Clay W Hamlin, III is an entrepreneurial American businessman born in 1945 and raised in Buffalo, New York. He attended The Nichols School in Buffalo and University of Pennsylvania and after graduation became a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a career in accounting and corporate law in Philadelphia, Hamlin joined The Shidler Group in 1989 in a partnership with Jay Shidler of Honolulu, Hawaii, as the managing partner of the Mid-Atlantic region. The Shidler Group is focused on owning and operating commercial real estate, primarily office and industrial properties. Hamlin participated in the founding in 1993 and 1994 of Tri Net and First Industrial, two publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs").In 1997, Hamlin and Shilder founded Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE:OFC). In his eight years beginning in 1997 as CEO, Corporate Office Properties, an acquirer, developer and owner/operator of suburban office properties in the Mid-Atlantic, grew from $200 million in assets to an enterprise value in excess of $4 billion, and achieved the highest total shareholder return of all publicly traded U.S. REITs. Hamlin is the founder, president and chief executive officer of LBCW Investments, a privately held investment company investing in private equity, structured debt, and special opportunities, as well as public debt and equity securities. In 2009, he co-founded Alliance Partners, HSP with Shilder, which has acquired $1.7 Billion of commercial real estate. Hamlin is the chief executive officer of CITRS, a non-profit character education company catering to k-12 schools, and the president of the Hamlin Family Foundation.
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