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2011 Annual Report

Income generation for generations of investors

W. P. Carey has consistently increased 
distributions by employing a conservative 
risk management-driven investment 
strategy that has enabled us to provide 
steady income to our shareholders over 
several decades. We manage W. P. Carey 
today just as we have from the start, on 
the principle of Investing for the Long 
Run™, and we are pleased to share the 
continuing success of that approach with 
our shareholders. 

Cumulative Distributions Paid by W. P. Carey 
and our CPA® Programs 
W. P. Carey and our CPA® programs have paid 
more than $4 billion over 845 distribution 
payments to investors; 86% of our distributions 
have increased over the prior quarter, and  
we have never missed a payment.

$4,102,000,000(cid:31)

$1,901,000,000(cid:31)

$1,039,000,000(cid:31)

$528,000,000(cid:31)

$107,000,000(cid:31)

$251,000,000(cid:31)

1979

1983

1987

1991

1996

2001

2005

2012*

*As of 4/16/12

Financial Highlights
(In thousands except share and per share data)

Operations 
Revenues1 
Net Income 
Cash Flow from Operating Activities 
Funds from Operations—as adjusted (AFFO)2 

By Segment 
EBITDA2 
Investment Management 
Real Estate Ownership 
Total 
AFFO2 
Investment Management 
Real Estate Ownership 
Total 

Per Share 
Diluted Earnings per Share 
Diluted AFFO per Share2 
Distributions Declared per Share 
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 

Stock Data 
Price Range (January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011) 
Number of Shareholders 

YeAR ended deCembeR 31, 2011

$271,580
139,079
80,116
188,853

$112,433
115,908
228,341

$101,643
87,210
188,853

$3.42
4.71
2.19
40,098,095

$29.85-$44.34
39,893

1 Net of reimbursed expenses.
2 This Annual Report and the financial highlights above contain references to non-GAAP financial measures, including AFFO and EBITDA. • AFFO – Represents funds from 
operations as defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts adjusted to include the impact of certain non-cash charges to net income. • EBITDA – Represents 
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. 

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful supplemental measures that assist investors to better understand the underlying performance of our business segments. 
These non-GAAP financial measures do not represent net income or cash flow from operating activities that are computed in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered an 
alternative to net income or cash flow from operating activities as an indicator of our financial performance. These non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly 
titled measures of other companies. Please reference the Form 8-K, which was filed on February 29, 2012, and is available on our website at www.wpcarey.com, for a reconciliation of these  
non-GAAP financial measures to our Consolidated Financial Statements. This Annual Report includes statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities 
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statement will be accurate. Investors should consider the risk factors identified in our periodic reports 
filed with the SEC, when evaluating our forward-looking statements.

GAAP refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 
 
 
 
 
Dear Fellow Shareholders

A year ago as we went to press with  
the 2010 Annual Report, early signs  
of recovery in the U.S. economy had 
yielded once again to fears of a double 
dip recession. Predicting the future was  
a challenge for the best of forecasters.  
W. P. Carey, however, viewed this volatile 
landscape as both a challenge and an 
opportunity to outperform, because our 
business model was well-suited to the 
shifting sands of the global economy. 
Our 2011 results confirm that view, as 
this report will show. Not displayed in 
these figures, however, are the steps we 
took to begin transforming the company 
in ways that we expect will enhance 
dividend growth and stability as well as 
shareholder value. Also nowhere to be 
found in the numbers is the deep sense 
of sadness we experienced at the loss 
of our Founder, Bill Carey, on January 
2, 2012. His absence is felt keenly, yet 
his presence survives in the culture 

he established and its emphasis on 
maintaining a long term, disciplined 
approach to investing. 

Corporate Property Associates 14 
with Corporate Property Associates 
16 – Global.

Bill would have been proud of our 
highlights for 2011, which in many 
ways was the best year in the company’s 
history:

•  Total shareholder return was over 38%.

•  Adjusted Funds from Operations 
(“AFFO”) rose to $4.71 per share,  
up from $3.27 per share in 2010.

•  Investment volume was the company’s 

highest ever at approximately  
$1.2 billion.

•  Fundraising was the company’s  
highest ever at approximately  
$630 million.

•  We completed the liquidation of our 
13th fund through the merger of 

•  We closed on a new line of credit 
for $450 million, permitting us to 
pay off our existing line, which was 
scheduled to mature in June 2012.

