Board Of Directors

Jeff Edison has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips Edison & Company since December 2009 and has been a principal of the company since co-founding it in 1995. He also served as President from October 2017 to August 2019. Jeff served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT III, Inc. from April 2016 until its merger with PECO in October 2019, and of Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT II, Inc. from 2013 until its merger with PECO in November 2018.

Prior to founding PECO, Jeff was employed by NationsBank’s South Charles Realty Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President from 1993 to 1995 and Vice President from 1991 to 1993. He also worked at Morgan Stanley Realty Incorporated from 1987 to 1990 and The Taubman Company from 1984 to 1987. Jeff serves on the ICSC Executive Board and ICSC Board of Trustees. He also serves on Nareit’s Advisory Board of Governors and is a board member of the Utah Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Jeff earned a BA in mathematics and economics from Colgate University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984.

Mr. Chao has served as a director since July 2010 and as lead independent director since November 2017. He retired in 2008 as Chief Executive Officer of Chelsea Property Group, Inc., a NYSE-listed shopping center REIT with operations in the United States, Asia and Mexico (now part of Simon Property Group, NYSE: SPG), previously serving as President and Chief Financial Officer. He has been a board member of London-based Value Retail PLC since 2009; and a co-founder and chairman of entities comprising Value Retail China, a privately-held owner/developer of retail properties, since 2012. From 2005 to 2008 he was an inaugural member of the board of Link REIT, the first publicly-listed and largest REIT in Hong Kong.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Chao was with Manufacturers Hanover Corporation (now part of JPMorgan Chase & Co.), ending in 1987 as a Vice President in the bank holding company treasury group. He received an MBA from Columbia University and an AB from Dartmouth College, where he is a member of the President’s Leadership Council and the advisory board of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. He is based in New York City.

Ms. Fischer joined PECO’s board of directors effective November 1, 2019. Ms. Fisher joined Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in 1998 and most recently served as Managing Director of the Bank Debt Portfolio Group from 2010 until her retirement in May 2019, where she managed Leveraged Finance led syndicated loans. Ms. Fischer also served four years as co-head of Goldman Sachs’ firmwide Women’s Network.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, she held various positions in the leveraged finance, syndications and risk management group at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Ms. Fischer began her career at KPMG LLP. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Colgate University and a master of business administration from New York University.

Mr. Murphy joined PECO’s board of directors effective July 2, 2024.  Mr. Murphy served as President of PECO from August 2019 until December 31, 2023. Prior to that, he served as PECO’s Chief Financial Officer from June 2013, when he joined the Company, to August 2019. Before joining PECO in 2013, Mr. Murphy worked for 27 years as an investment banker and held senior leadership roles at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. He served as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. His Deutsche Bank team executed over 500 transactions of all types for clients representing total transaction volume exceeding $400 billion and included initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, common stock offerings, secured and unsecured debt offerings and private placements of both debt and equity.

Mr. Murphy began his banking career at Morgan Stanley in 1986 and held a number of senior positions including Vice Chairman, Co-Head of US Real Estate Investment Banking and Head of Real Estate Private Capital Markets. He also served on the Investment Committee of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, a series of global real estate funds with over $35 billion in assets under management. During his 20 years with Morgan Stanley, Mr. Murphy and his teams executed numerous capital markets and merger and acquisition transactions including a number of industry-defining transactions.

Mr. Murphy currently serves as chairperson of Apartment Income REIT Corp (AIRC), a NYSE-listed apartment REIT, and serves on the Audit, Compensation and Human Resources and Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committees of AIRC. He is also an independent director of CoreCivic (CXW), a NYSE-listed corporation that provides diversified government solutions in corrections and detention management. He serves on the Audit Committee, Risk Committee and chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee at CXW. Mr. Murphy served as a Director of the NYSE-listed real estate services firm Grubb and Ellis prior to its sale to BGC Partners and of the S&P 500 company Apartment Investment and Management (AIV) prior to its spin-off transaction. Mr. Murphy earned a BA in English and history with honors from the College of William & Mary and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Quazzo has been one of PECO’s directors since November 2013. Mr. Quazzo is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pearlmark Real Estate, L.L.C. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Quazzo served as President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc., a subsidiary of investor Sam Zell’s private holding company, Equity Group Investments, Inc. Mr. Quazzo was responsible for raising equity capital and performing various portfolio management services in connection with the firm’s real estate investments, including institutional opportunity funds and public REITs.

Prior to joining the Zell organization, Mr. Quazzo was in the Real Estate Department of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a vice president responsible for the firm’s real estate investment banking activities in the Midwest. Mr. Quazzo holds a bachelor of arts degree and a master of business administration degree from Harvard University, where he serves as a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors for the business school. He is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Trustee and immediate past Chair of the ULI Foundation, a member of the Pension Real Estate Association, and a licensed real estate broker in Illinois.

