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This excerpt taken from the EQR DEF 14A filed Apr 16, 2009. Biographical Information Set forth below are biographies of each of our trustees and former trustees as of April 1, 2009. This excerpt taken from the EQR DEF 14A filed Apr 16, 2007. Biographical Information Set forth below are biographies of each of the executive officers as of April 1, 2007. Biographies of the Trustees are set forth below in Proposal 1. This excerpt taken from the EQR DEF 14A filed Apr 17, 2006. Biographical Information Set forth below are biographies as of April 1, 2006, of each of the trustee nominees. John W. Alexander, 59, has been a Trustee of the Company since May 1993 and is the President of Mallard Creek Capital Partners, Inc., an investment company with interests in real estate, development entities and operating companies. He is also a partner of Meringoff Equities, a real estate investment and development company. Charles L. Atwood, 57, has been a Trustee of the Company since July 2003. Mr. Atwood is a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Stephen O. Evans, 60, has been a Trustee of the Company since the merger of Evans Withycombe Residential, Inc., for which he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, into the Company in December 1997. Mr. Evans is President of Evans Realty Associates, a real estate investment company and serves as a director of Biltmore Bank of Arizona. James D. Harper, Jr., 72, has been a Trustee of the Company since May 1993. Mr. Harper is the President of JDH Realty Co., a real estate development and investment company, and is the principal partner in AH Development, S.E., a special limited partnership formed to develop over 400 acres of land in Puerto Rico. He is a trustee of Equity Office Properties Trust (“EOP”). Boone A. Knox, 69, has been a Trustee of the Company since the merger of Merry Land & Investment Company, Inc., of which he served as Chairman, into the Company in October 1998. Mr. Knox is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Regions Bank, Central Georgia and is a director of Cousins Properties, Incorporated. David J. Neithercut, 50, has been a Trustee and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since January 1, 2006 and President of the Company since May 2005. He was Executive Vice President – Corporate Strategy of the Company since January 2004. Mr. Neithercut was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company from February 1995 to August 2004. Mr. Neithercut is on the Board of Governors of NAREIT. Desiree G. Rogers, 46, has been a Trustee of the Company since October 2003. Ms. Rogers is the President of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas, which are regulated utility subsidiaries of Peoples Energy Corporation. 9 Sheli Z. Rosenberg, 64, has been a Trustee of the Company since March 1993 and Lead Trustee since December 2002. Ms. Rosenberg is the co-founder and President of Northwestern University’s Center for Executive Women at the Kellogg School of Management. She was Vice Chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C. (“EGI”), a private investment company, from January 2000 to March 2003, at which time she retired. Ms. Rosenberg is a trustee of EOP and is a director of Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (“ELS”), Ventas, Inc., CVS Corporation and Cendant Corporation. Gerald A. Spector, 59, has been a Trustee and Executive Vice President of the Company since March 1993 and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since February 1995. B. Joseph White, 58, has been a Trustee of the Company since May 1993. Mr. White has been President of the University of Illinois since February 2005. Mr. White was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School from 1987 through 2004, served as the Dean of the Business School from 1991 to 2001 and served as Interim President of the University of Michigan in 2002. In February 2003, Mr. White took a leave of absence from his faculty appointment at the University of Michigan Business School to serve as Managing Director of Fred Alger Management Company, a New York investment firm until September 2003. Mr. White is a director of Kelly Services, Inc. Samuel Zell, 64, has been Chairman of the Board of the Company since March 1993. Mr. Zell is the Chairman and President of EGI. Mr. Zell is also Chairman of the Board of EOP, ELS, Capital Trust, Inc., Anixter International Inc. and Covanta Holding Corporation. | EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:
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