•  In December 2011 and March 2012, 
we raised our dividend for the 43rd 
and 44th consecutive times.

Looking forward to 2012 and beyond, 
the fragile but slow and steady recovery 
in the U.S. presents us with a changed 
landscape. Our supply of opportunities 
derives from the demand for capital 
from corporate owners of real estate. 
We expect this demand to increase 
as the economy continues to expand, 
as companies shift from deleveraging 
to expansion, and as merger and 
acquisition activity picks up. On the 

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What makes W. P. Carey different can be broken  
down into three fundamental areas: people, process  
and performance     —the people who work every day  
on behalf of all our investors, our disciplined and cycle-
tested investment process, and our performance as  
an investment manager.

other hand, the supply of capital to this 
sector has also increased, in part due to 
the low yield environment fostered by 
the liquidity measures taken by central 
banks around the world. As with all 
supply/demand curves, if the supply of 
capital shifts upwards faster than the 
demand, there will be a corresponding 
increase in asset pricing. This would 
probably have a positive affect on the 
performance of our existing portfolios, 
both owned and managed, but could 
also have a dampening effect on our 
investment volume. That said, one 
of W. P. Carey’s great strengths is its 
ability to source attractive transactions 
from a broader, deeper pool than our 
competitors, and we expect that will 
help mitigate any potential slowdown 
in investment volume that might result 
from overly rapid asset appreciation in 
the net lease sector. 

Cumulative Total Return Comparison 2006–2011
$100 invested in W. P. Carey & Co. common stock on december 31, 2006, 
with dividends reinvested, would have appreciated in five years to 
$193—an 18.6% average annual return, compared with (.25%) for  
the S&P 500 Index and (1.38%) for the FTSe nAReIT equity ReITs Index.

$200

150

100

50

W. P. Carey

S&P 500 Index 

FTSE NAREIT 
Equity REITs Index

12/31/06

12/31/07

12/31/08

12/31/09

12/31/10

12/31/11

Sources: bloomberg for W. P. Carey returns; S&P website for S&P Index returns and nAReIT 
website for FTSe nAReIT equity ReITs Index returns

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Through long-term leases with our tenants 
and the efforts of our Asset Management 
team to keep our portfolios at the highest 
occupancy possible, we receive a steady 
stream of income each month. This rental 
income is the primary driver in maintaining 
a steady cash flow and, consequently, 
steady distributions.

W. P. Carey & Co.’s Annualized Dividends

$2.26(cid:31)

$1.83(cid:31)

$1.72(cid:31)

$1.65   
(cid:31)

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012*

*As of 4/16/12

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Over the years, we’ve experienced 
numerous cycles of this nature, and 
have come to regard them as two- edged 
swords. While rising asset values may 
cause us to tactically retreat from certain 
submarkets, they also offer us the chance 
to exit certain assets at opportune points 
in the cycle. That said, there is some 
inherent volatility in the investment 
management segment of our business. 
In recognition of this, we are planning 
to shift the mix of our revenues to 
favor investment revenues over asset 
management revenues. This strategy will 
find its culmination in our proposed 
conversion to a REIT and simultaneous 
merger with one of our managed REITs, 
Corporate Property Associates 15. We 
expect that these transactions, which 
we announced in February 2012 and 
which are still subject to the approval 

of shareholders of both companies and 
SEC review, will provide three important 
benefits. Specifically, we believe these 
transactions will:

•  Substantially increase our financial 

strength, scale and liquidity;

•  Facilitate dividend growth through an 
accretive acquisition of assets that we 
already manage and know well; and

•  Enhance long term shareholder value 
by bringing increased clarity to our 
form and strategic focus.

We’ve placed a detailed description  
of the transaction on our website, and  
I encourage you to read it carefully.  
This event will be transformational,  
but it also represents a natural evolution 
for W. P. Carey, a plan that lets us  

take even better advantage of our 
essential qualities: 

•  Our tradition of transparency and 

disciplined investing;

•  Our track record as an investor;

•  The caliber of our people.

As always, I want to thank all of 
you—our investors, tenants and 
employees— for your continued  
confidence and support as we move 
into this exciting new stage. 