In addition, Mr. Quazzo currently serves a director of Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) and previously served as a director of ILG, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILG) until September 2018 and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) until September 2016. He also sits on a number of non-profit boards, including: Rush University Medical Center, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Endowment, the Chicago Parks Foundation, Deerfield Academy and City Year Chicago.

Ms. Silfen joined PECO’s board of directors effective November 1, 2019. Ms. Silfen is the founder and owner of Mayfair Advisors LLC, which was founded in 2019 to advise clients on sustainability and clean technology investment opportunities. Since 2015, Ms. Silfen has served as Vice President at Mayfair Management Co., Inc., a New York City-based family office, where she is responsible for overseeing and making public and private investments.

Ms. Silfen began her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and later served as Vice President at Encourage Capital, LLC. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Public Policy and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

Mr. Strong has served as a director of PECO since November 2018. He previously served as a director of REIT II from May 2017 to November 2018 when it merged into PECO. Since July 2010, Dr. Strong has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company for outsourcing solutions for claims, policy and flood products for insurers; insurance tracking for lenders; human resources solutions for small business; warranties for consumer electronics and new homes; insurance and maintenance services for properties, businesses and builders; and surety bonds for bail.

Since 2007, he has served as a board member of Bankers Financial Corporation. From 2005 to 2010, he served as the President and Managing Partner of Greensboro Radiology. Dr. Strong holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Duke University and a Doctor of Medicine from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine as well as his residency and fellowship in radiology from Duke University.

Mr. Terry joined PECO’s board of directors effective October 30, 2023.

Mr. Terry serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: VAC), a leading global vacation company that offers vacation ownership, exchange, rental and resort and property management, along with related businesses, products and services. Mr. Terry leads the global finance and accounting organization while partnering with VAC’s business executives to provide financial support and a strategic perspective to drive the overall financial results. He also oversees the development and feasibility functions for VAC. Mr. Terry works with the strategic council to develop financial and operational business strategies that maximize profitability and growth for VAC. Mr. Terry has more than 26 years with VAC and extensive experience in strategic planning, organizational optimization and financial analysis. He has held numerous roles of increasing responsibility, including leadership roles in accounting, finance, new product development, brand management, product supply management, strategic planning, M&A, investor relations and capital markets. Prior to VAC, Mr. Terry worked as a senior auditor at The Walt Disney Company and an audit senior at Arthur Andersen LLP.

Mr. Terry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida State University. He has attended the Wharton Business School Executive Development Program, Marriott International Lodging Leadership and Executive Education Program, and the Dr. Michael Hammer Reengineering Certification Program. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for INROADS of Central Florida, the Jason Beaird Memorial Foundation and the City of Orlando Audit Board, serving his last year there as Chairman. Mr. Terry currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Finance at the University of Central Florida.

Since February 2023, Ms. Wang has served as the Chief Product Officer of Alloy, a global identity risk decisioning platform that helps banks and fintech companies automate their decisions for onboarding, ongoing monitoring and credit underwriting. From March 2022 to February 2023, Ms. Wang served as the Head of Product of Alloy.

Prior to joining Alloy, Ms. Wang was with Bread Finance (now Bread Financial), where she served as Senior Vice President and Head of Product from June 2020 to February 2022. As a member of the senior leadership team, Ms. Wang drove the product vision and execution that led to the successful sale of Bread Finance to Alliance Data Systems in December 2021 for approximately $450 million. Ms. Wang additionally held roles at Bread Finance of Vice President and Head of Product from May 2019 to June 2020 and Senior Director and Head of Product from January 2018 to May 2019.

From 2012 to 2018, Ms. Wang was with OnDeck Capital Inc. where she held various positions, ending as Senior Director, Product Management. In that role, Ms. Wang led new product development and global expansion efforts, contributing to OnDeck's approximately $1.3 billion initial public offering in December 2014. From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Wang served as Manager, Digital Business Development of Barnes & Noble.com. Ms. Wang holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Stanford University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Distinction, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar.

Mr. Wood has been a director of PECO since April 2016. Mr. Wood has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EnergySolutions, Inc., a leading services provider to the nuclear industry, since June 2012.

Prior to that, Mr. Wood held the role of Chief Financial Officer at numerous public and private companies, including Actian Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Liberate Technologies, and InterTrust Technologies. Mr. Wood was a director of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. from October 2011 to October 2013, where he also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Mr. Wood, a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), received his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting degree from the University of San Diego and his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.