We were upstarts. We are still challengers.

Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Western Michigan University

“Never say never. Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” - Michael Jordan

HR Specialist

Loyola University Chicago

“If you’re on time, you’re late.” -Vince Lombardi

Human Resources Director

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“No pressure, no diamonds.” - Thomas Carlyle

Executive Assistant

St. Edward’s University

“We are all neighbors.” - Mister Rogers

Office Coordinator

Florida International University

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

Associate, Brand Operations

The University of Mississippi

“By the way, I charged the entire vacation to Mr. Underhill’s American Express Card. Want the number?” - Irwin M. Fletcher

Associate, Asset Management

Indiana University

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

Partner

Cornell University
University of Chicago, MBA

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” - David Foster Wallace

SVP, Asset Management

Franklin Pierce University
University of Chicago, MBA

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

VP, Hospitality

Horry-Georgetown College

"Begin with the end in mind" - Stephen R. Covey

SVP, Asset Management

Western Kentucky University

Vanderbilt University, MBA

"You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy." - Arthur Ashe

Associate

University of St. Thomas

Courage. The ability to ask, “Why not us?”

Senior Interior Designer

Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” - Anonymous

Senior Manager of Procurement

Ohio University, Athens, OH

“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” - Rocky Balboa

Interior Designer

University of Illinois at Chicago

"If you want to be interesting, be interested." - David Ogilvy

Interior Architect

Illinois Institute of Technology

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized.” - Daniel Burnham

Head of Creative

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

"Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line." - Andrew Wyeth

EVP, Development & Construction

University of Wisconsin-Stout

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein

Director, Interior Design

Michigan State University

“Whatever the mind can conceive & believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

Senior Concept Director

University of Wisconsin-Madison

“On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” - Carl Sagan

Interior Designer

Miami University

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” - Mark Twain

Senior Interior Designer

SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design)

“Be careful when you blindly follow the masses. Sometimes the ‘m’ is silent.” – Anonymous

Senior Director of Interior Design

Harrington College of Design

“If you’re gonna do it, do it right” - My Dad

SVP, Development & Construction

San Francisco Office

Santa Clara University
University of San Francisco

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Development Manager

Auburn University

“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” - Arnold Palmer

SVP, Development & Construction

Rollins College
Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’” - Hunter S. Thompson

VP, Development & Construction

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“There’s no such thing as a normal life. Just life.” - Unknown

Director, Development & Construction

Murray State University BS – Mathematics, BS – Construction Engineering

Vanderbilt University ME – Construction Management

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss

Project Controls Manager

Lawrence University

“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” - John Maynard Keynes

EVP, Development & Construction

University of Wisconsin-Stout

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein

Development Manager

University of Tennessee

“Who is John Galt?”

Director, Tax

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

"The best things in life happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone." - Karen Salmansohn

Fund Accountant

Miami University

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine

Fund Accountant

Indiana University

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – Unknown

Chief Accounting Officer

Illinois State University

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi

SVP, Corporate Controller

The College of William and Mary

  Motto: Lead with conviction, integrity and grace. Execute with excellence.

Chief Compliance Officer

Hampden-Sydney College

University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, M.S

“I would never win an award for not loving pizza.” – The Rock

Assistant Portfolio Controller

University of Wisconsin at Madison

“Never let yesterday use up too much of today” - Will Rogers

Director, Accounting

University of Michigan – Flint

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

Chief Financial Officer

University of Iowa

"You get what you earn." – Tom Brands

Director, Risk Management

Shenandoah University

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller's Day Off / John Hughes

Portfolio Controller

University of Wisconsin-Madison

“It’s nearly impossible to blaze one’s own path while following in someone else’s footsteps” – Glennon Doyle

Director of Accounting

University of Texas-Dallas

“Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?” – Matthew McConaughey

EVP, Real Estate Accounting

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” -Adm. William H. McRaven

Portfolio Controller

Indiana University

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot

Senior Managing Director of Investor Relations
New Orleans Office

The University of Mississippi

“The worst thing anyone can ever tell me is, ‘You are not going to believe what happened last night after you left.’” - Zane Daniel

SVP, Portfolio Management & Investor Relations

The University of Iowa

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me” - Steve Jobs

Director, Investor Relations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Being an adult is like folding a fitted sheet. No one really knows how.”

Director, Investments & Development

Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA

Universidad ORT Uruguay, School of Architecture

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Director, Acquisitions

University of Michigan

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein

Director, Portfolio Management & Investments

University of Northern Iowa

University of Chicago, MBA

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S Lewis

President, Outpost Residential

University of Alabama

"You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth." - Mickey Mantle

Acquisitions & Investments Analyst

Cornell University

"Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern." - Steve Zissou

SVP, Acquisitions

University of North Carolina

"I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious." - Michael Scott

Director, Capital Markets

Michigan State University

“Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be as responsible as you can and something good will happen” - Frank Gehry

Acquisitions Associate

Indiana University

"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself." - Peter Thiel

SVP, Retail

The George Washington University

“We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.” - Kobe Bryant

VP, Government Affairs & Community Relations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DePaul University College of Law, J.D.

“Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chief Development Officer, International Markets

University of Kentucky, BA

Duke University School of Law, JD

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum." - Roddy Piper, They Live

Chief Investment Officer, Outpost Residential & Humanity Hotels

The University of Toledo

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

Capital Markets Associate

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." - The Dalai Lama

Associate, Portfolio Management

The Ohio State University

Cornell University, MPSRE

“The best view comes after the hardest climb."

Associate, Portfolio Management

Brandeis University

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized” - Sun Tzu

SVP, Acquisitions

Emory University

“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.” - Bill Belichick

SVP, Capital Markets

University of Michigan

“The upset is in the mind of the favorite.” - Bo Schembechler

Senior Counsel 

Washington University in St. Louis
University of Michigan Law School

“Here for the Right Reasons.”

Chief Investment Officer, Graduate Hotels

The University of San Diego

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain

Principal & Managing Director
San Francisco Office

Northwestern University

“I’m not arguing. I’m simply explaining why I am right.” - Anonymous

Senior Associate, Acquisitions

The Ohio State University

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it…he who doesn’t, pays it.” – Albert Einstein

Director, Partnerships & Programming

University of Memphis

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Chief Marketing Officer

DePaul University

“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.” - Lady Gaga

Content Coordinator

Middle Tennessee State University

“ Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?” - Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

Head of Creative

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

"Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line." - Andrew Wyeth

VP, Sales & Revenue Management

University of Pennsylvania

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca

Junior Graphic Designer

The University of Alabama

The Creative Circus in Atlanta

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore

VP, Marketing

The Ohio State University

“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right” – Grateful Dead

Associate

University of St. Thomas

Courage. The ability to ask, “Why not us?”

Graphic Designer

Harding University

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” - Roald Dahl

Senior Relationship Manager

Belmont University

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

VP, Government Affairs & Community Relations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DePaul University College of Law, J.D.

“Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chief Strategy Officer

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“You must be prepared to work always without applause.” - E.H.