Board of Directors

Suzanne Stevens had a 28-year career with Crescent Real Estate and recently retired after serving the most recent 15 years as Managing Director and CFO. Ms. Stevens joined Crescent Real Estate, a REIT, shortly after the company’s IPO in a financial analyst role. Crescent grew into one of the largest REITs in the United States and was purchased by Morgan Stanley for $6.5 billion in August 2007. Through the REIT years, Ms. Stevens rose to Chief Accounting Officer and built a disciplined accounting and finance team that was responsible for all the public filings for the company, corporate compliance, budgeting and forecasting, managing internal and external auditors, and providing strategy support for all acquisitions and dispositions. At acquisition, Morgan Stanley selected Ms. Stevens and three others to lead Crescent forward as a Managing Director. At this time, Ms. Stevens became responsible for accounting, tax, treasury, finance, legal, human resources, risk management, information systems and administrative teams. Ms. Stevens continued in this role upon Morgan Stanley’s exit in 2009 and was instrumental in the launch of Crescent’s GP Invitation Fund strategy in 2015 and assisted with raise of $715 million in equity for Fund I, Fund II and Fund III and procured $3.5 billion in real estate financing during this time.

Prior to joining Crescent, she was employed by Arthur Andersen. Ms. Stevens received her BBA in Accounting and Finance from Texas Christian University.

Ms. Stevens currently serves as a director for InterBank, is a member of the TCU Accounting Advisory Board and is Vice President and Treasurer for The Pines Catholic Camp, a non-profit organization. Ms. Stevens received Ft Worth Business Press CFO – Game Changer Award in 2011 and was a YWCA 2005 Honoree: Outstanding Business Women in Tarrant County.