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James A. Thomas Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer James A. Thomas serves as our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Thomas founded TPG, our predecessor company, and served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TPG from 1996 to our formation in March 2004. Prior to founding TPG, Mr. Thomas served as a co-managing partner of Maguire Thomas Partners, a national full-service real estate operating company from 1983 to 1996. In 1996, Maguire Thomas Partners was divided into two companies with Mr. Thomas forming TPG with other key members of former executive management at Maguire Thomas Partners. Mr. Thomas also served as Chief Executive Officer and principal owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA Basketball team and the ARCO Arena from 1992 until 1999. Prior to his tenure with Maguire Thomas Partners, he was a partner in two prominent Los Angeles law firms and served in the Regional Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Thomas’ commitment to the community can be seen in his devotion to the arts and his efforts to improve the quality of life in metropolitan Los Angeles. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Townhall Los Angeles, SOS Coral Trees, Center Theatre Group and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles, California; and the National Advisory Council of the Cleveland Marshall School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and I Have a Dream Foundation in Los Angeles, Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and St. John’s Health Center Foundation in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Thomas also serves on the Board of Governors of the Music Center of Los Angeles County and is a member of the Rand Advisory Board. He also served as Chairman of the L.A. 2000 Partnership, a diverse committee devoted to addressing regional urban issues in Southern California and is a member of the Chairman Council of the Weingart Center Association, and the Colonial Williamsburg National Council. Mr. Thomas received his bachelor of arts degree in economics and political science with honors from Baldwin Wallace College in 1959. He graduated magna cum laude with a juris doctorate degree in 1963 from Cleveland Marshall Law School and was editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Marshall Law Review in 1962-1963. Mr. Thomas has received honorary doctorate degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.