Board of directors

Michael D. Fascitelli has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since November 2017 and was appointed the Chairperson of the Board of Directors in May 2021. From January 2014 to November 2017, Mr. Fascitelli served on the Board of Starwood Waypoint Homes and its predecessor. Since June 2013, Mr. Fascitelli has been the owner and principal of MDF Capital LLC, a private investment firm. Mr. Fascitelli is also a co-founder and a Managing Partner of Imperial Companies, a real estate investment and development company. Mr. Fascitelli has served as member of the Board of Trustees of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO) since 1996. He served as the President of Vornado Realty Trust from 1996 to April 2013, and its Chief Executive Officer from May 2009 to April 2013. Mr. Fascitelli served as the President of Alexander’s Inc., a real estate investment trust and an affiliate of Vornado Realty Trust, from December 1996 to April 2013. Prior to joining Vornado Realty Trust in 1996, Mr. Fascitelli was a partner at Goldman Sachs & Co., an investment banking firm, in charge of its real estate practice since 1992. Mr. Fascitelli also serves as a Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc. (NASDAQ: RADI), one of the largest international aggregators of rental streams underlying wireless sites through the acquisition and management of ground, tower, rooftop and in-building cell site leases, and as the Chairman of the Investment Committee and a Board member of Quadro Partners Inc. (formerly Cadre), a real estate technology company. He serves as a Board member of Child Mind Institute, The Rockefeller University, Urban Land Institute and University of Rhode Island Foundation. Mr. Fascitelli is a former Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a past Chairman of the Wharton Real Estate Center where he served on the Executive Committee.

Dallas B. Tanner has served as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Invitation Homes and a member of our company’s Board of Directors since January 2019. As a founding member of Invitation Homes’ business, Mr. Tanner has been at the forefront of creating the single-family rental industry. Since the founding of Invitation Homes in April 2012, he has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, and since August 2018 to January 2019 as interim President. Prior to the initial public offering of Invitation Homes in February 2017, he served on the Boards of our company’s predecessor entities. Mr. Tanner has almost 20 years of real estate experience through the establishment of numerous real estate platforms. In 2005, he founded Treehouse Group, for which he privately sourced funds for platform investments, including single-family homes, multifamily properties, manufactured housing, residential land, bridge financing and property management. Mr. Tanner continues to be involved in Treehouse Group’s interest in Pathfinder Ventures, a Southwest-focused commercial real estate fund. In addition, he was a partner in a successful acquisition of First Scottsdale Bank of Arizona. Mr. Tanner served on the Maricopa County (Arizona) Flood Control Board and on the Advisory Board of First Scottsdale Bank. He is actively involved in American Indian Services and served as a missionary in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Jana Cohen Barbe has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since November 2018. Ms. Barbe also serves as a Director of The Boler Company, a family office with operations across the globe in manufacturing, real estate and other holdings. Ms. Barbe currently holds the position of Senior Advisor to Blackstone’s real estate group. Ms. Barbe was previously a partner at Dentons, the largest law firm in the world, where she advised many of the world's leading financial institutions and insurance companies on affordable housing and community development investments. In addition to the more-than 30 years Ms. Barbe spent working in the national affordable housing industry, Ms. Barbe is deeply committed to serving her local community. She is a past Chairperson of the Board of Thresholds, Illinois' oldest and largest provider of supportive services and housing for individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Ms. Barbe is also an impassioned advocate for women. A trailblazer, she was the first woman appointed to the Dentons’ Global Board where she served as the only woman for six years, and the first Global Vice Chair appointed from the U.S. region. As such, Ms. Barbe effectuated groundbreaking and lasting change for women in the legal profession, as recognized by Corporate Counsel and InsideCounsel magazines when they awarded her the 2019 Women, Influence & Power Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also a past Chairperson of the Board of Advisors of Catalyst, Inc., the much acclaimed international women’s advocacy organization. 

Richard D. Bronson has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since November 2017. From January 2014 to November 2017, Mr. Bronson served on the Board of Starwood Waypoint Homes and its predecessor. Mr. Bronson has been the Chief Executive Officer of The Bronson Companies, LLC, a real estate development company, since 2000 and has been involved in the development of several shopping centers and office buildings throughout the U.S. Mr. Bronson currently serves on the Board and as a Lead Director and the Chair of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Trustees of Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD) and was previously a director of TRI Pointe Group, Inc. (NYSE: TPH) and Mirage Resorts Inc. (NYSE:MRI). Additionally, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust. He also previously served as President of New City Development, an affiliate of Mirage Resorts Inc., where he oversaw many of the company’s new business initiatives and activities outside Nevada, and was Vice President of the International Council of Shopping Centers, an association representing 50,000 industry professionals in more than 80 countries. Mr. Bronson currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Neurosurgery Department at UCLA Medical Center.

Jeffrey E. Kelter has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since November 2017. From January 2014 to November 2017, Mr. Kelter served on the Board of Starwood Waypoint Homes and its predecessor. Mr. Kelter is the Chairman of Jack Creek Investment Corp., a special purposes acquisition company focused on the broader food and consumer products logistics and supply chain ecosystems value chain. Mr. Kelter is a founding partner of KSH Capital, which provides real estate entrepreneurs with capital and expertise to grow their platforms. Prior to founding KSH Capital, Mr. Kelter was the founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of KTR Capital Partners, a private equity real estate investment and operating company focused on industrial properties throughout North America, until its May 2015 sale to Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD). From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Kelter was President and Chief Executive Officer and served on the Board of Keystone Property Trust (“Keystone”), an industrial real estate investment trust. Mr. Kelter formerly served on the Board of Gramercy Property Trust (NYSE: GPT) from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Kelter founded the predecessor to Keystone in 1982, and took the company public in 1997, where he and the management team directed its operations until its sale in 2004. Prior to forming Keystone, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Penn Square Properties, Inc., a real estate company which he founded in 1982. Mr. Kelter currently serves as a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Westminster School and Trinity College.

