Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 1999

Hamid R. Moghadam – Amb Property Corporation (amb)

HAMID R. MOGHADAM is Chairman, CEO and Director of AMB Property Corporation. He co-founded AMB's predecessor, AMB Institutional Realty Advisors, a private investment management firm, in 1983 and held similar positions in it prior to the company's IPO in November 1997. Mr. Moghadam holds SB and SM degrees in engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford. He is a member of the following organizations: the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of NAREIT, the Real Estate Roundtable, YPO and several MIT Advisory Committees. He also serves as a Director of Plum Creek Timber Company, MarketEngine Corporation and Brand Farm, and as a Trustee of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Profile
TWST: Please start out by giving us a brief overview and history of AMB.

Mr. Moghadam: AMB was started in 1983 in San Francisco, and for the

first 15 years of its existence was an investment