The Manager
Hilco JCP, LLC (“Hilco”) serves as manager of the Trust under the Management Agreement and will provide a management team, along with appropriate support personnel, to provide the management services to be provided by the Manager to the Trust. The Manager has its principal place of business at 5 Revere Drive, Suite 410, Northbrook, Illinois. The Manager is unaffiliated with the Trust, except that each of the Trust’s officers is an officer of the Manager.
Hilco is an affiliate of Hilco Real Estate LLC (“HRE”), a national provider of strategic real estate disposition and repositioning services. HRE provides strategic advisory and transactional services designed to minimize costs and maximize value of real estate assets. The Manager has been involved in the repositioning of over 35,000 leases and the disposition of over 200 million square feet of retail, industrial and office properties over the last 15-plus years.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement or the Management Agreement, HRE, on behalf of the Trust, has full power and authority to sell any and all of the Properties without further action or approval of the Certificateholders or the Trustee.
The Manager maintains a contractual, as opposed to a fiduciary, relationship with the Trust. No Certificateholder shall be a third-party beneficiary of the Management Agreement and neither the Manager nor any of its affiliates has any duties, obligations or responsibilities towards Certificateholders except for obligations expressly set forth in the Management Agreement to the Trust.
Directors and Executive Officers
The Trust does not currently have, and will not have, directors. Below is a list of names, ages and a brief account of the business experience as of February 1, 2021 of our executive officers.
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Mr. Aaronson also currently serves as CEO of Hilco Real Estate LLC, an affiliate of the Manager. Previously, Mr. Aaronson served as the Executive Vice President of Hilco Global from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining Hilco Global, Mr. Aaronson served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Cendant Corporation from 2003 to 2006, where he oversaw deal-making for the company’s hotel and timeshare businesses and as Vice President of Cendant’s Strategic Development Group from 2000 to 2003. Earlier, he served as an associate investment banker with ING Barings, where he handled the analysis and negotiations of acquisitions, divestitures and financings for several public and private companies. Mr. Aaronson brings extensive experience in all aspects of retail, restaurant, industrial, hospitality, office and medical office real estate to the role. Mr. Aaronson received a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mr. Finger also currently serves as Executive Vice President of Hilco Real Estate LLC, an affiliate of the Manager. From April 2020 until his appointment as Executive Vice President of Hilco Real Estate LLC, Mr. Finger served as a full-time consultant with Hilco Real Estate LLC. Prior to joining Hilco Real Estate LLC, Mr. Finger served as President of Strategic Advisory, Inc., an advisory services company specializing in improving public REIT valuations with a particular focus on the retail sector, from 2008 to April 2020. Prior to forming Strategic Advisory, Inc., Mr. Finger served as Chief Financial Officer of Federal Realty Investment Trust from 2002 until 2007. From 1993 until 2001, Mr. Finger served as Chief Financial Officer of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust. From 1978 until 1991, Mr. Finger served in various senior management positions, including Chief Operating Officer of Savage/Fogarty Companies, Inc., a real estate development company. Mr. Finger served as a member of the Board of Directors of American Assets Trust (NYSE: AAT) from the completion of its initial public offering in 2011 through June 2019, and during that period, he also served as Chairperson of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Finger received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois. Mr. Finger was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland in 1976 and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1981.