HEC is owned and operated by Adrienne Collier and Harold E. Cooke.   
         
   Adrienne and Hal are attorneys and licensed real estate brokers with
          
  extensive experience in real estate in New York.

    Mr. Cooke has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry.  
    He spent 17 years on Wall Street as an  investment banker at Credit
    Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette primarily in real
    estate finance.  Subsequently, he joined Crown NorthCorp, a publicly
    traded real estate advisory firm that managed highly leveraged real
    estate transactions for Wall Street clientele.  It was at Crown that he
    gained valuable operating experience.  As President and Chief Operating
    Officer he led and restructured the firm. From 2000-2002, Mr. Cooke
    was a Senior Vice President in the real estate group of Harbert
    Management Corporation, a Birmingham, Alabama based merchant
    bank.  At Harbert, he gained significant experience in the real estate
    investment fund business.

    Mr. Cooke is a graduate of Harvard Law School.  He has a B.A. in
    Anthropology from Binghamton University and a Masters of Philosophy
    in Anthropology from Yale University. After graduating from law school,
    Mr. Cooke practiced law at the New York City law firm of Debevoise &
    Plimpton.

    Ms. Collier  has  dedicated most of her legal career to public service
    advocacy as a Litigation Staff Attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services,
    Deputy General Counsel at the New York City Department of Consumer
    Affairs and Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the New York
    State Attorney General. She continues to provide legal advice and
    assistance to low-and moderate-income New Yorkers through  pro bono  
    programs sponsored by the NYS Civil Court through  its Volunteer
    Lawyers Program and Attorney Emeritus Program. She is also actively
    involved with the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project,
    Inc. in the Foreclosure Intervention program.

    Ms. Collier is responsible  for the day-to-day operations of the property
    management company.  She is a licensed attorney in New York,
    Connecticut and the District of Columbia.  She is a graduate of the
    University of Connecticut Law School and has a B.A. from Binghamton
    University.
        
HEC Real Estate Group
Owners   Managers   Developers
2550 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
New York, NY 10030
(T) 212-234-4358
(F) 212-234-6750
email: hec@hecregroup.com