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Bruce
Duncan
Former President and CEO, Equity Residential
Wednesday,
November 8, 2006
Bruce
W. Duncan, 53, is the recently retired president and chief
executive officer of Equity Residential, the largest publicly
traded apartment company in America. Equity Residential owns
or has interest in 947 properties in 33 states and has 6,000
employees Mr. Duncan joined the company as president in April
2002 and was named CEO in January 2003. He assumed the role
of CEO with the goals of refining the company’s portfolio,
improving its operations through centralization and aligning
the company’s team, including implementing succession
planning throughout the organization. Those goals were achieved.
From 1995
through 2000 Mr. Duncan was chairman, president and CEO of
Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of the largest owners,
managers and developers of commercial real estate in North
America, with over 52 million square feet of commercial space.
Cadillac Fairview focused on high quality retail centers in
Canada and the U.S. and office properties in major Canadian
cities. Mr. Duncan took over leading Cadillac Fairview in
1995 after its emergence from bankruptcy and successfully
engineered a turnaround that culminated in a public offering
on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Exchange in
November 1997 and selling the company in March 2000.
Prior
to joining Cadillac Fairview, Mr. Duncan spent sixteen years
at JMB Realty Corporation, serving as an executive vice president
and member of the board of directors of JMB Realty Corporation
and as president and co-CEO of JMB Institutional Realty Corporation.
Mr. Duncan
holds a B.A. degree from Kenyon College and an M.B.A. from
the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the board
of trustees of Equity Residential as well as a director of
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and The Rouse Company. He is
also on the executive committee and the board of governors
of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
(NAREIT), the executive committee and board of directors of
the National Multi-Housing Council and the board of directors
of the Real Estate Roundtable (RER).
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