ROBERT SHEPKO
With over 20 years of experience in
partnering with the higher education sector, Bob Shepko guides the
strategic planning and execution of
Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions’
education privatization endeavors.
He is responsible for supervising
ongoing privatization projects and
the coordination of multiple disciplines, including finance, design,
construction, renovation, community management, asset management and facilities maintenance. Previously, Shepko worked on
the complete privatization of military family housing as SVP of
project management for Balfour Beatty Communities’ Navy
residential portfolio, which is comprised of 19 military installations. Prior to joining the Balfour Beatty companies, he is best
known for his work with institutions of higher education at
Anderson Strickler Campus Housing and Real Estate Consultants,
as well as College Park Communities, the National Association
of College and University Business Officers and Cambridge
Associates.
DOUG SHERMAN
A co-founder of Innovative Student Housing, Doug Sherman
helped to establish the company in 2010. The firm provides an
end-to-end suite of services including sourcing high-value acqui-
sition opportunities for investors, developer services and grow-
ing NOI through management. Before
taking on this role, he was CEO of Aspen
Heights, where he developed over $200
million of student housing on seven uni-
versity campuses. Touching upon skills
required of an operator and developer
allowed him to create and implement a
best-practice model for student housing
derived from his experience in consulting
with Fortune 500 companies. Before mov-
ing into student housing, Sherman was the founder and CEO of
DSG Consulting Inc. Boeing Commercial Aircraft, IBM, HP,
Siemens were among some 150 worldwide organizations that
selected his firm to design and implement best practices to grow
their businesses.
BRIAN THOMPSON
In March of this year, Brian Thompson, a senior vice president
with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC, spoke with
GlobeSt.com about his firm
acquiring more than 60 Long
Island University Brooklyn graduate student apartments for
more than $60 million. At the
time, he said the deal “really fits
within our focus on education-related properties. This part of
the property is master-leased by
LIU and in the past four or five
years student housing has proven
to be recession proof. Even when
unemployment rises, kids are
going back to school to fulfill
their education.” The firm also
buys up healthcare and storage-related real estate, more properties immune to economic downturns. Harrison Street has a
broad footprint, including student homes in the South,
California, the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. Thompson
and his team currently focus on sourcing, analyzing, and closing
properties and venture relationships across North America.
Thompson has more than 12 years of experience in the student
housing business. During his tenure at Harrison Street, he has
participated in the sourcing and closing of transactions valued
at more than $2 billion, which includes the development and
acquisition of over 35,000 beds. Prior to Harrison Street Real
Estate Capital, he was the senior analyst of the acquisitions and
capital markets team for GMH Communities Trust Inc. ◆
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