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Samuel
Zell
Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tribune
Company
Samuel (Sam) Zell became chairman and
CEO of Tribune Company in December 2007 upon the completion
of the company’s
going-private transaction that commenced in April of the
same year. His investment in the company was instrumental
to the transaction’s success. He was elected to Tribune
Company’s board of directors in May 2007.
Zell is also chairman and president of Equity Group Investments,
LLC, an entrepreneurial investment firm based in Chicago.
In addition, he maintains substantial interests in and serves
as chairman of various publicly traded companies. These include
Anixter International, a provider of integrated networking
and cabling solutions that support business information and
network infrastructure requirements; Equity Lifestyle Properties,
Inc., an equity real estate investment trust which owns and
operates manufactured home communities in 26 states; Equity
Residential, the largest apartment real estate investment
trust in the United States; Capital Trust, a specialized
real estate finance company; and Covanta Holding Corp., a
multinational owner and operator of modern waste-to-energy
facilities.
Zell also served as chairman of Equity Office Properties
Trust, a real estate investment trust with the largest office
portfolio of any publicly traded, full-service office company
in the United States. The company was sold to Blackstone
Group in February 2007. Zell remains chairman of Equity International,
a privately-held investor in real estate businesses outside
of the United States.
A native Chicagoan, Zell is a graduate
of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan
Law School. He supports his alma mater by serving on the
President’s
Advisory Board at the university and on the Visitor’s
Committee at the law school. In addition, he helped establish
the Samuel Zell/Robert Lurie Entrepreneurial Center at the
University of Michigan Business School. Also at Michigan,
Zell was appointed a DeRoy Visiting Professor in Honors at
the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
Zell is a long-standing supporter of
the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Real Estate Center.
He endowed the Samuel Zell/Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
at Wharton and also the Center for Risk Management at Northwestern
University. In addition, Zell serves on the JPMorgan National
Advisory Board and the Eurohypo International Advisory
Board.
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