Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2002
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 evolutionof Equity Residential?
Mr. Crocker: EQR's predecessor goes all the way back to 1969, when Sam
Zell and his late partner,