With best wishes,

Trevor P. Bond
President and Chief Executive Officer

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W. P. Carey was started nearly 40 years ago and focused on creating 
investment products that work in good times and in bad. We’ve grown 
tremendously over the last four decades for one very good reason: 
we’ve performed well for our investors in all market conditions. Our risk 
management-driven investment philosophy—steadfast for decades—
combined with our commitment to Investing for the Long RunTM has 
undoubtedly contributed to our success. 

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Investing for the Long Runtm

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Our Proven Investment Strategy 

The fundamentals of our business have remained the same 
for nearly four decades. Through the sale and leaseback of 
corporate facilities, we help companies and private equity firms 
release capital tied up in real estate assets by acquiring single 
tenant corporate and industrial properties for full market 
value and leasing them back to the tenant under a triple net 
lease. Companies are able to convert an otherwise depreciating 
or under-utilized asset into working capital they can use 
to pay down debt, fund acquisitions or reinvest in the core 
competencies of their business. We believe that our focus on 
tenant creditworthiness has enabled us to be less affected by 
economic cycles than conventional real estate investors are. Our 
established risk management strategy continues to prove itself. 

W. P. Carey evaluates every transaction on four key 
components. We:

•  Analyze the creditworthiness of the tenant;

•  Seek to identify and purchase strategically important 

facilities, which we also refer to as critical operating assets;

•  Assess the fundamental value of the underlying real estate; 

and

•  Structure transactions with appropriate terms and  

pricing and stress test them under a range of economic  
and business scenarios.

Obi, Germany
UTi, Sacramento, U.S.
Fraikin, France

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Kendall College, Chicago, U.S.
Konzum, Croatia

A Global Platform
W. P. Carey provides long-term sale-leaseback and build- 
to-suit financing for companies worldwide, and owns and  
manages a global investment portfolio of approximately 
$12 billion. We believe diversification is key. In 2011, we 
structured investments on our own behalf, as well as those 
of our CPA®-managed programs, totaling approximately 
$1.2 billion. At year-end 2011, the W. P. Carey group—which 
includes our managed funds—had 284 tenants from across  
a broad spectrum of industries, who lease from us more  
than 950 properties in 42 states and 18 countries. With this  
type of diversification, we believe we are well positioned  
for the future. 

The W. P. Carey Difference
Every investment we structure goes through a rigorous 
underwriting process: our investment team analyzes the 
creditworthiness of the tenant and the criticality and 
fundamental value of the assets and then tests the structure  
and pricing under a range of economic and business 
scenarios. A key to our investment discipline, and one our  
late Founder and Chairman was most proud of, is the use  
of an independent Investment Committee that reviews and 
approves our investments. This independent committee is 
comprised of investment professionals with more than 200 
years of combined institutional and transactional experience. 
If they don’t like an investment, we don’t invest. They are a 
crucial check and balance to keeping a disciplined investment 
environment. This established process maintains consistent 
standards for our investments and is a key reason why our 
portfolios continue to perform well today.

National Express, UK
The New York Times, New York, U.S.

Prisa, Spain
Tesco, Hungary
CArQUEST, U.S.

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In 2011, we completed approximately $1.2 billion of investments. Let’s review a few of our transactions:

Lineage Logistics
Location: Oxnard, CA; Watsonville, CA  
Property Type: Cold storage facilities 
Acquisition Date: January 2011  
Space: 894,665 square feet

Lineage Logistics is a warehousing and logistics company 
that operates the fifth largest facility network in the U.S. 
In January 2011, we acquired three cold storage facilities 
in California totaling approximately 894,665 square feet 
and leased them to Terminal Freezers, LLC, an affiliate of 
Lineage Logistics Holdings, LLC.
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota 
Location: eagan, mn; Aurora, mn; Virginia, mn  
Property Type: eight office facilities
Acquisition Date: January 2012  
Space: 1.1 million square feet

blue Cross and blue Shield of minnesota is an independent 
licensee of the blue Cross and blue Shield Association,  
a not-for-profit, taxable organization headquartered in 
Chicago. Chartered in 1933, it continues to carry out its 
charter mission as a health company promoting a wider, 
more economical and timely availability of health services 
for the people of minnesota. Through a sale-leaseback,  
blue Cross and blue Shield of minnesota was able to 
redeploy the illiquid capital tied up in their real estate 
holdings to fund strategic initiatives. 

