Executive Profile

David K. Holeman—Chief Financial Officer

David K. Holeman is chief financial officer. He is responsible for corporate finance, capital markets, investor relations, accounting and SEC reporting. He has more than twenty years of multi-industry experience in public and privately held companies.

Prior to joining Whitestone REIT, he served as chief financial officer of Hartman Management, the previous management company.

From 2004 to 2006 he served as vice president, chief financial officer and corporate secretary of publicly held Gexa Energy. He joined Houston Cellular, a partnership of publicly held companies AT&T and Bellsouth in 1995 as controller. Houston Cellular was acquired by Cingular Wireless, a partnership of publicly held companies SBC and BellSouth, in January 2001. Mr. Holeman was promoted to chief financial officer, head of shared services, in 1999. He left Cingular Wireless in 2003.

Mr. Holeman joined HMSS, a Houston-based alternative site healthcare business, in 1988 as senior accountant. During his eight years with the firm, he rose from the position of financial manager to controller, director of finance and director of restructuring. In 1989 the company was acquired by Secom, Japan's first and largest security corporation. In September 1994, HMSS was sold to Coram Healthcare as part of a roll-up of five alternative site health care companies. Mr. Holeman held the position of director of restructuring for Coram Healthcare, a NYSE-listed company.

Having graduated from Abilene Christian University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting, Mr. Holeman began his career as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1985 to 1988. He is a licensed CPA by the State of Texas.