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

“Life is good. Enjoy the little things, one day you may look back and realize they were the big things”- unknown

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

President Graduate Hotels

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

Asset Manager

University of Pennsylvania

“There can be 100 people in a room and 99 of them don’t believe in you, but all it takes is one and it just changes your whole life.”
Lady Gaga

Analyst

Boston University

"No matter how good you get you can always get better and that’s the exciting part." Tiger Woods

VP, Strategy

Northwestern University, BA
Kellogg School of Management, MBA

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

Chief Operating Officer, Graduate Hotels

Cornell University

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do” Walt Disney

Vice President - Capital Markets

University of Michigan

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

Director, Asset Management

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Senior 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

Junior Interior Designer

The University of Alabama

"I hate sports, but I love winning"

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

Interior Architect

Illinois Institute of Technology

"Why be good if you can be great" - Random Stripper

Director of Interior Design

Michigan State University

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

Director of Library & Research

University of Kansas

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

Interior Designer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

"I don't expect to find inspiration - it just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired." Iris Apfel

Concept Director

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Director of Interior Architecture

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

Interior Designer

Miami University

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

Senior 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

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

Interior 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

Chief Development Officer, West Coast
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

VP, 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

Director of 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

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

Manager, Development & Construction

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Development Manager

City College of New York (CCNY)

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude" - Thomas Jefferson

Assistant Development Manager

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Well behaved women rarely make history." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Project Controls

University of Tennessee

“Who is John Galt?”

Director, Development & Construction

Ball State University

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

Assistant Development Manager

Illinois State University

“Well done is better than well said” – Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Partner

Michigan State University
University of Chicago, MBA

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

The University of Toledo

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

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, 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

SVP, Finance

University of Iowa

"You get what you earn." – Tom Brands

Portfolio Controller

Indiana University

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

Director of Compliance

University of Louisville; University of Illinois College of Law, J.D.

“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson

Chief Accounting & 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

University of Iowa

“No need to worry, my accountant handles that.” - Notorious B.I.G.

Portfolio Controller

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

Director, Acquisitions

Georgia State University
University of Chicago, MBA

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

Director, Acquisitions

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

Associate, Investments

Northwestern University, BA

Kellogg School of Management, MBA

"A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have." Tim Ferriss

Vice President, Portfolio Management

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

Associate

Columbia University

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

Analyst, Investments

Vanderbilt University

“If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise” Rupi Kaur

Director of Acquisitions, International Markets

Tel Aviv University

University of Chicago, MBA

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

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

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.”

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

University of St. Thomas

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

Principal & Managing Director
San Francisco Office

Northwestern University

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

Graphic Designer

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

VP, Communications & Strategic Marketing

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

Brand Organizational Training & Development Manager

Michigan State University

University of Texas at Arlington, MBA

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi

PR and Communications Manager

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

Content Manager

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

“Don’t compromise yourself, you’re all you’ve got.”- Janis Joplin

Marketing Coordinator

Clemson University

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard Baruch

Art Director

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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

Senior Partnership 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

Senior Copywriter + Social Media Manager

Northwestern University

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

Marketing Manager

University of Kansas

“I don’t know how many years on this earth I have left. I’m gonna get real weird with it.” – Frank Reynolds, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Director of 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