Fred Cooper is Senior Vice President - Finance, International Development & Investor Relations at Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL).  Toll, a Fortune 500 Company, is the 5th largest U.S. home builder by revenues, the 6th largest multifamily rental apartment developer, and among the largest land and community developers in the U.S. Toll is also one of the nation’s largest urban high-density/high-rise condo and rental tower developers with 50+ buildings and over 7,000 units completed.

Since its 1967 founding, Toll has built over 150,000 homes. Toll serves first-time, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, urban high-rise, and second-home buyers and renters in 60+ urban and suburban U.S. markets in 24 states. The Company has been named World's Most Admired Home Building Company 8 times in Fortune magazine's survey of The World's Most Admired Companies.

Fred Cooper leads Toll's Finance and Investor Relations Departments, which are responsible for its Wall Street, banking, joint venture, and rating agency relationships, corporate planning, M&A, ESG and financial marketing activities in the U.S. and globally. Since joining Toll in 1993, his teams have raised over $25 billion to fuel the firm’s growth from a $300 million regional home builder to a national land developer/home building company with peak annual revenue of nearly $10 billion.

Fred also oversees Toll’s exploration of international development opportunities and joint venture partnering relationships with major U.S. and international financial and development institutions. He has raised significant joint venture capital from international partners for major U.S. development projects totaling over $1 billion.

From 1989 to 1993, Fred was Director of Corporate Finance and Planning at DKM Properties Corp., the real estate arm of a Forbes Private 50 company and one of the nation’s largest private companies. From 1984 to 1989, he was Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the NYC Financial Services Corporation, (now NYC Economic Development Corp.), New York City’s economic development bank.  From 1980 to 1983 he worked in community-based affordable housing and economic development in the South Bronx and Brooklyn, New York.

 

Fred has a strong personal interest in economic and real estate development and affordable housing in emerging markets.  He teaches in Wharton’s “Real Estate Development in Emerging Markets” course and has lectured on real estate finance and development since 2006 in Wharton’s International Housing Finance Program.  He is President of U.S. Friends of Kenya Community Development Foundation and an advisor to REALL International, which provides capital and technical assistance to affordable housing developers in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He is a volunteer consultant with the Stanford University SEED Program, where he works with African entrepreneurs in the real estate development sector.
 

Fred holds an A.B. from Brown University and a Master of Public Policy in finance and international development from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.