Robert E. Peterson

Bob joined Carter in 2001 as an owner and executive vice president and in 2002, assumed the role of chairman and CEO. Today, Bob is one of the two principal owners of Carter. Since then, Bob has led the transformation of Carter from a full-service commercial real estate company into a highly-focused real estate investment and development firm. In September of 2011, Carter sold its brokerage and property management divisions to Cassidy Turley (now Cushman and Wakefield).

Under his leadership, Carter has invested over $1.5 billion in the acquisition and development of multi-family, office, mixed-use and office real estate since 2004. In 2010, Bob led the Carter initiative to form two publicly listed, non-traded REITs, Carter Validus Mission Critical REITs I & II, to acquire single-tenant, net-leased assets in the data center and healthcare sectors across the U.S.; to date the REITs have invested in over $3.5 billion of assets.
Prior to joining Carter, Bob was managing director of CarrAmerica Realty Company (NYSE: CRE) and president of CarrAmerica Development Inc. He also served as CEO of Peterson Properties, a full-service commercial real estate company, which he founded in 1979 and sold to CarrAmerica in 1996. Peterson Properties developed over 30 office and industrial projects totaling four million square feet, and handled more than $1 billion in investment transactions over a 17-year period.