User:Imamelfan/sandbox/Morton Fleischer

Currently, Morton H. Fleischer is co-founder and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of STORE Capital Corporation (“STORE Capital”) (NYSE: STOR), one of the largest net-lease real estate investment trusts in the United States which he was Chairman of from 2011-2021. For over four decades, Mr. Fleischer has formed and managed more than twenty real estate companies and has led or participated with management teams that took three of these companies public and listing each of the companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Since 1980, the companies founded by Mr. Fleischer have successfully invested approximately $20 billion in 10,000 single-tenant commercial real estate properties. Mr. Fleischer is an experienced financier, entrepreneur, and real estate investor. He is widely acknowledged to be the financial pioneer which initially brought single-tenant real estate and net-lease financing to the mainstream of the United States capital markets.

Prior to STORE Capital’s formation, Mr. Fleischer co-founded Spirit Finance Corporation, also a real estate investment trust, and served as its chairman from its inception in 2003 to February 2010, including the three years that Spirit Finance Corporation was publicly traded (NYSE: SFC) on the New York Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Fleischer founded seventeen other real estate limited partnerships in the 1980s which were predecessors and were merged to create Franchise Finance Corporation of America, a real estate investment trust that he formed and took public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FFA) in 1994. Mr. Fleischer served as FFCA’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) until it was acquired by GE Capital Corporation in 2001.

The following is a brief description of Mr. Fleischer’s business activities prior to 1980:

After serving in the US Army, attaining the rank of Captain, his military occupational specialty was artillery and guided missiles. He was either a co-founder or partner in an upscale retail men’s clothing store, a life insurance company, a financial advisor specializing in mergers and acquisitions, a coal mine, a company that packaged Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, and also developed the first securitization structure for SBA notes, a Hispanic radio station, and a company that provided mezzanine finance funds.

Mr. Fleischer received his Bachelor of Arts in 1958 from Washington University in St. Louis which awarded him their “Distinguished Business alumni” award in 1983. He has been a director of Silver Screen Management, Flying J, Inc., and a trustee at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C.

He is married to Donna Humphrey Fleischer and together in 1988, they formed the Fleischer Museum as their cultural contribution to the community. Donna Fleischer was the Executive Director of the museum, which housed their permanent collection of American Impressionism, California school. The museum closed in 2001, when the building (which the museum was housed) and the company, Franchise Finance Corporation of America was sold to GE Capital.

In 2009, the Fleischer Scholars Program began and currently continues as a philanthropic program housed within the Fleischer Scholars Foundation whose mission is to bring youngsters from economically underserved communities (encouraging a business education) into America’s mainstream via education. In addition to encouraging higher education and business basics, it provides participants with a trademarked metaphor for critical thinking called the “Three-Legged Stool.” This metaphor teaches youngsters how to use their minds and learn not only WHAT to think, but HOW to think and achieve success. The Fleischer Scholars Program is currently being offered at the following eight universities:

•	Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona •	Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri •	the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas •	Virginia State University in Richmond, Virginia •	Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas •	Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina •	Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona •	the University of LaVerne in LaVerne, California •	The Fleischer Scholars Foundation continues to grow their network of universities with plans to expand it on a national basis.