R. Earl Blankenship

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Mr. Blankenship joined SouthernSun Asset Management in 2010.
He has several years of experience in commercial real estate investments.
In 1986, he co-founded the Mid-South U.S.
office of CB Richard Ellis where he helped build the company into the largest full-service commercial real estate firm in the region.
Under his leadership, the company was twice named one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies by Inc. Magazine.
Additionally, he is an owner of LEDIC Management Group, a third-party multifamily housing management firm operating in over a dozen U.S.
markets.
A licensed CPA, he began his business career at Arthur Andersen & Company.

Former positions of R. Earl Blankenship

Companies	Position	End
Envolve Client Services Group LLC Envolve Client Services Group LLC Real Estate DevelopmentFinance Envolve Client Services Group LLC provides property and construction management, acquisition analysis and market research services. The company was founded by Ken Edmundson and Scott P. Edbetter in 1979 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Arthur Andersen LLP Arthur Andersen LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
CB Richard Ellis (Louisville) LLC CB Richard Ellis (Louisville) LLC Real Estate DevelopmentFinance CB Richard Ellis Louisville is Kentucky's leading commercial real estate services firm, having served the Metro Louisville area since 1996 in the areas of office, industrial, retail and investment properties. An affiliate of CB Richard Ellis, the world's premier, full-service real estate services company, its brokers apply insight, experience, intelligence and resources to help clients make informed business decisions on the local, regional, national and global level. Its industry-leading platform provides unparalleled service to meet any client requirement from acquisitions and dispositions to real estate portfolio management, leasing office, retail and industrial space and investment sales. More than 15 dedicated professionals serve as trusted advisors for both owners and occupiers of commercial space throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Their approach is strategic rather than merely transactional. That is, CBRE's professionals can assess a client's objectives of expansion, consolidation, acquisition, disposition or asset enhancement. Each discipline operates in a true team structure unique to commercial real estate.	Founder	-
SouthernSun Asset Management LLC SouthernSun Asset Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance SouthernSun Asset Management LLC (SouthernSun) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm was founded by Michael Cook in 1989 as Michael W. Cook Asset Management, Inc. SouthernSun primarily provides portfolio management services to high net-worth individuals, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, public pension plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, municipalities, pooled investment funds, registered mutual funds, trusts, banks, and other US and international institutions.	Analyst-Equity	-

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