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Walgreens
Location: Las Vegas, nV  
Property Type: Retail
Completion Date: Construction ongoing in 2012 

Walgreens is the nation’s largest drugstore chain, with  
7,655 drugstores in all 50 states, the district of Columbia  
and Puerto Rico. Walgreens scope of pharmacy services 
includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and 
mail service, along with pharmacy benefit solutions and 
respiratory services. In december 2010, we funded $31.0 
million for the initial draw of a construction loan for the first 
phase of a shopping center in Las Vegas, nevada and expect 
to fund up to $85.6 million to complete the facility.

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Cantina Laredo
Location: Chicago, IL  
Property Type: Hospitality
Acquisition Date: July 2011  
Space: 14,000 square feet

Cantina Laredo is a modern mexican restaurant in downtown 
Chicago, serving authentic mexican dishes in a sophisticated 
atmosphere. We acquired the approximately 14,000 square 
foot land site in the River north neighborhood, which was 
later leased to CRO-San Luis development, LLC (CRO). CRO 
constructed a Cantina Laredo restaurant on the site that 
opened in August 2011. The purchase price for the land was 
approximately $7 million. 
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Metro Cash & Carry
Location: Italy  
Property Type: Retail
Acquisition Date: September 2011 

metro Italy is a wholly owned subsidiary of metro AG, the 
world’s largest cash and carry operator and the world’s 
fourth largest retailer. We acquired substantially all of the 
economic and voting interests in a fund that owns 20 stores 
leased to metro Cash & Carry Italia S.p.A. The 20 stores are 
primarily located in the middle and northern part of Italy 
and represent approximately half of metro Italy’s total 
Italian portfolio.

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The W. P. Carey Group Tenant Industry Diversification

Aerospace and Defense 1.15%

We diversify our portfolios by industry, 
tenant and geography in order to limit 
their exposure to any one tenant or region 
and we have been using this approach for 
almost 40 years. 

Automobile 4.09%

Banking .92%

Beverages, Food and Tobacco 3.34%

Buildings and Real Estate 3.88%

Business and Commercial Services 4.62%

Chemicals, Plastics, Rubber and Glass 4.93%

Construction and Building 3.29%

Consumer and Durable Goods .90%

Consumer Non-durable Goods 2.49%

Consumer Services .87%

Electronics 8.37%

Federal, State and Local Government 1.21%
Forest Products and Paper .87%

Grocery 6.38%

Healthcare, Education and Childcare 5.72%

Hotels and Gaming 2.26%
Insurance 1.16%

Leisure, Amusement, Entertainment 3.03%

Machinery 3.03%

Media: Printing and Publishing 5.27%

Mining, Metals and Primary Metal Industries .85%

Retail Stores 21.72%

Telecommunications 2.49%

Textiles, Leather and Apparel .89%

Transportation – Cargo 4.11%

Transportation – Personal 1.97%
Utilities and Others .19%

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Carey Forward

When the University of Maryland School of Law—later renamed the 
Francis King Carey School of Law—announced a $30 million donation 
from the W. P. Carey Foundation, the school’s atrium was packed with 
students wearing yellow “Carey Forward” campaign-style buttons. 
It would become a favorite slogan for our Founder and Chairman 
and prophetic to what the Company and Foundation would later be 
challenged to do—Carey Forward.

Now, more than ever, we are focused on the future. In February 2012,  
W. P. Carey announced a proposed transaction in which W. P. Carey 
would convert into a REIT and merge with CPA®:15. We believe this 
transaction will be transformational and will allow us to capitalize on new 
opportunities that are consistent with Mr. Carey’s established investment 
philosophy and never-ending goal of enhancing shareholder value.

In Memoriam: Wm. Polk Carey

As the Founder and Chairman of  
W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, Wm. Polk Carey 
guided the development of the firm 
into the position of market leadership 
it has continuously held from its early 
years. A visionary, strategist, dealmaker 
and hard-driving entrepreneur, he was 
recognized for his ability to identify 
market opportunities, the tenacity 
to pursue them even in the face of 
substantial obstacles and the skill to 
realize his dreams. His profound loyalty, 
generosity, sense of duty and optimism 
were the distinctive and driving forces 
of his career. 

Bill started the company in 1973, 
primarily to structure single-asset 
private investments. W. P. Carey has 
historically focused its business in two 

CPA® series of  
investment programs 
begins. W. P. Carey 
institutes independent 
Investment Committee 
led by Equitable Life 
Assurance executive 
George Stoddard to  
review all transactions. 

