Term: August 1, 2020–July 31, 2024

Charles Hopkins if a gubernatorial appointee to the Board.

Trustee Hopkins is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hamilton Hall Real Estate Partners, LLC, which focuses on real asset and commercial retail investments in airports as an emerging fund manager of private equity real estate investments. Mr. Hopkins has more than 30 years in the investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, real estate private equity and commercial development sectors.

Prior to Hamilton Hall, Trustee Hopkins developed commercial retail assets in airports across the country and lodging assets in urban destination markets. He also advised on over $4 billion in transactions as an investment banker with JP Morgan & Co. and Alex. Brown & Sons, as a mergers and acquisitions advisor to the US Federal Reserve Board, and as a capital markets advisor to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mr. Hopkins received an AB degree in Politics cum laude from Princeton University, where he was a Westinghouse Fellow and Rhodes Scholar Finalist (Md.), and an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Mobil Corporation Scholar.