Ward Fitzgerald is the current CEO of ExCorde Capital and former CEO and Senior Managing Principal of Exeter Property Group. Exeter was acquired by EQT, an international leader in private equity in 2021, and continues as a global leader in real estate investment management with over 50 offices around the world. Since the firm’s founding in 2006, it has secured approximately $30 billion in fund equity commitments, representing pension, sovereign wealth, endowment, insurance, and foundation partners from around the globe. Exeter’s funds have made over 1,800 real estate investments, corresponding to over 2,500 properties in the warehouse/logistics, office/life science and multifamily sectors. 

Prior to founding Exeter, Fitzgerald was part of the senior management team at Rouse/Liberty Property Trust, a $7 billion publicly traded office and industrial REIT, which he helped take public in 1994. In addition to his business endeavors, Fitzgerald sits on the Board of Trustees for The Papal Foundation, The National Centre for Padre Pio, and Catholic Leadership Institute. He also sits on the Business Advisory Council and is the chairman of the Institute of Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame. He serves on the Advisory Council at Jefferson University Hospital Neurology Institute and its Raphael Center for Neurorestoration, and supports Project Home and its Inn of Amazing Mercy.

Fitzgerald holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1989) and a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame (1985).