Joseph D. Margolis has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since May 2020. Mr. Margolis is the Chief Executive Officer of Extra Space Storage, Inc. (NYSE: EXR). He held this position since January 1, 2017. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Extra Space Storage, Inc. from July 2015 until December 31, 2016. Mr. Margolis served as a member of the Board of Directors of Extra Space Storage, Inc. from February 2005 until July 2015. From 2011 until July 2015, he was Senior Managing Director and Partner at Penzance Properties, a vertically integrated owner, operator and developer of office and other properties in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Previously, Mr. Margolis was a co-founding partner of Arsenal Real Estate Funds, a private real estate investment management firm, from 2004 through 2011. Before forming Arsenal in 2004, from 1992 to 2004, Mr. Margolis held senior positions at Prudential Real Estate Investors in portfolio management, capital markets and as General Counsel. Before that, Mr. Margolis worked for The Prudential Insurance Company of America as in-house real estate counsel from 1988 through 1992, and as a real estate associate at the law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish from 1986 through 1988.

John B. Rhea has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since January 2017 and, prior to the initial public offering of Invitation Homes, from October 2015 to January 2017, served on the Boards of our company’s predecessor entities. Since September 2020, Mr. Rhea has been a partner at Centerview Partners, an independent investment banking advisory firm. In March 2021, Mr. Rhea was elected to the Board of Directors of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. Mr. Rhea served as Senior Advisor and President, Corporate Finance & Capital Markets at Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, a full-service investment banking firm, from June 2017 to September 2020. Mr. Rhea is also Managing Partner of RHEAL Capital Management, LLC, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in March 2014, specializing in affordable and market rate housing, public private partnerships, and acquisition and repositioning of commercial real estate in urban communities. Mr. Rhea previously served as a Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group, a worldwide management consulting firm from July 2014 to September 2017. From May 2009 to January 2014, Mr. Rhea was a senior appointee of Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, the largest public housing authority in North America. Prior to his service with the Bloomberg Administration, Mr. Rhea was Managing Director and Co-Head of Consumer and Retail investment banking at Barclays Capital (and its predecessor firm Lehman Brothers) from May 2005 to April 2009. Previously, Mr. Rhea served as Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from May 1997 to April 2005. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rhea worked at PepsiCo, Inc. and The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Rhea has served on and chaired several non-profit boards and is currently a director of Wesleyan University, Red Cross Greater New York and University of Detroit Jesuit High School.

J. Heidi Roizen has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since May 2020. Ms. Roizen has been a partner with leading venture capital firm Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Ventures) since 2012 and serves as a director for privately held portfolio companies Planet, Zoox, Memphis Meats and Polarr. Ms. Roizen is also a member of the Board of Directors of DMGT, a public global media and information services company (LSE: DMGT). She also co-leads the Threshold Venture Fellows program in the Engineering Department at Stanford University and serves on the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Among her past activities, Ms. Roizen has been a partner at DFJ and Mobius Venture Capital from 1999 to 2006, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association, where she served on the Executive Committee, chaired the annual conference and chaired the Public Outreach Committee. She has served on numerous private and public company boards, including TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) and Great Plains Software (was NASDAQ: GPSI until it was acquired by Microsoft). Before becoming a venture capitalist, Ms. Roizen served as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations for Apple. Ms. Roizen started her career as an early Silicon Valley pioneer, co-founding software company T/Maker in 1983 and serving as its CEO for over a decade until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX) in 1994. During that time, she also served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Software Publishers Association (now the Software Industry and Information Association—SIIA). Also active in nonprofit organizations, Ms. Roizen is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Center for Women in Information Technology and of Springboard Enterprises. She is a past Board member of the Stanford Alumni Association, where she served on its Trustee Nominating Committee for five years. Ms. Roizen is a frequent guest speaker at business schools across the country and is the subject of a popular HBS case about building business networks. In 2018, Ms. Roizen was named the “Financial Woman of the Year” by the Financial Women of San Francisco.

Janice L. Sears has served on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes since January 2017. Ms. Sears is also a member of the Board of Directors of Sonder Holdings Inc., a leading next-generation hospitality company. Ms. Sears previously served as independent director, Audit Chair of Essex Property Trust (NYSE: ESS), which owns multi-family rental properties, independent director, Board Chair of The Swig Company, an owner of large office properties, and independent director, Audit Chair of BioMed Realty Trust, a life-sciences owner, sold to Blackstone Real Estate in 2016. She also served as independent director and advisor to Helix RE, a real estate software startup. Prior to 2009, Ms. Sears held the position of Managing Director, Western Region Head in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Banc of America Securities. Concurrently, as the San Francisco Market President for Bank of America, she managed a senior leadership team, deepening relationships with nonprofits and local governments. Prior to 1988, Ms. Sears was a Real Estate Economist at both Chemical Bank and Citicorp in New York. Ms. Sears’ activities have included G100, West Audit Committee Network, Nareit, ULI, NACD, WOB, and Athena Alliance. She is a frequent speaker including at both Harvard and Columbia Business Schools. Ms. Sears was named ‘Forever Influential’ by SF Business Times and inducted into the Allen Matkins Hall of Fame and gained annual recognition by Bisnow’s Bay Area Power Women, among other awards. Ms. Sears is active philanthropically both on boards and spending time in the community including with Compass Family Services, Meals on Wheels, tutoring at the Marina Middle School, and serving meals at St. Anthony’s.