obert A. Sowinski

Mr. Sowinski is the founder of and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Net Lease Development of SC, LLC. Mr. Sowinski is married, has four children, and lives in Greenville, South Carolina.

Mr. Sowinski attended Missouri State University and graduated in l967 with a B.S. Degree with a major in Psychology. Upon receiving a graduate assistantship, he pursued and achieved an M.A. Degree in Counseling Psychology in 1968 from Missouri State University.  After serving for one year as a high school guidance counselor, he attended Valparaiso University, College of Law, in Valparaiso, Indiana, and was awarded the Juris Doctor of Law Degree in l972.

Mr. Sowinski has been actively engaged in residential and commercial real estate development, practicing real estate law and/or teaching real estate courses for approximately 35 years.  He has served as an instructor for Indiana University School of Continuing Education as well as the Masters in Real Estate Development Degree Program at Clemson University and has taught courses dealing with the specific areas of commercial development, acquisition, financing, management of, and the disposition of real estate.  While practicing law, he served as the attorney for a Board of Zoning Appeals, a Plan Commission, a Drainage Board, a local Board of Realtors, as well as serving as County Attorney.

During the course of Mr. Sowinski's real estate career, he has negotiated the acquisition of, and/or supervised the development of, a total of approximately fifty million dollars ($50,000,000.00) worth of various types of commercial and investment real estate.  In conjunction therewith, Mr. Sowinski has arranged for approximately forty million dollars ($40,000,000.00) worth of financing in order to facilitate said acquisitions and/or developments. During his career, Mr. Sowinski has directed the long term operations of approximately fifty million dollars ($50,000,000.00) worth of various types of commercial and investment real estate. Additionally, Mr. Sowinski has located the purchasers for and negotiated the disposition of approximately forty million dollars ($40,000,000.00) worth of commercial and investment real estate.

Mr. Sowinski has attended various courses and seminars in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. pertaining to commercial real estate development, commercial real estate financing, commercial real estate law, commercial real estate acquisition, as well as the management of and disposition of commercial real estate.