Thompson National Names Debt Fund Chief

Tony Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer of the new firm, notes that he has worked with Osgood for years. In his previous post with Lehman Bros., Osgood was managing director of the Global Real Estate Group, where he focused on origination for fixed and floating-rate products and principal business, including joint venture equity, bridge mezzanine and equity.

Osgood was also at Lehman Bros. when it was the adviser to NNN Realty Advisors Inc. during NNN's reverse merger with Grubb and Ellis Co. Before Lehman, Osgood was managing director and head of West Coast origination at Wachovia Securities from 1998 to 2006. He was in charge of fixed rate products, agency lending and the tax credit business.

During his tenure at Wachovia, Osgood was responsible for creating a line of business and growing it to an annual origination of $8 billion. He originated products throughout the entire real estate capital markets platform and specialized in more complicated, highly structured transactions.

Osgood is one of a number of executives that Thompson has brought on board since the recent founding of his new firm, which specializes in value-added investments and asset management for high-net-worth domestic, foreign and institutional investors. Darrell L. Betts, a former senior vice president of Grubb & Ellis' institutional investment group in Houston, who has joined Thompson National as chief investment officer and president of the Irvine, CA-based company's Middle East Fund. Jack Maurer, co-founder of Triple Net Properties LLC, has joined Thompson National as vice chairman and partner at the new firm.