Executive Board of Directors

William S. Friedman

William S. Friedman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Tarragon Realty Investors, Inc. tarragonrealty.com. (NASDAQ:TARR) and has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate and financial services industries. Since assuming full responsibility for Tarragon in 1992, total assets and share price have grown more than tenfold.

Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia University School of Law. From 1965 to 1967 he and his wife, Lucy, were Peace Corps volunteers in the Dominican Republic. Mr. Friedman has lectured on real estate development and finance to graduate students at Columbia University's School of Architecture and Urban Affairs, Pace University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.