Mr. Carey settles from his 
personal checking account certain 
20-year-old debts to 90 Colorado 
sugar beet farmers in southeastern 
Colorado and western Kansas 
resulting from the bankruptcy of 
National Sugar Manufacturing 
Company, in which Mr. Carey’s 
family held stock for 60 years.

W. P. Carey surpasses 
$1 billion in assets 
under management.

W. P. Carey opens 
London office. 

1973

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1983

1987

1990

1993

1998

1999

W. P. Carey & Co. Inc. 
is founded by Wm. Polk 
Carey, who recognizes 
the inherent value of 
diversified net lease 
investment partnerships 
for individual investors 
seeking steady income 
and capital preservation. 

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W. P. Carey provides 
William E. Simon with 
funding for Gibson 
Greetings LBO.

W. P. Carey 
launches first 
non-traded 
REIT, CPA®:10. 

W. P. Carey rings the 
bell on the New York 
Stock Exchange as 
CPA®s 1-9 combine to 
form Carey Diversified 
LLC (NYSE: CDC).

W. P. Carey expands its 
footprint with its first 
European investment.

areas: providing quality companies 
with capital to run their businesses 
and providing investors with high-
quality income-oriented products 
that had the potential to appreciate 
over the long run. He was a pioneer 
in the development of sale-leaseback 
financing, and, under his 38-year 
stewardship, W. P. Carey has been 
a world leader in sale-leaseback 
transactions and build-to-suit financing. 
The company has holdings in North 
America, Europe and Asia that include 
nearly 1,000 commercial and industrial 
properties, totaling approximately  
120 million square feet of real estate.

Today, W. P. Carey has nearly $12 
billion in assets under management.  
Its record of delivering growing income 

for investors, quarter after quarter, 
through all kinds of economic cycles  
has been consistent and exceptional.  
Bill Carey was unwavering in his 
devotion to our shareholders, and he  
was especially proud that we have been 
able to provide increasing income 
to them, while providing our tenant 
companies with the capital that allowed 
them to grow their business and prosper. 
The company has increased its dividend  
every year since it went public in 1998 
and for 44 consecutive quarters. Since  
the introduction of the first CPA® 
investment program in 1979, W. P. Carey  
and its affiliates have paid more than  
$4 billion to investors over 840 
consecutive quarterly cash distributions. 
We will continue to employ Bill’s proven 
investment strategy of monitoring our 

tenants closely, diversifying our portfolios 
and using long lease terms and non-
recourse debt to secure our investments. 
This strategy has benefited us in the past 
and continues to do so today.

More than our Founder and Chairman, 
Bill Carey was the cultural leader of our 
company. He felt deep gratitude toward 
our employees for enabling the firm to 
deliver such consistently outstanding 
results in good times and bad. We know 
that the best way for us to honor him 
is to continue to deliver outstanding 
results to our investors. It is up to us, as 
members of the team he put into place, 
to continue his life’s work and to ensure 
that the standards of excellence he 
established at W. P. Carey remain intact. 
In other words, to Carey Forward.

W. P. Carey 
completes 
record $1 billion  
in sale-leaseback 
transactions.

The W. P. Carey Foundation 
donates $50 million to Johns 
Hopkins University to establish 
the Carey Business School at 
Johns Hopkins University. 

W. P. Carey Founder 
and Chairman  
Wm. Polk Carey 
passes away at  
the age of 81.

The W. P. Carey Group 
makes headlines by 
providing $225 million of 
sale-leaseback financing 
to The New York Times 
Company through the 
acquisition of approximately 
750,000 rentable square 
feet of its New York City 
headquarters building.

2000

2002

2003

2006

2008

W. P. Carey & Co. 
LLC (NYSE: WPC) 
is created from the 
merger of Carey 
Diversified LLC and  
W. P. Carey & Co. Inc. 

W. P. Carey & Co. celebrates 
its 30th anniversary  
and surpasses $5 billion in 
assets under management. 

The W. P. Carey Foundation 
endows the W. P. Carey School 
of Business at Arizona State 
University, which quickly 
rises up the ranks to become 
internationally recognized. 

2009

2010

2011

2012

W. P. Carey opens 
European Asset 
Management office 
in Amsterdam.

The W. P. Carey 
Foundation donates 
$30 million to 
the University of 
Maryland School of 
Law to establish the 
Francis King Carey 
School of Law.

