Essex Property Trust Retains Strategy After CEO Succession

Multiyear planning and senior management preparedness streamline a seamless CEO succession at Essex Property Trust.

Essex Proerpty Trust president and CEO Michael Schall takes over the company, planning a larger focus on operations but keeping the companies founding principles and strategies relatively intact.

 

Executive Profiles

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    Fueled by passion, Kevin McGowan reshapes Midwest downtowns into vibrant, livable communities.

     

  • The A List

    If you call yourself The Milestone Group, then setting and reaching Olympic-sized goals must be par for the course. And indeed, the Dallas-based investment firm takes its name seriously. It aims for a target few companies can reach: to be recognized by its peers as one of the top 10 multifamily...

     

  • Under the Radar: Meet Scot Sellers

    Since a $22.2 billion buyout of the real estate investment trust by a partnership between Tishman Speyer and Lehman Bros. Holdings, the centrality of headquarters has continued to streamline the travel docket for Sellers and the Archstone-Smith executive team, who have been on the road introducing...

     

  • Saving Grace: Sister Lillian Murphy

    Sister Lillian Murphy, Mercy's CEO for 20 of its 26-year history, is indeed a formidable force when it comes to championing the cause of low-income housing. “She's not afraid to stand toe-to-toe with congressmen,” notes Shekar Narasimhan, managing partner for Beekman Advisors, a Virginia consulting...

     

  • Urban Groundbreakers: Meet Victor MacFarlane

    MacFarlane Partners celebrates 20 years of changing the face of the inner city and re-urbanizing America, one block at a time.

     
 
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