Dana Rowan is Managing Director of Paradigm-Exeter Advisors where he oversees the firm’s real estate workout, restructuring and bankruptcy advisory business.

Mr. Rowan has over 28 years of real estate experience, working on investment, development and advisory projects both across the United States and internationally. His experience ranges from working out, restructuring, recapitalizing and disposing large portfolios of distressed real estate assets involving all product types to acquiring large commercial assets and leading the asset management operation of a multi-billion dollar fund-based real estate private equity firm.

Prior to forming and leading Paradigm’s distressed asset advisory business, Mr. Rowan served as Managing Partner of The Exeter Companies (TEC), a real estate development, acquisitions and investment advisory firm based in Boston. In partnership with two New York area hedge funds, TEC launched two real estate investment programs – one focused on commercial assets credit-enhanced with derivatives and the other focused on higher yielding commercial real estate investment opportunities in offshore emerging markets. Exeter also helped assemble and acquire a full block of land in downtown Boston which was successfully entitled for 245 multi-family residential units. Prior to that, Mr. Rowan served as Senior VP for New Boston Fund, where he directed asset management, dispositions and corporate and portfolio strategy for the firm’s 12 million square foot real estate portfolio in the Eastern US with an aggregate value of $2.0 billion. Mr. Rowan previously led the real estate workout, restructuring, disposition and bankruptcy advisory business for The Recovery Group (now operating nationally as CRG Partners) where he was responsible for $1.5 billion of distressed assets on behalf of both debtors and creditors.

Mr. Rowan started his commercial real estate career with the Prudential Realty Group in acquisitions and sales where he was an investment manager responsible for roughly $500 million of transactions annually for the company’s $3.5 billion portfolio in New England.

Professionally, Mr. Rowan serves on the board of NAIOP’s national organization and Massachusetts Chapter, and is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Finance Association and the Real Estate Investment and Advisory Council. Mr. Rowan was the national chairman of NAIOP in 1993. He is also a steering committee member of Harvard University’s Real Estate Academic Initiative, a recent director of the Harvard Alumni Association and a Trustee of the Boston Architectural College.

Mr. Rowan holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from Boston University.