Manager biography
Allan J. Baum has been a member of the CDT Board since 1998. Mr. Baum, retired, has over 20 years experience in the investment banking business, retiring from Credit Suisse (CS) in 2002. At CS, he was a Managing Director and head of the structured finance unit for commercial mortgage-backed securities.
Prior to his ten years with CS, Mr. Baum held positions in the real estate investment bank of Citibank, as well as in the tax-exempt housing finance and mortgage finance areas of Merrill Lynch. From 2004 through 2018, Mr. Baum served as a trustee of Gramercy Property Trust, a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust recently acquired by affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners.
Mr. Baum received a BA in Government/Urban Studies from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1983.