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Douglas W. Lyons is a Managing Director of Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C. Mr. Lyons is responsible for the firm’s capital markets and portfolio management activities and is a member of the firm's investment and management committees. Mr. Lyons is also on the investment committees for Transwestern Mezzanine Realty Partners II, LLC and ECM Diversified Income & Growth Fund LLC.
Prior to joining Transwestern in 1996, Mr. Lyons was Vice President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc. where he was responsible for merchant banking activities and strategic portfolio management projects for the Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity funds, the Zell/Chilmark Fund, and other Sam Zell-related affiliates. In addition, Mr. Lyons actively managed an institutional portfolio of REIT stocks. Previously, he worked in the New York Real Estate Capital Markets groups for Bankers Trust Company (1989-1991) and Merrill Lynch & Co. (1987-1989).
Mr. Lyons earned a BA degree in History from Amherst College and his MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association, the Urban Land Institute where he serves as the Council Chair for the Commercial and Retail Development (Silver Flight) Council, the Capital Policy Committee of the Real Estate Roundtable, and the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors. Mr. Lyons also serves on the Real Estate Committee for St. James Cathedral in Chicago, and as a Trustee for Loomis Chaffee School and Lycée Français de Chicago.
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