
Lynn C. Thurber
Director, Chairman of the Board
Lynn C. Thurber has served as our Chair of the Board since November 2011. Ms. Thurber has been a part-time employee of LaSalle since 2017, for the purpose of serving on our board of directors. Ms. Thurber served as the non-Executive Chair of LaSalle from December 2006 until December 2017. Ms. Thurber served as the Chief Executive Officer of LaSalle from 2000 to December 2006 and Co-President from 1994 to 2000. Between 1995 and 2007, Ms. Thurber was a member of the board of directors or advisory board of a number of privately held real estate investment funds sponsored by LaSalle. She also served as Chief Executive Officer of Alex Brown Kleinwort Benson Realty Advisors (“ABKB”), from 1992 until the company merged with LaSalle Partners in 1994. Prior to joining ABKB, Ms. Thurber was a Principal at Morgan Stanley & Co. Ms. Thurber was also a member of the board of directors of Duke Realty Corporation, a publicly listed REIT (NYSE: DRE), where she was a member of the Audit and Finance Committees from 2008 to 2012, and again from 2021 until October 2022, a member of the Compensation Committee from 2012 to 2018, a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee from 2018 to 2021 and a member of the Finance Committee, for which she served as chair, from 2021 until October 2022. Ms. Thurber is also a member of the board of trustees of Acadia Realty Trust, a publicly listed REIT (NYSE: AKR) where she is a member of the Audit Committee, for which she serves as chair, and the Executive Compensation Committee. She formerly served as a member of the board of directors of Investa Property Group, an Australian based real estate owner, developer and fund manager, from 2009 until February 2016, and as a member of the Real Estate Information Standards Board in the United States from 2008 through 2013. She is also a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and was its chair from July 2013 until July 2015.
Ms. Thurber previously served as member of and formerly chaired the Advisory Board of the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, and formerly chaired the Pension Real Estate Association. Ms. Thurber also previously served as a member of the board of directors of JLL and is a former member of the board of directors and Executive Committee of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate and the board of directors of the Toigo Foundation. Ms. Thurber holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in mathematics from Wellesley College.