As Senior Vice President – Finance and Investor Relations, Fred Cooper is responsible for Toll Brothers’ banking, Wall Street and rating agency relationships as well as its investor relations and financial marketing activities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has also served as financial point person for the firm’s entry into the office, retail, high-rise and apartment sectors. Fred joined Toll Brothers in 1993 and has been involved in raising over $7 billion to support the firm’s rapid growth. Since 1993 Toll Brothers has expanded from a regional home builder with $400 million in revenues to a national land developer/home building company and FORTUNE 500 corporation with projected revenues of more than $6 billion in 2006 and operations now in 21 states throughout the U.S.

From 1989 to 1993, Fred was Director of Corporate Finance and Planning at DKM Properties Corp., the real estate arm of the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, one of the nation’s largest private companies. Prior to joining DKM he was Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Services Corporation, New York City’s economic development bank, where he worked from 1984 to 1989.

He holds an A.B. in English from Brown University and a Master of Public Policy in finance and economics from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.