Buzz McCoy was born in San Francisco and attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in economics. He later went on to Harvard Business School, where he received his MBA. Mr. McCoy served in Korea in the United States Army, Intelligence Branch, and received the Department of Army Commendation Medal. He began working for Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in 1962. He was an owner of the firm for twenty years, directed its real estate finance activities for 13 years and oversaw its West Coast activities for five years. In 1990, he retired and presently spends his time as a real estate and business counselor, an educator and a philanthropist. Mr. McCoy teaches courses on business ethics, as well as Christian theology and literature at graduate business schools, churches and seminaries. He has served as executive-in-residence at both the Stanford and Notre Dame Graduate Schools of Business and as adjunct professor at Pacific School of Religion, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Graduate Real Estate Program at USC. He has published seventy-five magazine articles on the subjects of business ethics or real estate finance. Mr. McCoy serves as a trustee for the Urban Land Institute and past president of the Urban Land Foundation. He is a past president of the Counselors of Real Estate and a fellow in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is a past chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Red Cross, chairman of the Hollywood Bowl and chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee at UCLA Medical Center. Other organizations in which he has actively participated include: Board of Directors, YMCA of Downtown Los Angeles; Trustee, Pacific School of Religion. Mr. McCoy has received writing awards from Harvard Business Review and Real Estate Counselor. He has also received professional awards in real estate from the Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California, and the Real Estate Counselors, and in business ethics from the Graduate School of Business, Arizona State University.