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Samuel Zell joined Tribune Company’s board of directors in May 2007. He is chairman and president of Equity Group Investments, LLC, an entrepreneurial investment firm based in Chicago.
Zell 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 also is 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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