked at JP Morgan in the Private Client Services Group. Mr. Voigt has a BA degree from Claremont McKenna College. He is based in New York.


Stephen M. Coyle, senior vice president, is the chief investment officer for Cohen & Steers' global private real estate multimanager strategy. He has 21 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Mr. Coyle was the chief investment strategist and fund of funds portfolio manager with Citigroup Property Investors, the real estate investment management arm of Citigroup. Previously, he was the senior strategist for Property & Portfolio Research and a research director with Westmark/TCW Realty Advisors. Mr. Coyle has a BA degree from Hampden-Sydney College and an MA degree from Boston University. He is based in New York.