Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2002

Douglas Crocker Ii – Equity Residential Properties Trust (eqr)

DOUGLAS CROCKER II is President and Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Equity Residential Properties Trust. He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry. Mr. Crocker holds a BA from Harvard University. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of the National Multi Housing Council, a member of the board of governors for the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, a member of the board of trustees and chairman of the Multifamily Gold Council of the Urban Land Institute, vice chairman of the National Realty Committee, a member of the National Apartment Association, a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Urban Land Economics Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief overview of the history and evolution

of Equity Residential?

Mr. Crocker: EQR's predecessor goes all the way back to 1969, when Sam

Zell and his late partner,