Carey Watermark 
Investors,  
W. P. Carey’s 
lodging-focused 
REIT, launches.

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Doing Good  
while Doing Well

“‘Doing good while doing well’ means that when we are 
financing properties for companies we are also helping the 
communities those companies serve. It is important to always 
ask, ‘What is the impact of what we are doing? What is good  
for society? What is good for the country?’” 
– Wm. Polk Carey,  
Founder and Chairman of the W. P. Carey Foundation

The W. P. Carey Foundation is a private U.S. foundation, 
incorporated in 1988 by Wm. Polk Carey. It has a twenty- 
three year tradition of focused philanthropy. Inspired by 
the Carey family’s legacy of educational leadership and 
philanthropy, The W. P. Carey Foundation’s primary mission 
is to support educational institutions with the larger goal of 
improving America’s competitiveness in the world. The main 
focus of its support to schools, universities, lecture series, 
chairs and other programs is on the study of business and 
economics, as well as on admissions procedures and college  
and career guidance. 

W. P. Carey promotes Mr. Carey’s philosophy of Doing Good 
while Doing Well, and the W. P. Carey Foundation supports 
all employee philanthropy with a 100% matching program. 
Here is a snapshot of how our employees are Doing Good 
while Doing Well:

•  Richard Klee, Vice President in our Treasury department, 
is a volunteer with the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance 
Corp. (SVAC), which provides the Scarsdale community 
and the surrounding areas with pre-hospital care 24 hours 
a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. He joined the 
organization after the 9/11 attacks. Richard initially started 
as an Ambulance Driver then became an Emergency 
Medical Technician (EMT) and a CPR instructor for the 
American Heart Association. He volunteers every week  
and also serves as the Chairman of the SVAC Board.

•  Guillermo Silberman, Vice President in our Investment 

department, serves on the executive board of Venture for 
America. Venture for America is a non-profit organization 
that recruits bright college graduates to work for two years at 

emerging start-ups and early-stage companies in lower-cost  
cities such as Detroit, Providence, or New Orleans. 
Modeled after Teach for America, Venture for America will 
provide a path for entrepreneurship to college grads who 
want to learn how to build companies and create jobs while 
revitalizing American cities and communities.

•  Becky Reaves, Senior Vice President, Marketing and 

Investor Relations, and her family are walking this year for 
the Pancreatic Research Walk in Liverpool, NY, in honor 
of Becky’s stepmother, Margaret Myrto, who lost her battle 
with pancreatic cancer in 2010. Last year, Becky and her 
family walked in her memory in a Lustgarten Foundation 
Walk in Paramus, NJ.

•  Timothy Goodwin, Lease Administration Associate, 

contributes his time to the Annual NY Cares Coat Drive 
and the All Souls Friday Soup Kitchen. New York Cares 
was founded by a group of friends in 1987 who wanted 
to take action against social issues in New York City. All 
Souls Friday Soup Kitchen serves 400 lunches each week to 
approximately 250 individuals who are in economic crisis. 

•  Victoria Atwater in Office Services is donating her time and 
talent to a community outreach and concert this year with 
her husband and another couple—all vocal artists—to  
fundraise for their children’s school, Weekday Nursery 
School. The nursery school benefited greatly from a holiday-
focused concert last year (also organized by Victoria) that 
featured opera and Broadway selections. Weekday Nursery 
School is a non-sectarian outreach program of South  
Orange, New Jersey’s First Presbyterian and Trinity Church.

•  Chris Slawsky, Vice President, Carey Financial, LLC, 
participates in a swim race across Long Island Sound  
every summer to raise money for St. Vincent’s Medical 
Center in Bridgeport, CT. The money goes to help provide 
care for cancer patients and their families, especially those 
with limited resources. Chris will swim 16 miles in July to 
not only help raise funds for St. Vincent’s Medical Center 
but to also celebrate his father and brother who are both 
cancer survivors.

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Our Properties Worldwide
Over the years, we have expanded globally, 
making us one of the only net lease investors with 
significant international experience. Our assets 
exceed $12 billion, including more than $3.5 billion 
in 17 countries outside the U.S. As a result, we have 
developed the expertise necessary to source, execute 
and manage such transactions and will continue to 
leverage this experience by exploring new markets.

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212-492-1100  
www.wpcarey.com 
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