Director, 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

Art Director

Columbus College of Art and Design

“Normality is a paved road. It is comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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

SVP Acquisitions

The University of Cambridge, UK

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” – Winston Churchill

Brand Operations Analyst

University of South Carolina

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” -Unknown

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

Partner

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

Director, Tax

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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

Managing Director, Memoir Residential

Cal State Northridge
Pepperdine University, MBA

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill

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

Senior Analyst

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.” – Bob Goff

Founder & CEO

University of Tennessee
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“Turn the quiet up."
- Eric Church

Assistant Development Manager

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"If you had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” Henry Ford

Senior Designer

University of Illinois at Chicago

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

Director, Development & Construction

Auburn University

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

VP, Development & Construction

Southern Illinois University

"When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you." -Abraham Lincoln

Portfolio Controller

University of Missouri

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Portfolio 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

Director of Communications

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." Michael Jordan

Director, Capital Markets

Elon University/Southern Methodist University, MBA

“The best way to predict your future is to create it” – Abraham Lincoln

Junior Graphic Designer

Middle Tennessee State University

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them" -Henri Matisse

PR & Communications Manager

Miami University (OH)

“Alright, alright, alright.” – Matthew McConaughey, Dazed & Confused

Director of Capital Projects

University of Southern California

“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.” – Whoopi Goldberg

Web & Digital Strategy Manager

University of Georgia

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.” – Robin Williams

In-House Counsel

Duke University – B.A., J.D.

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

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

Portfolio Controller

University of Arkansas

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal — it is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill

Portfolio Controller

Pennsylvania State University

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take" – Michael Scott

Associate, Asset Management

Indiana University

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

Portfolio Accountant

Indiana University

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

Director, Portfolio Management

University of Notre Dame/Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” - Lou Holtz

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

Assistant Development Manager

Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, School of Engineering

“Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter” -B.C. Forbes

SVP, Development & Construction

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

VP, 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

VP, Acquisitions

University of Michigan

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

Analyst, Portfolio Management

University of Wisconsin - Madison

"You have to be odd to be number 1" - Dr. Seuss

Graphic Designer

Coastal Carolina University

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” – Babe Ruth

President

Michigan State University
University of Chicago, MBA

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

Chief Accounting Officer

Illinois State University

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

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

Design Team Assistant

Pepperdine University

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime." - Mark Twain

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

Senior Analyst

DePaul University

"Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do." -Anonymous

Office Manager, Chicago

The University of Alabama

“Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.” -Catherine of Sienna

VP, Development & Construction- Outpost Residential

“The last good idea hasn’t been thought of yet”

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

Portfolio Controller

University of Notre Dame

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” – Mark Cuban

Brand Manager

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Portfolio Accountant

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy.” – Matthew McConaughey

SVP, Acquisitions

University of North Carolina

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

Senior Manager, Insurance and Risk

Illinois State University, Katie School of Insurance and Risk Management

“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part” - Tiger Woods

Acquisitions Associate

Indiana University

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

Senior Director, Interior Design

Michigan State University

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

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

Executive Assistant, President of Graduate Hotels

Hochschule Fresenius, Cologne, Germany

“The trick was to surrender to the flow” – Trey Anastasio

SVP, Corporate Controller

The College of William and Mary

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

EVP, Investor Relations

Vanderbilt University

“The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” – Bobby Knight

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

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

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

President, Graduate Hotels

University of Missouri

“Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.” - Jerry Garcia

Senior 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

Executive Assistant

Western Michigan University

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

Head of Design

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

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

Senior Associate, Asset Management

The Ohio State University

“The key to winning is poise under stress.” – Paul Brown

Investor Relations Analyst

Marquette University

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Junior Designer

Michigan State University

"Creativity takes courage" - Henri Matisse

SVP, Brand Identity

Vanderbilt University

"Never buy a coffee table if you can't dance on top of it." - My mom (who will remain Anonymous)

Copy Director

Northwestern University

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

VP, Brand & Programming

Connecticut College

“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?” - Joan Didion

Copywriter

Miami University (OH)

“Trust your creativity.”

Interior Designer

Miami University

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

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 of Hospitality, Marine & Lawn

Horry-Georgetown College

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

HR Specialist

Loyola University Chicago

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

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

Director, Accounting

Indiana University

“Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.” – Jane Fonda

Analyst, Capital Markets

Vanderbilt University

“Forever is composed of nows” – Emily Dickinson

Director, Interior Architecture

University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi

Senior Interior Designer

SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design)

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

Portfolio Controller

Northern Illinois University

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

Director of IT

Illinois State University

“To be is to do.” - Socrates

EVP of Hospitality, Graduate Hotels

Rutgers University

Development Manager

University of Tennessee

“Who is John Galt?”

Associate, Acquisitions

University of Notre Dame

“There is no finish line” – Nike ad (1977)

VP, Property Management

Indiana University - Indianapolis

"Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities." - Robert T. Bennett

Acquisitions Associate

Northwestern University

“I don't want to get paid to lose. I want to win!” – Nacho

Brand Marketing Manager

Western Kentucky University

“'The same boiling water that makes an egg turn hard, will make a potato soft.' Dictate your environment and don’t let the environment dictate you." -Unknown

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

Assistant Development Manager

Neumann University

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

Senior Development Manager

University of Kentucky College of Architecture

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill

President, Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts

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

Senior Director of Interior Design

Harrington College of Design

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

Senior Associate, Capital Markets

University of Georgia

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

Chief Strategy Officer

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

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

Portfolio Controller

Auburn University

"As the man once said, the harder you work, the luckier you get." - Ted Lasso

Associate, Portfolio Management

The Ohio State University

Cornell University, MPSRE

“The best view comes after the hardest climb."

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, Portfolio Management

Brandeis University

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized” - Sun Tzu

Chief People Officer

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

“No pressure, no diamonds.” - Thomas Carlyle

Principal, Acquisitions

Emory University

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

Portfolio Controller

Indiana University

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

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

Executive Assistant

St. Edward’s University

“We are all neighbors.” - Mister Rogers

Senior Counsel

Washington University in St. Louis
University of Michigan Law School

“Here for the Right Reasons.”

SVP, Capital Markets

University of Michigan

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

Corporate Controller

Drake University

"Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it." - C. Assaad

Director, Office Leasing

University of Georgia

Assistant Development Manager

Pittsburg State University

“Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.” – Winnie the Pooh

Office Manager, Nashville

Florida International University

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

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

Chief of Staff, Graduate Hotels

University of St. Thomas

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

VP, Investor Relations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Graphic Designer

Harding University

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

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

Style Director

Northern Illinois University

“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.” - Carl Sandburg

VP, Service & Training

The George Washington University, BA

The University of Florida: Levin College of Law, JD

"How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard