Bob Foley is a recently retired C-level real estate investment executive. His interests include his family, golf, college basketball, history, and travel.
Bob retired from TPG (NASDAQ: TPG) in December 2025 as a partner of TPG Real Estate and chief financial officer of TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc, (NYSE: TRTX). Bob now serves as a senior advisor to TPG Real Estate (where he remains a member of its investment committees), as a board member of a public company involved in data centers and powered land, an advisor to several early-stage real estate investment and technology firms, and on the boards of two real estate industry trade associations.
His 45-year career encompassed principal investing in commercial real estate credit and equity in the United States and Europe with TPG, Gramercy Capital Corp, Goldman Sachs & Co., and Bankers Trust Company. He co-founded two private real estate investment firms and engineered their initial public offerings. He began his career with Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte LLP) in its San Francisco office.
Bob and his wife, Barbara, are graduates of Stanford University, where Bob earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. Bob received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant (inactive) in California.
Bob and Barbara are 33-year residents of Darien. Their daughter and son were born and raised in Darien, are graduates of the Darien public school system, and after college established careers and lives in New York City. Bob and Barbara are members of Country Club of Darien, parishioners of St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, and have a lengthy record of civic involvement in Darien and New York City.
