We were upstarts. We are still the challengers.

Administrative Assistant

University of Illinois at Chicago

"At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can." Frida Kahlo

Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Western Michigan University

“Let’s go on a living spree, they say the best things in life are free.”
Kanye

Executive Assistant

St. Edward’s University

“We are all neighbors.” Mister Rogers

Associate, Asset Management

Cornell University

“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.” Brooke Shields

Principal, Asset Management

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

Junior Analyst

University of Southern California

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi

SVP, Asset Management

Cornell University

“Success is never final; failure is never fatal.”
Conrad Hilton 

VP, 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, Asset Management 

Cornell University

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
The raw foods disclaimer on a certain sushi menu

VP, Graduate Hotel Operations and Transitions

Johnson and Wales University.

“Why join the Navy when you can be a Pirate.” Steve Jobs

Asset Manager

University of Pennsylvania

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

VP, Strategy

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

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

Portfolio Manager

University of Michigan

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

Analyst

University of St. Thomas

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

Associate, Asset Management

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

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

VP, Design

Columbia College, Chicago

“It’s kind of fun to dream the impossible.”
Walt Disney

Chief Creative Officer

University of Akron

“F*#k beige.”

Project 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

Designer

University of Cincinnati

“If there is no way, create one.” Anonymous

Designer

Michigan State University

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

Design Studio Operations Manager

University of Kansas

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

Designer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Senior Project Designer

University of Illinois at Chicago

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” Michelangelo

Designer

Miami University

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

Designer

University of Northern Iowa

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel’ Maya Angelou

VP, 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

Assistant Development Manager

University of Southern California

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.” Whoopi Goldberg

Director of 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

SVP, 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

Associate

Columbia University

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe

Development Manager

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Ask yourself: ‘Can I give more?’ The answer is usually: ‘Yes’.”

VP, Development & Construction, Extended Stay

Purdue University
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, MBA

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean

Assistant Development Manager

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” Anonymous

Project Controls

University of Tennessee

“Who is John Galt?”

Sr. Manager of Development & Construction

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“I wish you more will than hill.” I Wish You More

Director of Capital Projects

Ball State University

“Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.”
Anonymous 

Assistant Development Manager

Illinois State University

“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.” Dwight Schrute

Senior Manager of Development and Construction

University of Kentucky, University of Illinois Chicago (Masters in Urban Planning and Policy)

“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing” Ron Swanson

Principal

University of Massachusetts
New York University, M.S. and New York Law School, J.D.

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”
Sandy Koufax

Founder & CEO

University of Tennessee
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“I can’t even get my dog to stop peeing in the house!”
Theo Epstein on being named the world’s greatest leader in 2016 by Fortune magazine

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

Principal, Asset Management

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

Chief Operating Officer

Michigan State University
University of Chicago, MBA

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” 
Oscar Wilde

President, Graduate Hotels

DePauw University
DePaul University College of Law

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson

Assistant Corporate Controller

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
A. A. Milne  

Accounts Payable Supervisor

Robert Morris University

“Don’t rush the process. Trust the process.”
Eric Thomas

Portfolio Accountant

Indiana University

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward

SVP, Capital Markets

Indiana University
University of Chicago, MBA

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau

SVP, Corporate Controller

The College of William and Mary

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

Portfolio Accountant

University of Wisconsin at Madison

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

Portfolio Controller

Indiana University

“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.”
Bobby Knight

Chief Compliance Officer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“It is the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
John Wooden

Portfolio Accountant

Indiana University

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

Portfolio Controller 

University of Iowa

“If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights

Accountant

Robert Morris University

“Your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your greatest fear.”
Anonymous 

Portfolio Accountant

Loras College

“Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm...easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
Michael Scott, The Office

Associate, Acquisitions

Georgia State University
University of Chicago, MBA

“One day your life will flash before your eyes - make sure it’s worth watching.”
Anonymous

Associate of Acquisitions

Michigan State University

“Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it.” Confucius

Acquisitions Analyst

Michigan State University

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." Warren Buffett

Investments Associate

University of Michigan

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

Director of Investments
Nashville Office

University of North Carolina

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

Associate, Capital Markets & Portfolio Management

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

Director of Acquisitions, International Markets

Tel Aviv University

University of Chicago, MBA

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky

SVP, Acquisitions – University Partnerships

Middlebury College, Columbia University

“ Life wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier” Bruce Lee

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

VP, Investments

Emory University

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

Senior Counsel 

Washington University in St. Louis
University of Michigan Law School

“Here for the Right Reasons.”

SVP, Acquisitions

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

VP, Public Relations and Communications

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

VP, Graduate Hotels Brand Sales

University of Georgia

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done” Lucille Ball

Artist & Graphic Designer

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“A good artist has less time than ideas."
Martin Kippenberger

Marketing Manager

Miami University

“Be groovy or leave.”
Bob Dylan 

Graphic Designer

Washington University in St. Louis

“More is more and less is a bore” Iris Apfel

Chief Marketing Officer

Penn State University
Christie’s Education, MA Art History

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
Oprah

Director of Marketing

Miami University

“If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.”
Taylor Swift

Marketing Manager

University of Wisconsin-Madison

“It’s got to be that can’t eat, can’t sleep, reach-for-the-stars, over-the-fence, World Series kind of stuff, right?”
It Takes Two

Social Media Manager & Copywriter

Northwestern University

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

Creative Director

University of Oregon

“Wabi Sabi.”

University of Texas at Austin

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” Audrey Hepburn