Kevin O'Shea is a Senior Vice President of Finance with AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Mr. O'Shea is also the Managing Director of AvalonBay Value Added Fund, L.P. (the "Fund"), a discretionary institutional investment management fund. Mr. O'Shea is responsible for the formation, structuring and capital raising of the Fund, as well as the debt financing, capital planning, investor relations and financial reporting activities of the Fund. Before joining AvalonBay, Mr. O'Shea was an Executive Director at UBS Securities, where his experience includes the execution of $5 billion of public debt and equity capital raising transactions and over $10 billion of domestic and international M&A transactions as a real estate investment banker in the Corporate Finance Division of UBS and providing equity research coverage of REITs as a securities analyst in the Equities Division of UBS. Earlier in his career, Mr. O'Shea practiced commercial real estate and banking law, representing clients engaged in buying, selling, leasing and mortgaging real estate.

Mr. O'Shea holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University, a J.D. from Southern Methodist University and a B.A. from Boston College.