Mr. McKenna is a partner and Chief Financial Officer of Patriot Equities. He has over twenty years of real estate experience and is responsible for the evaluation and financing of all the firm's investments.

Prior to joining Patriot in February 2006, Mr. McKenna served as CFO for Preferred Real Estate Investments, Inc., a leading real estate firm focused on the acquisition, restoration, leasing and property management of existing commercial and industrial real estate. Prior to that, he was CFO and a founding member of the senior management team at Keystone Property Trust, a New York Stock Exchange listed real estate investment trust which specialized in industrial and distribution properties. At Keystone, he was responsible for raising over $1 billion of equity and debt capital and was instrumental in taking the company public in 1997; growing it from $100 million in assets to over $2 billion invested in over 33 million square feet of industrial and distribution assets. Furthermore, he was involved in the disposition of over $600 million in assets and the development of over 6 million square feet of distribution facilities through August 2004, when Keystone was sold and merged into Prologis, a $20 billion international REIT with over 350 million square feet of assets.

Prior to Keystone, Mr. McKenna worked in Arthur Andersen#39;s real estate group for eleven years assisting public and private real estate companies, REITs and other publicly traded companies with financial, tax and SEC reporting, merger and acquisition due diligence and structuring, initial public offering evaluations and execution, and raising public and private equity and debt financing.

Mr. McKenna received a BS in Accounting from the University of Scranton and is a CPA. He resides in Royersford, PA with his wife and four children.

"We founded Patriot to help North American businesses extract capital from their real estate holdings and reduce transaction and operating costs by consolidating relationships with our team. Our goal, quite simply, is to become the largest purchaser of corporate real estate assets in North America."

— Erik E. Kolar, President & CEO