Jeff Rogatz joined Baird in 2011 as a Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group based in Washington, DC. His primary areas of focus are equity and M&A opportunities in the office, industrial and health care related real estate space. With more than 20 years in the industry, Jeff has extensive experience including numerous initial public offerings, perpetual preferred offerings, corporate bond and convert offerings, merger and acquisition advisories, asset level joint ventures, private placements and general financial advisory.

Prior to Baird, Jeff was President of Ridgeway Capital LLC. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Brandywine Realty Trust and, prior to that, was the Head of the REIT practice at Legg Mason Wood Walker.

Jeff earned a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from The College of William & Mary.